Can anyone recommend a calcium supplement?

I recently found this article from: "The Open Orthopedics Journal" published by Benham Science Publishers. It has daily recommendations for vitamins and minerals needed for people with osteoporosis. There are a few like L-arginine and Inositol that I was unaware of. Prunes are a good source of several necessary supplements. I eat 5 a day. Here is the article if you are interested in reading it.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330619/#!po=47.0149

Scroll to the top of the article. For some reason it opens in the middle.

Hi rhubymama. What brand of vitamin K do you use? I was looking into this also and haven't even found Vit K in drug stores near me.

I'll check it out, @leeosteo. Thanks!

I am not a medical person but my husband is on a blood thinner. I would check with my doctor if added Vit K is okay for you. My husband has to watch his Vit K.

Thank you for the reference to the article. With severe osteoporosis , I keep looking for answers and have recently added Vitamin K-2 with MK-7 to my regimen.

The article was very thorough and geared to the lay person. At the end of the article, I noticed this:
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors are shareholders in the Institute for Better Bone Health, LLC, a nutritional supplement company.

Interesting you mentioned that. This is a "pay to publish" journal,
which limits the weight I give to any article...see: https://openorthopaedicsjournal.com/publication-fee.php
Sue

Leeosteo,
There is a difference between the K vitamins. Vitamin K1 works differently from vitamin K2 which is suppose to direct calcium from your arteries to your bones. My husband takes Life Extension brand, but it is also available at Walmart by Spring Valley.

K2 is found naturally in grass fed cow milk and also in natto (fermented soy). Vitamin K1 has the clotting function.

I am not a medical expert, but my husband is a heart patient with a history of heart attack and V-tachycardia. Both his cardiologists have okayed this add to his supplement list.

But, yes, you should clear this with your doctor.

Rhubymama, thank you for the K2 info. I'll look into it.

There's so many formulas on the market that I think the most important thing is go with a really reputable manufacturer that has been in business for a long time and ships interstate. The interstate caveat means that Federal guidelines apply so there's an implied higher standard of protection against poor quality or fraudulent products. I take something called Bone Support, which used to be called Bone Formula, which includes what I think of as the bone support trilogy of algae-sourced calcium, vitamin D3, and vitamin K2. I put a friend on it after he suffered a broken neck and his neurosurgeon noticed the bottle on his hospital bedside table and picked it up, read the formula and thought it was a really good supplement that also might help speed up bone healing. [I didn't ask why, if this was so important, no doctor suggested it. I pick my battles :-)]

I recently added silica to my daily regime, in the form of Bio-Sil, because a lot of data that suggests silica is really important and, though I eat more vegetables than I used to, I don't know how many trace minerals vegetables absorb in the growing process nor the quality of soil the vegetables are grown in for that matter though I buy most of the stuff at a local farmers market now. I don't know if the silica is helping my bones but it sure is making my hair grow a lot faster.

I would add one caveat. I never order anything from Amazon that goes in my body. And have also stopped ordering anything that is applied topically. I have twice received products sold via Amazon that were clearly not the brand name I was used to seeing though in the brand name labeled container. I think the Netflix documentary on fraudulent products on Amazon highlights some of the risk. I do read the reviews on Amazon but, when it comes to supplements or skin care products, and many other products, for that matter, I ordered directly from the manufacturer. The distribution chain chaos makes it very easy to sell counterfeit and sometimes outright dangerous goods. Caveat emptor.