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Reply to ..........Calcium Citrate. I am perfectly aware of Citric acid being an organic molecule. That does not make the calcium organic. The only source for organic calcium is extracting it from either Plants or Animals. The darker the Green Vegetable the more calcium molecule contained. You can check this with Department of Ag.
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The best Solution is a herb called REOSTO.. Its by Himalaya HealthCare.

Just do your research and move on.

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I bought the EZ Sorb and been working at taking it.  Working because every time I take it without fail I get horrendous indigestion ending up with acid erosion in my upper chest.  Stop taking, acid goes away.  Tried it with food, with liquids, with meals and without...same result every time.  I am not allergic to any vegetables so this leads me to believe the issue is come from L aspartate or aspartic acid...which can spike blood sugar in some people.  That is NOT supposed to happen but I had elevated heart rate and increased BP from this product.  Wierdly enough, it DID decrease my bone and body pain.  BUT HOW DO I GET IT DOWN without getting an ulcer or having to take a PPI?

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So then where are the peer reviewed scientific studies for Calcium Aspartate Anhydrous?
It's pure quackery until they appear
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The idea that an anhydrous salt (calcium aspartate anhydrous) is somehow superior to hydrous forms once it gets dissolved in your GI tract is physiochemically preposterous (non-peer-reviewed "papers" and "testimonials" notwithstanding). Some anhydrous salts or other chelated drugs (e.g. with cyclodextrins) may temporarily dissolve to supersaturate a solution, but then the excess will precipitate. Some salts of Ca (such as carbonate) *might* never get dissolved completely by stomach acid, depending on foods eaten and stomach emptying time, or may be precipitated by components of food (e.g. phytins, oxalates), but there isn't too much to do about that, other than take your calcium initially as the citrate or aspartate (which are soluble, and not too irritating). More importantly, Vitamin D, either in your diet or as blood levels, assists calcium absorption, so be sure to: 1) take a Vitamin D supplement, if your diet isn't supplying it; 2) get some sunlight, ensuring that the proper precursor to active D is generated in your skin, 3) have proper liver function, to convert D3 to 25-hydroxy-D3, 4) have proper kidney function to convert 25-hydroxy-D3 to 1,25-dihydroxy-D3 (the most active form of the vitamin). There's no other molecules reported to affect Ca absorption; also, the literature reports that the gut regulates its Ca uptake, though it isn't clear if this is an active control or simply saturation of both active and passive uptake mechanisms. On the brighter side, weight-bearing (only!) exercise seems to assist in Ca deposition -- presumably the piezoelectric microvoltages created attract or stimulate osteoblasts.

Also, the distinction between "living" and "dead" bone is a red herring. Your bone is variously porous, and ts mineral structure is constantly being remodeled by bone cells. Your bones die when you do!

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This makes perfect sense!

This world wants to make money so bad, why not make people loose more bone taking all their drugs they give out, so more people get sick and then have to buy more drugs.
Yes you get more calcium from Yogurt, Mozzarella,Sardines, and Cheddar cheese, but there are people out there who do need more and can only eat so much food a day.
Then this is when this is needed. And if EZorb allows more absorbtion from their product than there is no need to take in so much of the others out there on the market.

Makes sense to me. It means I won't have to buy as much as often to get what I need.
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Hello! I have osteoporosis quite badly at age 59. I broke a hip and two years later my pelvis, and now am having new symptoms of bone weakening and pain. Quite scary. I have tried lots of supplements, but not this. I would love to hear back from you, what you say is giving me hope! How much did/do you take? Do you take other minerals, magnesium etc? Thank you in advance. Amy Bjorklund
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Gosh, where to start on this?
"Inorganic" and "Organic" are arbitrary terms; if a material is extracted from (previously!) living sources the food industry considers it "organic". The material itself (if pure) isn't different at all, whether "organic" or "inorganic"! If, and only if, there are other materials associated with the labeled material, *might* its dietary usefulness (e.g. extent of absorption) differ. That's not to say that having other materials present, as they frequently are in "organic" preparations, necessarily will improve the dietary usefulness of the labeled materials. Various things in your food may make it taste good, even make you feel good for a while, but be detrimental in large amounts, or just be bad over long periods of accumulation in the body. An example of the first category might be a flavor to mask a bitter drug; of the second, cyanide from apple seeds or peach pits (the cyanide is present in a molecule called amygdalin, as a defense against the seed being chewed by a predator; in small amounts the released cyanide is reported to confer a sense of wellness, as it did to cancer patients treated with "Laetrile", even as their cancer continued to worsen); the third category would include the "heavy metals" generally, which accumulate as chronic poisons. Usually studies on absorption are done in various animals, because it's easy to draw samples from them. It's actually quite a tedious (=costly) process to obtain significant clinical data on such things from human subjects. Various things interfere: the differences among humans, the difficulty in selecting a "normal" diet to feed (all) the humans, the necessity to keep both the subjects and the scientists interacting with them unaware of which material (the material under test, or the look-alike, called the control) is being fed to the subjects (this is called a "double blind" study). That's why really convincing double blind human studies are rarely done for dietary supplements.
There's only one "elemental" calcium, the pure metal itself. You never eat that, you don't find it in nature, and it's not the form the calcium is in in your body: the calcium in your body is either (for the most part) a free ion (Ca++) in your blood, an ion carried by a protein in your blood ("serum bound"), a free ion within a cell, an ion carried by a protein within a cell, or an ion laid down in a solid mineral matrix, where the associated negatively charged counter ion is usually carbonate (CO3--), phosphate (PO4---), hydroxide (OH-), fluoride (F-), or some ordered mixture of these (e.g., hydroxyapatite in your tooth enamel). Your body doesn't care WHAT form the calcium came from, once it gets absorbed into the bloodstream. The function of ions such as aspartate is to attempt to increase the solubility of the calcium ion within your gut, and perhaps to furnish a "handle" for the molecular-scale mechanism that actually pulls the calcium from inside your gut cavity, across the gut wall, and into your bloodstream.
As a chemist, I have some doubts as to the claims for calcium aspartate anhydrous. What happens when an anydrous (=contains no water molecules in the original material) salt is placed in water: it dissolves (sometimes spectacularly so), then a hydrated form of the salt precipitates out if it is less soluble than the anhydrous salt. So you temporarily have a higher solubility for a calcium species, followed closely by an at most slightly higher solubility (especially in the presence of other diluents and food). That's on the "positive" side of solubility. On the "negative" side, it's possible to have counterions which scavenge (tie up as a solid) calcium in the gut; less calcium dissolved results in less absorption. Oxalate (found in rhubarb stalks) and carbonate are examples. Oxalate is particularly insidious: not only does it prevent dietary calcium absorption, but it may be absorbed itself, excreted in the kidney, and find calcium there to make kidney stones.
The vitamin D referred to does have a clinically significant effect at boosting absorption of calcium, so you will frequently find it combined with calcium salts in supplements.
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Hi,
I am taking ezorb calcium forthelast3months.Iam ok. I did not find any difference .Which Calcium is better.
Mani
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what king of cal. aspa. anhy do you buy?
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How much do you take daily? I took 3 a day for a year, then 2 a day for year but think I should go back to 3 a day or more. I have osteopenia and arthritis. Arthritis is getting worse. Thanks.
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This is the only calcium that I can honestly say has help me. the prescription drugs given to me for osteoporosis made me so sick, it didn't matter quick one they would change me to. I heard about EZorb calcium aspartate anhydrous and I can't believe how much this has help me. I have been taking it for over 6 months, and feel much more relieve.
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I take ezorb... my nails grew, hard again. I'm continuing with ezorb.
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Unless you are injecting the powder, calcium aspartate anhydrous is equivalent to calcium aspartate hydrous! To be absorbed, the solid material must dissolve first. When that occurs, the calcium and the aspartate are in ionic form, which is to say totaly hydrated. -- a former pharmaceutical chemist by trade.
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Absorption of calcium depends upon, how much elemental Cal out of 500,1000,1500 my is, please clarify how much is the elemental cal
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