Louise said, The body can not absorb alkaline calcium, sorry for your illusion about that. the body needs an acid base to absorb calcium, Best to take calcium Citrate for that effect.
First off, anytime you take calcium it will go into an acid environment (stomach acid). Secondly, the body needs an acid base to absorb calcium. Which calcium? Calcium lactate (an acidic calcium)? Calcium citrate (a neutral pH calcium)? Pure calcium is always alkaline. Doing something to the calcium is what changes its pH. (Chelating it to an amino acid to make, say, calcium pantothenate, or citric acid to make calcium citrate, or lactic acid to make calcium lactate although this form of calcium comes from cultured milk, what you might call a natural chelation). The process of chelation is an attempt ot take a difficult-to-assimilate form of calcium (in this example) such as oyster shell and make it easier to assimilate by joining it to something the body regards as easy to absorb (such as amino acids or citric acid). Efficient assimilation of calciums is accomplished by the interaction between both types of calciums (alkaline and acidic). So our bodies need both types, more of one or the other, depending on which one we are deficient in. Neutral pH calciums like citrate and gluconate are always easy to assimilate, and are utilized by the body, but the strong or solid calciums (measured by energy potential) of which our bodies are composed are the alkaline and acidic calciums. People who have an acidic pH best utilize and assimilate alkaline calciums, while overly-alkaline pH folks need acidic calciums. ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
