Re: I have a ? on what kind of calcium to take...

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In a message dated 7/23/04 9:58:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

Idol@... writes:

> Good dietary sources of calcium include sardines (if you eat the

> bones, which in canned sardines are nice and soft)

Also, you can get canned wild Alaskan salmon, which is much cheaper than

fresh or frozen, and likewise has soft bones in it that are barely noticeable,

though somewhat larger and crunchier than sardines. This is cheaper than

sardines, too. Unfortuantely, I find the taste to be vastly inferior to fresh

or

frozen, and also find that it makes me very thirsty for some reason, but it

might

be good for sandwiches, and one can offers about 700 mg Ca.

Chris

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In a message dated 7/24/04 1:13:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Idol@... writes:

> Do they add salt to the cans,

> though? I don't understand why it'd make you so thirsty.

>

Not to my knowledge (I don't have one on me), and it doesn't taste salty, and

I use lots of salt anyway. I don't know why it makes me thirsty, but it

seems to result from contact with my mouth, and not from digesting a certain

quantity.

Yeah, salmon cakes are great, though too much of a pain for me to prepare

regularly.

Chris

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Peggy-

>it

>doesn't

>make alot of sense to me to take magnesium (which requires acid to be

>absorbed) to help calcium absorption (which also requires acid) if

>the form

>of calcium you are taking (TUMS) neutralizes acid.... then how much

>absorption are you actually going to get on either one??

Good thinking. Stomach acid and vitamin D are both required for optimal

(or even decent) calcium absorption, so Tums sounds like a very bad bet to

me. Good dietary sources of calcium include sardines (if you eat the

bones, which in canned sardines are nice and soft) and very likely homemade

bone broth if you prepare it in accordance with NT principles. The best

supplemental form of calcium is raw calcium hydroxyapatite. Dr. Ron

Schmid, sometimes of this list, makes one from grass-fed New Zealand cows

which seems awfully good, and it also includes some vitamin D, magnesium

and some other cofactors. It ain't cheap, though.

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Chris-

>Unfortuantely, I find the taste to be vastly inferior to fresh or

>frozen, and also find that it makes me very thirsty for some reason, but

>it might

>be good for sandwiches, and one can offers about 700 mg Ca.

I remember canned salmon being pretty unpalatable too, but my grandparents

used to make tolerable salmon cakes with them, and I suppose the calcium is

appealing, particularly at that price point. Do they add salt to the cans,

though? I don't understand why it'd make you so thirsty.

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Peggy,

I use Trader Joe's calcium citrate with D, separate zinc picolinate, no

magnesium and it works better than the last dozen years of thinking cal,

mag, zinc had to be together. If you're a protein metabolic type it'll work

for you too. You'll probably need more than daily recommendeds if you have

gluten and phytates in your diet.

Wanita