RE: bone meal powder

[Guest guest]

@@@ Mike/:

> I suspect that in in those past times there were several other things

> going on. One is they might've just needed less calcium because

> their

> mineral intake was balanced in terms of the ratios between different

> minerals (Mg, Zn, Fe, K, Na, etc) and their absorption was good.

> It's easy to forget that the body only needs and absorbs a tiny

> fraction of the minerals we consume, and if someone's usage of

> calcium

> was 5 times more efficient than another's, then they need 5 times

> less, which could be a pretty small amount. There are those studies

> of African tribes who have a perfect calcium balance with a very low

> calcium intake (less than 500mg), and of course the intake levels

> currently recommended by experts and/or preferred through

> trial-and-error (e.g. Heidi's experience) reflect the extremely

> compromised condition of current diets and physiologies.

Not according to Dr. Price in NAPD. Price estimated that all the

primitives he studied consumed 1.5-2.0 mg of calcium a day via their

native diets. Are you saying his estimate is wrong?

~

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I wasn't referring to the people Price studied. I was *speculating*

(using words like " suspect " and " might " ) about humans across their two

million year history, not just the stuff in the past few hundred years

that Price studied. I didn't make any claims that could possibly be

interpreted as saying anyone is wrong, and I certainly made no claims

about the calcium intake of the people Price studied.

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. --Alan Kay

[Guest guest]

They used to say that bone meal wasn't that absorbable (okay, my mother

always said that, and she is smart enough to have fed us raw milk

whenever she could get it). So, you will have better luck making a

citrate with it (soak it in lemon juice until you remember it on the

kitchen window sill). I keep a jar around and do this occaisionally,

usually whenever I am out of my more reliable supplement. I do sprinkle

it in sauces where the children won't notice. I don't buy the most

expensive brand, but do buy something at the hfs whose other products I

have tested the quality of. They are tested for heavy metals these days,

folks.

As for the fluoride, I understand that some is necessary, and the kind in

animal bones is possibly better for us than the kind that comes from Borg

toothpaste. I also enjoy bone meal in homemade toothpastes, or just by

itself as a mild tooth abrasive.

All these silly ideas, and my blog never gets written. . . .sigh.

Desh

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