Calcium/vitamins D&K/boron - DANA/others

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My son's most recent hair test shows super high copper, as high as you can go,

very low

boron, and very high calcium ( I do supplement calcium). Dana, you answered

some of my

other posts about lowering copper etc, and talked about one of your kids being

calcium

" toxic " . I am not sure I understand what that means. I have the following

questions/concerns:

1. It appears from my reading in Andy's books and from answers to my other posts

that

my son is " wasting " calcium, that it is not being properly absorbed. I worry

that the ultra

low boron means he may be having bone density issues as well. We are strictly

casein

free, so calcium and bone density issues weigh heavily on my mind.

2. My son drinks two fortified 8 oz glasses of rice milk per day. He gets about

500mg

from this and 50 mg in his multi. So from my reading he would need about

another 250

mg per day to meet the needs of a 3 1/2 year old. He gets about 150 iu or so of

vitamin D

from his rice milk and his CLO. I understand he would need about 400 iu to meet

the

RDA.

3. I was giving my son Kirkman's hypoallergenic calcium supplement. I briefly

stopped

this week amidst concerns that this might be contributing to his high copper

issues. Is it

true that calcium can contribute to copper retention? Also, I worry about the

trace

amounts of lead in these supps, but how else is a gfcf sf kid with picky eating

habits,

going to get sufficient calcium?

4. With the 250 mg of calcium the supplement also yielded about 43 more iu of

vit d, so

my son would be getting about 800 mg of calcium and 180 iu of vit d. Is this

enough?

5. My concern is if I have been supplementing thus with calcium, and he is still

wasting it

it appears, how do I make him better absorb it? I give it with magnesium. But

Dana, you

also mention that vitamin K may be required? How do you supplement with this?

Do you

give it with mag and the calcium all at once? And if so, how much? I read that

this

vitamin can be toxic to kids. What else would be required? Or could it be that

my son is

" calcium toxic " - if you could better define this for me? Could it be that the

calcium supp

is actually harmful to him? What then? How do you make him not calcium toxic,

yet not

neglect the needs of his growing bones in the process? Is this where IP6 comes

in? You

answered my post about this - does this help with excess copper and calcium

toxicity? I

am very confused by all of this.

6. Lastly, about vitamin D, should I be supplementing with more of this? I have

a gel cap

with 1000 iu of vit d, I would probably break this down and start by giving

about 200 iu or

so more than he gets to meet the RDA. Should D be given with or away from

anything in

particular? Isn't there a ratio if I am not mistaken of vitamin A to D? Aren't

they

synergistic or something?

I know I have thrown a lot of things at you, but I am truly confused and do not

know what

to do. Today I gave the calcium supp again. But I don't know whether to

continue giving

it, and if so, with what else, or whether it might be bad for my boy, and I need

to know

how to supplement the vitamin D as well. I know you have experience with all of

this.

Thanks in advance, Irene