Coral Calcium, & Current trends.

New research just to hand (in Australia)reports that only 3% of young children
(primary school) were eating the recommended daily allowance of fruit and vegies.
As well as that, 20% were already overweight.
Now that does not have a direct corellation to coral calcium supplementation, but it
certainly is food for thought. It also raises the question of where these children
are going to end up healthwise. Important long term issues like osteo-porosis come to mind.
With diets deteriorating, I believe supplementing with coral calcium would be better
than no supplements at all. But my previous conclusion still holds, a good multi
supplement still seems the best option.
I have been using Green Barley Powder, sea minerals and minerals from the moor for
years. I have been on a vegetarian diet for over 40 years, and I have tried various
liquid and powder supplements claiming high orac values for several years. I have also used both forms of coral calcium for extended periods. But it wasn't till I started taking a particular supplement that had been explicitly
formulated by experimentation, to grow healthy cells for medical research, that my
health went to a new level. My balding hair reversed and the area starting to go bald
has regenerated. On most hills I now cycle up 2 gears higher than before. In fact hills I could only just manage 20 years ago are no bother to me now.
The person who drove 2 hours to tell me about this supplement, has not had a cold for four years and his three year old daughter has never even had a cold.
Many people who turn to this supplement, have tried lots of things before, but this just seems to work better than anything else.
In a time when so many are cutting back, they have just opened up multi-million
dollar facilities in Australia and the USA. You do not expand on a scale like that without a loyal customer base. As the saying goes, quality drives demand.

Coral Calcium Pricing.

As with the rest of the journey so far, there seems to be a whole maze of options and contradictory advice.

Starting with the cheapest,
SAFE has Sea Coral Calcium at about 20c/gm including postage.
Alternative Health Supplies also has sea Coral Calcium Powder for 20c/gm,
but postage is extra. Those two are Australian suppliers.
Cures 4 You have the other Coral Calcium powder for 25c/gm plus postage.
Then there are other suppliers offering Coral Calcium in sachets, but it
seems to cost a lot more that way.
Once again in researching pricing, you get the same conflicting information
regarding which form is best.

It appears you can pay anywhere from 50c to $3 a day, so one cannot help
but wonder about other options.
How does a meal replacement drink with the right nutrients, in the right balance,
at an effective potency, in a form my body can assimilate, tasting delicious and all for the price of a coffee sound? This low GI meal leaves me feeling good and clean inside and keeps me going well after work time.

My email is gillern@bigpond.com if you would like to know how and where to find some.

Coral Calcium Side Effects

Well, What a minefield.
Some places extolling the side benefits, and others
pooh hooing the idea of getting any nutrients from outside
our food chain.
Here is one one site on the contrary side,
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art4136.asp
There are other places warning of the contamintaion with
toxic metals, like strontium. Then there are others
extolling the virtues of strontium.

So where does that leave us ordinary people?
Common sense, reason, and a healthy dose of skepticism,
for proponents on both sides of the question might help.

Let's start with some facts.
It has been demonstrated in the last post that we are
simply not getting all the nutrients we need.
That being the case, supplementing with coral calcium,
would quite likely produce some benefit.
In fact, because we are so deficient, many supplements
should give some benefit. But by the same token, you could
take many supplements without any benefit, if like over 50%
of those tested, they did not break down properly in the body.
Then some seem to have to be above a certain threshold to
produce a benefit.
We do know that pollution is widespread in the oceans, so it
is not unreasonable to assume that sea coral calcium could also
be contaminated.

It does help if someone can go to the trouble of analysing
a good range of products and compiling the data in an easily
understood form.

If you were feeling thirsty, even a soft drink would give
some relief, but it definitely would not be the best choice.
When you get into your sixties, you want to make the best choice,
not just get by. I don't have any desire to live to a great age,
but while I am alive, I would like to be as healthy as possible.

So, my conclusions so far, it seems quite likely that many people
would experience some benefit from taking coral calcium. But from
my own experience and study, it seems that supplements that have
been put together in the right combination, at an effective potency,
and in a form my cells can assimilate, would produce an even better
result. Does that sound reasonable to you?

Personal Experiences

I have used both forms of coral calcium over extended
periods without feeling any benefit. That does not prove
that I did not receive any benefit. I took Green Barley
powder for months before feeling a real benefit.
4000 patients took one teaspoon of Green Barley
powder a day for six weeks, and without exception,
all showed significant improvement in condition of
red blood cells (using Live Blood Microscopy). It was
not stated how many actually felt any different.

If you were to got to; http://www.cures4you.net
you could find many people who have felt a benefit
from the coral calcium. Sometimes they have also experienced
an unexpected help for a secondary complaint. Tending to
negate the claim that people only received a benefit from
natural products because of the placebo effect.

I don't think there is much question as to whether we are
getting all the nutrients we need. One Government study
of 21,000 people found that not one was even receiving the
minimum recommended daily allowance, let alone enough for
optimal health.

And if we are going to turn to supplements, it only seems
logical that we would want to use the most effective ones.
Ones that were in the right balance, at an effective potency,
and in a form our cells could assimilate.
That's why I feel that "The 2009 Comparative Guide To Nutritional
Supplements" is well worth having. Although there are plenty of
people like me, who have tried many things, before coming across
the most highly rated products, and we didn't need the book to
tell us they work better than anything else, because we have
already experienced that.

Coral Calcium continued.

We are in a war, a battle for the mind, and have been for long time.
You will find some interesting background to this in the book, Bread From Stones,
by Julius Hensel.
You may have checked out some of the sites on the Coral Calcium debate. One of the claims made was that modern medicine had delivered us from several scourges, including polio. The truth is, that in The Netherlands, where polio vaccinations had not been introduced, polio decreased at a more rapid rate than in countries that vaccinated.

Do we get cancer because we have a deficiency of toxic chemicals and radiation? Yet that is a common treatment.
In a test conducted in England many years ago, crops were grown for 5 generations, one lot in organic soil, the other in commercially fertilised soil. At the end of five years, seeds from the organic plot were planted in the chemical plot, but still produced healthy plants. Seeds from the chemical plot planted in the organic soil, still produced inferior plants.
On our farm in Tasmania, we grew apples without commercial fertilisers for 25 years.
Our neighbours laughed at us and said it could not be done. One year the agent came out from England and asked us how come our fruit arrived in so much better condition than the other fruit they received? I have listened to scientists proclaiming that there was no difference between organic and chemically fertilised produce.

We have all probably heard it argued that we get all the nutrients from the food we eat, and that supplements are a waste of money. That no doubt was true of food as it used to be, and is still true of many supplements on the market today. If more than
half of them don't even disintegrate properly in the body, what good can they do?
But even Government publications have documentd the decline in nutrient levels in agricultural food products over the last 70 plus years. For some nutrients, the level has decreased by over 90%. How can we get all the nutrients we need if our food only contains less than one per cent, or up to ten per cent of some of the nutrients it used to have?

Because we are so deficient, there are many products that will make some difference. But if I were going to purchase supplements, I would like to know that they were in the correct balance, and in a form my body would assimilate, and at an effective potency, wouldn't you? That is why I continue to recommend the book,
NutriSearch Comparative Guide to Nutritional Supplements (Consumer Edition for the United States and Canada)

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Coral Calcium or Multi Supplements.

For a long time many have claimed that supplements were unnecessary and a waste of money.
There has been some truth in that since more than 50% of supplements recently tested, failed to disintegrate properly. Many popular supplements scored less that ten out of one hundred, based on a comprehensive set of test criteria.

There seems to be a growing acknowledgement that we are no longer receiving all the nutrients we need, with facts like the following being published.
"10 million Americans have osteoporosis and another 34 million have low bone mass caused by calcium deficiencies."
On the other hand there are people in other parts of the world who consume less calcium, and yet have no osteoporosis. So there must be other factors involved.

Another area that appears to be finding consensus is that it is preferable to take a balance of supplements, rather than one or two in isolation.