Calcium Supplements and Why You Should Not Be Taking

Calcium Supplements and Why You Should Not Be Taking
Anti-Acid Pills


Four more studies calcium supplements you should know about.

In the April 28, 2006 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers report on a double-blind, placebo control study lasting five years. The study involved 1,460 female subjects at least 70 years of age. It showed a significant reduction in the risk of bone fracture and improved bone strength,and density for those taking the 1200 mg per day versus those on the placebo.


In the December 2005 issue of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism (2005; 90: pp. 3153 – 3161), researchers report that teenage boys can increase the mineral content of their bones and increase their height by taking calcium supplements.

This study of 143 healthy boys age 16 to 18 separated them into two groups.

One group received a 1000 mg per day supplement and the others a placebo.At the end of the twelve month study, the boys receiving the calcium supplement had greater bone density, with the most active boys showing the greatest increase, when compared to the placebo group.

Additionally, those boys receiving the supplement also grew by a statistically significant average of .28 inches more.


In the American Journal of Medicine (2005; 118: pp.778-781), researchers report that acid blockers like Prilosec block calcium uptake.

Drawn from a randomized, double-blind study of 18 elderly women, the research shows that such anti-acids inhibit the stomachs natural hydrochloric acid production, dramatically reducing calcium absorption by as much as 41%.

Because the average American diet contains inadequate levels of calcium, researchers fear our tendency to rely on anti-acids rather than pro-digestives may be causing low calcium uptake and increasing risk of osteoporosis and bone fracture.


Are you getting this? Some anti-acids are bad - VERY, VERY BAD. In fact some of them contain aluminum which may or may not be linked to Alzheimer's disease.

In fact, they are based on a premise that is misleading.

Let me explain.

Back to basic science the stuff I understand and hopefully you will.

Take a glass of water and fill it to ½ an inch from the top. This is your stomach and its acid. Now drop in enough ice cubes to raise, the water level so it overflows the glass.

Now you have acid indigestion right! the acid level has risen and is now up in your throat burning away.

So you take your anti-acid pill because you have too much acid and its up in your throat Right!!!

WRONG WRONG WRONG A thousand Times wrong.

Why? Go back to what STOMACH ACID is, it a liquid capable of dissolving a 6 lb. bar of lead if its working properly.

It's so corrosive I believe your stomach lining is replaced every 24 hrs or so because it can’t take the strength of the solution.

So using our analogy we have dropped in 5 or 6 ice cubes to represent food and they haven’t dissolved instantly. Why is that?

Simple it is not working properly. It cannot be at full strength if it has been diluted, it has been WATERED DOWN. I haven’t found out yet in my research why, but if one day it can dissolve a 6lb bar of lead and the next you eat a spoon full of syrup and you get acid indigestion there is something wrong with this picture. Doesn’t this just make common sense?


The reality is You do not have too much acid YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH


Yes that’s right you do not HAVE ENOUGH it has been diluted.




For more info check out these video's just click on the camera.

So to add more we have a digestive aid at our site Beta gest which does exactly that - it adds more.

But before you go there if you want to try out my basic common sense science try this little experiment.

Next time you have acid indigestion and you can make yourself do it take a couple of tablespoonfuls of apple cider vinegar.

Yes, vinegar. Why? Because it is an acid and you are now adding acid to your diluted stomach acid, which will digest (melt the Ice cubes) the food, which passes on its way lowering the level in the glass (stomach).

So simple but true. It works but do not do it too often because after all you are now swallowing acid which is just as uncomfortable.

But it will show you that this common sense science is just that - common sense.


Some more independent info brought to you by Supplements-That-Work.

In the December 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (2005; 294: pp.2336-2341), researchers suggest that assuring adequate vitamin-D intake each day might offer better protection from osteoporosis than calcium.

The study, based on data from 944 healthy subjects in Iceland, showed that those getting the highest vitamin-D levels showed better utilization of calcium, while those without these levels did not.

Their conclusion was that getting a healthy abundance of both was the best course.

So here at the company they first introduced calcium supplementation in 1964. Over 40 years ago!

That was well before some words, like osteoporosis, were even known to the public.

Based on their own unique and exclusive “double amino acid chelation” technique developed by founding Scientific Advisory Board member and world-renowned cancer researcher and toxicologist Dr. Arthur First, GNLD have products such as Chelated Cal-Mag Calcium Supplement which provides calcium and magnesium in their most bio-available forms and comes with and without vitamin-D.


And Vitality Calcium Plus which delivers their broad spectrum—synergistic bone mineral supplementation that includes Calcium, Magnesium, Zinc, Copper and Manganese.


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