Elemental calcium (Kelly, need some advice)
All forms of calcium contain elemental calcium. For instance, calcium citrate is 21% elemental calcium. Calcium carbonate is 40% elemental calcium.
What kind of calcium is in the product your MIL gave you? If it only says elemental calcium on the bottle and doesn't list the ingredients, I wouldn't use it.
Kelly
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Ah. I googled it. It's made from ground up cow bones. I'm guessing it would require a lot of stomach acid to break down for absorption, like oyster shell calcium does. I'd stick with calcium citrate.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
As she said, citrate can deliver up to 29% elemental in an ideal (no acid present) environment. We have very little acid in a pouch. Some types test to 25-28% consistently.
carbonate can deliver up to 48% of calcium that is not very useful to anyone's body, since it can sort itself into places we don't want it, like kidneys. That would be a very highly acidic environment, one in which you might want to take Tums®. And Tums® would do what to that highly acidic environment.
Some people think that MCHC is the best there is. But technically, it is a carbonate form. Since it's processed a bit differently and I haven't grasped the difference, I take a few thousand in elemental citrate, and a bit of MCHC, sorta hedging my bets, since my bones left town in the year 2000.
Be sure to read your bottle for serving size FIRST. Usually citrate is gven as TWO PILLS EQUALS XXX mg
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
Height:5'1.5 RNY:11/30/11 HW:307 SW:234 CW:136 GW:140 (LOST 73 Lbs. PRE-OP)
Now I take three 300mg, four times per day of citrate and 4 MCHC (don't make me go look up the dose, because I'm not convinced it's a big help. When I'm back in the habit, I also use the BA calcium crystals in my protein (I do 6 drinks, 30mg each, 5 have calcium. The iron taking one does not), but I only use 1 scoop (300mg) because there's just enough flavor to mess with my protein flavor.
That's why I say a few thousand. When good crisp apples are around, I cut the BA cinnamon lozenges into quarters and eat them on a slice of apple. I don't even count the mg in that!
Michelle
RNY, distal, 10/5/94
P.S. My year + long absence has NOTHING to do with my WLS, or my type of WLS. See my profile.
I don't understand your question.
The ASMBS says we need 1500 to 2000 mg calcium citrate daily. Is that what you're asking?
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
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