Do you know how much Calcium you take daily? Here is a chart to give you healthy tips on ways to decrease the need for supplementation. After all, the best source of vitamins and nutrients is in our food. Total the calcium values of the foods at the bottom to determine your daily calcium intake. [...]
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Has your doctor told you to take calcium? Did you know that there are six different kinds of calcium out there. Don’t get me wrong here, it is all the same Ca2+ elemental molecule, but calcium has to be complexed in a “salt” form to be made in to tablets or capsules or other delivery [...]
There is a great summary on the facts about Vitamin D importance, testing, and supplementation over at www.redorbit.com by Jarod M Skowran. Vitamin D may very well be the missing link to our good health. Think about your daily activities. Unless you live on Maui and surf for a living (I would settle for living [...]
What vitamin should I be taking?” It is a question I get at every seminar I present and often each day at the pharmacy. It is not always an easy question to answer. For example, the question may come from a teenager, it could be a man or woman, it could be a patient that [...]
A study commissioned by the Dietary Supplement Education Alliance and conducted by the Lewin Group included a systematic literature review of the most rigorous scientific research available. The study looked to make an impact over 5 years of supplementation around 5 dietary supplements. . Key findings include: Calcium – by supplementing 1200mg of Calcium and [...]
