Calcium Citrate Plus 120 tablets: K
A dietary supplement to support bone, cardiovascular, and neurological functions.* Calcium Citrate is an easily digested and absorbable form of calcium. It is chelated with citric acid and combined with Boron and Vitamin D for enhanced bioavailability. Calcium is one of the most important minerals for the growth, maintenance, and reproduction of the human body. The bones in the human body incorporate calcium into their structure. Bones, like other tissues in the body, are continually being reabsorbed and re-formed. Teeth are also calcified tissues. They incorporate calcium in their structure in a manner similar to bones. Calcium is essential for the formation of and maintenance of healthy teeth. Calcium has other functions in addition to maintaining healthy teeth and bones. Blood coagulation, transmission of nerve impulses, muscle contraction and relaxation, normal heart beat, stimulation of hormone secretion, activation of enzyme reactions, as well as other functions all require small amounts of calcium. American Society for Bone and Mineral Research and the International Bone and Mineral Society, in the San Diego Earth Times: Two new studies published in the November issue of The American Journal of Therapeutics provide additional scientific evidence that calcium citrate may be the optimal form of calcium supplementation. Researchers at the Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas conducted a 'Meta-Analysis of Calcium Bioavailability: A Comparison of Calcium Citrate with Calcium Carbonate' (Sakhaee et. al., 1999), which evaluated 15 studies on the bioavailability of two of the most common forms of calcium supplements, calcium citrate and calcium carbonate. All but one study showed significantly greater absorption of calcium from calcium citrate than calcium carbonate by an average of 22%-27%, regardless of whether the candidate had eaten a meal or not. 'In the case of calcium supplements, bioavailability refers to the amount of calcium a person actually absorbs from a supplement, rather than the amount of elemental calcium the supplement contains before it is taken,' explains lead author Khashayar Sakhaee, MD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. 'Although calcium carbonate contains more elemental calcium than calcium citrate, it is not as readily available to the body overall. The meta-analysis confirms our hypothesis that calcium citrate provides superior bio-availability of calcium.' In another study published in the journal, 'The Effect of Calcium Citrate on Bone Density in the Early and Mid-Postmenopausal Period: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study' (Ruml et. al., 1999), the findings indicate that bone loss in early and mid-postmenopausal women can be halted by supplementing the diet with calcium citrate. In the two-year study, 63 early postmenopausal women were given 400 mg of Calcium Citrate twice a day in order to gauge the effect of