dianeseattle
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For all these many years I have had no trouble at all getting calcium citrate. The RDA for women is 1500 milligrams a day. But you can only take 500 mg at a time because the body can't absorb more than that. So I have been taking a 500mg dose three times a day. And of course I never take calcium within 2 hours of taking iron because they cancel each other out.
For the last several weeks I have been looking for calcium citrate. Usually they come in 1000 mg tablets and I break them in half. Exposing the pill inside the coating helps the absorption of the calcium even more.
So I don't know if this is some kind of a conspiracy or what but I have only been able to find calcium in doses of about 620 to 630 mg. Also, most of those times I find calcium carbonate. I use calcium citrate because it is more readily absorbed and available than calcium carbonate.
Did the FDA raise the RDA calcium level for women when I wasn't paying attention? I don't think so. I think it's a scam to get you to pay more for calcium. Believe me, trying to break up a 630 milligram calcium pill and then somehow match it up with mor pills in order to get 500 mg is a feat of which I am not capable.
So I am taking the overdose of calcium three times a day. At very least I am not absorbing the extra calcium because the female body cannot absorb more than 500 ml. But I don't know that for sure because I am not a nutritionist.
Well I don't know what is available in bariatric calcium but I'm not going to pay that kind of money. There has to be a store online that still offers you 500 mg of calcium. Has anyone seen such a store or do you have any idea where I can buy calcium citrate in 1000 mg or 500 mg sizes? They really need to be tablets, not capsules. Tablets breakdown better. And my metabolic panel agree with that.
Does anyone have any insight?
For the last several weeks I have been looking for calcium citrate. Usually they come in 1000 mg tablets and I break them in half. Exposing the pill inside the coating helps the absorption of the calcium even more.
So I don't know if this is some kind of a conspiracy or what but I have only been able to find calcium in doses of about 620 to 630 mg. Also, most of those times I find calcium carbonate. I use calcium citrate because it is more readily absorbed and available than calcium carbonate.
Did the FDA raise the RDA calcium level for women when I wasn't paying attention? I don't think so. I think it's a scam to get you to pay more for calcium. Believe me, trying to break up a 630 milligram calcium pill and then somehow match it up with mor pills in order to get 500 mg is a feat of which I am not capable.
So I am taking the overdose of calcium three times a day. At very least I am not absorbing the extra calcium because the female body cannot absorb more than 500 ml. But I don't know that for sure because I am not a nutritionist.
Well I don't know what is available in bariatric calcium but I'm not going to pay that kind of money. There has to be a store online that still offers you 500 mg of calcium. Has anyone seen such a store or do you have any idea where I can buy calcium citrate in 1000 mg or 500 mg sizes? They really need to be tablets, not capsules. Tablets breakdown better. And my metabolic panel agree with that.
Does anyone have any insight?
