Calcium: how to choose your supplement

Calcium, how to choose your supplement

It will first be relevant to check if your need is very real. A large majority of women are prescribed a calcium supplement daily over an indefinite period when menopause comes. Does this mean that all menopausal women are at risk of osteoporosis? Is calcium essential 12 months of the year? Not necessarily.

Too much calcium can also be placed in the body and cause adverse effects. The fact remains that the majority of women end up with a "laboratory" calcium prescription which happens to be calcium carbonate. Outside this is badly absorbed by the body and requires significant effort in the stomach to solvent it.

What to do to help your assimilation?Taking vitamin C in parallel with calcium will be beneficial. Even a little orange juice (rich in vitamin C and calcium). But be careful not to get used to drinking large quantities of orange juice because this juice is acidic and the acidity of your body is precisely to be avoided since it is the major cause of demineralization and therefore decalcification.

In terms of chemical form, favor citrate, citrate/malatic or even bisglycinate form. These will be better assimilated.

The shape of the supplement has an influence. The liquid product will be more easily digested and absorbed than a tablet. The stomach will have to digest the latter.

Not to mention that with age, the secretion of stomach hydrochloric acid often decreases, reducing the ease of digestion.

A little bit of lemon or even apple cider vinegar would help increase the strength of stomach acidity.

Take your supplement by eating. The presence of proteins and fats will promote the absorption of your calcium, although too much from one and the other will cause the opposite effect.

Do not abuse cereals because they contain phytic acid which will harm the assimilation of calcium. The same goes for oxalic acid contained in certain vegetables such as spinach, cardtops, cauliflower, asparagus and also chocolate!

Dietes rich in phosphorus (attention sodas!) Will be avoided
Vitamins C, A and above all will positively influence this assimilation. The latter is usually present in the majority of calcium supplement.

Remember to exercise if you don't do it, it affects the quality of absorption. Stress, once again, shows another negative facet of its effect on the body by embarking on the assimilation of this mineral so essential for us.

Source: Infonaturel.ca