Hi Lara, Springdale clinic where we can get suggestions on mental health issues. I hope this information is helpful to you and encourages you to give AlgaeCal a try. The duration between hunger pangs also depends on the type of food that is consumed. In order to not loose more bone, I decided to also take StrontiumBoost, which I just ordered. Can I take Strontium and Magnesium at the same time? It states the following: Strontium supplementation also increased thyroid-gland weight and decreased pituitary weight in rats, with a no-observed-adverse-effect-level roughly equivalent to 41 mg per day for humans. ), and your desire to get off Symbicort as quickly as possible (also a goood idea since glucocorticoids cause osteoporosisheres a very recent paper on this if your doctor is not already aware of it den Uyl D, Bultink IE, Lems WF. I have asked questions on a number of different blogs or emails to companies and it seems like my posts/emails usually get rejected/or no response, probably because I asked questions that couldnt be accurately answered and thus demonstrated the fallaciousness of the product/marketing claims. 10 bone essential supplements Review: 1. In articles posted on AlgaeCal.com and in #AskLaras on our AlgaeCal Community, I always provide links to the studies that support what I am saying immediately after the statements made although in checking the post on AlgaeCal.com, I see some of the references I provided have been removed, so only some are given in the links. Useful information. I like it when people reach the same conclusions I have. In the U.S., Canada and Europe, the typical diet contains 24 mg strontium/day. My third suggestion for you is to have your doctor order a 24 Hour Urine test to check all your hormone levels best lab for this is Meridian Valley Labs. The common myth is that strontium supplementation results in larger concentrations of strontium in your bones. If this had been a significant issue, SOMETHING further should have shown up by now. 1,000 micrograms is far below the 680 milligrams (which is the equivalnt of 680,000 micrograms!) Hope this helps. MDiv, MA, LMT - Best-selling author of Healthy Bones Healthy You! The link you sent me goes to a website basing their claims on research conducted no later than 1993, so I checked PubMed to see if more recent papers had been published (which one would assume they would be if this therapy was helpful). All 3 forms of vitamin K are beneficial K1, which you can get in abundance from green leafy vegetables, is highly anti-inflammatory as well as being required for normal blood clotting, so you dont bleed to death from even a tiny cut. Youll find the expiration date for Strontium Boost clearly printed on the bottom of each bottle. What about iron and magnesium regarding strontium? R. Korpelainen, S. Keinnen-Kiukaanniemi, J. Heikkinen, et al. Keep me posted, Lara. AlgaeCal is live and phyto-nutrient rich / Aquamin is dead and decaying The calcium source from this brand is also algae as is the source for all the nutrients listed. Postmenopausal women with low bone density are likely to benefit from strontium citrate. Heres a link to AlgaeCals product: am presently in my third year taking it. I recently had a DEXA scan which showed some improvement in my bone density. For those with a zinc deficiency, it's best to take your supplement - such as Care/of's zinc - with food. If this does not help, you should see your doctor to rule out other causes of gastritis (stomach inflammation), such as H. pylori infection or problems with your gallbladder or pancreas both of which are involved in digestion (the gallbladder secretes bile, pancreas produces pancreatic enzymes), so their dysfunction can cause nausea. Strontium is eliminated by our kidneys, so it may accumulate in patients with chronic kidney disease, as their kidneys ability to filter the blood is compromised. Regardless,, however, I urge you to NOT EAT GLUTEN-CONTAINING GRAINS! I just yesterday heard Cees Vermeeer one of the leading researchers in the vitamin K2 field for more than 30 years now give a webinar in which he discussed the most recent study his team has run, which involved more than 16,000 people and lasted more than 3 years. The SR SPC(23)gives a value for Fspineof 50%. The test you want run is for 25(OH)D this is the circulating form of vit D and the best indicator of body stores. Ive been taking AlgaeCal for a few years but stopped the Strontium last November because my husband thought it might be causing the all-over body aches I was having. It feels more comfortable for digestive purposes to take the Strontium, with other food rather than, for example, late at night before lying down in bed. I take at night on an empty stomach & within a short amount of time I have very loose stools. Bottom Line for best absorption, take strontium separately from other minerals. You do not have to be suffering from 1/2 hourly hot flushes! I have my son, a 30 year old M.D. For your 3rd question, in Lara Pizzornos book Healthy Bones, Healthy You, she advises that In humans, strontium elimination from the skeleton occurs in 2 phases: an initial rapid clearancewhere 50% will be eliminated within 41 days followed by a slower phase of elimination during which the remaining half is lost over the following 3 years. Thanks. I was wondering if you had seen this article from Univ of Toronto, re lyme (borrelia burgdorferi) causing bone loss? But there are still several misconceptions about strontium citrate pills: Lets take a closer, research-based look at each of them. A number of medical experts now recommend that, once bone density has moved out of osteoporotic and into osteopenic range (which you now are), the dose of strontium citrate can be cut in half. Please do continue to consume calcium the recommended daily intake is 1,200 mg. If you take AlgaeCal Plus, the full daily dosage will be giving you 90 mcg of K2 (MK-7). Since switching to AlgaeCal was the ONLY thing I changed in what I had been doing, I am now a believer. Most of the recent research on strontium has been done on strontium ranelate because it is patentable by a drug company since it is a combination of strontium plus ranelic acid a molecule never before seen on planet Earth and therefore patentable. Dont hesitate to write if I can be of further help, Lara, Dear Dr. Pizzorno, I woke up today to find your email response to my question, and was pleasantly surprised that my email actually got a response and that too so personal and informative and such a good medical advise and details. Heres a link to a blog I wrote discussing how and why soy foods are helpful https://blog.algaecal.com/latest-research-shows-soy-foods-help-prevent-bone-loss/. Strontium has nearly twice the atomic weight of calcium. If you carry a source of chronic infection, what can you do to lessen the effects on your joints and bones? Marilyn, Sorry, used to the post preview at NOH, lots of booboos! Dr. Wright discusses this in Stay Young & Sexy with BHRT. How does it compare to the AlgaeCal that you recommend? Thanks! Keep me posted on how you are doing and dont hesitate to get in touch if I can be helpful. My DEXA results were excellent, showing bones in the healthy, normal range, where they have remained, which I credit in large part to taking AlgaeCal Plus, Strontium Boost and, since it became available, Triple Power Omega 3 Fish Oil. My last dexa scan (summer of 2011) indicated that there had not been any decline in my bone density. The current research indicates that the serum CTX is the most reliable of the three, but the NTx is also good and is used frequently. Great information. AlgaeCal Plus provides more calcium than this amount of strontium and surely with your dietary intake of calcium, you will be getting quite a bit more than 680 mg. Re Drs Best strontium if it is strontium citrate, it should be fine. Please let me know what you suggest in order to take the AlgaeCal Plus to ingest a healthy amount of calcium. The bottom line here: To err on the side of safety, I would not recommend the use of strontium citrate in young, premenopausal women. My primary care physician started prescribing me the 1mg estradiol, and I also take in addition the AlgaeCal & Strontium Boost. Will I benefit by combining the estradiol with your product? It has not. CONCLUSIONS: The data indicate that rat and human show similar drug intestinal absorption profiles and similar transporter expression patterns in the small intestine, while the two species exhibit distinct expression levels and patterns for metabolizing enzymes in the intestine. These techniques were applied on bone mineral samples obtained from the iliac crest of male cynomolgus monkeys treated for 13 weeks with oral doses of strontium ranelate. Am I being foolish to be so conservative my next DEXA will be in about 4-5 months. Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. It is available as a daily oral solution, which you make up yourself from a sachet. You are now my go-to reference for bone health. I remember when my mother was dying from hip fracture + congestive heart failure along with my 23 year old cat, who we were giving fluids several times a day because of her kidney failure I was so stressed out and sad that I lost TONS of hair. Is there any validity to this statement? You just want to take strontium at a time when you are not also consuming calcium since the two minerals compete for absorption (and calcium always wins, so you will get little benefit from your strontium if you take it when also consuming calcium). I wore a Holter monitor for 24 hours but the doc didnt find an issues. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. I do plan on continuing the algae cal plus but question if I need 4 capsules each day or if I can cut the dosage. Thanks again Linda, Hi Linda, Ive written up all this research for inclusion in the 2nd edition of my book, Your Bones, which will be out in March 2013 its very interesting! Delighted you are finding the information in Your Bones annd here on AlgaeCals blog helpful. Re; Robert Gouterman January 17, 2012 at 8:31 am [i.e second post above] In addition, Algaecal suggests taking Strontium Boost along with Algaecal Plus. If so, discuss alternatives with your physician. Your indepth info on Strontium Citrate has me leaning that direction.. but when I came across this info from you about AlgaeCal I thought it was worth consideringso my dear, I am asking how are your bones now? All the ranelic acid present in strontium ranelate does not quickly disassociate from strontium in the digestive tract; some strontium ranelate is absorbed intact. I do not know what your multivitamin contains. Her BMD has continually increased, and after 800 days (the most recent check before the paper was submitted to Bone) strontium retention at her finger and ankle were 7 and 15 times higher than the initial baseline reading. 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