Have You Been Wasting Money On Your Mineral Calcium Supplement By Following Wrong Daily Taking Habits

This little known practical tip can raise your daily calcium absorption rate by nearly 40 percent without any extra expensive products or complicated operations

You might have seen mineral calcium supplements placed next to your coffee maker, your snack shelf or your dinner plate for months, and you probably have your own unchanging little routine to take it every day. Many people grab a tablet right after they sip the first bite of iced coffee in the morning, others swallow two full tablets at once before they head out to work, and quite a few users even take the supplement with a glass of sparkling soda to wash down the faint chalky taste. Most of these people never think there is anything wrong with their small routine, until they realize that they have spent hundreds of dollars on the supplement over the past year, but their occasional joint soreness has not got better at all, and their latest routine physical exam even shows their bone density index is lower than the last year. This situation is far more common than most people imagine, and nearly 70 percent of regular calcium supplement users do not know that the biggest problem does not lie in the product itself, but lies in the tiny unnoticeable wrong taking habits that people stick to every day.

The human intestinal system can only absorb a maximum of 500 milligrams of free calcium ions in a single digestion cycle, and any intake that exceeds this limit will not be transported to the skeletal system for storage, but will be filtered out of the body along with other metabolic waste directly. Many over the counter calcium supplement products have a single tablet calcium content of 600 milligrams or even 800 milligrams, which means if you take two tablets at one go, nearly two thirds of the total calcium content will be completely wasted. Worse still, the sudden excess calcium intake will bring extra unnecessary burden to your kidney organ, and many of the mild constipation or slight stomach bloating symptoms after taking calcium supplements are not side effects of the product itself, but the direct result of taking too high dose at one single time. You do not have to cut down your total daily calcium intake, you only need to adjust the time you take each small dose, and you can avoid most of these minor uncomfortable reactions easily.

Many common drinks and food that people love in daily life will further cut down the calcium absorption rate without being noticed. Taking calcium tablets right after you finish a bowl of high fiber oatmeal for breakfast will lead the soluble dietary fiber in the oatmeal to wrap the calcium ions tightly, and the whole complex can not be dissolved and absorbed by the intestinal wall. Drinking strong black coffee or thick black tea along with calcium tablets will make the oxalic acid and tannic acid inside these drinks combine with calcium and form insoluble sediment that can never be absorbed. Even many popular fruity sparkling water will cause hidden losses, as the added phosphate content in these drinks will speed up the calcium loss rate in your blood, which will counteract all the supplement effect you just got from the calcium tablet. Most people never connect their daily eating choices with the low calcium absorption, and that is why they keep spending money without getting any expected benefits.

The simple effective practical trick only needs you to split your total daily calcium supplement dose into two or three separate small portions, and take each portion during your lunch or dinner, or within half an hour after you finish your regular meal. A small amount of natural fat contained in your daily cooked meals can help the calcium dissolve more fully in your digestive system, and the intestinal blood flow speed after meal is at a relatively high level, which will make the calcium absorption rate over 30 percent higher than taking the supplement on an empty stomach. If you have eaten high oxalic acid vegetables like raw spinach, amaranth or chard on the same day, you can take the calcium supplement at least two hours later after the meal, to make sure the oxalic acid in these vegetables has already been fully digested and discharged. You do not have to buy extra expensive calcium products with added vitamin D formula, as 15 minutes of casual sun exposure on your hands and face during afternoon walk can produce enough natural vitamin D to help all the calcium you take that day to be fully absorbed.

There is also a widely spread misleading tip that taking calcium tablets before sleep can improve sleep quality, and a large number of people choose to take their full daily calcium dose right before they go to bed. The fact is that if you have finished your last meal more than two hours before you take the calcium tablet, your digestive system is already in a relatively resting state, the absorption rate of calcium on an empty stomach before sleep is far lower than that taking within half an hour after dinner. Unless you take no dairy products, no dark green leafy vegetables or any other natural high calcium food throughout the whole day, you do not need to take extra calcium supplements before you sleep. Wrong pre-sleep high dose calcium intake will only add extra working pressure to your kidney during the whole 8 hour sleeping period, and bring no extra benefits to your bone health at all.