. If you would like to learn more about K2, Ive written a review for physicians of the latest research on this nutrient; youll understand the key points despite the medical jargon its available via this link: I just started taking AlgaeCal Plus and Strontium Citrate. These promising results led to 2 human trials, in which results were excellent. Please clear this up and let us know whether taking the two minerals separately just allows both to remineralize bones, or causes strontium to replace the calcium in bones. I just eat lots of greens they are a great source of so many minerals and phytonutrients that are good for us as well as K1! What I can offer you are some suggestions in response to what I see in your note to me this will sound like an advertisement, but I urge you to get a copy of Your Bones and read it! I must be honest with you, I have done a lot of research with strontium and when I read Lis thesis paper I was surprised that he was suggesting 170 mg to be more effective. It is available as a daily oral solution, which you make up yourself from a sachet. cortical] bone, and approximately 2.5-fold higher strontium content in new than in old cancellous [so strontium uptake is greater in new vs older trabecular bone] bone. Pilates exercises with an instructor who has been trained to work specifically with people with bone loss may be very helpful for you. I will no longer eat it! Kind regards Youre on your way back to healthy bones! I am a fish vegetarian so eat healthily catch the sun and walk whenever I can. Eventually, I expect we will be able to get our full genetic template. I am having some issues with plantar fasciitis and possible arthritis in both thumbs. However he asked me to stop taking the Calcium supplement (Caltrate 600D) I thought I heard it wrong but he was quiet sure I dont take any calcium supplement. Will this affect the absorption of the AlgaeCal Plus and Strontium Citrate. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) refers to life-threatening blood clots in deep veins. AlgaeCal Plus is giving you 350 mg, an amount that perfectly balances the 720 mg of calcium it provides. Dr. Grout does offer BHRT. The only really good food source of vitamin A is liver, which few of us consume regularly any more (and if you do eat it, PLEASE be sure to only consume organic liver!) When I started back taking the strontium, the diarrhea started again. Ive noticed in your previous posts that you take your strontium with lunch. Any information which you possess would be very much appreciated. I definitely understand that you wouldnt want to lose any hair! I sure wish I could just take 1 pill, but reality is that this would not do the job for me. At first I thought it was a one time fluke, but it is happening every night. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005787. Great! I will look into the Algaecal when my stock of Ca/Mg supps gets down to reorder level. Heres a link to AlgaeCals product: I will be 69 this year, and took my share of the old kind of Estrogen. Hello Lara, thank you for the information you have provided on this site. Re #1, the specific data you requested does not exist. 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. Gan To Kagaku Ryoho. That goes for both the density and the tensile quality of your bones. It's not known if strontium contained in dietary supplements has these effects. Ive seen the independent lab analysis. (The creatinine clearance rate is also called the glomerular filtration rate because tiny capillaries in the basic structural and functional unit of the kidney, the nephron, are called glomerular capillaries. AlgaeCals content of trace minerals is excellent, however, no supplement can make up for lack of a healthy diet. Hi Anne, what you are doing sounds great. I take warfarin blood thinner and metoprolol beta blocker. Weve come a very long way since vitamins were discovered 100 years ago! A special form of strontium called strontium ranelate can increase bone formation and prevent bone loss when used in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. 2004 Dec;19(12):2012-20. I also questioned the administration of the strontium citrate and was told that the strontium is taken as a single dose and no restriction is provided as to when the supplements are taken. What are your thoughts about these recommendations? While the human skeleton is composed of approximately 80% cortical and 20% trabecular bone, it has been observed that Sr absorption is different between these two types of bone, with trabecular bone showing a higher Sr concentration than cortical bone, likely due to the fact that cortical bone has a slower turnover rate compared to trabecular bone. I also take 1 mg of estradiol daily. Thank you for these points but you say nothing about the risk of blood clots. I love this holiday! Lara. Wonderful that your bone density is improving! I read in the discussion that a GFR of 50 or less would indicate that I should not take Strontium. K1 has significant anti-inflammatory effects. Strontium citrate, however, has never been found to cause this or any of the other ADRs produced by strontium ranelate. Physiol Meas. Thankful for reply before I order. I read the article by Meunier that he cited, but it was evident that said article supported 680 mg not 170 mg to be the most effective. Delighted to learn you are taking an organic sea vegetable derived calcium-mineral mix and that this is available in South Africa! Secondly, if you stop taking strontium, do you experience accelerated bone loss or does it stay in the bone. You want both of these to be used inside your body the strontium, to build bone, and the citrate, to help make your overall pH more alkaline. Symptoms of DRESS syndrome typically begin 1-8 weeks after exposure to the medication. BE WELL! Hi Audrey, doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005787. Has anything else diet or medications or an infection, like the flu changed recently? (Having the flu can depress your stomachs ability to secrete stomach acid for a bit, so can antibiotics if youve been told to take them for any reason.) Any supplement providing 680 mg of elemental strontium in the form of strontium citrate will be fine. I stopped taking for a few days& the diarrhea stopped. Absolutely, cut back to 1 capsule of strontium and see how that works for you. WEIRD! I did take my actual calcium, Vit D, Magnesium, B vitamins, etclater in the day as well. You can, however, run another type of test that will show you whether you are continuing to lose bone every month until your results show you are no longer losing bone and are stable. Normal results from this test range from 10.0 45.0 ng/ml. If your bones were M&Ms, cortical bone would be the outer candy shell and trabecular bone the soft chocolate center. I have my son, a 30 year old M.D. Yes, all dairy is full cream, yogurt and NZ Cheddar cheese; unfortunately milk is homo/pasteurised and fresh is unobtainable. PMID: 16527006. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16527006/ If you pull up this paper, you will see other articles below the abstract reporting reduction in risk of fracture. MANY people are deficient in iodine for a variety of reasons I summarized in a 2 part review paper I wrote on iodine for Longevity Medicine Review (here is a link to Part I http://www.lmreview.com/articles/view/iodine-the-next-vitamin-d-part-I/) As I expect you know, our bodies cannot produce thyroid hormone without sufficient iodine (T4 requires 4 iodine molecules, T3 requires 3 of them). Youre so welcome! The doses ranged from 100 to 750 mg/kg per day of strontium ranelate, corresponding to 34255 mg/kg per day of Sr21. What is your input regarding this? Optimal is 60-80 ng/mL; the 30 ng/mL level, which many docs still refer to as just dandy, is barely above frank deficiency. Experimental results were 11.2 for the Discovery, 9.9 for the Prodigy, 8.6 for the Calscan and 6.3 for the Dexacare G4. Peng S, Liu XS, Huang S, et al. (I had read Christopher C. Barr, and followed his advise no calcium, only magnesium and silica). ND? And you do. In conclusion, SR therapy increased vertebral BMD and reduced the incidence of vertebral fractures. I have a history of IBS and have avoided gluten and used probiotics which has helped my GI tract to return to normal. I am not being paid to respond to questions here on this blog. I just came across this thread and have a question. You just need to take it at a different time of day from when you take calcium (as I have written in the blog and in response to questions here, calcium and strontium compete for absorption, and calcium is better absorbed, so if you take them at the same time, you will receive less benefit from the strontium.) A personal note: this is my situation. Still, there are some surprising foods that may upset your stomach first thing in the morning. And following these recommendations is not only going to give you strong bones, but vibrant health overall. I have been taking strontium citrate for two years. HENDRIX ZJ, ALCOCK NW, ARCHIBALD RM. Remember, however, that you are most likely getting calcium from your diet, too this counts! However and this is why I am unable to tell you exactly how much strontium is deposited in cortical and in trabecular bone in real individual people the strontium signal varied widely between individuals such that after three years, the highest strontium signal observed was 28.15 for the finger (cortical bone) and 26.47 for the ankle in one volunteer and only 3.15 for the finger (cortical) and 4.46 for the ankle (trabecular) bone in another. Regarding taking 1/2 the recommended dosage I have not seen anything in the research to indicate this would be better. (Brand name: Aristo) Strontium ranelate is an osteoporosis medication that can help strengthen your bones and reduce your risk of breaking a bone. Monitoring bone strontium levels of an osteoporotic subject due to self-administration of strontium citrate with a novel diagnostic tool, in vivo XRF: a case study. Total Magnesium 300mg. So interesting! Hopefully, you can share what you learn and help others in your country as well. It remains unanswered in response above! While a bone density scan will typically measure critical fracture sites such as the spine and hip, you can be assured that benefits are being seen elsewhere in the skeletal system. Radioactive strontium, which shows up in imaging and is easily traced, is often substituted for calcium in kinetic research because strontium and calcium behave very much alike in the human body. Thanks for all the time that you take to answer our many questions. All three AlgaeCal Plans tested produced increases in BMD a marked improvement over just slowing the rate of age-related bone loss. In patients with chronic renal failure, blood levels of strontium are increased four-fold when creatinine clearance is less than 50 mL/minute. Is she able to absorb calcium effectively? (For more info on this, heres a link to Mayo Clinics discussion of thumb arthritis: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/thumb-arthritis/symptoms-causes/syc-20378339). Thanks, Hi sml, Magnesium (as Amino Acid Chelate) 75mg You might consider taking a strontium citrate supplement providing approximately 680 milligrams of elemental strontiumthis is what Strontium Boost delivers, and there are other strontium citrate supplements available that also provide this dosage. You could try soy yogurt instead. Could you please comment about this article re: strontium ranelate. Hope this helps! Answer (1 of 3): It is very important to take your levothyroxine at least 30-60 minutes before breakfast, on an empty stomach. (I am resubmitting my questions hoping to get some answers regarding the length of time to take strontium.) A randomized, multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was undertaken in 353 osteoporotic women with at least one previous vertebral fracture and a lumbar T-score <-2.4. This emphasizes the value, as antiosteoporotic treatment, of SR, which is safe at the bone mineral level. 2006 Aug;23(8):1675-86. In regards to the study you ask about, published in Environmental Research in 2012, that suggested strontium might increase risk of breast cancer, thank you for bringing it to my attention! Pregnant and lactating women: 15 micrograms (600 IU) Id appreciate your response to these concerns. Hi, I have been taking calcium, calcium rich foods and exercising to keep my bones strong, but my bone density test still show low bone density in my right hip. Absorbed ranelic acid is rapidly eliminated unchanged via the kidneys., http://www.ema.europa.eu/docs/en_GB/document_library/Referrals_document/Protelos_and_Osseor/European_Commission_final_decision/WC500173031.pdf, Neither statement appears to be consistent with current research. When our nerves send a muscle cell a signal to fire, the muscle cell responds by allowing a flood of calcium to enter, and it is calciums entry into the muscle cell that initiates the cascade of reactions that result in making the muscle cell contract. 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