Calcium Citrate Plus Vitamin D3 High Potency - 180 Caplets Bluebonnet Nutrition

How Much Do You Need?
More than 99% of your body’s Calcium is stored in your bones and teeth to support their structure, function, and strength. As you age, bone loss is a gradual process, so the stronger your bones are when their strength peaks at about 30 years of age, the more you can delay bone loss in later years. With this in mind, health professionals recommend that women get 1,000-1,300 mg of Calcium per day (increasing with age), while men should get about 500-1,000 mg a day.

Who Needs a Supplement?
The best dietary sources of Calcium include things like milk, yogurt, cheese, salmon, and sardines, while nondairy sources include cabbage, kale, broccoli, and fortified grains. But the dairy/animal sources are far more easily absorbed by your body, while you end up getting very small amounts from other sources. With this in mind, people for whom Calcium supplementation becomes more important include vegetarians and vegans; people who eat a high-protein or high-sodium diet, which can cause your body to excrete more Calcium; those who have health conditions like Crohn’s disease and inflammatory bowel disease, which limit your body’s ability to absorb Calcium; elderly people, and people with osteoporosis.

Bone Benefits
You need Calcium from birth through old age, for bone development, growth, and bone changes in later years, when your bones get more porous and weaker. Calcium is known to strengthen your backbone and keeps your bones in optimal shape. Studies indicate that Calcium also is important to helping prevent or slow progression of arthritis and osteoporosis. What’s more, adequate Calcium has been shown to aid in balancing your blood pressure, helping prevent premenstrual depression, and helping protect your cardiac muscles. So, Bluebonnet Calcium Citrate + Vitamin D3 may help you achieve more than healthy bones, teeth, and whole-body health!

Creating a Balance
Calcium is less known for its abilities to help you maintain a healthy weight, but research supports this finding. You see, if you have any mineral deficiencies in your body, your body can release the parathyroid hormone, which stimulates your bones to release it into your bloodstream to maintain a proper balance. On the flip side, this hormone also stimulates production of fat and slows or prevents its breakdown, which has been shown to be a factor in obesity.