vitamin c and calcium efflux

I seem to be prone to calcium efflux. I know this because deposits of calcium have been seen on Xrays in places where they shouldn't be seen.

I have a hard time regulating my calcium / vitamin d /vitamin K levels and keeping everything in balance.

To date my strategy has been to make sure that the only calcium I am taking in is that from food sources rather than supplements because I thought that amounts coming in in supplements [if you look at labels a lot of supps have all forms of calcium in them] might have been causing the improper deposits. first off, is this the right thing to be doing???

The reason why I specifically raise the issue of vitamin C is because so much of it in supp form is sold with calcium in it - to buffer it - I am currently taking a vit c supp which doesn;t have calcicm in it but am running out and that particular product seems to have been discontinued - I spent an absolute age one day last week on several suppliers sites looking at their vit c products and scrutinizing their ingredients and could not find one without calcium in it - obviously if whether it does or does not contain calcium is an irrelevant issue then my problem would no longer exist - so if anyone can shed any light on this situation for me I would be very grateful

Thanks
Steph

On November 22, "Steph Smith [via ES]" <[hidden email]> wrote:
> To date my strategy has been to make sure that the only calcium I am taking
> in is that from food sources rather than supplements because I thought that
> amounts coming in in supplements [if you look at labels a lot of supps have
> all forms of calcium in them] might have been causing the improper deposits.
> first off, is this the right thing to be doing???

Improper deposits could also be caused by a lack of magnesium and/or phosphorous,
and supplementing with these could also reduce those improper deposits.

> - so if anyone can shed any light on this situation for me I would be very
> grateful

I personally like to keep my Vitamin C and Calcium supplements separate, and
also prefer a more "whole foods" approach for supplements. So I use "Cataplex
C" from Standard Process for Vitamin C, and "Calcium Lactate" from Standard
Process for Calcium.  But of course there are things which impact calcium in
the body -- vitamin D, essential fatty acids, etc.

Marc

Hi Marc

thanks for the advice and the recommendations

you are right about the synergy in the body between calcium and other compounds - like I say I struggle with the appropriate balance

I try to get as much of my nutrition from dietary sources wherever possible but this probably isn't a scientific enough approach - alas.

Thanks
Steph