Comments on: Why Are Both Iron And Calcium Added To Many Multivitamin/mineral Pills?

By: }}}~~~~>

}}}~~~~> — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:30:28 +0000

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By: repoclos

repoclos — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0000

Here is a clue. The most common metal on the earth’s surface is calcium. It is combined with oxygen and cows get it from grass. Grass has calcium metal. Females need the iron to rebuild the blood but if your health is low your marrow makes blood slowly… Work on feeling how foods affect you . Best to adjust for your health that is changing every month. Sometimes just taking it easy for a while is best as the body knows way more than we do. Bacteria and virus can affect the usage of our foods. . .for minerals I use brine from real rock salt or sea salt . Molasses is loaded with minerals from the sugar plant. Yup sugar has not vitamins either.

By: oldtimek

oldtimek — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:47:36 +0000

It’s a measure of quantities. Yes, too much Calcium and Iron taken together can prevent all of it being absorbed because the body absorbs them in the same receptors, but I like to use the mental image of a sink.
Picture with me if Calcium and Iron were two types of liquids that both needed to go down the same drain. If you pour one gallon of one or the other down the drain and the tub is about 1 gallon, it goes fine… but if you try to pour 1 gallon of each of those into a 1 gallon tub, it’s going to overflow before the drain can get all of that liquid into it.
Now, if you put a 1/2 gallon (smaller doses) of each, they could both fit in the tub and go down the drain just fine.
It’s not the most ideal example, but it shows my point. Most multivitamins have only 1-200 mg of Calcium at the most, especially if there is Iron. The body can absorb up to 600 mg of Calcium at any given point in time, so there’s plenty of room left in that “tub” for other similar things (like small doses of Iron) to be absorbed.
It’s a matter of how much they interfere with absorption, not that taking them together automatically makes them inert. There are a number of foods that have both Iron and Calcium naturally occurring in them, but the body still breaks them down normally and absorbs what it can.
If that sounds as confusing as it looks as I read back over that, feel free to E-mail me and I’ll try to explain it better. I hope I helped!