BulkSupplements.com Calcium Pyruvate Powder - Calcium Supplement, Pyruvate Supplement - Unflavored & Gluten Free, 2g per Serving, 500g (1.1 lbs) (Pack of 1)

I've had a health condition for 6 years that doctors havent been able to figure out. Without making this too long, my blood labs are always a little too high here or a little too low there -but nothing that worries doctors. Yet my symptoms have been crippling. It is extremely difficult to deal with feeling like I"m about to die of something, go to the ER and have them send me home with no answers and with nothing given to me to reverse my condition. They keep referring me to the GP like its the answer to everything but the GP doesn't run any tests outside the norm even though I've begged them to. I have been sent to an endocrinologist, a heart specialist and a nephrologist. All have found slight markers for things that they say if other markers were present, would mean something dire. But since i the others they expect to be off arent, they call it a mystery and have been taking a wait and see approach to see if my kidneys fail or I have a heart attack or something, All without prescribing me anything or offering any helpful advice. (Things that have been a little off are thyroid, kidney function, phosphorus being too low, an occasional heart marker will be off, I had A fib once, and slight Ph issues, RBC are too high but Iron and Ferritin are too low.)My symptoms are, muscle spasms, cramps and burning along with weakness that feels like I'm climbing a mountain or lifting weights when I"m not. Lifting my arms to put my hair up makes my biceps burn like I"m lifting weights. My body reacts like its exercising when I"m not. My heart rate goes to 126 and my BP goes up, and all of this lasts from hours to weeks. My latest bout has been going on for about 6 weeks. I'll have an occasional half day where it goes away but then comes right back. So I figured, ok this is it, I am now dying of whatever this is. But because I've been to the doctor so many times, I dont go anymore due to humiliation, aggravation and paying them for literally nothing. Along with the usual symptoms, this time I have been super dizzy like as if I am drunk. I feel sort of drunk. After I eat, or even during, about 20 minutes after I start eating, that begins. I feel oxygen starved and like my body and muscles are super heavy and something isnt circulating right. Nauseous to the point of almost throwing up, and a constant headache. And lately also a slow dopey feeling and muscle stiffness that almost feels like I"m half parylyzed for hours. Since the best way to describe the way I feel is "like I"m climbing a mountain." and "my muscles are burning" and because my blood lab PH the times I've gone to the ER has always been a little off with the anion gap and other things that lean towards some type of acidosis and my blood sugar is always a little high at the ER I wonder if it might be going very high right after I eat but by the time I get there and get a lab drawn its back down to 130ish. My thyroid TSH was a little high every time and my latest kidney GFR was 68 but none of that has made them prescribe me anything or tell me yes, THIS is causing your symptoms. No blood pressure medicine, no thyroid medicine, blood sugar , kidney medicine. Nothing. But they have offered me SSRI's and anti anxiety meds "to see if that helps." because my rspirations are always above normal so they say I must be hyperventilating. Even though I am a super shallow breather and hyoerventilate means rapid deep breathing. MY breaths are never deep. Its one of my symptoms. So I assume since I breath so shallow I'm taking more breaths because its just shallow in and out. And me tellieng them, listen I"m not here because I"m having a ten minute spell, I've been like this for the 4 weeks nonstop 24/7, and with repeatedly longer periods starting 6 bloody years ago. They just dont listen to me. I tell them, I'm very calm right now and actually I'm barely breathing. And every time I talk I get short of breath and dizzy."oh you must be hyperventilating"NO-jackass! (I don't say that out loud to them) I'm like this all day and night its not some transient "spell" that happens and brings me here each time it happens. It's weeks of it nonstop with no breaks (muscle burning, spasms, heart rate) til I finally come in. but it just has been getting progressively worse and worsens after I eat.After years of research, trial and error with supplements and thousands of dollars spent. I decided to try pyruvate. I bought it, on the theory I might have lactic acidosis from an unknown cause and that was what was making my muscles burn and all the newer symptoms of the past month or so. The research done with it shows it works better than drugs that are given at clearing acidosis. I decided to try it and bought it on a day where for the first time, I actually couldnt even walk. My legs were burning and hurting so badly. All my bones were hurting. My joints were hurting. And my leg muscles were so stiff and weak feeling that I couldn't walk. My head was killing me. Every time I ate for days I'd be dizzy for 4 hours. Along with feeling dopey and slow like I took a drug or something. Super stiff legs like theyre almost paralyzed. I was ready to call 911 several time but didn't want to because I felt they would continue to find nothing seriously wrong in any standard lab and they would continue to refuse to take any "unusual" labs. (Since all they ever took each time were the same tests over and over I began to ask if they could please test for other things not on standard tests because those obviously werent detecting what was wrong. This caused one to write in my chart "patient asks for unusual and unecessary tests", thus ensuring all future doctors who read that will not test me for anything. "unusual")I"d like to add here that low phosphorus means that you;re dying. Noone has low phosphorus unless they are in ICU and dying. And the doctors actually admit that. But then say that that part is "a mystery", even the nephrologist who specializes in that says "its a mystery. It usually means something dire. But you dont have any of those other things"So I"m having to take a phosphorus supplement every day for the past 4 years since that was discovered because low phosphorus will kill anyone who has it. And the things that cause it are all deadly. But they call the reason for the low phosphorus in me a mystery. Here. go take some SSRI's and we wont order any "unusual" tests to try and figure this out. Come back and see us when your dead. (The last sentence was my own addition.)Anyways, when I ordered the pyruvate I was half assuming it was lactic acidosis caused by the mystery illness because the symptoms fit and prior blood labs semi pointed in that direction but not enough for doctors to diagnose or do anything. A couple days ago I couldnt walk. Yesterday Amazon delivered the pyruvate and I managed to open the door and say thank you and grapple with the bag and get a dosage of this in a cup with some water and a half hour later my muscles worked again. Like magic. I could walk, I could breath deeply for the first time in years. I feel like I could actually jump if I tried to. I dont dare do it. But the dizziness hasnt come back. The dopey slow feeling hasnt come back.I slept for 12 hours. (I'd been getting 3-4 hours a night due to bone pain feelings, aching hips, terrible pain in my feet, headache, nausea and overall discomfort.) I woke up expecting the usual muscle burning as soon s I moved. It didnt happen. I went and took my second dose of pyruvate and felt fine all day. So I just took my third dose. I dont know the underlying cause of my symptoms and may be in pretty terrible shape still. If that was lactic acidosis, all the causes for that are life threateningly bad. But the acidosis itself, even if its the end stage product of some disorder, kills people. And if thats what it was the pyruvate has gotten rid of it. I'm dubiously hopeful that maybe it can also help cure the underlying disorder but thats probably unlikely.I do highly recommend this product though, and the brand has to be good if it did what it has done for someone in such a state as I've been in. What amazes me is that people are taking such high doses of it for weight loss and they are healthy. But such a small dose reversed something so serious for me. It makes me want to take a lot more of it but I'll do that slowly.

Pyruvate is essential to the "Krebs Cycle" of energy production in the human body.

I've taken this supplement for 6 weeks. At first I was taking 1 t. With meals and it seemed to help some, but after nearing my weight loss goal, I plateaued. I read up and found taking 6 t. a day at least 30 minutes before eating is better for my size/weight. I think the studies for fat loss indicate so many grams for your weight and I did the math. However, I've found I need to time this carefully because I also need food to work out with sufficient energy. I take first dose b4 breakfast. I set the timer for 10:30 to take 2nd dose 30 min before lunch then I eat my normal about 400 cal lunch and wait 30 to work out. It's tough to take so much, but for me it's best to keep a container in bathroom with a measuring spoon and just carefully scoop 1 t on tongue and chase it with water being careful not to breath until it's swallowed (so I don't inhale powder). It's gritty so I drink more water til it's gone and repeat.I've tried it with 3-4 oz of V-8 and that masks taste well, but I'm seeing if empty stomach works better. I think so but will wait to see if it helps. I'm over 50 and have really had to work hard to lose those pesky 10 pounds that crept on during menopause.

I'm 54 and postmenopausal. 10 years after retiring from the USAF, I've gained 20 lbs. Realizing my life had become sedentary I decided to get back into shape and hired a personal trainer in Nov 2014; since then I've been circuit training 3 days a week faithfully every week. Five months later I can definitely say I had much better muscle tone however, in those 5 months I've only lost 4 pounds. I'm not sure if being postmenopausal has a lot to do with my inability to loss more weight but I suspect it does. After a lot of research I came across an article on pyruvate which interested me. After reading many reviews on the best form to take, how much to take, etc. I decided on BulkSupplements Pure Calcium Pyruvate Powder and I've followed the suggested does of 1gm per 10 lbs of body weight that I read in an article during my research. I have been taking pyruvate for a 5 days now (today is my 5th day) and I've lost 0.6 lbs with no other change in my lifestyle or workout other than adding pyruvate.I have an identical twin sister who began taking Bulk Supplements Pure Calcium Pyruvate as well. She also has a workout routine of 3 days a week circuit training with her personal trainer in her home town. She also was not losing any weight. With no other change other than adding pyruvate she has now realized a 2 lbs loss as of today.Bulk Supplements Pure Calcium Pyruvate Powder is very grainy and attempting to drink it with water is awful! However mixing Pyruvate with with V8 has been a great experience for me. It's very easy to take pyruvate in something that has a little substance to it. Neither my sister or I have tried pyruvate in anything else but we both believe mixing it in something like yogurt would be well tolerated.My sister experienced a little stomach upset of 2 days and then no side effects since; I've experience no side effects at all.I am extremely happy with this product and with Bulk Supplements.

I Can't Use it...It Smells like and Tastes like it was in a Burnt Building???

Well, I've been taking a metal detox (non-discriminating) which has been working great. Unfortunately, I didn't consider the Ca/Mg balance when I started pyruvate. This is the only thing I changed and DANG!!! I've never had back spasms and these things are the worst. I did some follow up and Cal. Pyruvate has excellent CALCIUM absorption, however remember that calcium contracts muscles and magnesium relaxes muscles. Also remember that Mg doesn't absorb as well as calcium, so now I'm trying to get that balance back. I do think this is good stuff, but if you are having any muscle cramps prior to starting, get your Magnesium up *first*. Also do not take Calcium within 2 hours of magnesium.