NOW Foods Supplements, Calcium Lactate, Supports Bone Health, Easy to Swallow Tablet, 250 Tablets

Back in June, I saw Dr.Berg mention Calcium Lactate to cure excess mucus in a video where he was covering so much stuff that he only briefly mentioned it in one sentence, with no further information.I tried it and at first it didn't work. Then I remembered that Dr.Berg's view is from the strict keto perspective. So I started a keto diet again and this time it started working.I take one dose [of three, as noted on the label] first thing in the morning before I eat anything else. What I realized what I must have been doing wrong was that when I originally started trying these Calcium Lactate supplement, that I was eating carbs and sugar sodas, which was feeding my mucus creating bacteria with those carbs and keeping them alive.I decided to switch to a keto diet on the thought that Lactate is a milk sugar. Some of our most beneficial gut flora or pro-biota are Lactobacillus, which create Lactic Acid as a defense mechanism or their attack agent to defeat other organisms that are competing for their food source. It basically means to me that we mammals are milk creatures, and are therefore immune to milk/lactate based attacks. And although Lactobacillus can properly consume carbs, so can other organisms. But... Lactobacillus can also consume Lactate and Lactic Acid, where other organisms might not. But there was one problem with that thought, was that the mucus generating biota were easily consuming milk when I'd drink some, and then start producing large amounts of mucus in my nasal and throat.What makes Calcium Lactate special seems to be that it is using Calcium as the poison to defeat those unwanted mucus over-generating biota. When the overgrowth of mucus generating biota consume the Calcium Lactate molecule they also have to deal with the Calcium atom. Calcium is a reactive silvery metallic element found in the periodic table. Its an alkaline earth metal.A quick google search shows that Calcium ion can promote multiple cellular life stages and events, supporting this theory of mine."Calcium ion (Ca2+) is one of the most ubiquitous intracellular second messengers. Changes in the concentration of Ca2+ control a variety of cellular processes including fertilization, proliferation, differentiation, muscle contraction, neuronal signaling, and even programmed cell death."https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/calcium-ion&ved=2ahUKEwjhycSnlNOKAxWpLEQIHUMSOU4QFnoECBYQAw&usg=AOvVaw1GLz689gfZwhbEL6LwNhV_Anyway, after taking it daily for a month, I started getting headaches and had to take a break. I came back to it several months later to finish the job while I was eating a keto diet again, after getting fat over all the Fall & Winter holidays. If I take 3 tablets and wait four hours to take another 3 tablets, then I get severe headaches. I think the headaches are due to needing to sleep so that my body can clean my cerebral spinal fluid of the calcium.Although the heart needs calcium to preform correctly, that calcium is in a constant state of recycling. I doubt anyone needs more calcium for their heart. In fact, when I took 2 full doses in a day, my heart felt a kind of pain. My thoughts are that I took too much calcium when I felt that pain for those 2 days. After reducing back to 1 dose, my heart's slight pain subsided. I also consume milk products, which means my calcium needs are most likely different than someone who avoids milk products.Something an individual should consider is that if this is being used to destroy bad bacteria, then you will want to put good bacteria into those gaps. I used to take probiotics, but that may be an insufficient source. I started making a sort of yogurt out of L.Reuteri to hopefully fill in those gaps faster, which did seem to help too. Although I watched a Dr.Berg video about making the yogurt, it seems to be developed by another dr named "William Davis, MD". He sells the yogurt system on Amazon, and a book named "Super Gut" to support the process.I give this product 5 stars because nothing else even came close to working as well as this did. No doctors were able to prescribe anything even close to ever working as well as this. This supplied me a permanent solution to a life long problem, for a better continued life afterwards.This solution took me a lot of trial and error. I'm not your doctor. This is not medical advice. I don't even know what medical means anymore. This is just my review on what I did with this product.I used this product to eliminate the excess mucus biota in my nasal cavity and throat, to reduce my coughing. Both of my parents had coughing problems. Each day my progress progresses further down my throat. I'm finally to my wind pipe, I just need a little further. My cough is producing less thickened mucus. My nasal is producing less mucus. I'm finally recovering and healing.

Easy to swallow.

A bit expensive but seems to be as advertised.

Great product with quick results

She says they work really well and it's an easy way to get her needed calcium.

Through trial and error of many potential deficiencies (potassium, magnesium, etc.) I was able to figure out that the charlie horses I was getting in my calves at night were due to an insufficient intake of calcium. Particularly when I'm trying to lose some weight and avoid cheeses and the like.I got this one because it's a bioavailable form and seems to work quickly. If I feel a charlie horse starting to form, I'll gently stretch it out to stop the spasm and then quickly take 4-5 of these. If it's already beyond that state, I'll chew them for faster absorption and chug some milk for good measure.They seem to come on in the late spring and last through the summer. I'm well hydrated but certainly process out more fluid during the summer, so I figure that's the cause. Once they start in the spring, I take 3 each night prophylactically‎. If a full charlie horse happens it's because I've forgotten to take these (and then I stop forgetting for quite a while...)If there's any con, it's that the tablet shape has an edge. It would be nice if those were rounded over, but it's not really a huge issue. The tablets themselves are smooth, not rough like some of the bone meal tablets are and not difficult to swallow.These aren't the cheapest supplements out there, but for almost three months of that kind of pain prevention and muscle damage avoidance, I find it well worth the price and will continue to re-order these.

I bought these as I saw a few videos that these helped so many people with chronic cough. Unfortunately my cough that I have had since 2010 remains. I am not saying they don't work but they are just not for me. I will says that they are easy to swallow though and leave no aftertaste.

Tiny caplets are coated and easy to swallow. I felt good when using this for calcium, and will buy again.