BAREFOOT  Coral Calcium

CORAL CALCIUM Information 

• What is the #1 selling coral calcium product on the market?
• Is this product created in the Barefoot Formula?
• When and how many capsules of coral calcium should I be taking?
• Why coral minerals?
• Why Vitamins and Trace Minerals?
• Different types of coral calcium
• Watch Out for Some Retail Calciums currently in the market
• Benefits of Calcium
• How Does Coral Work
• Osteoporosis and Arthritis Go Hand in Hand
• Importance of Vitamin D
• Importance of Sunlight

Barefoot Coral Calcium Plus is the #1 Selling Coral Calcium Product
Barefoot Coral Calcium Plus is the number one selling coral calcium product on the market. Why? Simply because it contains the 1500mg of 100% pure marine grade coral calcium along with a variety of vitamins and minerals. This product contains 33% more coral calcium and has 50% more coral calcium than any other product on the market. It is the enhanced Barefoot Formula that you have heard so much about.

Our Barefoot Formulated Product has 50% More Coral Calcium
Yes, this product is the Barefoot Formula. 

When and how many capsules of coral calcium should I be taking?
The National Institutes of Health Recommends the following daily calcium intakes:

Age Daily Recommend mg:
1 - 10yrs = 800 - 1200 mg/day
11 - 24yrs = 1200 - 1500 mg/day
25 - 50yrs = 1000 mg/day
65+yrs = 1500 mg/day
Pregnant/Lactating = 1200 - 1500 mg/day

It has been recommended by Bob Barefoot that everyone consume 1500mg of coral calcium. Barefoot Coral Calcium Plus is there for you because it contains 1500mg of 100% pure marine grade coral calcium.

In order to get the 1500mg of coral calcium you should take 1 capsule 3 times a day (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Granted this is for a healthy person, if you are considering using more coral calcium make sure that you consult your physician.
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Why Coral Minerals?
When coral calcium from Okinawa and surrounding domains in Japan is used as a food supplement, it touches many lives in a highly positive manner. Okinawans have the best health and longest lives inthe world. Some people may dismiss this phenomenon as a chance observation, there are new scientific basis for the use of coral calcium for health. One key constituent of coral calcium is readily absorbable calcium and magnesium, but other factors within coral, including its highly balanced mineral content and the occurence of byproducts or the activity of certain microorganisms, may account for observed benefits.
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Why Vitamins and Trace Minerals?
Several minerals and vitamins play a major role in metabolic processes that product and the matrix of bone and cartilage. Benefit is apparent in bone integrity when trace minerals such as manganese and zinc are added to calcium supplementation of the diet. Vitamin D has unequivocal importance in bone health and levels of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D fall with age.
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Different Types of Coral Calcium
The first type of coral is fossilized calcium that has been deposited on the landmass, or washed up on to beaches. The second type is taken directly from the seabed. It is marine bed coral. This seabed coral is the coral that has dropped from the reef or is processed by reef inhabitants. Marine coral is closer in composition to the living forms of corals, because many mineral and organic elements are retained, in comparison to fossilized, land based coral. Marine coral contains more magnesium, and the balance of calcium (24%) to magensium (12%) content of this second type of marine coral is close to 2:1. This 2:1 ratio is the ideal ratio for calcium and magnesium intake in the human diet. Marine coral is to be strongly preferred as a health giving supplement over fossilized coral. This superiority is due to its retained, ideal, ionic balance of calcium and magnesium in a 2:1 ratio, and the fact that a host of other nutrients were also washed out of fossilized coral during weathering processes.
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Watch Out for Some Coral Calcium Products in the Market
Do you realize that some commercial types of coral calcium were less than 10% coral calcium? This practice has emerged in the manufacture of some types of coral calcium capsules. You should be looking for a label that presents a minimum of 1000mg of coral calcium. We provide you with 1500mg of pure Marine Grade Okinawa Coral Calcium. Some people have not been honest about the production processes for coral calcium, largely as a consequence of their desire to maximize economic opportunities. These people are usually using the inexpensive, low grade coral calcium.
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Benefits of Calcium
• Healthy Skeletal Function
• Prevention or Amelioration of Bone Loss
• Prevention or Amelioration of Colon Cancer
• Prevention or Amelioration of Hypertension
• Prevention or Amelioration of Preclampsia of Pregnancy
• Cardiovascular Wellness
• Strong Bones and Teeth
• Tissue Glue: Calcium participates in cell adhesion maintaining the integrity of the linings of body cavities and the skin
• Calcium regulates pH and the cell membranes voltage and channel openings, thereby bringing nutrients to the cell
• Required for normal DNA function
• Essential for nerve impulse conduction
• Required for skeletal muscle contraction
• Calcium is required for almost every major body functions
• Essential for cell division, immune function, enzyme activity and hormone production
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How Does Coral Calcium Work?
Mineral Depletion:
Chemical analyses of many types of coral calcium show that it contains up to 74 different elements derived from the earth's crust and elaborated originally by live coral polyps from sea water. If one examines the mineral content of the human body, one finds that all minerals that occur in nature are present to variable degrees. Calcium is a dominant element in the body of many living organisms, but it is not the only important nutrient mineral. Evidence has emerged that our immediate environment may be considered to be "depleted" of minerals and certain key minerals.

What Calcium Does:
Mention calcium and everyone thinks immediately of healthy bones and teeth. Whilst skeletal health is absolutely dependent on calcium in the diet, thousands of scientific publications point to the role of calcium in many fundamental body functions that sustain life. The element calcium has chemical actions that are powerful, flexible and life sustaining to the degree that it rightfully claims the title "The King of Bioelements".
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Osteoporosis and Arthritis Go Hand in Hand
Osteoporosis and Arthritis are major public health concerns that remain difficult to treat. Osteoporosis is a disease of bone that is characterized by a diminution in bone tissue mass per unit volume. This bone thinning results in weakness of the skeleton and a pre-disposition to bone factures. Osteoarthritis is primarily a disease affecting hyaline cartilage and adjacent bones. In more advanced cases of osteoarthritis the tissue in and around the joints becomes hypertrophic.Osteoarthritis seems to occur invariably with advancing age.
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Importance of Vitamin D
The biochemistry of Vitamin D is very complex. Calcium works together with Vitamin D (especially Vitamin D3) and neither nutrient can be effective without each other. A substantial proportion of calcium absorption into the body is under the control of vitamin D3. This vitamin exerts major influences on the handling of calcium by the body. When levels of Vitamin D fall in the body, the blood levels of calcium will tend tofall and calcium cannot be laid down in bone. Vitamin D is synthesized in the body as a consequence of exposure to sunshine (an ultimate "nutrient"). Deficiences of vitamin D will cause bone to lose calcium because as blood levels of calcium fall then calcium is taken from the "calcium bank" in bones.
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Importance of Sunlight
Vitamin D is synthesized in the body as a consequence of exposure to sunshine. A lack of exposure to sunshine made the disease of rockets a particular problem in several groups of people (eg. coal miners, housebound elderly). Vitamin D is active in its D3 form which is synthesized in the skin as a consequence of sunlight. Sunlight is important for healthy Vitamin D synthesis, but on the other hand, modern science has clearly defined the health risks of overexposure to the sun. Healthy sun exposure should be controlled exposure and this casual type of exposure will meet most of the body's Vitamin D requirement, in most climates, in most people.
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