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What is everyone taking to meet their Calcium goals?

I bought a 30 day supply of calcium chewable wafers at 250 Mg Per tablet. The NUT recommended 1500 Mg per day.

Each tablet makes me gag and I am supposed to choke down 6 of these a day? The tablets are also the size of 3 quarters stacked on top of each other.

Please tell me someone has found a liquid form?

Thank you

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Try the Calcet lemon or chocolate chews they are a treat. calcium citrate is used in them for better absorption.

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i do a liquid Calcium which is really simple and good tasting, there is a brand that can be found at wal-mart, or multiple brands at the Vitamin shoppe.

SO much simpler than adding yet another pill to my daily regimen...

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Thank you both for the replies.

Lil Red, thank you for the suggestion. I will keep my eye out for those flavors. I currently have the wild berry flavor but it tastes like chalk.

Mi75,

Do you know the name of the brand you use? I have a bottle of D3 as cholecalciferol, but that only helps with absorption of Vitamin D and Calcium, but does not provide the calcium requirements we need. Originally I was taking the D3 assuming it was the way to go. But my NUT explained that while D3 was great to take and would help my body absorb calcium, I still needed the calcium citrate to prevent bone lose. It took some doing but I was able to verify what she told me online. It was shocking because the D3 is marketed as a calcium Vitamin. Which I suppose is true if you are a normal person eating Big Macs, but we aren't exposing our bodies to enough calcium to absorb for the S3 to help alone. Not to mention all the chewables I have seen contain D3 already so the US no need to take the stupid liquid D3 I bought.

If you have a calcium citrate in liquid I would be eternally grateful.

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