Friday Favorites: Lead in Calcium Supplements
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2022-11-04

Do calcium citrate and calcium carbonate have as much lead as calcium supplements derived from dolomite and animal bone?

What an amazing—and amazingly sad—story.

Should Pregnant Women Take Calcium Supplements to Lower Lead Levels? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/Should-Pregnant-Women-Take-Calcium-Supplements-to-Lower-Lead-Levels) is the pregnancy video I mentioned.

Even if supplements had no contamination, Are Calcium Supplements Safe? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-calcium-supplements-safe) and Are Calcium Supplements Effective? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-calcium-supplements-effective). Check out those videos to learn more.

What about dairy sources of calcium? See Is Milk Good for Our Bones? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-milk-good-for-our-bones/).

I have many more videos on lead here (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/lead/).

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