Doctor's Best Calcium Bone Maker Complex, Capsules, 180-Count
This bone health supplement is balanced and synergistic, a product of extensive research into the current medical and scientific understanding of bone. Among this product’s unique benefits: • Diverse nutrient spectrum for comprehensive bone maintenance. • Supports bone matrix formation, a requisite for calcium utilization. • Provides a generous 1800 IU of vitamin D3 for healthy bone calcification. • Its vitamin K2 (as MK-7) surpasses other K vitamin forms in supporting bone formation. • Provides optimized allowances of calcium, magnesium, and other essential bone minerals.  • Avoids technical shortcuts that use magnesium oxide or other poorly absorbed ingredients. • Offers potential benefits that extend beyond bone to promote overall health and wellbeing. Calcium Is Not Sufficient to Build BoneClinical studies have established that high-calcium dietary supplements by themselves do not reliably increase bone density or reduce fracture risk. Many other nutrients are required.3 The formation of new bone is really a complex process that involves first, building a scaffolding—the bone matrix—then adding in calcium and other minerals to produce hardness and strength. This bone matrix is roughly comparable to the “rebar” that is set in place prior to pouring concrete. The bone’s “concrete” is formed at the end as hard mineral crystals that naturally include not just calcium but magnesium, strontium and other minerals. The bone matrix is a molecular network primarily of large collagen molecules, interspersed with smaller amounts of other proteins and with large protein-carbohydrate molecules (“glycosaminoglycans”). The ascorbic acid (vitamin C) this formula provides is a necessary factor for the enzymes that make collagen. The formula’s complement of other nutrients is designed to enable the bone cells to build healthy bone matrix and achieve full bone mineralization.