Coral Calcium: 
Milk of the Ocean

When The Calcium Factor was published in 1992, there was no source of Coral Calcium in America. The authors were aware of the health benefits of Coral Calcium from the Japanese Okinawa Islands.  They also knew about Kombucha, (a Japanese mushroom ) consumed daily by hundreds of millions of people.  Rather than making health claims for products unavailable in America, they decided it was more important to inform the American people of the how and why of nutritional deficiency diseases.

Now, however, the time has come! Kombucha is flourishing in America.  Coral Calcium has finally landed!  The Japanese government authorized Coral Biotech Company Ltd. to mine the coral sand.  They now provide it to millions of Japanese and through Ericssons Alka-Mine^® Coral Calcium PMG, to Europeans and Americans who can buy Alka-Mines^® Coral Calcium from Health Technologies Network of Hampton, Virginia.  The American scientific community has exploded with research on bio-calcium in the past few years.  As a result, the benefits of calcium are well documented.  An article in the April 1996 issue of Readers Digest (Calcium, The Magic Mineral ) claimed that calcium deficiency causes seven major diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease and osteoporosis.  About 140 more, including cancer and diabetes, will soon be added to the list. Because Coral Calcium is one of the best ways to rectify calcium deficiency the health market is beginning to see many coral calcium imitators.  To the authors' best knowledge, only coral calcium mined by Coral Biotech and distributed in America by Health Technologies Network can be classified as the real Milk of the Ocean.  Both Kombucha and Coral Calcium will be highlighted in an updated and revised edition of The Calcium Factor, to be available in the near future.

 After oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, calcium is the most abundant mineral element in the human body. No other element has as many crucial biological roles to play.  Therefore, the best medicine is food that contains calcium that is absorbable by the body.  Milk tops the list because lactates allow calcium to remain ionized at any level of acidity or alkalinity. This gives the body more time to absorb the calcium.  Likewise, the food Coral Calcium is also at the top of the list, as the calcium is already ionized and bicarbonates help calcium to remain ionized.  Calcium in other foods must be ionized by the digestive process which consumes much of the stomach's acid.  This is a problem especially for the elderly who produce less stomach acid.  With lower stomach acid, calcium tends to precipitate and pass out of the body through the bowels.  Phosphates from carbonated pop and red meat increase this calcium loss.  However other anions, such as malates from apple juice and organic anions from Kombucha, inhibit this process.  The calcium remains ionized much longer so it can be absorbed by the body.  Thus, the presence of long lasting Coral Calcium “ions” result in maximum uptake of calcium, magnesium and varying amounts of biologically necessary trace metals by the body.  This makes HTN's Coral Calcium one of the best foods and one of the body's best medicines.

CALCIUM (Ca)
+ HCI
+ VITAMIN 'D'
+ MAGNESIUM (Mg)
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• ONLY APPROXIMATELY 10% of the Ca taken in to the body is changed into Ca++

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• 1 gram of CORAL CALCIUM contains 973 mg of Ca++

• When it is placed in water the reaction with Hydrogen ions allows almost all of the Ca++ to be immediately  available for absorption and use by the body.
   
• CORAL CALCIUM Can raise the pH of water to 9.0 OR ABOVE.
   
• BODY EXCHANGES 500 - 600 mg of Ca++ to and from the skeleton EACH DAY to carry on several body functions.
   
• CA++ is important for nerve impulse travel, muscle contraction/relaxation, correct bone development, blood clotting, urine formation, fertilization and for BUFFERING ACIDS WITHIN THE BODY.