Calcium Physiology

Importance of Calcium

Providing structure for bones and teeth is the most obvious role of calcium in humans, but calcium has other functions that are even more essential. Calcium has a unique binding ability, enabling it to stabilize the 3 dimensional structure of many enzymes and other proteins. Calcium release into the interior of cells is also an important signaling mechanism, controlling functions as diverse as muscle contraction to normal cell death. Calcium is the most important signal transduction molecule in nature, with essential functions in plants, bacteria and animals.

Calcium Absorption

Calcium is absorbed by either active or passive transport mechanisms. Active transport of calcium is mediated by vitamin D and involves a specific calcium binding protein, Calbindin. Active calcium transport is a saturable process, that is—only a limited amount of calcium can be absorbed by that method because the transporter is easily overwhelmed by larger amounts of calcium. However, at low levels of calcium intake, the active transport is extremely important, because it can absorb a very high percentage of small amounts of calcium. Passive calcium transport is simply diffusion across the intestinal mucosa. Passive diffusion is possible for calcium ions and non-ionized calcium such as calcium carbonates and citrates, which must be ionized in the gut for active absorption.

Daily Sango Coral Nutritional Products

Powdered Supplements:
Pure Sango Coral Powder: Each ¼ teaspoon serving supplies 500 mg of calcium from coral. Each bottle has 8 oz. of coral powder which makes 340 servings.

Sango Coral with Magnesium and Vitamin D:
Each ½ teaspoon serving has 345 mg of calcium, 175 mg of magnesium, and 138 I.U. of Vitamin D3. Each 5 oz. bottle has 95 servings.

Encapsulated Coral Supplements:
Sango Coral Capsules: Each capsule contains 400 mg of calcium from pure coral powder. Each bottle contains 90 capsules.
Sango Coral with Magnesium and Vitamin D Capsules: Each 3 capsules contain 500 mg of calcium, 250 mg of magnesium, and 200 I.U. of Vitamin D3. Each bottle contains 120 capsules.
Natural coral powder is approximately 93% calcium carbonate (12% carbon, 40.04% calcium, 47.96% oxygen). The remainder of coral powder is made up of various trace minerals.

EnvironmentallySensitive Coral

Daily Coral products are produced from land deposits of Sango coral, thereby preserving the unique ecosystem of coral reefs. Live coral reefs are declining on a worldwide basis and will continue to do so if people are not careful. Even dead coral is important for the propagation of new coral, because the coral larvae are deposited in the dead coral and grow to maturity there. Some companies dredge the underwater reefs to obtain coral: a practice that destroys coral for future generations and yields an inferior product. Only coral from land deposits on coral reef islands are free from modern pollutants and environmentally responsible.

Nutrition from the Sea

The ocean is a teaming broth of nutrients and life forms. The tiny plankton, colorful corals and magnificent whales all depend on the ocean supplying life giving minerals. The tiny, delicate, corals with their waving tentacles are among the most beautiful of all ocean creatures. As corals absorb the ocean nutrients they build a skeleton that is used as a base for future generations of corals. Over thousands of years the coral reefs of the Pacific Ocean have gradually developed into large rock-like islands, rich in all the mineral nutrients needed by the human body. Daily Manufacturing offers the highest quality coral mineral supplements available.