Calcium for anorexic in recovery?

Im trying to gain weight after anorexia and I know that calcium is really important because I lost a lot of bone mass. Im already taking 2 calcium supplements a day but how much calcium should I consume with that?

Your age has a lot to do with the solution. The older you are, the more you need to look at how your food is being digested. Taking calcium tablets is not the total answer to building bone mass. You need to first understand how the body builds bones. The body has to first create a bone matrix from nutrients that are not calcium. This matrix is porus like a piece of coral that has holes all over it. The calcium has a positive ion charge and is attracted to the negatively charged bone matrix where it fills these holes and creates the bone structure.

Be very careful as to what kind of calcium you are taking because the body needs the right kind of calcium and also the right conditions for the calcium to be absorbed.

Do NOT take any calcium that says "Calcium Carbonate." Your bones only have about 10% of this type of calcium and the body rejects most of it as toxic when you take it. It is the cheapest form of calcium to manufacture because it comes from non living rocks. Only take calcium from once living sources. The calcium carbonate can cause kidney stones and many other toxic issues in the body. It should not be put into foods (look at all the foods it's in on labels of things you eat) and should be banned from the market place, but manufacturers are looking for a cheap way to say they have calcium in their products.

Dietary calcium is better absorbed by the body.

Calcium is absorbed in the jejunum. The jejunum is the first part of the small intestine that is attached to the stomach, separated by the pyloric sphincter that is a valve that opens and closes to allow food to pass through. Calcium competes with Magnesium for absorption in the jejunum. Depending on what your body needs, the one it chooses is the one it needs the most.

Additionally, if your stomach is not acidic when the calcium passes through the pyloric sphincter to the jejunum, it will not get absorbed and pass on through the intestine and be eliminated.

Most Calcium (in fact all tablets) tablets contain a chemical called Magnesium Stearate. This is a chemical the pill manufacturers use to lubricate the pills so they will come out of their machines faster. About 5% minimum is added to all pills and this inhibits the absorption of the nutrients by about 50 - 80% and this is also an immune suppressant. Pill manufacturers also add fillers like sand (silica) and glues to hold the nutrients together. All this keeps the calcium from being absorbed.

Bottom line is that in order for you to get healthy and create good bone mass, you need to get the nutrients that build the bone matrix and then a quality calcium. You also need to assure yourself that you are producing or supplement your diet with Betaine HCL and an activator after each meal to give yourself an adequate supply of stomach acid to assure the proper absorption of calcium.

Avoid all SOY products. Soy inhibits the absorption of minerals and in particular, iron (at least 50%). It also slows your thyroid down and both of these things you don't need after the anorexia. Look at labels, eat fresh cooked foods, not processed out of a box or can. Eat organic when you can because you need the nutrients, not food grown on depleted soils that look good, but contain little nutrition as sold by most local grocery stores.

There is a web site that I recommend because I use a lot of their products with great success. www.healthline.cc (not .com) I suggest you go to this web site and get the super food trio (ask for it in capsule form). This will give you a good start to getting healthy again.

good luck to you