Coral Calcium is Crap -Roger Mason

Most people have discovered that colloidal minerals are an unscrupulous advertising promotion by silver tongued hucksters, and contain almost no biologically relevant amounts of minerals. Plus they contain deadly poisons such as mercury, lead, cadmium, aluminum, thallium and even uranium! Now the New Age P.T. Barnum's are hawking coral minerals. Yes, there was already one article on coral calcium (please see "Coral Calcium- The Joke's On You" in the archives). There needs to be a follow-up, as you see coral calcium on TV, radio, magazines, newspapers, health food stores and get ads in the mail for it.  
 
This is expensive ground up rocks. You are paying $30 for a bottle of good old calcium carbonate. And you have to take two capsules a day so the bottle only lasts you for one month. You can get a variety of good calcium supplements in any drug store for a few dollars for a two month supply. Yes, there is some magnesium and zinc in there.  
 
An ad for one of the leading brands of coral calcium freely admits that there is only calcium, magnesium, chromium, and zinc in their product in any biologically relevant amounts.

• There is no iron in there.
• There is no silicon there.
• There is no iodine in there.
• There is no cesium in there.
• There is no rubidium in there.
• There is no germanium in there.
• There is no tin in there.
• There is no strontium in there.
• You would have to take 4 capsules a day to get the selenium you need.
• You would have to take 4 capsules a day to get the molybdenum you need.
• You would need to take 100 capsules a day to get the manganese you need.
• You would need to take 50 capsules a day to get the copper you need.
• You would need to take 30 capsules a day to get the boron you need.
• You would need to take 25 capsules a day just to get 1,000 mcg (1 mg) of vanadium.

 
This is sold as a calcium supplement, but it is a verified fact that you cannot absorb the calcium without having BORON with it. Calcium must have magnesium and boron and should have vitamin D as well. Without boron you are just not going to absorb the calcium. Our food is very boron deficient, our soils are very boron deficient and you should take a 3 mg boron supplement every day. You would have to take 30 capsules (a half bottle) of coral calcium to get the boron you need.  
 
And you pay $30 for this stuff Wow!, that's a deal, huh?  
 
An offer of $1,000 was made for anyone in the world to find a complete mineral supplement with all thirteen the minerals we need in the BIOLOGICAL AMOUNTS we need. No one claimed that reward. All Your Minerals has 20 elements in the biologically required amounts you need. You get free All Your Vitamins with it, all for $11.95. This is a two month supply, so that comes to 20 cents a day for the best mineral and vitamin supplement in the world. 
 
The hucksters and conmen do have a point- minerals are critical for our health and Americans are generally very deficient in minerals due to the foods we eat and our unhealthy lifestyles. Getting every mineral you need is vital to good health and well being. Even if you feel you are eating well you can depend on having multiple mineral deficiencies. For a few dollars a month you can insure that you are getting every single mineral you need in the amount you need.