CORAL CALCIUM – OKINAWA'S GIFT

Calcium is essential for:

• strong teeth and bones
• for the heart
• Cell metabolism
• Muscle contraction
• Nerve impulse transmission
• Enzyme and hormone activity

Mr. Izumi is 115 years old and in remarkably in good health.

In 1979, the Guinness Book of Records assigned a British journalist to interview Mr. Izumi, the world's oldest living man. This assignment took him to the islands of Okinawa and Tokumoshima off the coast of Japan, where he found Mr. Izumi, 115 years old and in remarkably good health and vitality. During the interview Mr. Izumi disclosed he had worked until the age of 105. The journalist became intrigued by this and investigating further, found that most of the island's inhabitants were physically fit, had a low incidence of serious illness and enjoyed long life spans.

It was then the journalist convinced Mr. Izumi to submit to a complete physical. The results revealed him to be amazingly fit and healthy. These results prompted a team of medical researchers to travel to the island to seek the answers to the question—How could this be? They found that Mr. Izumi and all the islanders appeared to have one thing in common — the water.

The water on the islands had passed through the Sango Coral which makes up the islands. The Sango coral is different from the other 2500 species of coral in that it's composition is identical to that of the human skeleton. It is composed of calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, essential trace minerals and many other microscopic elements essential to human life.

Realizing the potential of the coral calcium, the Japanese government authorized the filtering of the coral sand which accumulated on the sea floor around Okinawa. In order to accomplish this, a unique patented process was developed to extract the Sango coral sand, preserving all its minerals and trace elements, and at the same time not touching or causing any harm to the living coral reefs.

The most abundant mineral in the human body is calcium. 99% of the body's calcium is used to form strong teeth and bones. The remaining l% is essential for the heart, cell metabolism, muscle contraction, nerve impulse transmission, enzyme and hormone activity and to help the blood clot normally. So important are the many functions aided by the 1 %, that our body will actually take calcium from the bones and teeth to use for these critical biological functions when the dietary calcium levels are too low.

Calcium is one of the most difficult minerals for the body to absorb.. Eating high calcium foods and taking supplements will not help if the calcium is not well absorbed. You can increase your calcium intake through a variety of supplements, but each supplement has varied absorbability.
In your stomach, the calcium compounds you consume are converted into ionic calcium through interaction with your stomach's acid (hydrochloric acid). "Ionic" calcium is the form in which calcium can be absorbed from the intestine into the blood stream and then into the body's tissues.
Calcium in supplements comes in various forms. These forms are absorbed by the body in different amounts.

Calcium Carbonate. Only about 40% of this compound is calcium and of that only about 10% is absorbable, so for every 100 mg of calcium carbonate you intake, you will get only about 4 mg of usable calcium.