Is Coral Calcium Safe?

If you are reading this article, most probably because you've heard about healing ability of coral calcium from some other sources and you would to verify the claim. If you have done enough of research on the Internet about coral calcium, chances are very high that you did read about the negatives news of Robert Barefoot who was once a very popular advocator of using coral calcium as a treatment for modern diseases. 

Unfortunately, Robert Barefoot was eventually clamped down by various authorities due to his high profile controversial attack on modern medicine. As his reputation went down, so did the accountability of coral calcium. As doubts began grow, people started to question...

"Is Coral Calcium Safe?" 

In order to answer that question, we have look at it from a very logical and scientific approach. The ironic part is that, both sides of the dispute have very strong and contradicting scientific facts to support their arguments. Let's be neutral and look at this from a broad perspective. Eventually, is coral calcium safe or not is a very subjective answer varies between individuals. 

As its name implies, coral calcium is a natural supplement derived from fossilized coral reefs. The harvested coral grains are ground into fine powder and go through mild heating process to burn away any organic pollutants. Eventually the processed coral calcium powder will be packaged into capsules and promoted as supplements. 

Despite all accusations by the authorities on coral calcium, it did help many people in overcoming their health problems. In order to answer the question is coral calcium safe, we must first take a look at how does coral calcium works as a cure of multiple modern diseases. 

If you look at modern diseases from the acid-alkaline approach, you will realize that most of the modern diseases such as gout, diabetes, gastric, osteoporosis, cancer etc. are actually sharing the same root cause, which is acidosis. In conventional medicine, the approach is that each disease has its own cause and has to be treated by a fixed group of medicines or treatment. This is how the "industry" works. The more medicines there are in the market, the merrier the Big Pharmas. Well, it is not in the scope of this article to discuss on that. 

Back to coral calcium, the reason coral calcium can deliver significant healing results in multiple diseases is because of the alkalinity it delivers. As mentioned before, most of the modern diseases are caused by the accumulation of acidic wastes in the body which disturbed the equilibrium of then body's internal biochemical balance. If you look at the periodic table of chemical elements, calcium is located in the alkaline mineral group. Thus, consuming coral calcium can increase the amount of alkaline minerals in the body to neutralize the acidity build up in the body. 

The problem with most of the coral calcium in the market it is that they are not "well processed". Most of the manufacturers just grind the raw materials into fine powder and just heat treat briefly to kill the bacteria. This doesn't remove the acidic compound in the coral calcium which is the the carbonate. If you look at the chemical formula of coral calcium, it is mainly made of calcium carbonate (CaCO3). 

The side effects consuming too much of coral calcium for a long period of time is the accumulation of carbonate in the body. After the the coral calcium is consumed, the calcium carbonate has to be broken down to free ionic calcium and carbonic acid in order for the calcium to be utilized. The carbonic acid has to be discharged from the body mainly in the form of carbon dioxide via the lung. When the amount of carbonic acid exceeds the capacity of the lung, carbonic acid will be flushed out via the urine. If a person do not drink enough water, high concentration of carbonic acid meets with other minerals, especially calcium (ironically), it will crystallize and form kidney stones. 

Is coral calcium safe? Yes, only if it is well processed which is through a long duration high temperature heat treatment to burn off the carbonate as well. The end result is pure ionic calcium which can delivery much stronger alkalizing effect. Thus far, there is only one company in the world offer this kind of high quality coral calcium derivative, it is known as Calkaline. 

It is very easy to differentiate between pure ionic calcium and the regular coral calcium, it is usually tested with fire and water. Pure ionic calcium can dissolve easily when added into a glass of water, whereas coral calcium in calcium carbonate floats on top of the water. In the fire test, pure Calkaline remain as white powder when exposed to fire burning, where as normal coral calcium will turn black when burnt under high temperature.