You know you can buy coral calcium at your local health food store as a supplement provided in pill form, but what exactly is and and where does it come from? Let’s take a look.

Coral Calcium is a type of salt, salt of calcium to be exact, that comes from fossilized coral reefs. Since all living coral reefs are protected, the coral calcium you buy in supplement form is derived from ground up limestone. This above ground limestone was created by coral reefs thousands of years ago.

The question is, does this “special” type of calcium carbonate  give you any more health benefits than let’s say a Tums(TM). Current science doesn’t seem to support some of the claims that have been made by coral calcium distributors including the claims that it can cure cancer by changing the body’s ph levels. While it is true that cancer cells can be destroyed by a highly alkaline ph environment, that same environment would unfortunately also destroy healthy body cells.

Overall it seems that a healthy diet, which incorporates a variety of foods, including those that will provide our bodies with plenty of calcium, which we do need for healthy bones, is a much better strategy for staying healthy then taking pills of ground-up limestone.