Regarding the calcium source, I'll need to do more research - but regarding isometric vs impact: Yes, high resistance is good, but it's an engineering sort of thing that varies across people. Typically what I've seen in people I've trained with is that bone density increases in runners no faster than it does in swimmers. This is slightly untrue for sprinters, but sprinters tend also towards low rep, heavy resistance, explosive push training.
Distance runners tend to have more and worse joint damage than sprinters (I ruined my joints by running distance to such a degree it took me about 10 years of work to get 'em back together) but I had the best bones of anyone in my group. However: The combination of light distance, paying attention to one's body, and working in martial arts has served me very well.
There's no one key to good bone health, but taking calcium alone (even "good" calcium) isn't generally enough. One must check what induces calcium uptake and what interferes with it. (Again, I need to research - my brain appears to have dropped this as well, much to my annoyance.)
Isometrics: The isometrics that help most are those that take into account the full range of motion and load they bones they're working with heavily. Thus, more muscle means more effective loading of bones for build. Attention must be paid, however, to initial spurring - bone growth occurring at tendon attachment points occurs under higher load, and catching that early and reducing load is very much more effective than trying to compensate for spurs later. That said, isometrics alone rarely spur - usually it's heavy load and heavy load/heavy rep pairs (ankles and feet from running in poor shoes, for example) that cause serious trouble.
Spurring and odd growth patterns, however, are more likely during bone repair than at nearly any other point. I still have horribly heavy shins because I shin-splinted and spurred them growing up. Lovely bone density there, but overall useless other than as a strike plate, and always a background sort of painful. If you're prone to micro-fracture or percussion flaking, it's a good idea to pay attention to anything that feels odd.
Then we get into the less medically backed areas of theory. Just because I think this works for me doesn't mean it will (or even should) work for you.
Chi use: Directing chi-flow to an injury area can work wonders. Doing so requires having a feeling for, "Works," As regards your body. Directing chi to a patterned task, such as bone regrowth can reduce injury recovery time drastically. Additionally I work a lot with biofeedback, manual capillary and arterial dialation/constriction sets, lymphatic redirection (at which I'm such a rank beginner I probably do more harm than good half the time) and so forth.
In my experience, belief of "This will work," Has at least as much to do with something working as the basic chemistry of a given setup.
Emotional sets: Bone injury can yank calcium from the blood, even when that's being used in other places (emotional stability calcium ion stuff, as well as heart health). Maintaining calcium levels when things break or are building has proven harder for me than during normal operations.
The big interference set I'm seeing up front (as I pull in some folks on chat and ask chemistry questions) Is that calcium uptake is heavily linked to lysine (get good protein and plenty of it while repairing) and contra-linked to spinach (Damnit, I love spinach) with one or another compounds in spinach being linked to poor uptake. (Further research by a friend indicates oxalic acid as the culprit - and a number of places argue that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks). Magnesium and potassium = needed for uptake. Uptake upper limit tends to be around 500mg per meal for the average person... I seem to remember doing ducky with 1500, but there's a reasonable chance I was on a poor source at the time, and that my body just flushed it. Minerals generally work better in combination with chelated amino acids (I'm out of my depth here as regards chelated aminos, other than having seen people recover faster and be more comfy with supplements using 'em)...
...and then there's my gut reaction to the presentation that the folks at http://www.algaecal.com/ are providing. It reads like a scam to me, particularly the referents to boron and strontium...
...and anecdotal reference: I've heard far more good things from users of Caltrate than I have from users of AlgaeCal. Not that I want to suggest this means either is better than the other...
My own experience suggests that when I'm getting enough whole milk and a balanced diet I do better for myself than I do with hardcore supplements, even when working through injury - with the exception of spirulina, which I need to remember to use more carefully, since over-use appears to interfere with mental function somewhat, and my migraine rate goes up.
*chuckles*
Given that I appear to be happily dive-minded at the moment, feel free to push questions my way.
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Distance runners tend to have more and worse joint damage than sprinters (I ruined my joints by running distance to such a degree it took me about 10 years of work to get 'em back together) but I had the best bones of anyone in my group. However: The combination of light distance, paying attention to one's body, and working in martial arts has served me very well.
There's no one key to good bone health, but taking calcium alone (even "good" calcium) isn't generally enough. One must check what induces calcium uptake and what interferes with it. (Again, I need to research - my brain appears to have dropped this as well, much to my annoyance.)
Isometrics: The isometrics that help most are those that take into account the full range of motion and load they bones they're working with heavily. Thus, more muscle means more effective loading of bones for build. Attention must be paid, however, to initial spurring - bone growth occurring at tendon attachment points occurs under higher load, and catching that early and reducing load is very much more effective than trying to compensate for spurs later. That said, isometrics alone rarely spur - usually it's heavy load and heavy load/heavy rep pairs (ankles and feet from running in poor shoes, for example) that cause serious trouble.
Spurring and odd growth patterns, however, are more likely during bone repair than at nearly any other point. I still have horribly heavy shins because I shin-splinted and spurred them growing up. Lovely bone density there, but overall useless other than as a strike plate, and always a background sort of painful. If you're prone to micro-fracture or percussion flaking, it's a good idea to pay attention to anything that feels odd.
Then we get into the less medically backed areas of theory. Just because I think this works for me doesn't mean it will (or even should) work for you.
Chi use: Directing chi-flow to an injury area can work wonders. Doing so requires having a feeling for, "Works," As regards your body. Directing chi to a patterned task, such as bone regrowth can reduce injury recovery time drastically. Additionally I work a lot with biofeedback, manual capillary and arterial dialation/constriction sets, lymphatic redirection (at which I'm such a rank beginner I probably do more harm than good half the time) and so forth.
In my experience, belief of "This will work," Has at least as much to do with something working as the basic chemistry of a given setup.
Emotional sets: Bone injury can yank calcium from the blood, even when that's being used in other places (emotional stability calcium ion stuff, as well as heart health). Maintaining calcium levels when things break or are building has proven harder for me than during normal operations.
The big interference set I'm seeing up front (as I pull in some folks on chat and ask chemistry questions) Is that calcium uptake is heavily linked to lysine (get good protein and plenty of it while repairing) and contra-linked to spinach (Damnit, I love spinach) with one or another compounds in spinach being linked to poor uptake. (Further research by a friend indicates oxalic acid as the culprit - and a number of places argue that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks). Magnesium and potassium = needed for uptake. Uptake upper limit tends to be around 500mg per meal for the average person... I seem to remember doing ducky with 1500, but there's a reasonable chance I was on a poor source at the time, and that my body just flushed it. Minerals generally work better in combination with chelated amino acids (I'm out of my depth here as regards chelated aminos, other than having seen people recover faster and be more comfy with supplements using 'em)...
...and then there's my gut reaction to the presentation that the folks at http://www.algaecal.com/ are providing. It reads like a scam to me, particularly the referents to boron and strontium...
...and anecdotal reference: I've heard far more good things from users of Caltrate than I have from users of AlgaeCal. Not that I want to suggest this means either is better than the other...
My own experience suggests that when I'm getting enough whole milk and a balanced diet I do better for myself than I do with hardcore supplements, even when working through injury - with the exception of spirulina, which I need to remember to use more carefully, since over-use appears to interfere with mental function somewhat, and my migraine rate goes up.
*chuckles*
Given that I appear to be happily dive-minded at the moment, feel free to push questions my way.