Coral Calcium Guru

Marine Bed Semi-Fossil Coral vs. Above Water Fossilized Coral

Above Water Fossilized Coral Calcium and the Quality

The biggest benefits to both marine bed coral calcium and above water coral calcium are: Increased pH, ORP or antioxidant potential, and the perfect balance of minerals. All of this information can be viewed in the "Learn about the general benefits of coral calcium." section of this site. In that section you will learn that the sachet or tea bag form of coral calcium will give you the best pH and ORP values. The pH will usually be around 11.5 and the ORP will be around -300. Sachet coral calcium is a marine bed coral. This same coral can be crushed and sold as CCP in a 15 to 1 ratio of Ca to Mg. The above water coral calcium is sold as fossilized coral calcium capsules or powder in a natural 40 to 1 ratio of Ca to Mg. Many of these products have added extra magnesium to make up for this deficiency. This 40 to 1 ratio compared to the 2:1 SMP ratio or the 15:1 CCP ratio proves above water coral to be a lower quality. The fossilized coral will give a pH reading of around 10.0 and ORP reading around -180 as a stand alone product which proves it to be a lower quality in those areas compared to the marine bed coral calcium sachets. These readings will vary when other ingredients are added. These readings are only achieved when adding the product to water. These great pH readings have to do the large amounts of oxides present in the coral calcium which is explained in more detail in the "Learn about the differences in the methods of using coral calcium." section. As you can tell from the readings above, the sachet coral calcium contains much more ionized oxide molecules than does the fossilized above water coral calcium. The ionic minerals in marine bed coral are not the same as those in above water fossilized coral calcium and this is the reason for the differences in ORP etc.. You have probably seen on other sites that the amounts of different elements differ from marine coral calcium to fossilized coral calcium. Why? To understand why you must first understand how a fossil is made.

How Fossils are Made

1) When a body is buried, the fleshy parts normally get eaten by small organisms or slowly decay.

This leaves the hard parts body such as the skeletal system.

2) As new layers of sediment settle, the skeleton is buried deeper and deeper below the surface.

3) The ground water conditions in the burial area are acidic and dissolve the bones.

If this happens where the rock is solid enough a cavity in the shape of the skeleton remains in the rock. This cavity is called a mould.

4) Ground water laden with minerals seeps through the sedimentary rock, finds the cavity and fills it in by depositing minerals.

This is called a mould cast.

5) Fossils are rock-like structures in which the original mineral make-up has been replaced with the basic elements of limestone.

Because the fossil was made from a mould the detail within the bones as well as most of the original minerals have been lost and only the texture and shape are preserved.

Fossilized above water coral calcium is no longer coral calcium. Much or all of its minerals have been replaced with normal elemental minerals. This why the amounts of elements found in marine bed coral calcium differ from that of above water coral calcium. The calcium levels in above sea coral calcium are higher than the levels in marine bed coral. This is not a good thing! One of the biggest benefits of coral calcium is the perfect ratio of minerals direct from nature. This ratio is changed in above sea coral causing the calcium levels to be higher, as in basic limestone or chalk, but magnesium and many of the other important trace minerals are in lower amounts in above sea coral calcium. This unbalanced ratio makes above sea coral calcium much less effective.

To the best of our knowledge the above water coral calcium does not go through a purification process. It is ozonated to kill bacteria, mold and other harmful contaminants, but that's about it. This is evident when you look at the amounts of things such as lead and mercury which are both toxic to the human body. Let's take the mercury (Hg) for instance. The fossilized above water coral calcium contains .05 ppm of Hg and the marine bed only contains .01 ppm. Marine bed coral calcium is the safest coral calcium to consume.

If you leave this site and purchase a coral calcium product then make sure of two things to ensure your safety:
1.) The product is marine bed or marine grade coral calcium.
2.) It comes from Marine Bio Co., Ltd. in Okinawa, JP and that no other forms of minerals have been added.
The biggest reasons that we recommend marine bed coral is: We know 100% that it is safe and approved for human consumption by the Japanese government and has almost a ten year track record of results here in the United States.