Marine Coral Calcium (Continued)...What You Really Need to Know About Marine Coral CalciumWe discussed how marine coral calcium (aka sea coral calcium) has problems with purity and especially pollutants on the previous Web page. (If you arrived at this page from a search engine or elsewhere, we recommend you read that page on marine coral calcium first.) Now we'll go on to discuss some additional problems that marine coral calcium has. Heat Treatment Side Effects As we mentioned, in order to rid the marine coral calcium of its toxic heavy metals and other pollutants, companies must heat it to over 1,000 degrees. This destroys the trace elements and minerals that make coral calcium special. But the heat treatment also has another side effect. Coral calcium naturally occurs in the 'aragonite crystal form.' When you heat marine coral calcium to over 1,000 degrees, it changes from aragonite to the calcite form. Studies show that processed marine coral calcium is 6 times less bio-available to the body as a result. This means it's not as easily available to your body to make use of it -- all because it has to be treated to get rid of its pollutants. Bleaching As we also mentioned, marine coral calcium is brown in its natural collected state (and has sand and shells that are mixed in). Many companies marketing marine coral calcium bleach it so that it's white. This bleaching adds yet another refining process that takes the end product further away from coral calcium. Does this matter? We don't know -- there is no research we've found on this. Environmental Effects With news about ecological devastation around the world, many of us are concerned about the environment. We'd rather eat dolphin-friendly tuna, meat from animals that haven't been cooped up in tiny pens (unless of course we're vegetarian, in which case we wouldn't eat these animals at all!) and fruits and vegetables that haven't been sprayed with all manner of chemicals. Marine coral calcium is basically collected by lowering a large pipe to the ocean floor and vacuuming everything up in its path. Many marine coral companies say they collect the coral near the coral reefs (this makes sense, since that's where the coral would be). Nonetheless, this process throws up silt (clouds of tiny debris), which may end up smothering the coral reefs and killing the tiny organisms that make future coral reefs grow. This means that marine coral calcium collection practices may be destroying some coral reefs and preventing others from being grown. Now, the companies selling marine coral calcium claim that companies selling fossilized coral calcium have misled the public by implying that they are harming the reefs. For example, Robert Barefoot writes: "As a result of competition, those companies selling fossilized coral feel compelled to mislead the public into thinking that because they remove their coral from the beaches they are not harming the coral reefs, implying that those collecting the marine coral from the seabed must be harming the reefs. The truth is that the 'harvesting' of the marine coral is done under the strict supervision of the Japanese Government who enforces their regulations by severe criminal penalties if the slightest damage occurs to the coral reefs."He may or may not be right -- there is no unbiased research we could find on this topic. So, is this an environmentally unfriendly process? We don't know. We've read a number of compelling arguments that suggest it is environmentally unfriendly. Yet, these could be wrong. However we do know that collecting fossilized coral calcium does not harm the environment. So, you can draw your own conclusions. OK. Now that we've given you the lowdown on marine coral calcium, we're going to discuss the other type of coral calcium and its benefits. Click here now to see how marine coral calcium differs from fossilized coral calcium. 
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