Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Shocking Truth About Store-Bought Calcium Supplements | Gut Health Q&A

20 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a March 20, 2025 YouTube Gut Health Q&A with Aaron Hartman, MD discussing contamination in commercial calcium supplements: he states that about 25% of store-bought calcium products exceed the EPA recommendation for lead, and that in the 1990s roughly 90% of the world's supplement calcium was sourced from melamine.

25% of calcium that you get in your typical CVS, Walgreens kind of place has levels of lead over the EPA recommendation. So. Which is insane. And so. And at one point in time, back in the 90s, 90% of the world's calcium and supplements was coming from melamine, which is a product of South Africa, which, you know, some people don't know what that is, but that's, like, what they make. Like those 1970s, like, hard.
It's gotten really popular again. You can get them everywhere. Yeah. Like, all the little Easter dishes that are, like, plastic, they're melamine.