Pure Encapsulations OsteoBalance | Hypoallergenic Supplement to Promote Calcium Absorption and Enhance Healthy Bone Mineralization* | 351 Capsules

Have taken these easy-to-swallow capsules for decades. So far my bones are doing fine, so I'm not about to give them up now....

2020 Update Been taking these 3 years now. Unfortunately this has become a slippery slope. Pills alone don’t cut it. Some do improve. Others do not. I was diagnosed at 8 years old at NIH with this. Youngest person ever. I am now shy of 60. What did the most damage was when I stopped lifting weights for 4 years as I had no income caretaking my elderly parents. I had significant drop in bone density then. After losing the last parent, now employed, I started back at the gym taking 8 weeks, 3x/week treadmill Speed walking and weights to get back to 75% of my weight lifting routine plus these pills. From Nov to Feb this year I gained .2 in my dexa on back and legs bringing me back to the -2 category, but hips and wrists lost to -3.0. Ladies WEIGHTS is what is needed. I worked back up to 60 pounds on the back extension 3x a week and on that leg machine you pinch your knees together on and the reset the pin and expand your knees from each other. It has to be calcium/ vit D and magnesium + Weights for this to work. Now with Covid I can no longer go do treadmill or weights. For wrists my dr added doing 3lb dumb bells wrist flexes. Hips still working on finding how to bear weight there as treadmill does not seem to get the hip joint nor the leg machine. Ladies if you have never done weights please speak to a professional trainer and your endocrinologist. You can’t lift 60lbs out of the block. BTW I am just shy of 60 and 5’ tall and 130lbs heading back to 120. If I can do it as a desk sitter for a day job so can you.2017 I bought these first at my doctor, an endocrinologist. I have extreme osteoporosis much younger than most women. I just finished the bottle from the dr and now ordering online for convenience. As someone diagnosed at age 8 with juvenile osteoporosis and now again in early menapause, I can feel my body is absorbing these differently then the hard rock ones that are sold over the counter in vitamin and drugstores. My doctor told me in order for a vitamin to be absorbable it needs to be in a powder or gel format. These are powder in capsules. The next Dexa scan will tell. My body appears to be less irritated by these and my nails coming in after a month also look better quality. Hopefully this is true if my bones. On the manufacturer website One woman states her dexa scan improved after a year of taking them, but again that is one comment. We will see.

Helps me keep my bones strong

Easier to swallow than I thought they would be. also, easy on stomach

I have switched to Pure Encapsulations for their high quality. I shop the prices on their site and my doctor's office site and go for the lowest price but I will not deviate from this brand.

Easy to swallow , no stomach upset , Great quality of vitamins.

I like that they have no aftertaste!

Pure Encapsulations were recommended to me by a good friend who takes the calcium supplements. She said they were great, and they have helped her.I needed something with calcium, as well. Therefore, I was excited to get and try PE Osteo balance supplement, which has all the heathy important ingredients I was looking for, in an all-in-one supplement to help start my new regime to combat osteoporosis. It being advertised as being hypoallergenic, was also a major selling point.Unfortunately, I started to get a rash during the night after the first day of taking them. "Okay, so much for hypoallergenic," I am sure I mumbled out loud in my sleep.But, when I woke up, I was thinking I would give them one more day, with hopes of the rash being a coincidence and it wasn't all that bad at that point.I was wrong! After the morning dose the rash took my skin hostage by noon.I then went back online and burrowed further into all of the ingredients and also into the questions and reviews on Amazon. I saw the mention of lanolin I then googled further and found Lanolin is a common additive for vitamin D3, which I was news to me and that it comes from sheep's wool was even crazier. UGH "READ THE REVIEWS, DUMMY..."I guess I have never consumed lanolin before or had it in a skin product or even raised sheep for that matter.I contacted the company to get it straight and they confirmed by email that it does in fact have lanolin in them, which does come from sheep's wool. If you don't have a wool allergy, I would imagine they would be a good choice, but I can't be the judge of that as I stopped taking them after giving them the last chance to shine.I then researched the company further and saw that it was bought out by NESTLE, which didn't sit well with me, but that is just my preference. I tried to return them online through Amazon, but it said this item can't be returned. I really growled out loud, this time as well as adding in a few choice words that I won't repeat.Luckily, I spoke with a wonderful employee at Amazon who was very understanding and saw the hypoallergenic description.I am very grateful that Amazon refunded the money, as they aren't cheap. Learning from this experience, I also discovered that there are true Vegan that use LICHEN for their D3. I went to a health food store to buy them, but they do sell them on Amazon, as well. Two days in with no rash and hoping for, " strong like bull bones!" If there is anyone that read and this helps, I feel I have made a difference and saved some else's precious time.