<div class='ac-embed' id="wistia-inc-5i2waq2pwt"> <div class='embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9'><iframe src="https://fast.wistia.com/embed/iframe/5i2waq2pwt?dnt=1&playButton=false&playerColor=676767&videoFoam=1" title="Lori Yob - AlgaeCal Reviews Video" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" class="wistia_embed" name="wistia_embed" allowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen width="500" height="281"></iframe></div> </div> <script charset="ISO-8859-1" src="https://fast.wistia.com/static/concat/iframe-api-v1.js"></script><p>They said they wanted to see me, and I said why do you want to see me? And she said, the doctor wants to put you on medicine because you have osteoporosis. I said, yes I still do have osteoporosis, but why would she want to put me on medicine if what I’m taking is working? She was a little disgruntled with me because I was countering what the doctor said, and she said that the doctor still wanted to see me, so I said did you guys not look at the bone test to see that I increased 7.5%? And they hadn’t, they had just looked at the bottom line which just said osteoporosis.</p> <p>My name in Lori Yob, I live in Spokane Washington. I went to the health fair, and they had the ankle scan there and I just took it because they had it. At the time I had no history of osteoporosis. The results on the ankle scan showed osteopenia, it was scary when I first got the results and I decided I better go see my doctor and get a follow up bone density and it showed osteopenia in my spine, my hip was normal, but my spine showed osteopenia. It was scary, I had never been in a situation like that before and I was concerned for my bone health at that time. Mine showed -2.3, it was getting down to where I would be concerned about osteoporosis. I was taking another product that had calcium, vitamin D, I took that for 2 more years before I had another bone test and when I had that test everything stabilized it hadn’t gotten any worse, it hadn’t gotten any better, it pretty much stayed the same. I didn’t have another bone density for 3 more years. When I had that bone density test I got a call from the doctors office that it had turned to osteoporosis in my spine, that was when I became really concerned,. It was a -3 which is into osteoporosis, not even on the borderline, it’s below that. So I was pretty scared at that point and wanted something that would work that would help build my bone back up. The things I was afraid of were limited activity, I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to do the things I like to do, we jog, we bike ride, we do a lot of physical activities. We swim and water ski at the lake. We snow ski, cross country ski, there’s a lot of physical activity I love to do.</p> <p>I was really afraid of a fracture in my lumbar spine which would’ve been awful, terrible, painful and limiting to my lifestyle. I’ve seen other people do it, I’m a nurse, I work in a hospital and I’ve seen other people with osteoporosis that have had bone fractures in their back and it’s devastating. It’s a terribly painful way to live. I see patients that have undergone different procedures in the hospital to put bone cement in those fractures to seal them up so that they weren’t hurting so bad. I’ve seen patients that have been bed ridden because of the fractures and not able to get around. I think that immobility is what really caused me to want to do something. My husband was also afraid for me and as I explained it to him in medical terms he was really concerned. My sister in law who is a naturopath told me, I actually contacted her because I knew she completed a course and maybe she would know a supplement I could take that could help. She told me about AlgaeCal. She told me that she had seen that, she knew that it had clinical studies that went with it. So I started researching it at that point. I looked at the clinical studies online and read about them and that impressed me the most being from a medical background. It impressed me that they had done clinical studies and patients had actually tried the product and seen a difference. So as I researched AlgaeCal I was skeptical, there’s a lot of other supplements out there that have some of the same kinds of claims, although they don’t have clinical studies to back it up. I’ve been taking AlgaeCal since 2008 when I was first diagnosed with osteoporosis.</p> <p>So I waited almost a year and a half until I went to the doctor and had another bone strength test. I came home from work that night and I went to the mailbox and I had the results of the test in my mail that had been sent to me and it showed a 7.5% increase in my spine! The next year I increased 9.7% in my lumbar spine. We’ve had wonderful results, I know that at the beginning of all this I had aching in my spine and now I have none of that and I feel strong and I’m doing things that I love to do and it’s working. I’m only going to keep going up because Im not going to quit taking the product. It’s worked, it’s shown results, and I do feel strong and I’m seeing that it’s going to be something that i’ll be living with the rets of my life. Even if I get into the normal range I wont quit taking the product because I want to maintain that bone health. It’s given me peace of mind that the bone is going back to where it needs to be. I’m most happy about being able to continue in the activities I love doing. I love exercising, I love running, and biking, and playing with my little grand daughter and I’m going to be able to do those kind of things because my bone is getting stronger. I wish that more people knew about it, and I’m doing my best to tell people what I know and how it’s helped me. I wish that it was more widespread for people to hear, especially the clinical trials, I know that’s what made the difference for me. I’m thankful that it’s given me my life back because I can keep doing the things I love to do.</p> <div class="disclaimer success-stories-disclaimer text-success"> <p>Increased bone density results are consistent with 3 published studies. 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