Re: teeth grinding help-?on Nightcal

[Guest guest]

I am afraid I do not know the answer to this but if you ring or Terri

at Brainchild I am sure they can answer your question.

[Guest guest]

Hi and all,

I have wanted to try Nightcal but I noticed one of the ingredients is

potassium sorbate- is this sorbitol? from past experience we are

trying to stay away from it.

Extra calcium and zinc put an end to teeth grinding for us too (so

much for the therapist who told me it was a way of regulating

stress

So we bought his product Nightcal and with his help we have found

> that needs lots more than most children for some reason

(mercury maybe?).

> Within a few weeks the grinding stopped never to return!

>

>

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

Thanks for your question about potassium sorbate. Potassium sorbate is

added as a preservative, and has nothing to do with sorbitol. We will

never, ever (ever) add any artificial sweeteners to our products. We use

vegetable glycerine as our only sweetener presently. I found the nice

little piece below on it that I'd clipped from somewhere.

Terri at Brainchild

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Scientific Facts: What is Potassium Sorbate?

Potassium sorbate is a potassium salt version of sorbic acid, a

polyunsaturated fat used to inhibit mold growth. Sorbic acid was first

isolated from the oil of the unripened rowan berry (sorbapple or mountain

ash berry) in 1959 by A.W. Hoffmann. Sorbic acid obtained its name from the

scientific name for mountain ash (i.e. Sorbus aucuparia, Linne), the parent

of the rowan berry. The chemical structure of sorbic acid was determined

some time between 1870 and 1890 (see above), and then chemically

synthesized by O. Doebner in 1900.

The value of sorbic acid, or its salts, was not immediately recognized. (It

would only be much later that these compounds would be appreciated for

their ability to interfere with ATP metabolism in microbes, while posing no

health risk when consumed by mammals.) In 1939 and 1940, E. Mueller

(Germany) and C.M. Gooding (U.S.) discovered sorbic acid's antimicrobial

properties. Subsequently, in 1945, C.M. Gooding and Best Foods, Inc. were

awarded the first patent for the use of sorbic acid as a fungistatic agent

in foods.

Since the 1950's, sorbic acid has been repeatedly tested for safety and

efficacy, and today stands as one of the most thoroughly tested food

additives in history. In fact, few substances have had the kind of

extensive, rigorous, long-term testing that sorbic acid and its salts have

had. It has been found to be non-toxic even when taken in large quantities,

and breaks down in the body into water and carbon dioxide in the Krebs Cycle.

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At 04:17 AM 1/30/2004 +0000, you wrote:

>Hi and all,

>I have wanted to try Nightcal but I noticed one of the ingredients is

>potassium sorbate- is this sorbitol? from past experience we are

>trying to stay away from it.

>Extra calcium and zinc put an end to teeth grinding for us too (so

>much for the therapist who told me it was a way of regulating

>stress

>

> So we bought his product Nightcal and with his help we have found

> > that needs lots more than most children for some reason

>(mercury maybe?).

> > Within a few weeks the grinding stopped never to return!

> >

> >

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[Guest guest]

i wonder if zinc and cal remove lead?

> Hi and all,

> I have wanted to try Nightcal but I noticed one of the ingredients

is

> potassium sorbate- is this sorbitol? from past experience we are

> trying to stay away from it.

> Extra calcium and zinc put an end to teeth grinding for us too (so

> much for the therapist who told me it was a way of regulating

> stress

>

> So we bought his product Nightcal and with his help we have found

> > that needs lots more than most children for some reason

> (mercury maybe?).

> > Within a few weeks the grinding stopped never to return!

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

What is brainchild and where is it located at?

Migdalia(DEE)