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Your supplements
Read the form and the strength off your bottle — not the big number on the front. A 1,500 mg calcium carbonate tablet contains 600 mg of actual calcium.
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Weekly & monthly — counted automatically
Averaged across the period, so every day shows your real ongoing level rather than one spike and six blanks. Nothing to tap.
Taken daily — tap what you've had
Nothing added yet. Your bottle will say the form and the strength.
Today's food
Tap things as you have them — don't save it up for the evening. Rough is fine: food calcium is the half that doesn't need to be exact.
Your usuals
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Your chain
Last 28 days. A square fills the moment you use the app that day — the chain is about the habit, not about being perfect. Red marks a day you went over the ceiling.
Why there's a ceiling
The two numbers that matter
Source: National Academy of Medicine intake recommendations, as summarised by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
What's established
Intake above roughly 2,000 mg a day is linked to an increased risk of kidney stones. There is also no bone benefit to going above the recommended amount — more calcium does not mean stronger bones.
What's still argued
Whether calcium from supplements contributes to arterial plaque is genuinely contested. Some studies find an increased risk of heart problems with high supplemental intake; others find none. Anyone telling you it's settled — in either direction — is ahead of the evidence.
See the Harvard Nutrition Source review of calcium for the competing findings.
Why 500 mg at a time
Your body absorbs calcium best in doses of around 500 mg or less. A single large tablet is partly wasted — splitting the same amount across the day gets more of it in.