Salmon Calcitonin
Listed as Calcitonin-salmon
FDA approved
Bones and muscles
Bones and musclesHow it works
Salmon calcitonin lowers blood calcium by calming osteoclasts, the cells that dissolve bone. For Paget's disease and high calcium.
What it's made of
32 amino acids: salmon calcitonin copied exactly, synthetic. It is the hormone that lowers calcium in the blood; in fish it is made by a gland in the neck, in people by the thyroid.
What it's for
- Prescribed for
- US: Paget's disease, high calcium, and osteoporosis when nothing else works. Spain: acute bone loss from immobilization, Paget's disease with no alternative, and high calcium from cancer.
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