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Calcium and Friends


Calcium and Bone Health

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  • When your body cannot use the calcium that you supply it, it breaks down your bones to get it.
Calcium is one of the most important minerals in the body. Healthy bones store about 99% of the bodys calcium; the rest is used throughout the body to perform other vital functions.

In order to benefit from calcium, your body must work very hard: it requires a lot of digestive teamwork, and a whole alphabet of vitamins, magnesium, and other essential minerals. If you have deficiencies along the line, it won't matter how much calcium you eat, your body will take it, and other minerals it needs, from your bones.  The first signs of calcium deficiency, (before bone loss is noticed) are usually in non-vital areas like your teeth, hair, and nails.

Bones release calcium by increasing the rate of resorption (bone breakdown). Whatever calcium doesn't get used is excreted through the kidneys. But increasing calcium intake is not the answer: too much calcium causes other difficulties, like kidney stones, gallstones and hypercalcemia. Our diets usually yield plenty of available calcium, what many of us lack is the ability to successfully use the calcium we get.

Supplements and Calcium Absorption

Vitamin D regulates the calcium and phosphorous levels in the blood by promoting their absorption from food in the intestines, and by promoting re-absorption of calcium in the kidneys. In conjunction with stomach acids and other vitamins, it is crucial to moving calcium from the small intestine into the bloodstream.

Magnesium increases calcium absorption from the blood into the bone. Dairy products contain very little magnesium. Too much calcium blocks the absorption of magnesium, leading to a deficiency which can be characterized by muscle weakness, tremor or spasm, elevated blood pressure, heart arrhythmia, headaches, to name a few.

Vitamin K: There are 3 vitamin K dependent proteins in bone. (For more information see bone mineralization).There is evidence in human intervention studies that vitamins K and D work synergistically on bone density. See literature on vit. K for more information.

Silicon is required for proper integrity of skin, ligaments, tendons and bone.  Silicon is required for the proper functioning of the enzyme prolyhydroxylase which is responsible for the formation of collagen in bone, cartilage and other connective tissues.Silicon may also be important in bone calcification.

Phosphorous is crucial to bone strength, but too much phosphorous depletes calcium. Soda and red meat are full of this mineral, so much so that now some sodas have extra calcium to counteract the deleterious effect of drinking so much phosphorous. It is likely that the average American diet contains ample (if not excess) phosphorous.

Trace minerals like boron, selenium, copper, silicon, manganese, and zinc (to name some) are also essential in supporting the healthy balance that makes bone.

 

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