Calcium Protocol 

  

To Insure Good Calcium Levels Please Insure Good Magnesium, Vitamin D and Vitamin K Levels

  

“Vitamins and minerals are not functionally separable. They make each other work. Example: vitamin D is necessary for the body to absorb calcium.   Copper is necessary for vitamin C activity. And so on. Mineral deficiencies can cause vitamin deficiencies, and vice versa. Epidemic mineral deficiency in America is a well-documented result of systematic soil depletion. So that is the other prime difference between whole food vitamins and synthetics: whole food vitamins contain within them many essential trace minerals necessary for their synergistic operation. Synthetic vitamins contain no trace minerals, relying on, and depleting, the bodies own mineral reserves.” Doctor Tim O'Shea

“Our diets today are very different from those of our ancestors though our bodies remain similar. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors ate foods high in magnesium and low in calcium. Because calcium supplies were scarce and the need for this vital mineral was great, it was effectively stored by the body. Magnesium, on the other hand, was abundant and readily available, in the form of nuts, seeds, grains, and vegetables, and did not need to be stored internally. Our bodies still retain calcium and not magnesium although we tend to eat much more calcium (in the form of dairy products) than our ancestors. In addition, our sugar and alcohol consumption is higher than theirs, and both sugar and alcohol increase magnesium excretion through the urine. Our grains, originally high in magnesium, have been refined, which means that magnesium is lost in the refining process. The quality of our soil has deteriorated as well, due to the use of fertilizers that contain large amounts of potassium a magnesium antagonist. This results in foods lower in magnesium than ever before.” Doctor Nan Kathryn Fuchs PhD

“There is a lot of calcium in most diets, and even a relatively small amount of calcium supplementation, taken on a regular basis, can result in undesirable, rocklike, nonbiologic deposits of calcium in the tissues,”  Doctor Thomas E. Levy, Note your main heart artery your aorta will contain 120 times as much calcium when you are 70 as when you were 10. We often die by becoming immobile with calcium deposits in our soft tissues

“Most people have come to believe nutrition is divisible, and that a single substance will maintain vibrant health. The touting of calcium for the degenerative disease osteoporosis provides an excellent example. Every day the media, acting as proxy for the milk lobby, sells calcium as a magic bullet. Has it worked? Definitely for sales of milk, but for American health it has been a disaster. When you load up your system with excess calcium, you shut down magnesium's ability to activate thyrocalcitonin, a hormone that under normal circumstances would send calcium to your bones.”  William R. Quesnell, author of 'Minerals: The Essential Link to Health’

“Of 47,781 men those consuming between 1,500 and 1,999 mg of calcium per day had about double the risk of being diagnosed with metastatic (cancer that has spread to other parts of the body) prostate cancer as those getting 500 mg per day or less. And those taking in 2,000 mg or more calcium had over four times the risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer as those taking in less than 500 mg.”  1998 Harvard School of Public Health study

 “People with calcified pineal glands were four times as likely to experience day time tiredness and almost twice as likely to experience sleep problems as those with normal pineal glands.” Swietosalwski , Note a little vitamin K2 will suck the calcium out of your pineal and other glands as well as your 100 trillion cells

“Researchers such as Dr. Abraham further postulate that Primary Postmenopausal osteoporosis is predominately a skeletal manifestation of chronic magnesium deficiency, facilitated by estrogen withdrawal during the postmenopausal period. He suggested raising the RDA of magnesium to 1000 mg/day and lowering the RDA for calcium to 500 mg/day. His proposed daily intake for calcium would be more in line with the World health Organization's "practical allowance" of 400 - 500 mg daily for adults. Such a reversal of the magnesium/calcium ratio would most probably lower the incidence and prevalence of many other degenerative diseases as well.”  Doctor Michael Lam MD

“Sugar interferes with absorption of calcium and magnesium.”  Lemann

“I think of osteoporosis as being the greatest misunderstood women’s health problem of modern times. Doctors have been pushing calcium on us for decades and osteoporosis continues to plague us. Excessive calcium contributes to arthritis and heart disease, diseases that have become more prevalent in women ever since calcium has been emphasized. Not only is calcium not the solution, in many cases it’s the problem.”  Doctor Nan Fuchs PhD, Women’s health specialist

“A hallmark of normal aging involves calcification in soft tissues throughout the body such as heart valves, glands, blood vessels, systemic calcification. As we age we lose our ability to regulate calcium balance. Vitamin K can quickly restore calcium homeostasis. Vitamin K is absolutely essential for regulating calcium balance in the body. A deficiency of vitamin K status causes brittle bones and a vascular system that hardens to a state of poor functionality.” Life Extension

“Big surprise: milk is not a good source of calcium because the enzyme phosphatase, which is necessary to absorb calcium, was destroyed by pasteurization. (Douglass) The only reason we think we need milk for calcium is that we've heard it all our lives - on TV, in school nutrition programs, from dieticians. But guess who paid for all that advertising and promotion?” The Doctor Within

“Soda pop beverages are the most toxic commercial beverages consumed and they are made from distilled water. Studies have consistently shown that heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) spill huge amounts of calcium, magnesium, and other trace minerals into the urine. Long-term consumption has been linked to high blood pressure and increased risk of heart attack and stroke.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

“High dietary levels of calcium, when vitamin D is insufficient, may contribute to calcification of the arteries, joints, kidney and perhaps even the brain.”   Fujita et al

"Calcium intake demonstrated no protective effect in preventing bone fractures. In fact, those populations with the highest calcium intakes had higher fracture rates than those with more modest calcium intakes." Calif Tissue Int 1992;50

“MK-7 has been shown in several studies to reverse and even prevent some forms of cardiovascular disease by eliminating excess calcium in the blood. In other studies MK-7 has been shown to be effective in reversing osteoporosis. Furthermore studies indicate that MK-7 may help lower cholesterol, play a role in preventing Alzheimer’s and treat some forms of cancer. Vitamin K is a well known and powerful antioxidant.”  Howard & Payne

“In fact as important as hormonal and dietary factors are, they are not the most critical factors for maintaining healthy bones; exercise is the most critical. One hour of moderate exercise three times a week has been shown to prevent bone loss and increase bone mass in postmenopausal women. Immobility doubles the rate of calcium excretion resulting in negative calcium balance. The best thing people can do to strengthen their bones is to get physical activity.” Murray & Pizzorno

“Without magnesium the elderly person taking calcium supplements is at risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke. Long term magnesium deficiency leads to vitamin E deficiency, perhaps because vitamin E is used up in fending off the free radicals the magnesium deficiency lets in.” Doctor Ronald Klatz

“A long-term high protein diet exclusive of good fats and natural carbohydrates is very detrimental to the kidneys, the liver, and the blood. The breakdown products of processed artificial protein are highly acidifying to the blood and tract. In addition to blocking most digestive and metabolic enzymes by constantly lowering the body's pH, this sets in motion the whole calcium buffering program in which the pH of the blood is saved from all the dangerous acidification by pulling calcium out of the bones and teeth.”  The Doctor Within

"I treat bones and vascular tissue concurrently, since I believe that as we prevent osteoporosis, there will be less vascular calcifications." Doctor Gary Gordon, Note right on!

"Vascular calcifications are reversible with advanced targeted nutritional support therapy that includes vitamin K2 (menaquinone-7) which by itself routinely lowers pathologic calcium in vascular tissue." Doctor Gary Gordon MD

"Leafy green vegetables such as kale, collard greens, bok choy, parsley, mustard greens and escarole are good sources of calcium, magnesium and vitamin K."  Doctor Eric Braverman MD

    

For more Research on Calcium (See Calcium Protocol Research Section)

    

Ingested Calcium MUST be Deposited into your BONES and TEETH

“For years, doctors have told women to take up to 1,500 mg (or more) of calcium supplements to reduce their risk of osteoporosis. What they didn't know was that their recommendation would kill a lot of these women. And it would do very little for their bones.” Doctor Robert Rowen MD

“In a study 1,471 postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to take a placebo or 1,500 mg of calcium daily for five years. Those taking calcium had a 40% higher risk of heart attacks. Their risk for stroke also rose.” University of Auckland

99% of the calcium you ingest MUST be deposited into your bones and teeth or pass thru your system unused. Your body uses your bones and teeth to store your calcium until it requires it for the many uses it has for calcium. Just one percent of the calcium you absorb from your FOOD should remain in your blood. Many of our health problems can be traced back to the deposition of calcium into your soft tissues and NOT into your bones and teeth. Please take the time to understand this somewhat involved process and work to assure the deposition of calcium into your bones and teeth. Especially look at the role of vitamin K in moving calcium from where you do not want it, in your soft tissue, into where it belongs, in your bones and teeth.

  

Calcium and Magnesium NEED each other

“Without magnesium the elderly person taking calcium supplements is at risk of blood clots, heart attack and stroke. Long term magnesium deficiency leads to vitamin E deficiency, perhaps because vitamin E is used up in fending off the free radicals the magnesium deficiency lets in.” Doctor Ronald Klatz

Calcium is the most common mineral in the human body. About 99% of the calcium in your body is found in your bones and teeth, while the other 1% is found in your blood and soft tissue. Calcium and magnesium work together is many ways. For instance calcium helps your arteries and muscles to contract, magnesium (See Magnesium Protocol) helps them to relax. This is one reason why calcium and magnesium MUST be balanced in your body. Magnesium regulates the absorption of calcium. Calcium is distributed widely in fresh whole foods and like magnesium is found abundantly in green leafy vegetables (See Green Leafy Vegetables Protocol).

The American ratio of calcium to magnesium is approaching 6:1, while the recommendation for healthy living is often given as 2:1.But even 2 parts of calcium to 1 part of magnesium is probably too much calcium, since current research on the paleolithic or caveman diets (See Caveman Diets Protocol) show that the ratio they used to eat was about 1:1. IMO shoot for equal amounts of magnesium and calcium in your diet.

  

To Insure Good Calcium Levels Please Insure Good Magnesium Levels

Continuation of  Calcium Protocol (See Calcium Protocol Continuation)