Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I think most Americans and most people in the civilized world who consume processed foods or manufactured foods do exhibit a calcium deficiency.
But, understand that conventionally trained doctors, physicians and even dieticians would strongly disagree with that, because they're going off of Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) numbers. And, they're saying that if a person meets the recommended daily allowance (RDA) requirements for vitamins and minerals, then that's really all they need. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 During the middle years, when calcium loss from bones exceeds calcium gain to bones, dietary calcium may slow the rate of bone loss.
Bones undergo a continual process of remodeling, in which old bone is removed and new bone is deposited. When bone resorption, the removal of old bone, occurs at a faster rate than the depositing of new bone, osteoporosis is likely For every man who develops osteoporosis, eight women do. Their relatively small bones and the hormonal changes that accompany menopause put women at greater risk for developing the disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Now, I don't think that calcium all by itself is going to reverse many chronic diseases, but without calcium, there's no question that you will be accelerating those diseases and reducing your lifespan.
Here's the kicker: Without vitamin D in your small intestine, your body will not absorb calcium even if you take an excess of supplements. This is the single most important point, and I don't think I've ever been able to get this point across with enough emphasis. You must have vitamin D in your body in order to use calcium. |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
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 Calcium deficiency (hypocalcaemia). calcium helps maintain neuronal membrane excitability, meaning that it enables fast and efficient transmission of signals between neurons. In this way, it helps regulate neuronal metabolism and neurotransmitter synthesis and release. A shortage of calcium can bring about neuronal malfunction. If diagnosed, it is readily treated by identifying the cause and providing supplementation.
Alcoholism. The brains of alcoholics show structural changes as well as physiological impairment (reduced cerebral blood flow and altered electrical brain waves). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Let's face it: If calcium were a drug, these results would be heralded as the science breakthrough of the year. But since it's just a common mineral that no drug company can patent, everything gets distorted, twisted, and discredited.
And it's the same story with every vitamin, mineral and herb discredited in the popular press. Every single study that says "Vitamin E has no benefit" or "Saw palmetto is useless for your prostate" is a lie. It's all based on utterly dishonest science that's carefully constructed for the sole purpose of making nutrition look bad. |
| Suppose this experiment was conducted on a prescription drug, not calcium. Let's call this drug "OsteoMax" (any resemblance to an actual product named "OsteoMax" is pure coincidence, I assure you). Given the exact same data, if this were a prescription drug, national headlines would have screamed, "Bone health breakthrough discovered!" The reports would have been touting the astonishing 29% reduction in bone fractures due to OsteoMax, and television ads would have started featuring happy elderly women power walking and yapping about how smart their doctors are for prescribing OsteoMax. |
| Almost nobody bothered to point out the remarkable reduction in bone fractures demonstrated by the test subjects who actually consumed their calcium.
It's no surprise, of course. There are days when I wonder whether there's a single iota of honesty or intelligence left in the popular press. Nearly all newspapers, magazines and TV news programs have sold their souls to Big Pharma, it seems, and so they report whatever they're told to report, even if it makes absolutely no sense. Many science writers can't even decipher the basics of critical thinking. They can only copy and paste. |
| Those who took the calcium supplements, for example, experienced significant improvements in their overall bone density. Over nine years, their BMD (Bone Mineral Density) increased by a substantial 1.06 per cent (that's a huge increase in the world of BMD). And remember, this is for elderly women, too, who have a very difficult time boosting bone density because, for some reason, they simply refuse to engage in gymnastics and rugby training. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Levels of vitamin D before the study were not measured
If this study is supposed to look at the effects of calcium and vitamin D, then why wasn't the vitamin D level of participants measured before the study began? Was this study conducted in Northern states, or Southern states? Because geography has everything to do with sunlight, which in turn has everything to do with vitamin D levels in the general population. None of this was even mentioned in the study, meaning that we have no way to know whether vitamin D levels were actually improved by supplementation. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The biggest question, I think, is "Can people get sufficient quantities of usable calcium from the typical diet?" Now this is a favorite myth of conventional medicine, which is to say that all you need to have adequate nutrition is to eat three balanced meals a day, and you'll get all the vitamins and minerals you need. You don't need any supplementation whatsoever.
That's a common myth promoted by people in conventional medicine who really don't have the education or the understanding in nutrition that we would now consider to be authoritative. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Adding heparin, a classic anti-coagulant drug, will prevent the blood from clotting, even in the presence of the calcium.
In Benveniste's most recent study, he took a test-tube of this plasma with calcium chelated out, then added water containing calcium which has been exposed to the 'sound' of heparin transmitted via the signature digitized electromagnetic frequency. As with all his other experiments, the signature frequency of heparin works as though the molecules of heparin itself were there: in its presence, the blood is more reluctant than usual to coagulate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Now, I don't think that calcium all by itself is going to reverse many chronic diseases, but without calcium, there's no question that you will be accelerating those diseases and reducing your lifespan.
Here's the kicker: Without vitamin D in your small intestine, your body will not absorb calcium even if you take an excess of supplements. This is the single most important point, and I don't think I've ever been able to get this point across with enough emphasis. You must have vitamin D in your body in order to use calcium. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 Ordinarily caused by the presence of calcium in the liquid, the clotting capacity of plasma can be precisely controlled by first chemically removing all existing calcium in the plasma, then adding back particular amounts of the mineral. Also adding heparin, an anticoagulant drug, prevents the plasma from clotting, even in the presence of calcium. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 The calcium and beta tocopherols levels were also significandy different.133
Roundup Ready corn varied significantly in five amino acids. As amino acids may form potentially harmful proteins, the PHAA, said it was "of concern that these results have not been followed-up with experiments of the whole food to determine if any new, unexpected substances are present which may cause disease."134
In Liberty Link corn, two of six fatty acids, 7 of 18 amino acids, and calcium, phosphorus, protein, and carbohydrate levels were statistically different. (Calcium was down 64%. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This, by the way, helps explain why so many senior citizens get osteoporosis today even though they think they're taking plenty of calcium supplements. The reason is they don't have enough vitamin D to actually absorb the calcium. So they start out with a vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunlight, and they end up with a calcium deficiency even though they're taking lots of calcium supplements. The end result is, of course, osteoporosis or osteomalacia, the advanced stage of osteoporosis. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| Ordinarily caused by the presence of calcium in the liquid, the clotting capacity of plasma can be precisely controlled by first chemically removing all existing calcium in the plasma, then adding back particular amounts of the mineral. Also adding heparin, an anticoagulant drug, prevents the plasma from clotting, even in the presence of calcium. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Super Cal or all good sources of calcium.
Adams: As long as you've got vitamin D.
Dr. Holick: Correct. If you have adequate vitamin D or some sun exposure.
Adams: Cod liver oil is of course a great source of vitamin D, as you mention, but some people are concerned about contamination of these oily fish with heavy metals - is that a concern?
Dr. Holick: Yes, PCBs. And so, what you have to do is if you're going to buy it, buy it from a respectable source. Certainly it's a step in the right direction. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Without adequate vitamin D, calcium cannot be absorbed in your small intestine.
Engage in weight-bearing exercise -- by stressing your bones with weight-bearing exercise, your body will respond by creating stronger bones, with higher bone mineral density. (Be sure to work with a doctor, naturopath or physical therapist before engaging in any exercise program.)
Stop believing every news story you read that says "vitamins don't work" and "you should take more drugs." These are pure disinformation, designed to boost the profits of Big Pharma at the expense of your health. |
| REPPED: Based on a new research study published in The Lancet (April, 2005), newspaper headlines around the world are proclaiming that senior citizens should throw away their calcium supplements and turn to prescription drugs as their primary treatment for osteoporosis and bone fractures. Gee, what a convenient message for Big Pharma. It's not like we haven't heard this before: remember the recent effort to try to convince people that vitamin E would kill them? |
| In fact, in looking at ten different articles in the mainstream press, I didn't find a single article that actually mentioned the dosage of calcium of vitamin D that was given to patients. I only found two stories that mentioned the very low compliance rate of study participants. About half the people didn't even take their supplements! Didn't these journalists ever think that these details might matter?
But here's the really interesting part: when you look at this study closely, the whole thing falls apart. |
| Dozens of previous (and better designed) studies have looked at this issue and have shown a clear 30% - 40% reduction in bone fractures due to wise supplementation with calcium and vitamin D. But organized medicine wants you to think that somehow the body doesn't need nutrition. Instead, its promoters want you to believe that only prescription drugs can help you -- as if toxic, synthetic chemicals were somehow more important for human health than the natural bone-building substances provided by nature for which our bodies were actually designed. |
| The control group was given information on diet and strategies for reducing the risk of fractures and falls
You have to remember that the logic of this study says that calcium and vitamin D supplements are useless because there was no difference in the number of fractures between the study group and the control group. But if you could find another way to reduce fractures in the control group, then you could effectively make the supplements in the study group appear useless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Other problems with milk from cows
Getting back to cows' milk, by the way, another reason I don't think cows' milk is a very good source of calcium is because it lacks magnesium, and it typically lacks vitamin D even if it says it has vitamin D on the bottle, because the vitamin D is destroyed by light. So, when you have the milk sitting there in the store, and it's being bombarded by photons from the fluorescent lighting in the store, the vitamin D is being quite rapidly destroyed. By the time you drink it, you're not getting really much vitamin D at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's absurd, as Tums is an antacid, and you need gastric acid to digest any minerals, including calcium. But it just goes to show you how much some people lack basic nutritional information. A food-based form of calcium would serve those people much better, and they might actually begin to see improved results with their bone health. Although it's important to note that bone mineral density is not merely caused by calcium deficiency; it's also caused by drinking coffee and sugary sodas, eating refined sugars or lacking sufficient vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And the way to prevent that is through good diet -- making sure you're getting enough calcium in your diet, making sure you're not drinking a lot of sodas, which will leech calcium -- as well as not having a super-high-protein diet, which also starts to leech calcium.
But on top of that, it's that weight-bearing exercise, but not the everyday stuff you do -- we're weight-bearing right now, but this doesn't do the trick -- it's got to be something that actually stresses a bone, and there is no better way to do that than a weight training program. |
Michael Pollan
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 In one recent analysis, vitamin C declined by 20 percent, iron by 15 percent, riboflavin by 38 percent, calcium by 16 percent. Government figures from England tell a similar story: declines since the fifties of 10 percent or more in levels of iron, zinc, calcium, and selenium across a range of food crops. To put this in more concrete terms, you now have to eat three apples to get the same amount of iron as you would have gotten from a single 1940 apple, and you'd have to eat several more slices of bread to get your recommended daily allowance of zinc than you would have a century ago. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| And the way to prevent that is through good diet -- making sure you're getting enough calcium in your diet, making sure you're not drinking a lot of sodas, which will leech calcium -- as well as not having a super-high-protein diet, which also starts to leech calcium.
But on top of that, it's that weight-bearing exercise, but not the everyday stuff you do -- we're weight-bearing right now, but this doesn't do the trick -- it's got to be something that actually stresses a bone, and there is no better way to do that than a weight training program. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The point of this is that, when we read in a book that Kale is a great source of calcium, or that broccoli is a good source of selenium, we really have to imagine an asterisk behind that statement. Kale may be a good source of calcium if there was calcium present in the soil in which it was grown. Broccoli may be a good source of selenium, but only if selenium was present in the soil.
The gift of natural disasters to replenish soils
As bad as things look today in terms of produce mineralization, it's only going to get worse in the foreseeable future. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| In Benveniste's most recent study, he took a test-tube of this plasma with calcium chelated out, then added water containing calcium which has been exposed to the 'sound' of heparin transmitted via the signature digitized electromagnetic frequency. As with all his other experiments, the signature frequency of heparin works as though the molecules of heparin itself were there: in its presence, the blood is more reluctant than usual to coagulate.
In perhaps the most dramatic of his experiments, Benveniste showed that the signal could be sent across the world by email or mailed on a floppy disk. |
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