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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. |
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 This formula is designed so you can get your strontium and build your bones at a different time from the time you would take your calcium supplement.
Mike: Does the vitamin D also potentiate the strontium?
Dr. Liers: Well, that is a good question. It certainly does that for calcium. You would think that it might have a similar effect. I have not seen any research on that. For me, vitamin D is in there because you need to get those minerals into the connective tissues and the bones in order to have a strong structure in the body.
Joint Health Formula works. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Vitamin D, you see, is necessary for the body to successfully use calcium, and if you don't have sufficient levels of vitamin D in your body, you can take all the calcium you want and you'll never boost bone mineral density.
The vast majority of Americans (and Canadians and Brits, for that matter) are chronically deficient in vitamin D. Estimates range anywhere from 60 percent to 75 percent of the population, depending on whom you ask and which geographic region you're talking about. People who live closer to the equator (in Southern U.S. |
Jack Challem
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 Try 300 mg daily of calcium citrate, combined with 800 IU of vitamin D (to enhance the absorption of calcium).
L-theanine. This amino acid (protein building block) increases the brain's production of GABA (gamma aminobutyric acid) and relaxing alpha waves. It can take the edge off anxiety, often within thirty to forty minutes. Take 200 mg of GABA one to three times daily, at least one hour away from eating food. Many companies sell L-theanine, but look for the "SunTheanine" logo on the bottle, which indicates a high-quality source.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We know right now that vitamin D and calcium can slash cancer rates by 77 percent. Do the math on that, and you realize that sunlight and calcium could result in a $38.5 trillion boost to the U.S. economy over the next century.
That's enough economic productivity to pay off our entire national debt, build new schools in every town and city in the country, provide free college educations to all young people who wish to go to college, invest billions in new energy technologies and even fund massive health education campaigns to keep our population healthy. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless.
Chronic vitamin D deficiency cannot be reversed overnight: it takes months of vitamin D supplementation and sunlight exposure to rebuild the body's bones and nervous system.
Even weak sunscreens (SPF=8) block your body's ability to generate vitamin D by 95%. This is how sunscreen products actually cause disease -- by creating a critical vitamin deficiency in the body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 And if you don't have vitamin D in your small intestine, you can't absorb the calcium, either. There are a lot of senior citizens out there who are spending small fortunes on calcium supplements and antacid tablets, but they're not getting any sunshine. And that means they're not getting enough vitamin D. With a vitamin D deficiency, they can't even absorb the calcium. It's either going right through their bodies or actually contributing to the buildup of calcification in their kidneys. So guess what? They'll probably end up with kidney stones. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 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. |
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| Usually, I do not want to use just calcium, which many people do. We will have calcium ascorbate and magnesium ascorbate in virtually all our formulas containing vitamin C, and perhaps some zinc ascorbate or potassium ascorbate.
You want it to be buffered so you are not acidifying the body, especially if you take huge amounts of it. There are those people who do metabolic typing. Sometimes, they want to acidify the body and they use ascorbic acid. Therefore, I sell that, too. I have vitamin C as ascorbic acid, as buffered C tablets, as a buffered powder you put in water. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A lot of senior citizens are taking calcium supplements but not getting sunlight, so the calcium is passing right through their bodies. As a result, they're losing bone mineral density. However, by adding vitamin D to the equation through sunlight (remember, your skin generates vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure), senior citizens can start assimilating calcium and rebuilding their bones.
This is information that doesn't get told to senior citizens, and modern doctors don't even understand it. They think that you treat osteoporosis with drugs, which is ridiculous. |
Ann N. Martin
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 How much calcium do our pets need per day? Martin Zucker quotes Nancy Scanlan, DVM, in his books, Natural Remedies for Dogs and Natural Remedies for Cats: "The recommended dosage for toy dogs is 100 mg. daily; small dogs, 200 mg.; medium dogs, 300 mg.; larger dogs, 500 mg. Large puppies can use 10 percent more."4 She recommends the following for cats: "50 to 100 mg. daily. Increase the amount by 25 percent for kittens."5 Dairy products provide calcium that is readily absorbed by both dogs and cats. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 During and after menopause, dietary calcium is essential to prevent the rapid bone loss associated with the advanced stages of osteoporosis, yet the average woman consumes only half the recommended intake for calcium, and amounts that low are associated with bone loss and the development of osteoporosis.
According to a study of bone resorption in animals, catechins can reduce excessive resorption that could lead to excessive loss of bone mass. Epidemiological studies of human populations support this theory. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Magnesium is poorly absorbed and competes with the same receptors in the intestines that absorb calcium. When magnesium and calcium are combined in a supplement, you'll actually get less of each. Work your way up to as high a magnesium dose as you can tolerate without having loose bowels (but no more than 1,000 mg a day). After all, the laxative isn't named Milk of Magnesia for nothing! |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Sometime between the ages of thirty and forty-five, women (and some men) begin to lose calcium in their bones, a natural process that may lead to osteoporosis, or truly brittle bones, by the time they are elderly. Brittle bones break more easily, and a hip fracture in a frail, elderly woman often leads to a host of complications that signal impending death. Fosamax, the best-selling antiosteoporosis drug on the market, works by attaching to bone cells and preventing calcium loss, and doctors prescribe it to younger women with osteopenia in the hopes of preventing fractures down the road. |
Devra Davis
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 Against the sharp black background, tiny deposits of calcium smaller than the head of a pin—the microscopic residues of calcium traces from tumor growth—tell us whether or not cancer lurks within the breast.
But dense breasts, like the ones I had at the time, tend to look full of snow, created by the abundance of epithelial and connective tissue that also leaves white tracks. They pose the classic problem that hunters know very well: you can't spot an elk behind a single tree within the forest where it's hiding. I tried to tell my husband all this. He wouldn't listen. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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| During and after menopause, dietary calcium is essential to prevent the rapid bone loss associated with the advanced stages of osteoporosis, yet the average woman consumes only half the recommended intake for calcium, and amounts that low are associated with bone loss and the development of osteoporosis.
According to a study of bone resorption in animals, catechins can reduce excessive resorption that could lead to excessive loss of bone mass. Epidemiological studies of human populations support this theory. |
Devra Davis
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| X-rays of the breast can find small white tracks of calcium that signal cancer years before it can be felt or seen. Like many stories in medicine, it all started with a terrible loss.
Distinguished radiologist Phillip Strax had been powerless to prevent his young wife from dying of breast cancer. If only he had been able to find her cancer earlier, he lamented, she might have survived. Strax knew that as tumors start to grow they leave residues of calcium that show up as tiny white dots on x-ray. Sometimes they create telltale starburst patterns. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 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%.)135
A high-lysine corn under review for commercialization "had higher levels in all of the 18 measured amino acids among the four commercial varieties used as references."136 (115.17 mg/g compared to an average of 77.8 mg/g. |
Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
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 Women over the age of twenty-five who have not yet reached menopause or who are taking estrogen and men over the age of twenty-five require approximately 1,000 milligrams a day of calcium. This is equal to three servings of high-calcium foods. Postmenopausal women who are not taking estrogen require approximately 1,500 milligrams daily. That's five servings of high-calcium foods.
If you take a multivitamin, it may contain calcium. You can subtract from your daily needs. If you rely on supplements for most of your calcium, you will also need supplemental vitamin D. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Some ions have a double charge: for instance, calcium (Ca++) and phosphate (HP04=).
Movement of Electrolytes
The electrolyte solution inside cells has a different composition of solutes than the extracellular electrolyte solution. Inside the cells, potassium, magnesium, and phosphate are in the highest concentrations. Outside the cells, sodium and chloride are in the highest concentrations.
OSMOTIC PRESSURE
Water flows across cell membranes and capillary walls toward the higher concentration of solutes in a process called osmosis. Osmotic pressure tends to equalize concentrations. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In response to ingesting a cola, apart from risking dehydration, the body will have to use up reserves of its own stored alkaline buffers, mainly calcium from the bones, teeth and DNA. This raises the body's alkalinity levels in order to maintain proper blood alkaline pH levels. Once these reserves are exhausted, your life is at risk. There are enough acids in one soda to kill you, if your body didn't possess a mechanism to neutralize them. How long it takes before your body succumbs to the acid attack and suffers an acidosis depends upon how soon your mineral buffers are depleted. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| The proteins can bind calcium.
48. Vitamin K is needed to synthesize two proteins, proteins C and S, that:
(a) Accelerate clotting.
(b) Slow clotting.
(c) Are unrelated to clotting.
(d) Are needed for strong bones.
49. The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) of vitamin K for an adult man is:
(a) 90 micrograms.
(b) 90 milligrams.
(c) 120 micrograms.
(d) 120 milligrams.
50. Breast-fed newborns may be deficient in vitamin K because:
(a) Breast milk is low in vitamin K.
(b) Intestinal bacteria may not be present to make vitamin K. |
| Many Americans could use more calcium and magnesium in their diet. However, Americans generally receive too much sodium and chloride in their diet; this can be partly attributed to the large amount of processed foods consumed. Phosphorus and sulfur levels in the American diet seem to be adequate. These macro minerals need to be eaten in balanced amounts in the diet to maintain good health and to prevent disease.
CHAPTER 7
Water and Electrolyt
We need a constant supply of drinking water for many purposes. We can only survive a few days without water. |
| Which can interfere with iron absorption?
(a) calcium.
(b) Zinc.
(c) Vitamin A.
(d) Copper.
6. Which group is NOT at risk for iron deficiency anemia?
(a) Pregnant women.
(b) Children between 6 months and 4 years of age.
(c) Adolescent girls.
(d) Adults over 50 years of age.
7. Which form of iron is used in transport?
(a) Ferritin.
(b) Hemosiderin.
(c) Transferrin.
(d) None of the above.
8. Lowered absorption of iron is caused by:
(a) Vitamin C.
(b) Phytates.
(c) Low iron stores in the body.
(d) Fermented foods.
9. Iron absorption is NOT reduced by:
(a) Wine.
(b) Coffee. |
Bill Sardi
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 Does calcium prevent cancer? ... 399 Boron and cancer ... 400
Selenium and cancer
It was a stunning report. A government health researcher said: "If it's real, it's the most important discovery for cancer prevention in my lifetime." An astonishing 50 % reduction in total cancer mortality and a 63% reduction in the occurrence of cancer were reported after the 10-year use of a single trace mineral supplement - selenium. The risk for lung, prostate and colon/rectal cancer were significantly reduced. Lead researcher Larry C Clark had found the first proven dietary agent to prevent cancer. |
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