The problem is, your body requires calcium and other minerals to de-acidify and alkalinize itself. If your intake is too low, your body will take it from your bones. Calcium is also essential for proper nerve and endocrine function. So the goal is just to make sure you have enough serum calcium circulating so that your body doesn't have to remove it from your bones. Calcium is so vital to health that it's tightly regulated in the body to about 1% of the total calcium in your body. If your body falls below that 1% it WILL get it from either your intestines or your bones. No bones about it. :)
-Rick
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, "tamaratornado" <tamaratornado@...> wrote:
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> Well, calcium, that's something I have read conflicting stories about. I have read that as far as osteoporosis goes, that it's more effective to do "weight-bearing" exercise than to take supplements.
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> I have also read that calcium needs to be balanced with magnesium and vitamin D, so that if you take calcium, but don't have enough of the other two, it won't do any good.
> One thing I read was that most people get enough calcuim, they don't get enough magnesium and vitamin D. There were a lot of arguments about how people who eat dairy products still have problems with osteoporosis, and how the dairy didn't help them one bit.
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> I read that you need to take calcium and magnesium together, and there are pills with them both together. But I also read that calcium needs to be taken with fat, and magnesium needs to be taken without fat.
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> I sometimes take a magnesium supplement called "Natural Calm" that's a drink. It helps me with constipation. It also helps me if I get cramps in my legs. Leg cramps can be a sign that your calcium and magnesium is off balance. I notice the Natural Calm doesn't work if I have it with a meal with fat in it. I take it alone, or with fruit juice.
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> You also need to be careful what kind of calcium supplement you take, some of the manufactured supplements are no good. I forget which ones were good and which were bad, but you could google it.
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> Anyway, it's one of those issues I read so many conflicting stories I get confused about it.
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> Non-dairy sources of calcium: Canned fish, the bones are small and soft to chew, like sardines. Also homemade broth made with bones, you add vinegar or tomato juice to the broth while you are making it, the acid will pull the calcium into the broth. The macrobiotics claim that kukicha tea is high in calcium.
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> Not eating concentrated sugars - white sugar, refined sugars, etc. and refined starches: white bread and flours - that will increase how much vitamins and nutrients are available to your body. These "empty calories" leach nutrients from your body, as I understand.
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> - T
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> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@> wrote:
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> > The one thing I think needs to be supplemented in some diets is calcium and
> > magnesium. In previous eras, people either at a lot of dairy or they ate
> > some form of bones (the Asians eat whole small fish, for instance). I can't
> > do dairy, and I don't know how add bones in our cuisine. So I do calcium
> > tablets, which are easy. Calcium is a big part of protein and oxalate
> > handling in the body, and it should be eaten with each meal.
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> >
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:55 PM, tamaratornado <tamaratornado@>wrote:
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> > > I have doubts about manufactured vitamin supplements. I believe that we are
> > > meant to get our vitamins from foods, where they are more balanced in
> > > combinations with other nutrients.
> > > However, our soils are depleted, and many natural foods don't have as much
> > > nutrients as they used to. So I supplement with "superfoods" - concentrated
> > > foods like Chlorella, Blue-green algae, bee pollen, nutritional yeast, cod
> > > liver oil, kelp powder. These are whole foods that have a concentration of
> > > nutrients. Many of these I take in capsules.
> > >
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