http://www.earthclinic.com/Supplements/calcium.rss http://www.earthclinic.com/template_img/logo.jpg http://www.earthclinic.com/Supplements/calcium.rss Calcium Cures and Side Effects from the Earth Clinic Library of Natural Cures. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:55:33 EDT en-us http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Supplements/calcium.html&name=GF_37865 /Supplements/calcium.rss1 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:58:42 EST Jordan from Houston, Tx writes: "Hi, okay..so I am 18 years old. I feel like my bones have been shrinking, or maybe they arent. I do seem to have smaller bones, like not thick and hard. So should i consider supplementing with calcium or magnesium?? Also I seem to get really confused on what type to buy. I remember reading not to get magnesium stearate or something but that always seems to be in the ingredients? So I would be awesome if someone could tell me which is which and which is best to use. Thank you." http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Supplements/calcium.html&name=CSE_34930 /Supplements/calcium.rss2 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:52:58 EST Bill from San Fernando, Philippines writes: "Hi everyone...Concerning Calcium, there is much research that I've read that would indicate that Calcium intake in the West is too heavily emphasized. The only period you really seem to need Calcium is in your growing years -- up to the age of 18. After that Calcium intake should be reduced. Much more attention should then be paid to Magnesium intake, which helps to regulate the Calcium in your body. This mineral is very important, and is involved in over 300 essential enzyme/catalytic processes in your body. There is a tribe in Kenya (the name escapes me!!), on whom they did some research on Calcium. They found that the Calcium intake of this tribe was only 300mg per day. The normal daily RDA for Calcium is about 1000mg as recommended in the West. The results of this research showed that this tribe had virtually no heart disease and no arthritis. Another important fact here, the research team also found that the tribe had a very high intake of Calcium from their grain diets. A research team also found that the incident of heart disease(HD) in Egypt was 10% of what it was in the West because, they concluded, the soil in Egypt was very high in magnesium salts. The Egyptian Fellahin peasant agricultural worker also had much lower incidents of HD than the population within the more westernized Egyptian cities, where more processed, western food is eaten. If you have insufficient Calcium, you will always feel tired and run down. There is an important relationship between the calcium in your cells and calcium in your blood or plasma. The ratio should be be 1/10000 in this cell/plasma gradient relationship. Magnesium governs and regulates this ratio. If there is insufficient Magnesium to regulate the calcium in your body, then the concentrations of calcium within cells will be much higher, and the cells will have to continuously pump out the excess cell calcium to maintain proper gradient and balance. From research, a cell uses 30% of its total energy when pumping out calcium. Which is why your body feels so tired all the time if you have this lack of magnesium problem. Magnesium, in the proper amounts, should help to correct this. If your calcium intake is not regulated with magnesium over the long term -- many years -- then deposits will form in outside tissues. Calcium deposits form significantly within the soft tissue cells like muscles and cartiledge -- particularly on the cell mitichondria which also become dangerously calcified. Magnesium has also been shown to correct this problem over time. " http://www.earthclinic.com/Redirect.php?pageLink=/Supplements/calcium.html&name=FOOD_30942 /Supplements/calcium.rss3 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:24:22 EDT Connie from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA writes: "Editor, Somewhere, I can't find the page, Ted said that potatoes have as much calcium as milk. What I am finding is that potatoes have about a tenth the calcium of milk. See Harvard University's site: https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Calcium_content_of_selected_foods.htm Naturally I would like to know who is correct. Does Ted have access to high calcium potatoes? Is this another instance of soil depletion in the USA?"