Brand new gee-whiz research published in the prestigious British Medical Journal has blown the minds of conventional medical practitioners.
Here’s the buzz: Calcium supplements don’t strengthen bones. End of story.
Interesting.
Dr. Robert Thompson and I wrote about this in The Calcium Lie, first published in 2008 and updated in 2013. It’s not a secret. Calcium hardens concrete, not bones. In fact, excess calcium (whether thought supplements or in your diet) can cause a variety of serious health problems including calcification (hardening) of the arteries and kidney stones.
Oh yeah—medical science just validated this simple fact that any doctor who took basic biochemistry (that should be all of them) would already know.
Yet somehow, medical science bought into The Calcium Lie and hoodwinked doctors into terrorizing generations of older women into believing their bones would crumble to dust if they did not take calcium supplements that can cause heart disease and worse, and later, bisphosphonates, prescription drugs that purportedly prevent osteoporosis but actually plasticize bones and cause them to shatter when stressed.
You see, going back to basic biochemistry, bones are not made of calcium. They are made of a dozen or more minerals, one of which is calcium.
If you remember your high school chemistry class, you know that and excess amount of any solid substance (i.e. calcium in this case) will not completely dissolve in a liquid (remember our bodies are
60% water). The solid that is left behind is the problem. What happens top it? It clogs up things and hardens things that aren’t supposed to be hard—like arteries.
The British Medical Journal published two studies on calcium a week ago, both from New Zealand. The first, a fine-toothed comb analysis more than 100 previous studies and debunked the decades-old admonition that most of us need to take 1,000 to 1,200 mg of calcium daily. The second study focused on studies on calcium supplements for people over 50, coming to the same conclusion except for a small benefit for very elderly people in hospitals.
This comes on top of a now iconic 2012 study published in the journal Heart examined 24,000 middle-aged and elderly Germans who were taking calcium supplements and found their risk of heart attacks was doubled.
If you’re taking calcium supplements, please stop! If you forgot your high school chemistry and your doc forgot her med school biochemistry, these “new” studies should convince you.
Calcium supplements can kill you. It’s as simple as that.
What to do? That’s simple, too: Get your minerals in unrefined sea salt and in trace mineral supplements that contain all the minerals you need in the exact proportions to ensure bone health and many other health benefits.
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Dr. Robert Thompson and I wrote about this in The Calcium Lie, first published in 2008 and updated in 2013. It’s not a secret. Calcium hardens concrete, not bones. In fact, excess calcium (whether thought supplements or in your diet) can cause a variety of serious health problems including calcification (hardening) of the arteries and kidney stones.
