The crisis of calcium and magnesium imbalance during 2008-20 13, Mark? Dr. Brandt published four research reports in several well-known journals, confirming that excessive calcium supplementation will increase the risk of heart disease in women:
"Many elderly women and men take calcium tablets, but for more than a decade, the attitude of experts has changed from encouraging people to taking calcium tablets to not recommending taking calcium tablets to prevent fractures. This great change will happen because many evidences show that calcium tablets are ineffective in reducing the occurrence of fractures; At the same time, random sampling experiments found that people who took calcium tablets or both calcium tablets and vitamin D had obvious adverse side effects.
In this report, we will discuss the evidence and focus on the relationship between calcium tablets and the increased incidence of cardiovascular diseases, which I actually mentioned five years ago. Whether taking calcium tablets or not and supplementing vitamin D will slightly reduce the overall fracture rate, but for residents living in the community, it can not prevent the occurrence of hip fractures. Calcium tablets can also cause kidney calculi's diseases, acute gastrointestinal problems, and increase the probability of myocardial infarction and stroke. 」
Heart disease is not the only disease caused by excessive intake of calcium. Dr Brandt also pointed out that other health problems include kidney calculi, sharp changes in blood sugar index and increased risk of stroke. I should add that calcium is also the culprit of inflammation. Any disease name ending in "inflammation" means that there is inflammation in the body, which is related to magnesium deficiency.
Diane. Fiskani district also found that too much calcium can lead to some arthritis, kidney calculi's disease, osteoporosis and arterial calcification (which can lead to heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases). The report published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition points out that neither milk nor high calcium diet seems to reduce the risk of hip fracture.
There are three hormones related to the quantity and distribution of calcium in the body, namely parathyroid hormone, calcitonin and vitamin D, and the increase or decrease of these hormones is also related to magnesium. When there is too much calcium in the body, the body will not sit idly by. Guy? Dr. Abraham pointed out in detail that the body actually has a protective mechanism. In order to prevent the liquid in the cell from being filled with calcium, a mechanism that needs magnesium to start will occur, so that calcium cannot enter the granular gland. However, if the situation of too much calcium lasts for a period of time, too much calcium in granular glands will inhibit ATP synthesis. If there is not enough magnesium to interfere with the calcification of granular glands, it will eventually lead to cell death.
The ideal ratio of calcium to magnesium is 1: 1.
I have been worried that people who take calcium tablets should have the same ratio of calcium to magnesium (that is, 1: 1). If you take too much calcium and lack magnesium at the same time, it will only make the symptoms of calcification more serious. I mentioned in the book that the ratio of calcium and magnesium in the current diet is about 10: 1. I said it was like an explosive that caused bone problems and heart disease. Here I want to reiterate that the ideal calcium-magnesium ratio is 1: 65438.
Don't forget, the ratio of calcium and magnesium should be 1: 1, which is not limited to nutritional supplements, but the total calcium and magnesium intake in our daily diet, drinking water and nutritional supplements. Besides, I think we can get enough calcium from our diet, so we just need to supplement magnesium. In some cases, some people must consume twice as much magnesium and twice as much calcium to reverse the damage caused by calcium accumulation, drug abuse, stress and constant inflammation of the body.
Even doctors misjudge. When I was writing a new edition of Miracle of Magnesium, a lady told me her husband's experience of seeing a doctor, which just proved my point of view and showed that doctors were not clear about the clinical application of magnesium.
"Shortly after my husband received a health check-up at Rongmin Hospital, his doctor asked him if he had taken any nutritional supplements. We say that there are magnesium, calcium and potassium (500 mg of calcium and magnesium and 99 mg of potassium are ingested every day), and 250 mg of magnesium ingots are ingested. When the doctor asked him why he was taking these nutritional supplements, I said that the research report showed that these supplements could improve his hypertension (now under control), restless foot syndrome (disappeared), back pain (still under treatment) and other health problems. She said that my husband should not take these vitamins, because it would be dangerous to eat too much.
He was tested for magnesium and potassium, and the doctor said that both values were high, so he should stop taking these two minerals. However, you mentioned in your book that the results of general blood magnesium tests are incorrect, especially when patients are under great pressure or have other diseases, as my husband did. Can you provide other methods to measure the true magnesium content in the body? Do you think he ingested too many minerals, or is it just the result of inaccurate tests? 」
I wrote to him and asked him to go to Veteran's Hospital or other medical institutions listed on RequestATest's website to have the magnesium content in red blood cells tested. I also mentioned that the normal range is four? Two to six? Eight milligrams/deciliter, but that's the average of ordinary people, and 80% people lack magnesium. The best value should be six? Six? Five milligrams per deciliter.
The test done by Rongmin Hospital is probably serum magnesium test, so the high magnesium value of the test result is actually a good thing. The magnesium content in serum must be quite high to keep the heartbeat stable. If the magnesium content in serum decreases, the body will immediately release magnesium from bones or muscles into the blood.
But too much calcium in the blood is not a good thing, so I advised him not to take calcium tablets again. The high calcium content in blood means that you must release some magnesium to neutralize calcium, so only a small amount of magnesium can play its original role (the correct rate of calcium content test is generally quite high).
Later, I received a thank-you letter from the lady, saying that the doctors at Rongmin Hospital did not think that her husband's symptoms came from magnesium deficiency. She said that she was very confused at one time and didn't know whether to listen to the doctor and ask him to stop taking magnesium. However, after reading Miracle of Magnesium and online articles, she thinks that doctors lack knowledge of magnesium, and if her husband stops taking magnesium, his health will definitely deteriorate.
Most people don't understand the importance of calcium and magnesium balance in cells, and even some doctors don't know it. Without proper amount of magnesium, calcium can't make bones grow or prevent osteoporosis. The reason is that simple. If our bones are all made of calcium, they will easily become brittle or crushed, just like chalk falling on the sidewalk. But as long as there is a considerable proportion of magnesium, the bones can have a proper density and arrangement, which will be more elastic and not easy to crush. I think many elderly people will have fractures, often because there is too much calcium and not enough magnesium.
Too much calcium can cause inflammation, and too much calcium is often the main cause of inflammation in the body. Calcium is the main cause of inflammation, and magnesium is the key to anti-inflammation, because magnesium can neutralize calcium and greatly reduce the probability of inflammation.
The US Food and Drug Administration and pharmaceutical companies are very aware of the importance of treating inflammation, but their main treatment is to use drugs with various side effects, not magnesium. To make matters worse, anti-inflammatory steroids and many non-steroidal drugs are mostly fluorine compounds combined with magnesium. Treating inflammation with these ineffective and unsafe drugs will only lead to more inflammatory reactions.
Where does this calcium come from? There are many kinds of calcium supplements suggested by various places. In the United States, doctors and health books recommend that women over 50 take1500mg of calcium every day. The recommended daily intake of nutrients in Britain is 700 mg, but the recommended intake by the World Health Organization is only 500 mg.
The osteoporosis clinic in the hospital advises patients to take 1500 to 2000 mg of calcium every day, but they don't take into account their calcium intake from food or water-many people who eat dairy products take in high calcium. In an American standard meal, the ratio of calcium to magnesium is about 10: 1. Because farmers don't use fertilizers containing minerals, the mineral content in all foods is lower than in the past. In addition, many herbicides and pesticides will combine with minerals, especially magnesium, leading to mineral loss. However, the content of calcium in soil is often higher than that of magnesium.
The table in the appendix shows the calcium content of general food. You will find that the calcium content of seven-boned sardines, half-boned salmon and twenty oysters is 280 to 393 mg, and the calcium content of a cup of Italian cabbage dumplings is 252 mg. Someone told me that they don't eat dairy products, so I showed them the recipe of bone soup-probably something my grandmother often cooks at home. It is difficult for us to calculate a few milligrams of calcium in a bone soup, because the value of each spoon is different, but if we eat some high-calcium vegetables, nuts, seeds, cheese, fermented dairy products (yogurt, milk wine) and so on. Calcium will exceed the daily intake.
I have personally experienced the power of calcium in my diet. As long as I eat yogurt and feta cheese, my old heart palpitations will attack. At this time, I know I need to take more magnesium to balance it.
Magnesium and osteoporosis I really want to know whether the treatment plan recommended by the National Osteoporosis Guidance Group in 20 13 will mention the relationship between calcium and heart disease, but the result is very disappointing. Although calcium is not as important as before, magnesium is not mentioned at all, which means that more new drugs will be developed to treat female osteoporosis in the future. The importance of magnesium to bone health should not be underestimated, but most doctors ignore it.
Why am I so worried about inappropriate osteoporosis treatment? The latest statistics on osteoporosis cover the data from 1984 to 1993, which shows that the growth rate of this disease in the past decade is 700%, which is quite amazing. Since we have been fighting osteoporosis for a long time, why did this happen? The answer is that we have chosen the wrong weapon and may even do ourselves harm.
Magnesium is more important than calcium in children's bones. Parents are often surprised to say, "If children don't eat dairy products, how can there be calcium in their bones?" But they never asked questions about magnesium. Finally, a newly published report points out that magnesium intake and absorption is an important key to children's bone health. The researchers found that the calcium content obtained from dairy products had little correlation with the mineral content or density of the whole bone.
In 20 13, a report was published at the annual meeting of pediatric medicine held in Washington, USA, which affirmed the importance of magnesium, and mentioned that magnesium and calcium can complement each other and play a better role, and can also adjust the calcium content of children so that calcium can directly enter bones. Without the assistance of magnesium, calcium will precipitate in children's kidneys, coronary arteries and cartilage, instead of entering the bones that need calcium.
Steven, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor Medical College? Dr. Abraham pointed out that calcium is very important, but it is not as important as magnesium except for children and adolescents with extremely low calcium intake.
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Calcium supplementation alone will aggravate menopausal symptoms. In this era when doctors only advise postmenopausal women to supplement calcium, the following personal experience can bring hope to many people. A reader of my blog wrote to me and shared her personal experience about magnesium and menopause. She said that she found that the 34 symptoms of menopause were exactly the same as those of magnesium deficiency, so she began to supplement magnesium.
After three days, she felt much more normal. The number of hot flashes during the day decreased from about 20 times a day to less than 10 times a day, and the symptoms were not serious. The number of night sweats dropped from ten times a night to less than three times, and the symptoms of insomnia disappeared. Anxiety, rapid heartbeat, depression, insect crawling and skin pain no longer bother her. Since she entered menopause three years ago, these problems have become increasingly serious, but after adding magnesium for more than ten days, her symptoms almost disappeared. Finally, she said, "Magnesium is a miracle. Everyone, especially menopausal women, should know about magnesium. 」
Unfortunately, menopausal women often only receive calcium, not magnesium, so the symptoms of menopause will become more serious.
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This article is authorized to be published from persimmon culture /Carolyn Dean's Miracle of Magnesium: The Most Eye-catching Nutrients in the Future 10.
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