Do You Really Need Calcium?

The headline was not surprising as this columnist has been teaching this same thing through three decades. The study noted in the news reported about 50 per cent more women suffered heart attacks taking calcium supplements than those women that did not take calcium supplements. The news was surprising because it also acknowledged that increasing calcium levels by taking supplements may increase plaque build-up in the arteries.

The news was not surprising because it downplayed that negative effect from calcium supplementation.

So many errors, so little time (and room to cover them all)

The common and widespread medical recommendations for calcium are erroneous.  Heightened promotion by modern medi$in of something allegedly nutritional should be a red flag.

The minerals silicon and magnesium are the primary nutrients that build strong bones.  Heightened calcium intake reduces the effectiveness of silicon to build strong bones while also interfering with the action of magnesium that normally causes calcium to be deposited in the bones.

Yet the study and news reported last week that “this potentially detrimental effect should be balanced against the likely benefits of calcium on bone”. The likely benefit of calcium supplementation on bone is little (or none) so that there should then be little (or no) recommendation for calcium supplementation.

The “news” story noted that women take calcium supplements to try to prevent osteoporosis yet heightened calcium intakes are more likely to increase osteoporosis. The real bone strengthening minerals silicon and magnesium are also very important for real heart health as well. Healthy arteries are rich in silicon but low in calcium while diseased arteries are low in silicon with higher levels of calcium.

Documentation of magnesium for heart health is extensive and dates back at least half a century.

Last week’s study and news reporting on this matter also promoted the medically grim fairy tale “that taking calcium supplements might protect against vascular disease by lowering levels of bad cholesterol in the blood.”

It is the mineral chromium that is responsible for managing cholesterol in the body.  This should be no surprise as no less an authority than Dr. Henry Alfred Schroeder, M.D. cited chromium deficiency as the primary cause of cardiovascular disease in America more than 30 years ago.  It was the research studies of Dr. Schroeder through three decades that established both the dietary and drug protocols for hypertension (high blood pressure) that are still significantly followed to this day.

The benefits of calcium supplementation for bone, heart and cholesterol health are not real but rather imagined.  The real bone, heart and cholesterol health benefits come from supplementation with silica, magnesium and chromium in vegetal or 100 per cent whole food forms.
Christopher C. Barr writes Naturally Speaking from Arkansas: The Natural State … naturally! You may write him at P. O. Box 1147, Pocahontas, Arkansas 72455 or by e-mail at servantofYHVH@hotmail.com .

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The following interviews with Christopher Barr will help shed further light on this topic.

Don’t Be Conned By Calls For More Calcium!
Magnesium To The Rescue!

SILICA: Computers Can’t Run Without It
& Neither Can You

Chromium: Your Body Needs It, You’re Probably Not Getting Enough of It, and Without It, You Cannot Survive