Calcium and kidney stones.......

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What is Calcium? Calcium is the most abundant mineral on earth and the fifth

most abundant substance (after sulphur) in the body. What is Calcium Citrate?

Calcium and Magnesium citrates are highly soluble and bioavailable forms (they

are chelates) of these minerals that have much greater absorption rates than

other common forms of calcium and magnesium supplements (and low interaction

levels with other minerals as compared to other common forms of these

supplements). Calcium carbonate, calcium derived from bone meal, oyster shell,

or dolomite are VERY likely to contain lead, and you don't want that. Now,

here's the most important sentence on this page: we have combined our calcium

with magnesium, because YOU NEED MAGNESIUM IN ORDER TO ABSORB CALCIUM!

Hypocalcemia (low calcium) does NOT respond to the therapeutic administration of

calcium alone, you MUST combine it with magnesium (a good ratio of calcium to

magnesium is 5:1, which is what we have created for you in our Cal-Mag product).

For what, and how is Calcium used? Most of the calcium in the body is bone. But

providing skeletal material is far from calcium's only role in the body. Calcium

serves in nerve transmission, muscular contraction, and blood clotting. Your

bones actually serve as a reservoir of calcium - calcium is added or subtracted

as needed by the body (as determined by the concentration of calcium in the

blood - below 10mg/100ml calcium is mobilized into the blood, above approx.

11mg/100ml, the bones absorb the excess calcium). It is easy to see why dietary

calcium is important in maintaining proper bone density. Women especially

cannot afford to be without adequate amounts of calcium in their diets! The

common female complaints of PMS and symptoms of menopause may be relieved by

simple supplementation with the mineral, calcium. The evidence is

circumstantial, but mounting fast, that PMS and menopausal complaints are early

signs of osteoporosis! You Do NOT Want Osteoporsis Osteoporosis is a term

familiar to most people. It is the progressive decalcification (degeneration) of

the bones throughout a persons body. Known as the " silent thief " of diseases,

osteoporosis most often strikes older women. But the time to combat it is now.

As much as 95% of your bone mass is accumulated during adolescence, then it must

be maintained throughout life. We have all seen the little old ladies whose

vertebrae have collapsed from lack of calcium, making them shorter and hunched

over. In severe cases of osteoporosis the vertebrae are so weak that the spine

doesn't stop dropping forward until the rib cage comes to rest on the hip bones.

That's uncomfortable and damaging to the self image, but not deadly. What

usually kills victims of osteoporosis is a hip fracture. Because of the

mechanics of your muscles and bones, the act of standing up from a chair places

great stress on the hip bones. In people with osteoporosis the hip bone becomes

porous and weak to the extent that one day simply standing up from a sitting

position breaks their hip. Immotility in the hospital bed leads to pneumonia or

there is some other complication and the victim dies. Mortality due to hip

fracture is about 30%. While men are less likely to suffer from hip fracture,

owing to their greater bone mass, they are almost twice as likely to die once it

happens. What two things can you do to maintain bone mass? Exercise and

supplement. Too Much Calcium? Calcium, Oxalate And Kidney Stones Like the

misconception about peptic ulcer and stress (it turns out that most peptic

ulcers are caused by the bacteria, Helicobacter pylori, not psychological

stresses), there is a similar misconception about kidney stones and calcium. The

misconception is that kidney stones are caused by an excess of calcium in the

diet. The result is that kidney stone victims are often advised to limit dairy

(calcium) intake. Unfortunatly for those people, just the opposite is true and

their limited consumption of dairy products will probably lead them to another

kidney stone. Men: there is no need to avoid calcium for fear of kidney

stones. A study funded by the National Institutes of Health, conducted by

researchers at Harvard University, and reported in the New England Journal of

Medicine in 1993 looked at 45,000 men aged 40 or older and found an inverse

relationship between calcium and kidney stones.1 Eighty percent of kidney

stones are composed of calcium oxalate, a highly insoluble substance that is

sometimes precipitated in the kidney from a combination of oxalate and calcium.

(Oxalate is found in vegetables such as spinach, brussels sprouts, carrots, tea,

garlic and others.) The hypothesis explaining the inverse relationship between

calcium intake and kidney stones is that high levels of dietary (consumed)

calcium and oxalate combine to form calcium oxalate " stones " in the

gastro-intestinal tract, instead of in the kidney. This allows the calcium

oxalate " stone " to pass through unnoticed, instead of later precipitating in the

kidney where it would be called a " kidney stone " .

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