Calcium and Osteoporosis – Calcium Might Cause a Heart Attack – Dr.Berg

People say a lack of calcium and osteoporosis go hand and hand but is calcium really the problem? Find out.

hey this is Dr Berg again in this short video we’re going to talk about calcium and osteoporosis uh this is the loss of bone and there’s another condition called osteopenia which is the kind of the precursor or the thing that happens just before osteoporosis um there is a myth going around that um women get osteoporosis because they’re lacking calcium well the the big huge uh trials that were just done the research on uh women that take calcium just found out that um the more calcium they take the more they get heart attacks yeah especially if they’re postmenopausal and I’m going to cover why that is um but most osteoporosis is not a calcium problem per se it is a problem with cortisol cortisol is a stress hormone that is made by your adrenal glands and if your adrenal glands are overactive and the way they be overactive is is especially during menopause because the adrenals back up the ovaries during menopause because they make estrogen so yes estrogen can infect osteoporosis but just the fact that the adrenals can’t make up the difference from what the OV when the OV was producing before so we have these weak adrenals you go through menopause and then you lose your bones it’s not because you’re not eating enough calcium it’s because the high cortisol because the adrenals are so tired they’re failing to back up the ovaries okay now what happens is when you have high cortisol it’s very destructive on the protein in the bone so you lose protein most of your bone is protein and it’s very destructive on calcium as well so you lose calcium you lose protein you lose other minerals and you lose your vitamin D levels I would say most of the vitamin D deficiencies in the United States uh especially in the northern version uh because they don’t have as much sun is adrenal High cortisol that’s why we become low low in vitamin D okay all right so cortisol that’s really what’s underneath this osteoporosis so this comes down to stress stress will cause high cortisol so I’m not saying live on a go live on a desert island by yourself I’m just saying instead of taking calcium start to do things to start to improve the stress situation and change your environment um do things that are um less stressful um work on your adrenals nutritionally uh acupressure uh go for long walks there’s a lot of things you can do for to lower cortisol so it’s rarely a calcium problem directly uh Studies have shown that higher calcium and I will put the studies below so you can look them up yourself and just to realize I’m not making this up um high high levels of calcium will double the ch chance of getting a heart attack and why is that why because when you take calcium calcium needs a transporter vitamin there are two transporter vitamins one is vitamin D which transports the calcium into the blood but there’s another vitamin called vitamin K2 that transports calcium from the blood all the way into the tissues the function of vitamin K2 is to mobilize the calcium out of the arteries and out of the soft tissue and put it in the bone vitamin K2 is in a lot of the fats it’s in grass-fed butter it’s in egg yolks it’s in Goose liver it’s in all the things that the doctors tell you not to consume if you have a heart problem right well we need K2 you can get this um in a tablet form take 100 micro grams and you can then also take vitamin D3 I would take 10,000 international units together these two together with a little fish oil maybe codiv oil so if you took all three these together um this would be very very beneficial to protect your bones why because this is going to transport it this will help to um transport it as well and then of course I’m not telling you not to neglect cortisol fix this too but these are very good protective vitamins to help transport calcium the other thing is um just by lowering cortisol your vitamin D3 will go up as well um but this is very beneficial now if you already have osteoporosis you’re going to need to take some calcium I do not recommend taking calcium carbonate if you’ve been taking calcium go get your bottle right now and look at the label make sure it’s not calcium carbonate that’s Limestone you’d be better off chewing on the cement outside it’s just rocks it’s not can absorb you need calcium citrate calcium lactate calcium gluconate all the different types of calcium but not carbonate but if you have osteoporosis you might want to add calcium to this and that would be like your your bone uh building factors and to prevent the heart attacks um the last point I wanted to make is that um is this many people ask me like what food can I can I get these vitamins it’s very difficult to get vitamin D from food um unless you consume Civ oil um but you can get it from the Sun so if you go outside 10 minutes a day or 15 you can get 10,000 iuse so that way it’s it’s free you don’t have to take it okay but definitely the K2 that’s the one that you want to take more of to help prevent this and again check with your doctor if you have this I’m not telling you that this is going to cure you or diagnose this is the the reason why you have osteoprosis but I’m just giving you some extra data to present to your doctor so you guys can figure it out but it takes if you have ostosis it does take a bit of time to have that be restored it could take several years because it’s a really a major problem in the body when you have osteoporosis your body has been very very very um healthwise been way way down so give it time it’s not going to come back in two months it’s going to take probably yours but this will help you hope you enjoyed the video I’ll see you in the next one