Best Home Test for a CALCIUM DEFICIENCY

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i’m going to show you a really simple home test that you can do to determine if you have a calcium deficiency now calcium deficiencies are pretty common but usually not because the person is not taking a supplement or not getting it from their diet it’s mainly because either they’re not absorbing it or the body is not utilizing it properly so in this video we’re going to talk about the symptoms of the calcium deficiency and all of the other reasons why you might be deficient and then a real simple home test that you can do okay so what are the symptoms well number one anxiety irritability insomnia muscle tension spasms or cramps low back pain constipation high blood pressure heart palpitations frequent nose bleeds could be a calcium deficiency soft fingernails could be another indicator frequent cold sores sunburns when you barely go in the sun then we have hives having frequent fevers could be related to a calcium deficiency because calcium lowers your immune system i remember with our kids every time they had a fever i’d give them a little calcium and it would go right away frequent hoarseness chronic coughing and difficulty getting to sleep so calcium is a mineral that we need for our muscles our bones our tendons our ligaments and the nervous system calcium also acts as a communication between your nerves and there’s many things that affect the calcium absorption okay first thing is vitamin d if you don’t have enough vitamin d you’re not going to absorb calcium that well if you have sufficient vitamin d you can increase the absorption of calcium by a factor of 20x okay that is a major increase in calcium absorption and of course so many people are deficient in vitamin d now magnesium if you’re low in magnesium you’re going to have a difficult time absorbing calcium because magnesium and calcium work together another factor is the hydrochloric acid in your stomach if you don’t have enough hydrochloric acid like a lot of people over the age of 40 and 50 and 60 because as you age you have less and less hydrochloric acid in your stomach and you need acid to be able to absorb certain minerals especially calcium low essential fatty acids like omega-3 fatty acids essential fatty acids help you absorb calcium and so if you’re deficient in omega-3 fatty acids you’re going to have a much more difficult time absorbing calcium all right next thing is low estrogen let’s say your menopausal and you don’t produce as much estrogen that can affect your calcium another factor is your ph if you’re too alkaline and i’m talking about your blood and normally blood should be alkaline but if you’re excessively too alkaline you’re going to have a difficult time absorbing calcium as well so you may deposit calcium in the eyes there’s cataracts and the teeth is tartar the kidney is kidney stones in the joints there’s arthritis on the bones as spurring so unless the ph is correct it’s going to be more difficult to absorb calcium if you have gut inflammation you’re going to have a much more difficult time absorbing calcium so all of these conditions where you have you know irritable bowel syndrome or diverticulitis or crohn’s can greatly affect your absorption of certain minerals especially in calcium and the next thing is interesting hypothyroidism you need a normal thyroid to be able to help you absorb calcium so if your thyroid is low like let’s say you have hashimoto’s that can be a reason why you’re low in calcium not to mention the hormone that the thyroid produces called calcitonin if calcitonin is low you may also have a deficiency in calcium so as you can see there’s many different factors that go way beyond the dietary aspects of calcium but let’s talk about how to determine if you are deficient in calcium so what you do is you take this blood pressure cuff just a standard blood pressure cuff and you’re going to wrap it around one of your calves you’re going to pump it up and you’re going to record when you start feeling a cramp and if that number is 200 or less suspect a calcium deficiency and of course if you have peripheral vascular disease i don’t want you to be doing this test now there could be other reasons but this is a pretty good indicator if you’re deficient in calcium now if the pressure is between 200 to 220 you have sufficient calcium and if you’re between 220 and 240 you have the optimum amount of calcium but you don’t need to go above 240 and the units you’re measuring are millimeters of mercury and what happens when you’re divisioning calcium is you have a lot of muscle cramps at rest okay especially when you’re sleeping and this test just magnifies that problem a little bit more so you can determine where your weakness is so in the description i’m going to put these numbers down below and describe this in detail so you can actually refer back to it now if you have a calcium deficiency before you start taking calcium you really want to make sure that you’re solving the correct problem because it could be a lot of other factors so really quickly i want to give you some additional information so let’s talk about hydrochloric acid how do you know if you’re low in hydrochloric acid well you get indigestion if you do then that could be the reason why you can’t absorb calcium in which case you need to take something like retain hydrochloride or more apple cider vinegar now with magnesium it’s a little more difficult i mean you can go get an intracellular test which is more involved but i just have a question for you do you consume a good amount of leafy greens that would be a good indicator that you have enough magnesium if you don’t like vegetables and don’t consume vegetables chances are you could be deficient in magnesium in which case that’s what you’d want to take to increase the absorption of calcium and by the way you’re going to get calcium from leafy greens now what about essential fatty acids well you consume a lot of fish do you have inflammation do you have arthritis okay if you answered yes to any of these maybe you need a good omega-3 fatty acid or better yet start consuming more salmon or sardines cod liver oil okay things that are high in omega-3 fatty acids the reason i like olive oil because it not only has the omega-3 but it also has the vitamin d at the same time as well as vitamin a now what about alkalinity how do we know u2 alkaline i’ve done some videos on this you can check it out but one uh common symptom of being too alkaline and i’m talking about your blood is that you get this little twitch on your skin it could be underneath the left eye could be anywhere on your body a little it’s called tetany a little twitch that could be a factor in which case you need to start drinking maybe some outside of vinegar on a regular basis uh the change of chloride because once you start to put the acids back in that can help reset things but here’s the thing to really get your ph corrected you just need to eat healthy and your ph will come back in the balance now what about low estrogen okay well let’s say you’re menopausal okay this could be the reason what can you do about it there’s quite a few things i’ll put a link down below if you are menopausal to get a little bit more information on that topic now what about low vitamin d well do you have a low immune system are you depressed do you have low back pain these are all indicators of low vitamin d is it the middle of winter do you normally take vitamin d or not do you get enough sun so in other words you need to start looking at the other reasons why you might be deficient and see which root cause makes the most sense now if you haven’t seen my other video on calcium i think that video would be the most appropriate check it out i put it up right here