The Big REGRET I Had in Practice

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so there’s one really big regret that I have in practice that I wish I had the information that I had now back then because the advice I gave on this one topic was very bad advice I used to recommend 12200 milligrams of calcium to people especially postmenopausal women for bone health okay and especially if they had any type of osteopenia or osteoporosis I mean check this out if you have someone with osteopor rosis obviously they’re missing calcium in the bone that’s true almost every osteoporotic person without exception also at the same time has excess calcium outside their bone in 15 independent clinical trials they found an increased risk 30% for heart attacks a 20% increase in Strokes just by taking an extra 500 100 Mig of calcium per day in another study involving 61,000 people over 19 years there was a pretty strong correlation between people taking over 1,400 mg of calcium per day and a 114% increase in dying from heart attacks you just go to the store and and look at the vitamin bottles right look at the one a days what’s the first ingredient calcium carbonate notice how heavy that bottle is because most of that product is calcium carbonate you’re basically eating rocks I mean when you think about how is that affecting the heart how is it affecting the tissues with all this calcium onethird of all adults in America over the age of 45 have some type of calcification in their arteries so this idea that if we just take calcium and’ll go right to the bones is not true yes we have the calcium in the bone but also calcium has other functions especially all the different communication between the cells use calcium you have the intracellular calcium and you have the extracellular calcium outside in fact you have a lot more extracellular calcium you have a thousand to 10,000 times more extracellular calcium right here than inside your cell and so when this cell builds up too much intracellular calcium it commits suicide and check out this next Point calcium accumulation is an independent factor of risk of all cause mortality and check this out people that are taking calcium channel blockers normally you probably know they’re taking it for high blood pressure but did you know that it creates other effects it can also help improve chronic diseases including you know ALS Parkinson’s Alzheimer’s it can decrease the risk from coronary artery spasm and Gina there’s one study that shows that taking calcium channel blockers decreases the risk of all cause mortality what does this tell you about calcium in our bodies but the point is that this drug has multiple effects that go beyond just blood pressure which is very interesting so since we’re on the topic of osteoporosis or bone loss and what should you do instead of taking massive amounts of just calcium and trying to fix that if you ever look up the condition called scurvy which is an advanced vitamin C defici efficiency and you read all of the side effects of scurvy you’re going to see one of them called bone resorption so in other words a severe vitamin C deficiency causes calcium to Lee out from your bone another symptom of scurvy is decreased synthesis of collagen synthesis means the production of something I mean think about what bone really is a lot of it’s collagen protein and so if you don’t have enough vitamin C you can’t make that collagen another symptom of scurvy is something called Osteo liis what does that mean that means the destruction of bone another symptom is osteon necrosis that’s a similar thing that means death of your bone as I continue down the list of scurvy I also found osteopenia as well as osteoporosis I also found another side effect of oxid of stress AKA a lot of inflammation and the last side effect that I found which was very revealing is calcification outside the bone and so what would be the remedy for osteopenia or osteoporosis well one big thing that I would recommend is therapeutic doses of vitamin C and as I did a deep dive into this topic you’re not going to be able to fix your osteoporosis or osteop just by normal amounts of vitamin C you’re not going to even create a dent into that problem you may need to use another type of vitamin C so you can use ascorbic acid or another one that might be good is magnesium ascorbate why because the Magnesium is really good to help lower the pathogenic calcification problem that we’re trying to deal with here and the amounts that I would recommend of this vitamin C would be minimally 6,00 000 milligram per day now uh there’s a lot of research on this not just for osteoporosis for other things but 6,000 plus so some people need to go a lot higher okay now I would recommend breaking it up into two or four doses and one way to determine if you’re taking too much is if you have diarrhea okay because that’s one of the side effects so you want to take a certain amount until maybe your stools are loose and then back off a little bit having enough vitamin C can suppress the cells that break down your bone and those cells are called osteoclasts and having enough vitamin C can help the absorption of calcium in your bone and this is that regret is when I used to recommend these calcium supplements I don’t recommend that okay now you can get enough calcium just from a little bit of cheese but the point is if you have excess soft tissue calcium you don’t want to be guzzling gallons of milk all day long definitely not the calcium supplements ant acids now I’m not telling you not to take your an acids but an acids a lot of times involve taking calcium and then you’re going to neutralize the stomach acid which helps you absorb calcium check with your doctor to see if you really need to take that an acid it may be contributing to your extracellular extra calcium problem that you have and don’t forget about the Magnesium magnesium is a natural calcium channel blocker also vitamin K2 a K2 deficiency is the most reliable predictor of vascular calcification and of course if you’re dealing with osteopenia or osteoporosis a good trace mineral complex would be good so you get all the different trace minerals as well as consuming high quality protein in your diet like red meat very very healthy eggs are good but uh red meat is going to be the best protein to build bone now if you have that seen my video related to calcium milk and phosphorus I put that up right here check it out