The Calcium-Osteoporosis Myth

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i think there’s so many people that know for a fact that osteoporosis is merely lacking calcium in your bone but the problem with that viewpoint is when you start taking calcium you will make your bones slightly more dense but you do not decrease your risk of getting fractures so taking calcium is not only not the answer but it can make things worse one of the challenges with osteoporosis is there’s really no symptoms but you do have an increased risk of getting a fracture and the problem is if you’re older and you fracture your hip boy the recovery from that is just devastating most people that fracture their hip do not live past a year after the fracture so it’s not a good prognosis the problem with taking calcium is it actually increases your risk of getting a fracture interesting i mean if you think about it one of the biggest best predictors of a myocardial infarction heart attack is having a high cac score which stands for coronary artery calcification score it’s the calcium in your coronary artery that predicts heart attacks and so by dumping more calcium into your body you’re just going to worsen the situation calcium is very unique in that we definitely need it but we really need to get it from our diet primarily we shouldn’t be getting it from a supplement at least a lot of it especially what’s recommended i think it’s like a thousand milligrams per day that’s like way way too much because our body does not get rid of calcium very easily and that also goes with other minerals like iron for example whereas potassium is easily excreted if we have too much but certain minerals do not exit the body very easily so if you’re dumping all this calcium in the tissues you can end up with excess calcium and if you think about it as people age they tend to calcify don’t they their joints start filling up with calcium their arteries fill up with calcium uh they have all sorts of spurring and they’re in their back but here’s some problems with too much calcium arrhythmias increase your risk for getting a stroke heart attack high blood pressure because the arteries become calcified there’s no elasticity you get soft tissue calcium not just calcium in the arteries but calcium in the joints and the other tissues of the body not to mention excessive amount of calcium in your kidneys as a kidney stone other symptoms would be constipation depression psychosis arthritis tendonitis bursitis and even abdominal pain so too much calcium is not good we need sufficient calcium but we don’t need too much some of the real causes of osteoporosis include being on steroids right corticosteroid hormones or having too much cortisol in your body for some reason let’s say for example you have a tumor in your adrenal gland that’s pumping out too much cortisol then you develop a condition called cushing syndrome where osteoporosis is one symptom of that also lower amount of estrogen so let’s say you’re going through menopause or you had your ovaries removed that can lead to osteoporosis you need a good amount of estrogen to prevent osteoporosis and this is why women tend to get more osteoporosis than men taking too much phosphoric acid from soft drinks right sodas that will do it not having enough vitamin d this is really really really a big one right here so by not only taking vitamin d you can absorb more calcium from food but vitamin d also works with vitamin k2 another key vitamin to help calcium go in the right place if you don’t have sufficient vitamin d then you really only absorb about 10 of the calcium from your food so vitamin d doesn’t have all these other side effects like calcium does malnutrition can also cause osteoporosis let’s say you’re deficient in the trace minerals or amino acids things like that that could be a problem if you’re on ppis because you have heartburn or gerd you’re removing the stomach acid which then really blocks your ability to absorb all minerals and so since bone is composed not just of calcium but minerals and also phosphorus and a lot of other things including protein ppis can really create a problem gastric bypass can be a risk factor as well as malabsorption where you don’t have a healthy lining of the colon to be able to absorb certain nutrients then you could be at risk of osteoporosis here’s the solution okay number one get your calcium from food i would say the best source getting bioavailable calcium would be raw milk cheese okay if you can get some of that that would be the ideal situation also leafy greens would do it sardines fish nuts all have calcium increase your vitamin d to at least 20 000 iu’s per day and don’t forget about k2 because you always need these together very very important i would recommend if you’re going to take 20 000 international units of vitamin d then you need 200 micrograms of this k2 together all right vitamin c very very important in bone health okay you need vitamin c for collagen which is a type of protein in bone bone is not just minerals it’s part protein and vitamin c is a key factor if you don’t have enough vitamin c you’re not going to be able to build bone in fact people that have a sub clinical vitamin c deficiency like a borderline scurvy situation their bones are always osteoporotic trace minerals very very important in activating the protein in your bone as well as being a part of the bone and so a good trace metal product will be essential for bone and i want to back up to vitamin c make sure you take a food based vitamin c not a synthetic version of vitamin c adequate quality protein is also important so if you’re getting your protein from just like peanut butter or for example some soy protein powder or something like that that would not be a good source of protein eggs are the best source seafood shellfish fish meat all high quality protein betaine hydrochloride is another thing i would recommend if you have osteopenia or osteoporosis because that fixes the lack of stomach acid that’s probably creating all the symptoms for acid reflux so obtain hydrochloride especially as you’re getting older it’s important to start absorbing these minerals as well as breaking down the protein that’s needed to form bone on that note i think the next most important video to watch would be the one on vitamin k2 check it out i put it right here you