What is the Parathyroid Gland? Explained By Dr.Berg

Parathyroid glands—what are those? Here’s everything you need to know about your parathyroid glands and how to support them with nutrition.

hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about the parathyroid gland now what are the parathyroid glands okay there’s four of them  now if we take a look at the Adam’s apple which is right up here on the top of the trachea right  below it is the thyroid so the thyroid is located about two-and-a-half inches at the bottom of  your neck okay the parent thyroid are behind the thyroid gland okay they’re in the back part  and they control calcium in fact the name of the hormone that controls calcium is the parathyroid  hormone okay pretty simple right so what does it do if this is such a tight control for calcium  in the blood like it always wants to maintain a constant stable calcium it will do anything  to keep that level there so it’ll increase in decrease based on the level of calcium in  the blood it’s like a thermostat if you set it at 72 your your thermostat is constantly  turning off and on off and on all day and all night right same thing with the parathyroid  or the calcium in the blood okay so it just maintains a very tight control because we need  calcium for the main for a lot of things one is the main communication between nerves you need  calcium okay so now when this hormone increases it increases calcium in the blood all right so  it’s it’s raising calcium your blood now where does it get it from if it gets it from the bone  so it’ll literally rob the bone of calcium to keep normal levels of calcium in the blood now  it also the parathyroid hormone also activates vitamin D in other words vitamin D in your body is  usually inactive and it has to be converted to the active form of vitamin D the parathyroid hormone  activates the enzyme to do that why because it’s another control of calcium so it will actually  increase the conversion based on what’s happening to the calcium levels and then it will increase  it by increasing more vitamin D because vitamin D actually helps you or calcium by 20 times in  the intestines raising the calcium in the blood now what is the problem of too much calcium in the  blood is the big problem so sometimes these little glands can enlarge and turn into tumors okay if  that happens this hormone starts increasing more and more and more and that means you’re going  to be robbing more calcium from the bone and that’s one of the causes of osteopenia that’s a  lower thinning of the bones it’s a mild version of osteoporosis and then you get osteoporosis  which is a major demineralization of the bone and then you can get fractures bone pain and  another condition called hypercalcemia which basically means too much calcium in the blood  okay the problem with too much calcium in the blood is that you can get high blood pressure you  ever heard of a calcium channel blocker that’s the medication that blocks calcium well why do  you think they use that for blood pressure right atrial fib palpitations kidney stones you  get kidney stones for having a tumor on your parathyroid so if they keep coming back tiredness  why because the calcium is not working within the brain and the nervous system and everything  starts slowing down that’s why you have memory loss concentration problems and you can even  have GERD that’s a digestive issue that means the valve on the top of stomach is not closing  correctly so the parathyroid is very important in controlling calcium okay you can also have  hypo calcium iya or you can have low amounts of the hormones and there’s a whole series of other  symptoms that you can get but if you look this up the the tumor on the parathyroid gland they say  well we don’t know what causes that okay so we just remove it okay so it’s but it’s still the  success rate is pretty high even if you remove it because you have four of them and sometimes  they you can go tumors on multiple glands but what I did is I got out my trusty toxicology  book right this is an amazing book that you can get a lot of information from and I turn to the  chapter on the parathyroid okay I wanted to see if there’s any problem we research being done  in that area and has tumors of the parathyroid one is aluminum one is a chemical I can’t even  pronounce ozone and the influence of xenobiotic chemicals what’s a xenobiotic chemical those are  foreign chemicals pesticides herbicides fungicides so that’s really what causes tumors the same  tumors that are in other parts of the body are which are triggered by chemicals also affect  this as well so I don’t know why they don’t make the connection with these chemicals so  this is just another reason why you need to continue to consume cruciferous and other  vegetables simply because thank goodness Nature has left a remedy for all the chemicals  that we are exposed to you see so many people just ending up with these weird diseases and  dreamers on the parathyroid for no reason well that’s the reason because we’re constantly  exposed to that so anyway I wanted to just kind of give you the basics on the parathyroid  and put your comments below thanks 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