Magnesium and Calcium (Part 2): Causes Of Hypercalcemia & Hypomagnesemia – Dr.Berg

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hey guys so if you didn’t watch part one go ahead and watch it because part one is all about the foundation of magnesium now we’re on part two okay so one thing you should know about magnesium magnesium is involved in relaxation calcium is involved in contraction but it’s also involved in cellular signaling and cellular reproduction so the function of calcium goes way beyond just making bone that’s involved in a lot of different things but as far as the interaction in minerals when you have low magnesium you’re going to have high calcium they kind of work opposing each other so if you’re high in calcium you’re gonna cause a magnesium deficiency okay so they kind of teeter-totter now when you’re low in magnesium you’ll actually be low in potassium because they they work very closely together they don’t oppose each other they work with each other and if you’re low with potassium you have low magnesium so how does this relate so let’s say for example you’re taking a supplement a straight pure potassium supplement without magnesium you’ll end up finding that it won’t really work without magnesium because you need this with this and this is why when you eat food you always have these minerals together not isolated or when you take an electrolyte powder you normally see all the electrolytes together when you take them they’re more functional that way let’s say you have insulin resistance which most the population has you’ll end up with a magnesium deficiency you have excess calcium and you’ll have a little potassium okay now let’s talk a little bit more about calcium now we have the inside of the cell then we have the outside of the cell as far as this electrolyte calcium you have 10,000 times more concentrated calcium on the out of the cell than you do on the inside a cell now potassium is much different because you have 98% of the potassium inside the cell and only 2% outside the cell the calcium is different an order for calcium to be transported you have this thing called a voltage-gated calcium channel this is basically just a gate door to allow calcium to go in and out and also it controls other things as well you need calcium to even produce insulin from the pancreas so it’s involved in a lot of different functions including signaling certain things now if you have too much calcium inside the cell and these this ratio is not correct you develop the condition called intracellular hyper calcine OSIS which is a fancy term for you have too much calcium inside the cell this is very very dangerous and it’s very common for a lot of people in fact a drug that a lot of doctors use for high blood pressure is called a calcium channel blocker so calcium channel blockers basically prevent the calcium from building up inside the cell and you can lower a blood pressure from that okay because the excess calcium makes the arteries stiffer and it raises blood pressure because it’s no longer elastic and you get too much contraction okay not enough relaxation so they use a calcium channel blocker they’re blocking in this channel right here to reduce blood pressure calcium channel blockers are also used in another condition called Raynaud’s and that’s a condition where the circulation at the end of your fingertips is really bad in poor where you get this like almost purple because the smooth muscle is restricting blood flow to the end of the fingertips especially if you’re going outside in the cold or you touch something really cold so Councillor channel blockers improve that simply because they inhibit contraction and increase blood flow and then we have bronchospasm or asthma why would the calcium channel blocker improve a spasm in your lungs well simply because it inhibits contraction in the smooth muscle in your lungs okay and you can breathe better so if you have too much calcium that builds up inside the cell you can have all sorts of issues high blood pressure you can develop anxiety bipolar migraines myofascial trigger points that would be trigger points let’s say you have certain knots around the body like someone presses on them and it’s very painful inflammation cancer because of the cell signaling problem diabetes we talked a little bit about insulin resistance neuro degeneration degenerative joint disease there are just so many problems that can occur if you have an imbalance of calcium with too much calcium inside the cell and when you go to the doctor and get your calcium tested they don’t actually check the calcium inside the cell they may just focus on the calcium outside the cell but to do that you have to do an intracellular calcium test okay guys now in the last video part three I’m gonna talk about what to do to get this calcium out of the cell and reverse this process stay tuned so if you want more knowledge on how to create a healthy body subscribe now and get daily notifications daily notifications that sounds weird well I’ll just remind you on a daily basis about that