Calcium supplements may double heart attack risk

[plam]

I heard this on the radio
It demonstrates once again what a bunch a amateurs
most of the conventional western doctors/nutritionists are.

Calcium absorption by the body depends on many factors
Like calcium-phosphorus ratio and calcium-vitamin D
Only taking pure inorganic calcium is counter-productive

The calcium phosphorus ratio problem
is the reason why I strongly advocate grain-free diet
Grains are deficient in calcium and high in phosphorus
For every gram of phosphorus
the body must match it with another gram of calcium.
And if it doesn't get externally, it takes it from the bones and teeth.

The grain free diet is an absolute must for older people
in risk of osteoporosis and especially women.
But it is a good practice to start as early as possible.

I wonder what causes the heart problems actually
Is it the calcium itself or other substances they usually put in supplements?

Calcium supplements may double heart attack risk

Older people who regularly take calcium supplements to strengthen bones and prevent fractures may actually be increasing their risk of having a heart attack, a new study has claimed.

However, experts said it was "irresponsible" to advise people with osteoporosis not to take supplements "on the basis of one flawed study".

But researchers from the University of Zurich and German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg claimed their study adds to mounting evidence that the supplements are "not safe or particularly effective".

Millions of people worldwide have been prescribed to take calcium pills daily as a safe way to help fight osteoporosis.

For their study, the researchers followed 23,980 people for 11 years and found that those taking calcium pills roughly doubled the risk of having a heart attack.

There were 851 heart attacks among the 15,959 people who did not take any supplements at all. However, people taking calcium supplements were 86 per cent more likely to have had a heart attack during the study.

[psilocybin]

Bone loss? Take a calcium pill... lol what a joke. It' doesn't get absorbed like food does.

Drinking broccoli or even a carrot juice provides more than enough organic calcium a body needs.

I think the reason why they have heart problems is because the calcium from the pills congests the veins and usually old people lack vitamin D and vitamin D channels calcium to the bones. So it's like they are pouring all this calcium into the body but it goes in the wrong places and never reaches the bones and actually causes the heart disease by shrinking blood vessels.

[khatru]

I've been watching the calcium issue for years as an acupuncturist, with a now ex wife as a hollistic gyn/womans health NP. My understanding from way back, was that a 50/50 calcium/MAGNESIUM ratio was needed to allow the absortion/assimilation of both. Calcium for bones, magnesium for muscles - especially smooth heart muscle. When calcium isn't balanced with magnesium, it isn't properly assimilated and stores itself in excess in especially the vasculature, as a matrix which cholesterol can then bind to, thus blocking the vasculature and contributing to heart disease/stroke.

In the past few years, magnesium has been basically disregarded, by the medical establishment, and Vit D has taken it's place. Why?

Now women are getting too much calcium, and it's blocking their arteries, while the magnesium deficiency is leading to stressed out, tightened hearts, and muscle pain, which will only cause more stress, less ease, and a greater risk of heart disease.

I don't know how Vit D - good stuff BTW - came to replace magnesium in the formula, but it ain't working.

[macchoi]

Do you know what prevents and treats osteoporosis, as well as heart attacks? - RESISTANCE TRAINING and certain types of exercise!

Study: Men who do load-bearing exercise in early 20s may be shielded from osteoporosis

NewsRx.com

05-17-12

Young men who play volleyball, basketball or other load-bearing sports for four hours a week or more increase bone mass and might gain protection from developing osteoporosis later in life, according to a new study in the May issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.

The study, the largest scale investigation of its kind, discovered that young men who actively resisted the urge to adopt a "couch-potato" lifestyle in their late twenties seemed to gain the biggest bone benefit. "Men who increased their load-bearing activity from age 19 to 24 not only developed more bone, but also had larger bones compared to men who were sedentary during the same period," said senior study author Mattias Lorentzon, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Gothenburg, in Sweden.

Bigger bones with more mass are thought to offer a shield against osteoporosis, a disease that affects men and women alike, in which bones become porous and weak over time and start to fracture by age 50 or later. "Osteoporosis actually seems to get its start by age 25 when bones start to lose tissue. So this study sends an important message to young men," Lorentzon said. "The more you move, the more bone you build."

Sports that involve jumping or fast starts and stops and increase the load put on the body's bones seemed most associated with the enhanced protection for men. Lorentzon and his colleagues found that basketball and volleyball seemed the best kinds of activities for building bone mass, followed by soccer and tennis. Such load-bearing sports seem to push the body to form new bone tissue. Activities that do not put an increased load on the bones, like swimming and bicycling did not seem associated with the building of bigger bones or more bone mass, even though they offer other health benefits.

Osteoporosis affects more than 200 million people worldwide yet many are unaware that they are at risk. The disease has been called the silent epidemic because bone loss occurs without symptoms and the disease often is first diagnosed after a fracture. Osteoporosis is more common in women, but men also develop it-usually after age 65.

Previous studies suggest that load-bearing physical activity might shield men and women from bone loss, which occurs as part of the aging process. But Lorentzon and his colleagues wondered if the link would hold true in a very large study that followed men over a five-year period. To find out, the researchers evaluated 833 men who were 18- to 20-years old at the start of the study. The researchers measured the participants' bone mass and collected information about their exercise habits. Five years later the recruits came back to the lab to report activity levels and get bone scans again (see also Osteoporosis).

The researchers discovered that men who both started off with a high level of load-bearing exercise at the study's start and those who stepped up the pace had a better chance at building bone than men who remained sedentary or those who slacked off during the five year period. They found that for every hour of increased physical activity during the five-year study, the men in this study gained bone mass.

The study found that recruits who participated in load-bearing sports for four hours a week or more showed an increase in hip bone density of 1.3 percent. At the same time, men who remained sedentary during the five year study lost about 2.1 percent of bone mass in the hip, a worrisome finding because thinning hip bones are more likely to break later in life. Hip fractures in men often lead to serious disability and complications, including life-threatening post-surgery infections and cardiovascular events.

This study was conducted in white men recruited mostly from the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. However, Lorentzon noted the findings likely apply to Caucasian men in the United States and in other countries, and additional research must be done to show that such load-bearing exercise can protect men in other ethnic groups and women.

"Such research is crucial to understanding how osteoporosis develops and more importantly how to prevent it," said Keith Hruska, M.D., president of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), the world's leading scientific organization for bone health. "Bone fractures from osteoporosis devastate men and women all over the globe and ongoing research is the only way to find ways to protect men from this disease."

Keywords: Bone Research, Burness Communications, Metabolic Bone Diseases.

This article was prepared by Women's Health Weekly editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2012, Women's Health Weekly via NewsRx.com.

To see more of the NewsRx.com, or to subscribe, go to http://www.newsrx.com .

2007 NewsRx.com. All Rights Reserved.Copyright 2012, Women's Health Weekly via NewsRx.com

[psilocybin]

Macchoi is right. High intensity resistance training is a must for strong bones.
Stress which you put on your muscles and bones during workouts or sprints strengthens and tones the muscles and strengthens the bones.

What you don't use, you lose.

Besides that, eating lots of refined sugar, cooked meat and drinking pasteurized milk actually drains calcium out of the body's teeth and bones to balance the acidity which these foods create. Then you piss out your stripped calcium and minerals.