Posted by raybakes on December 3, 2004, at 6:04:21
In reply to calcium and osteoporosis??.... Raybakes » raybakes, posted by tealady on December 2, 2004, at 2:07:29
> all I did to get the BMD up was take a calc/mag most nights and increase dairy slightly.
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> I do have a problem in that I drink now(and all my life) too much water..so I guess increased calcium consumption was needed to keep my blood levels up (as with everything)
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> After starting on thyroid hormones which increased metabolism, I needed to supplement on all salts even more as the thyroid hormone ncreases one's metabolism.
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> If you are low on calcium in the blood, your body just extracts the needed calcium from the bone.
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> It's been a while since I looked but I did gather at the time that high dairy was bad..like over 2 glasses milk /day equivalent..and low to moderate seemed to be best from the studies I read...but as you say...dairy industry has big interest and funding for a lot of these studies. It may have been just the calcium supps I guess. I was already eating healthily..even to the point during those years of growing own veges organically etc...making own soy milk at one stage even
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> I was definitely going downhill without calcium supps in some form.
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> Got my blood tests back today.
> My calcium levels are finally great. I've been having a break at present from supps but not as yet from the dairy.
> I achieved this but drastically cutting water intake to 4 Litres a day..need to reduce to 3 litres a day sometime.
> Actually cutting back to 4L and cutting all salts to normal levels..all my levels of all electroyltes are finally good...so it was the excess water I was struggling with.
> Even albumin has came up to a good level..was too low!
> Problem is I'm still very thirsty and have just temporarily stared drinking again, sigh...very hot weather.
Hi Jan, didn't want to give calcium too much of a bad name! just wanted think about the bigger picture in bone metabolism. There was one theory that the osteoblasts can prematurely age if we have too much calcium in our lives, so that even if we have sufficient calcium, there aren't enough healthy osteoblasts to repair the microfractures from normal excercise. Looking at a lot of the articles, it might be the quality of the bone matrix rather than the quantity that might be important.
Good luck with the water intake!
Ray
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