A mega-study conducted in Germany recently and funded by a European group looking at cancer rates and other disease factors uncovered some terrifying data regarding an over the counter supplement that is widely recommended to people of all ages.
This supplement caused heart attacks and deaths by other diseases.
The study, conducted over 11 years and following 24,000 people looked at the supplementation habits of people who were not only healthy but also had a variety of health conditions.
What they found was alarming- people who included calcium as a staple in their supplements were more than 80% more likely to suffer from a heart attack as those who did not supplement with calcium.
While the mineral is critical in several metabolic, vascular, and other processes, supplementation has recently come under fire due to the fact that it is so poorly absorbed.
The downside to readily-absorbed, concentrated doses of calcium is that it causes blood calcium levels to spike and has been shown to cause heart attack as a result.
Additionally, despite the controversy, what most researchers, doctors and nutritionists can agree on is that the best source for calcium comes from food. Primarily because it’s the most easily absorbed when ingested as part of food sources.
As well, absorbing calcium more slowly throughout the day (as compared to the spike all at once) is safer than the supplementation route.
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Dr Sam Kabbini will be interested to read this article.
I take the kind in a gel-cap suppose to absorb faster.
Next it will be air that causes heart attack. I found mg and cal are heart savers not heart killers I had a fib for one week Mg and cal. stoped it cold.I don't need conviencing on the goodness of mg and cal they saved my life.
It would be nice to read the specifics of the study. So much has to do with what type of calcium one takes such as citrate, carbonate, malate, oxide and how much elemental calcium is in each sup. Is the magnesium balanced with a 2:1 ratio. Like calcium, what type of magnesium is taken? Are the people taking calcium with or without meals?
Also, how much stomach acid are the people capable of producing? As we mature our enzymes and acid production fall off rapidly and these are needed to properly breakdown and utilize to attain for optimum results.
Is there enough vitamin D being absorbed into the body?
If there is a high level of phosphorous in the diet then calcium is drastically reduced.
For your health please read.
While I typically enjoy reading your articles daily and find interesting information in them, I think you should brush up on causation vs correlation. Taking a probability and statistics class would help. Confusing causation and correlation distorts study findings and can produce erroneous judgements and actions. While instilling fear into readers with an improper word use may be more sensational, your readers deserve better.
HULLO. I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THIS SUBJECT. I HAVE BONE GROWING INTO MY SPINAL COLUMN WHICH HAS OVERTAKEN ABOUT TWO THIRDS OF THE NERVE SPACE. FOR THE MOST PART IS HAS AFFECTED MY ARMS. I WAKE UP WITH MY ARMS FEELING EXHAUSTED.
IS THERE ANYTHING I CAN DO TO STOP THIS OCCURRING? I HAVE EX-RAYS THAT SHOW THIS AT C5, C6, C7 BUT RECENTLY I CAN FEEL THE EFFECT OF THIS JUST ABOVE MY WAIST. I HAVE KNOWN ABOUT THIS FOR NINETEEN YEARS NOW. JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW BAD THIS COULD GET IS TERRIFYING. CAN YOU HELP ME PLEASE? THANK YOU.
I agree that the best calcium you can take is from food. My family has a friend who is a scientist/researcher who gave us information that any calcium supplement that ends with “ate” is not going to be beneficial as it will not be absorbed by the body in a beneficial way and you are just wasting your money. There is a product sold through Avicenna in Santa Cruz, Calif. Tel 831-469-0999, that offers calcium in a liquid form that is absorbed directly in the mouth. If interest it would be beneficial to give them a call and get all the information on the product. Hope this is beneficial to all.
Does that study include more natural coral calcium I wonder?
A balance of minerals is a priority, Magnesium is usually the mineral which is needed these days due to lack of supply through poor diet.
Calcium !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
One could say that there are many problems with calcium, the type, the dose, the repetition, the timing, the necessary adjuvants, known necessary cofactors, the patient… the list goes on. Just as much can be said about the studies, who carried them out, financial interests, interpretation of results, all of these are just as suspect without all the information available.
But what is more important is, does the patient REALLY NEED the extra calcium. For those for whom the calcium worked may indeed have needed extra calcium. Those for whom it has caused problems may not have actually needed the supplemental doses. For years, we have known that the body does not get rid of excess calcium but stashes, stores it wherever it can hide it. If it needs it, it uses it, if it doesn’t it is like any other hoarder and runs into trouble as unnecessary daily doses pile up faster than it can hide it.
Like all supplements, the key is whether the patient NEEDS it or not, not just whether it is supposed to be good for you. The original premise is the key, not in the following factors.
No one seems to be mentioning the importance of choosing a calcium
supplement that not only contains Mg and Vit. D but also Vit K (as MK7)
Maureen
I guess I am really messed up when I was 16 I was diagnosed with
hypo-para-thyroid I had less than .5 percent of calcium barely enough to keep my heart going I found out my parathyroid gland was not working and my body did not metabolize vitamin D and calcium, dr. said I appeared to been born like this my xray had shown my body riddled with calcium deposits cause the vit D I did get from sun, milk foods weren’t being sent to my bloodstream instead were being deposited on my bones joints spine etc. so for the last 30 years I have been on a regimen of 25,000 iu of D and 1200 calcium with 400mg magnesium every day This has cost me kidney failure my levels for some unknown reason spiked. I feel like I have now choice but to continue my medication as described, I have tried at times to cut back but then I start having the horrible muscle cramps all over my body.
Beth, you need to have a balance of calcium and magnesium to not form bone spurs, which are your body improper;y storing calcium. The new suggested ratio that I have heard is two thirds magnesium to one calcium. (I.E. 800 mg magnesium to 1200 calcium…) I have heard that bone spurs can be dissolved over time by proper magnesium supplementation. You should consult a nutritionist who is familiar with this.
This is all about the Blood Pressure Exercise Program they want to sell you…. Russell Jaffe, MD points to a Calium imbalance and Magnesium deficiency…. and Please read "Never Be Sick Again" by Raymond Francis. Exercises are wonderful but there is a greater point to be made.
im being treated for high bp now the blood going to kidney is totally blocked and cant be solved.they tried to unblock but is unsuccesful.is there any solution to correct this?