tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post7919246016341198743..comments2023-10-01T04:36:19.806-07:00Comments on medicine: facts and fictions: Calcium Supplements, Good or Bad?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-70430160388197837252013-03-25T14:12:12.159-07:002013-03-25T14:12:12.159-07:00I meant to indicate that the above comment #2 was ...I meant to indicate that the above comment #2 was sent in by one of my readers, and does not necessarily correlate with all of my thinking.george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-43125537822400668992013-03-25T14:09:04.548-07:002013-03-25T14:09:04.548-07:00I seem to recall reading somewhere that measures o...<br />I seem to recall reading somewhere that measures of bone health in different countries are not directly correlated to the dietary calcium intake. If the supplemental calcium ends up in the wrong places, such as the arterial walls, it can do more harm than good. And dairy products, recommended as a source of calcium, can have their own problems.<br /><br />It is simplistic and unscientific to expect the body's levels of calcium to respond to inadequate and unbalanced supplementation. <br /><br />For one thing, 400 IU of Vitamin D per day is grossly inadequate. That recommendation is based on politics, not science. I take 5,000 per day. Sometimes more.<br /><br />Half an hour of full body exposure in the midday mid summer sun will typically produce over 10,000. I think the body's UV exposure-vs-Vitamin D production curve is a more reliable guideline than those of a hospital-pharmaceutical-industrial complex that has a financial vested interest in perpetuating the chronic conditions and lifelong dependence on drug use caused by the pandemic of Vitamin D deficiency.<br /><br />Vitamin K2 and magnesium are other critical factors which you did not mention. Calcium supplementation without proportional amounts of these two and Vitamin D is just plain nuts. Let's also not forget that bone remodeling and density improvement are highly dependent on the impact signals received by those mysterious little strain gauges that are built into the bones for some odd reason... <br /><br />Speaking of the medical industrial complex, I think Karl Denninger, in his Market-Ticker blog, has some good entries about how the whole thing has evolved into a corporate crony capitalist protection racket that threatens to undermine the solvency of the US Government within the next few years. This is nothing new. And practicing physicians are among those being victimized. Eventual collapse of any racket is a mathematical certainty.<br />george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2981197052686065994.post-11606187543783027132013-03-21T14:52:14.355-07:002013-03-21T14:52:14.355-07:00If you Google USPSTF and calcium, you will find th...If you Google USPSTF and calcium, you will find the latest recommendations for calcium supplements and Vitamin D issued on February 27 by the United States Public Service Task Force. The recommendations are confusing, so say the least. And they do not take into account the positive study showing the benefits of taking 800 Units of vitamin D.george thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14810516710667919032noreply@blogger.com