Proper Calcium Metabolism may be impossible
We wish it was as simple as, 1, 2, 3, and 4 falling in place.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
Many factors effect proper calcium metabolism, some outside the
body. Toss in everything you wish, everything you think you need, and it
may still fail.
The critical things happen within the body.
Proper calcium metabolism is a bi-product of good health. It is certainly
not a bi-product of sickness and disease.
There are indications that blood chemistry problems, intercellular
communication problems,
and glandular problems will cause improper calcium metabolism and calcium
metabolism will never work right.
Calcium is the most closely regulated element in our bodies! In fact,
calcium is the ONLY element mineral that has its own regulatory system (the
parathyroid glands).
They measure the amount of calcium in the blood every minute of every
day... and if the calcium levels go down a little bit, the parathyroid
glands recognize it and make parathyroid hormone (PTH) which goes to the
bones and takes some calcium out (makes a withdrawal from the calcium
vault) and puts it into the blood. When the calcium in the blood is high
enough, then the parathyroids shut down and stop making PTH.
What amazes me, is that older people are becoming concerned with the
external facts and maybe overall calcium metabolism.
They should have been concerned and learned the facts, 25 to 50 years ago.
And yes, I have friends with every back problem known to man. They are
old, young, short, tall, fat, and skinny.
The one thing they have in common, they have never worked a day in their life
IN THE SUN, with their shirt OFF.
Further they do not have a clue how much calcium, magnesium, and potassium
they need every day and do not have a clue how much they get.
I guess it would be a disaster if all the back surgeons, back clinics, and
associated Gestapo had nothing to do.
Mass poverty would sweep the land.
Most of this is my ideas and thinking, but ten thousand articles will
substantiate it.
You can study parathyroid disease and parathyroid + calcium and find more
than you ever want to know.
Wayne
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