Posted by JLx on April 28, 2003, at 20:41:26
In reply to Magnesium and Calcium Questions, posted by noa on April 28, 2003, at 18:53:50
Hi Noa,
I had kidney stone some years back and have been grateful not to have another!
I wasn't sure what to do about calcium either re osteoporosis, but since my doc advised "cutting down calcium" I quit taking a calcium/mag supplement at that point.
>However, several sites do say that calcium supplements could increase risk of stones (but I need my calcium supplements to prevent osteoporosis which runs in the family).
My suggestion to you is to take a hard look at all of the osteoporosis/calcium info around. Industrial countries that drink the most pasturized milk and ingest other dairy products are the ones with the most osteoporosis, for instance. Despite years of dairy consumption and calcium supplements, osteoporosis is getting worse in this country and others. From this site: http://www.johnleemd.com/trutabos.html
"Osteoporosis is not a calcium deficiency disease, it is a disease of excessive calcium loss. In other words, you can take all the calcium supplements you want, but if your diet and lifestyle choices are unhealthy, or you're taking prescription drugs that cause you to lose calcium, you will still lose more calcium from your bones than you can take in through diet.
In fact, getting adequate calcium is only a small part of the prevention picture. ... Your body needs a certain amount of magnesium in order to get the calcium into your bones -- without magnesium, calcium can't build strong bones.
In fact, magnesium deficiency may be more common in women with osteoporosis than calcium deficiency."Or check out the calcium comments in this article about stone age diets: http://www.mercola.com/article/Diet/carbohydrates/paleolithic_diet2.htm
I think we've been sold a bill of goods by the dairy council and other moneyed interests about calcium.
My thinking now (and I'm no expert!) is that all of these dietary things -- in regard to depression as well as other considerations such as osteoporosis -- do not lend themselves to "silver bullet" thinking. Calcium has been overemphasized to us in just that way to prevent osteoporosis and here we are still getting osteoporosis AND kidney stones.
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