Calcium (Ca, Calcium), like any popular phenomenon in our world, is surrounded by many myths. Even the latest scientific research is unable to overcome human misconceptions about this mineral, which are passed on from generation to generation.
- What is calcium?
- Where to get calcium from?
- Is calcium from dairy products good for you?
- Ayurveda about dairy products
- Foods that contain calcium
- Functions of calcium in the human body
- What is the danger of calcium deficiency in the body?
- What are the dangers of excess calcium in the body?
- Daily calcium requirement
We all know that calcium is needed for the formation of strong bone tissue and healthy teeth. Our parents repeated this phrase to us like a mantra, and now we are introducing it into the minds of our own children.
Everything would be fine, because this is really so. But in order to teach someone, you must first thoroughly understand this issue yourself.
A number of years have passed since our mothers forced us to drink boiled milk “to have good teeth” - it’s different for everyone, of course.
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What is calcium?
Do you still feed your child cow's milk?
Since then, science has stepped far forward, and with it the media - the Internet appeared. Now you no longer need to listen to the legends of the older generation that “you can’t live without meat” and “without milk your teeth will fall out.”
And you don’t even have to believe in that mind-blowing advertisement in which half an egg was smeared with toothpaste with calcium so that it became strong, like our teeth, and the other half was simply abandoned to the mercy of fate, and then mercilessly broken for clarity. You can just read my article and find out what calcium actually contains?
Today I invite you to conduct a small joint investigation based on my and your personal experience, on a thorough study of this issue, and also, of course, on the results of scientific research in recent years.
I’ll start from the very beginning – with the history of the discovery of this substance. Actually, humanity has been actively using calcium compounds for a long time - just remember ancient marble temples and plaster statues, and alabaster, limestone and chalk were also in use.
Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
By the way, this mineral got its name precisely from the Latin word “lime” or “soft stone” (“calcis”). Interestingly, until the end of the 18th century, scientists considered lime to be a simple substance, until the French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier made a bold assumption that it, along with other natural bodies, was complex.
And then, 19 years later, the Englishman Humphry Davy was able to isolate pure calcium from slaked lime using electrolysis. This mineral cannot be found in nature in its free form, but it is vital not only for humans, but also for the earth’s crust and sea water, in which it is a part.
There is also calcium in foods, but which ones are a very serious question. Get ready, now we will be debunking perhaps the most widespread myth of humanity.
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Vitamin and mineral complexes containing calcium
Calcium is excreted from the body daily through urine, sweat and feces, so it is important to regularly replenish this mineral.
There are multivitamin complexes containing this element, which can be used both to prevent deficiency and as part of therapy in the treatment of certain diseases.
The most popular preparations containing calcium:
- "Complivit";
- "Vitrum";
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- "Bio Max";
- "Supradin."
Advice! When choosing a multivitamin complex, preference should be given to those preparations that contain calcium in the form of hydroxyapatite and citrate - these compounds are easily absorbed and reduce the risk of developing urolithiasis.
Where to get calcium from?
Milk or tablets are a questionable choice.
At one time I re-read many articles about this mineral. Of course, because I have two pregnancies and five and a half years of total breastfeeding experience behind me.
And all the “traditional” sites, as if they were carbon copies, write about what I have already heard from my parents all my adult life - you need to eat dairy products to keep your teeth strong and healthy. Remember the famous: “Children, drink milk and you will be healthy!”?
However, I apologize for such intimate details, but my grandmother had false teeth, then my mother gradually replaced all her teeth with metal-ceramic ones, and my genes did not spoil me in this regard. But all our lives we have been eating dairy in large quantities.
In general, I began to dig, study alternative sources of information. And this is what I found: it turns out that these products act in our body exactly the opposite.
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Is calcium from dairy products good for you?
Cow's milk is worse for you!
All food of animal origin, even non-violently obtained food, strongly acidifies our body. And then he is forced to pull nutrients from his own resources, including calcium from the bones, in order to restore the natural acid-base balance.
Milk does not give us calcium, but literally “washes” this mineral out of our bones.
Moreover, many people simply do not have the enzymes in their bodies that can digest the protein casein, which is present in animal dairy products. Its remains settle on our vessels and are deposited in the body in the form of waste.
Global statistics show that in countries where they consume the most dairy products, people are more likely to suffer from all kinds of bone diseases, as well as fractures. We are talking about America, Australia and New Zealand.
“It’s not for nothing that I ate cucumbers!”
This fact is confirmed by the famous American medical journalist, scientist Michael Kaselman, who has already written more than a dozen books on this subject, but before that he studied about 1,200 studies on this topic.
Michael is an ardent opponent of dairy propaganda and refutes these widespread misconceptions around the world with completely logical arguments. He says that in countries where they don’t really eat milk and products made from it, people don’t know what osteoporosis is. These are, in particular, African states and China.
Based on the latest research in this area, Kaselman came to a very important conclusion: there is nothing in common between dairy products and strengthening the skeletal system. Moreover, your bones will be truly strong if you regularly consume sufficient amounts of not only the much-hyped calcium, but also 16 other nutrients.
The good news is that they are all found in a balanced form in plant foods, that is, in greens, vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains and legumes.
So, vegans and raw foodists, it turns out we are going the right way!
