Fossilized to Death: Further Proof Calcium Supplements Kill

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Calcium supplements increase your risk of heart attack by 86 percent.

A new study published in the journal Heart confirmed the results of two controversial studies on calcium supplementation and heart attack risk published in the British Medical Journal a year earlier, which found a 24-27% increase in heart attack risk in those who took 500 mg of elemental calcium per day [1], [2].

The results of this new analysis, which involved 24,000 people between the ages of 35 and 64, were even more alarming. For those participants who took a regular calcium supplement, the risk of getting a heart attack increased by 86%compared to those who did not take calcium supplements at all.

Why do we obsessively consume calcium from stones, bones and shells?

People really shouldn't be so surprised at the idea that calcium supplements can be bad for the cardiovascular system. After all, many undergo coronary and cardiac calcium scans to determine the risk of cardiovascular problems and / or cardiac death. This is because we know that calcium in the wrong form and in the wrong place can lead to serious adverse health effects. But there are actually quite a few people in the nutritional field who have long warned us against elemental calcium supplements; that is, calcium from limestone, oyster shell, eggshell and bone meal (hydroxyapatite). There are also those who do not need to be “experts” because they exercised common sense when it came to do not eat rocks or shells.

The widespread popularity of elemental calcium supplements would appear to be the result of advocacy efforts by conventional medical “experts” and organizations such as the National Osteoporosis Foundation (whose corporate sponsors include calcium manufacturers Oscal and Citrical). In addition, the World Health Organization created a radical new definition of "normal" bone density in 1994, taking the 25-year standard for young adults (which is the peak bone mass in a woman's life cycle), also known as the "T-score", and applied it to all women, regardless of their age.

This has led to a redefinition of the normal and gradual loss of bone mineral density that comes with aging as a disease, essentially treating the absence of conditions. It has also led millions of women to take unnecessary (and dangerous) “bone-building” medications and inorganic calcium supplements to increase bone mineral density by whatever means they need. All of a sudden, healthy women were told they had a medical condition called “osteopenia” or “osteoporosis,” even while their bone mineral density was normal for their age, gender, and ethnicity (which would be as clear as day if used age “Z-score”). In addition, the No. 1 and No. 2 causes of death in women are heart disease and cancer, respectively, with heart attack and breast cancer being the leading causes of morbidity and mortality.

Considering that the risk of death as a side effect of a fracture associated with low bone mineral density (BMD) is infinitesimal compared to the risk of death from calcium-induced heart attack and / or high bone mineral density associated with malignant breast cancer glands (300% higher risk for those in the top quarter of the BMD percentile), then the justification for encouraging osteopenia / osteoporosis prevention and / or treatment in women's clinics falls apart completely in the face of much more likely and serious health threats. In fact, it looks like this short-sighted attachment can greatly contribute to their premature death.

Turning to stone: when calcium goes “in the wrong place”

The reality is that the habit of consuming inorganic, elemental calcium just doesn't make sense. After all, have you ever experienced gut disgust after accidentally eating eggshells? If so, then you know that your body is “programmed” to forgo low-quality sources of calcium (stones and bones) in favor of obtaining calcium from food.

Inorganic or “elemental” calcium, when not associated with natural co-factors such as amino acids, lipids and glyconutrients found in “food” (in other words, other living things, such as plants and animals), no longer has an intelligent delivery system that allows your body to use it in a biologically appropriate way. Without such a “delivery system”, calcium can end up in unwanted sites (ectopic calcification), or in excessive amounts of desirable sites (eg bones), stimulating unnaturally accelerated cell division (osteoblasts), resulting in a higher rate of bone renewal in later life (this is explained in the article below).

Or the body tries to rid itself of this inappropriate calcium and dumps it into the intestines (constipation), or pushes it through the kidneys (stones). Worse, high levels of calcium can accumulate in the blood (hypercalcemia), which can destabilize an atherosclerotic plaque through the formation of a fragile calcium cap on the atheroma, can contribute to the formation of blood clots (clots), hypertension (which is why we use calcium channel blockers to lower blood pressure) and possibly cause arrhythmias / fibrillation and / or spasms of the heart muscle, or spasm of the coronary arteries (a fairly common, although rarely recognized trigger of "heart attack").

The breast is also uniquely susceptible to ectopic calcification, which is why we use the same X-ray to determine bone density as we use to detect abnormal microcalcifications in the mammary gland, i.e. X-ray mammography. Because hydroxyapatite crystals found in malignant breast tissue can act as a cellular “signaling molecule” or mitogen (causing cell proliferation), it is possible that certain breast calcifications may be the cause, and not just a consequence of those found there. tumor lesions (“breast cancer”). It may also help explain why women with the highest bone density (often obtained from massive lifelong calcium supplements) have a 300% higher incidence of malignant breast cancer.

“Brain gravel” is also becoming more common when, upon autopsy, pebble-sized calcium deposits are found in patients throughout the brain, including the pineal gland (“the receptacle of the soul”). The wide range of existing calcium-associated pathologies and their growing prevalence in calcium-focused cultures require further study and explanation. One aspect of this, without a doubt, is our obsessive cultural fixation on megadoses of calcium supplementation for non-existent “conditions” associated with bone mineral density, which is normal for our age, but not for our doctors and “experts” who guide them. with the help of industry-friendly disinformation.

I believe this study is driving a nail in the coffin of any remaining doubt that we should stay as far away from inorganic calcium supplements as possible, as well as the empirically and intellectually flawed disease models used to coerce women into taking them in the first place.

To learn more, read How Too Much Calcium and Too Much Medication Can Break Your Bones.

For a comprehensive list of high calcium vegetables, visit the related page at NutritionData.com.

Links

• [1] BMJ 2010; 341 doi: 10.1136 / bmj.c3691 (Published 29 July 2010)
• [2] Calcium supplements with or without vitamin D and risk of cardiovascular events: reanalysis of the Women’s Health Initiative limited access dataset and meta-analysis. BMJ. 2011; 342: d2040. Epub 2011 Apr 19. PMID: 21505219

Author:Sayer Ji

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