The Hazards of Too Much Calcium in Your Tissues

Calcium is an important mineral for your health. However, like all minerals, you need calcium in the proper balance with the other essential minerals. Too much calcium can be as detrimental as too little calcium.

Here's a list of some conditions that can occur as a result of too much tissue calcium:

• depression
  
• fatigue
  
• insomnia
  
• headaches
  
• memory loss
  
• poor concentration
  
• panic attacks
  
• anxiety
  
• paranoia
  
• virus infections
  
• adult-onset diabetes
  
• muscle aches and pains
  
• frequency of urination
  
• constipation
  
• flatulence
  
• low blood pressure

Perhaps you or somebody you know has some or many of these symptoms or conditions. Does this mean you should not take calcium supplements or eat foods rich in calcium? Maybe, maybe not.

Although these symptoms can be caused by too much calcium in your tissues, this is not the only cause of these symptoms. You need to determine the mineral balance in your tissues, and only then will you know if you should be taking calcium supplements and eating calcium rich foods.

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Too Little Calcium in Your Tissues

Most people are aware that too little calcium can cause ostroporosis. But that's not all.

Here's a list of a few other conditions that have been found in people with too little tissue calcium:

• anxiety
  
• hypersensitivity
  
• irritability
  
• hyperactivity
  
• allergies
  
• hypertension
  
• rheumatoid arthritis
  
• insomnia
  
• muscle cramps, especially at night

So, if you have any of these conditions, should you start taking calcium supplements?

If you know for a fact that you do have low tissue calcium, the right kind of calcium supplements might help. But wait! A single mineral deficiency is not common. It's more common to find a mineral imbalance involving several minerals. By adding only a calcium supplement, you may cause an even greater imbalance.

So, what should you do?

First your need to find out exactly what is in and out of balance and precisely what your body needs. Learn more here.

Do You Need to Take Calcium Supplements?

Calcium is important for strong bones and teeth. It's also important in the functoning of your heart, cells, nerves and endocrine system.

Makes you think that everyone should be taking calcium supplements or eating high calcium foods, right? Well, not necessarily. It depends on your metabolism and the mineral balance in your body.

If you have a fast metabolism, you will most likely benefit from high calcium foods and highly utilizable calcium supplements.

If you have a slow metabolism, you most likely should not be eating high calcium foods or taking calcium supplements. Why? Because if you have a slow metabolism, you probably already have an excess of calcium in your tissues. And more calcium will slow your metabolism even more.

But beware! Before you start deciding whether you should eat high calcium foods or take calcium supplements based upon whether you think your metabolism is fast or slow, you need to make sure you know whether your metabolism really is fast or slow. It may not be what you think!

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Stress and Your Mineral Levels

Did you know that stress can cause vitamin and mineral deficiencies?

When you are under stress for long periods of time, your body uses more vitamins and minerals. If you do not replace the nutrients lost during these times, you will develop nutritional deficiencies. If these deficiencies continue or get worse, you will eventually experience health problems which may develop into a disease condition.

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Your Metabolism

Did you know that the mineral balance in your body determines whether you have a fast or slow metabolism?

If you have a slow metabolism, you're likely to have high tissue levels of calcium and magnesium. On the other hand, if you have a fast metabolism, you're likely to have high tissue levels of sodium, potassium and phosphorus.

When you're metabolism is slow and you have excess tissue calcium and magnesium, if you take calcium or magnesium supplements, you're contributing to slowing your metabolism even more.

But, you might ask, doesn't everyone need to take calcium supplements to insure strong bones and teeth? The answer is NO! It all depends on your body chemistry. You need to have the proper minerals in the right balance for your body.

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Some Important Points to Remember about Minerals

If you take nutritional supplements, you might be disrupting your mineral balance. But not taking supplements isn't the answer either.

You need to make sure you're getting all the minerals you need in the proper balance.

Here's why:

Taking too much iron can contribute to certain types of cancer.
Too little iron can have the same effect.

Iron deficiency can cause anemia.
Taking too much iron can also cause a certain type of anemia.

Calcium supplements can help prevent osteoporosis.
They can also contribute to brittle bones in some people.

A vitamin C deficiency can allow copper to build up to toxic levels.
Too much copper can cause an iron, selenium or potassium deficiency.
Too much vitamin C can cause a copper deficiency, and excess iron.

The key is balance. You need to get all the nutrients you need in the proper balance.

Reference: Trace Elements and Other Essential Nutrients, by Dr. David L. Watts

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Vitamin and Mineral Supplements

Vitamins and minerals work both together (synergistic) and against each other (antagonistic). Some minerals are both synergistic and antagonistic to the same nutrient.

A good example is calcium and phosphorus. Calcium and phosphorus are antagonists. If you take too much calcium, it could cause a phosphorus deficiency. The opposite is also true. Too much phosphorus can cause a calcium deficiency.

But even though they are antagonists, they also work together. Calcium and phosphorus in the proper balance are important for strong bones and teeth.

This synergistic-antagonistic relationship between calcium and phosphorus is not unique. The interrelationships between the different vitamins and minerals is very complex and requires a delicate balance to maintain the proper nutritional balance in your body.

So, what does this mean for you?

If you take vitamin and mineral supplements, there's a very good chance that you're not getting exactly what your body needs and you may have a nutritional imbalance.

Does this mean that you should forget about taking vitamin and mineral supplements and just eat a good diet?

No. It's very difficult to get all the nutrients your body needs from food alone. The soils our food is grown on is generally nutrient deficient, even if you eat organic food.

The key to good health is making sure that your body gets all the nutrients it needs - in the proper balance. The way to do that is to have your nutritional program, your diet and your vitamin and mineral supplements, customized to your body chemistry.

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What is Custom Nutrition?

Custom Nutrition is customizing your your diet and nutritional supplementation to your body's individual nutritional needs.

You are unique, and so are your body's nutritional requirements. Custom nutrition supports your body's unique nutritional needs with food and supplements that are designed to enhance your body chemistry.

Some vitamins and minerals work together. Others work against each other. Some work to speed up your metabolism. Others work to slow down your metabolism.

To be truly healthy, you need to give your body the nutrients it needs to function optimally. You don't want to be eating or taking supplements that speed up an already fast metabolism or slow down a slow metabolism.

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