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i wanted to talk about the relationship between  calcium and your cardiovascular system most people  

associate calcium with your bones right you need  calcium to build healthy bones but calcium has  

many other different purposes in the body and  one use is used as a communication particle or  

a messenger between cells it’s also used in the  clotting process to help form clots and it’s a  

major electrolyte in the ability for the muscle  to contract as well as in the relaxation process  

so calcium has many different purposes one of the  unique things about calcium it’s something that  

doesn’t get eliminated in the body too quickly  like other minerals like potassium for example  

if you have too much potassium your body will get  rid of it real quick if your body has too much  

magnesium it will get rid of that and even if you  have too much sodium you will get rid of sodium  

but there’s certain minerals like calcium and even  iron that your body tends to accumulate and if you  

have too much of it you’re kind of stuck with it  for a while now the symptoms of too much calcium  

in the body versus too little calcium are equally  as bad you want just the right amount you don’t  

want too much you don’t want too little if you  have too much that’s called hypercalcemia if you  

have too little that’s called hypocalcemia and  each one of them has its own series of symptoms  

but what’s common about hyper and hypocalcemia is  arrhythmias okay so if you have too much or too  

little your heart tends to develop palpitations  cardiac arrhythmias and it just loses its rhythm  

so this is one of the problems if someone has  cardiac arrhythmias do you give someone more  

calcium or do you avoid calcium and sometimes  you have to evaluate what the person is taking  

many women are taking way too much calcium  in their supplements especially if they’re  

in menopause or after menopause they’re taking  like one to two thousand milligrams of calcium  

which i think is way too much calcium can then  put them at risk for heart attacks because it’s  

just too much calcium and the type of calcium  they’re taking is the wrong type of calcium  

they’re taking calcium carbonate which  is limestone you’d be better off chewing  

on the cement outside because it’s just it’s  consuming rocks it doesn’t get absorbed too well  

a much better idea would be to get your calcium  from food dairy is one good source but there’s  

many other different sources of calcium and  i’m going to put a link down below if you want  

more data on that the other thing that happens  during menopause is that you lose your estrogen  

and because estrogen becomes deficient not to  mention progesterone as well you then also lose  

your ability to regulate calcium to a certain  degree so there’s a very direct relationship  

between estrogen deficiency and calcium and that’s  one of the reasons why women when they go through  

menopause they start developing osteopenia  or osteoporosis simply because they lose  

the estrogen control over calcium and so the thing  not to do is just to start loading up with calcium  

what might be a better idea is to take something  like dhea which is the precursor for building up  

more estrogen so that way that you can then absorb  more calcium but if you take too much of dhea  

that can raise your testosterone so just make sure  you don’t take any more than 10 to 15 milligrams  

i don’t want to get sidetracked but sometimes  it’s a little bit complex to try to figure all  

these things out because if you raise one thing  something else will then get raised i think if  

you’re eating a healthy diet you’re on healthy  keto calcium is rarely going to be a problem it’s  

pretty easy to get calcium in various foods it’s  in vegetables it’s in other foods it’s in nuts  

it’s definitely in dairy i think what’s more of  a problem is vitamin d vitamin d helps you absorb  

calcium by a factor of 20x so with vitamin  d your absorption of calcium goes up by  

20 times and the majority of the population is  so deficient in vitamin d i would say at least  

70 percent of the population is deficient vitamin  d and that’s really where the problem is when  

we’re dealing with calcium not the calcium itself  so i just wanted to talk about this interesting  

relationship between calcium and cardiovascular  function and we’re dealing with supplements  

calcium is one mineral that i wouldn’t necessarily  take as a standalone supplement all right  

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