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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about the best sources of calcium now the  

thing you want to realize is you want to try  to get your calcium from food not necessarily  

supplements most people are taking calcium  carbonate that’s like stuck eating rocks it’s  

like limestone you’d be better off tuning  on the cement on the side of the you know  

building but here’s some good food sources  I’m not going to talk about milk or yogurt  

because milk is usually pasteurized it’s not a  good product and yogurt has a lot of sugar but  

kefir might be a good thing but cheese look at  that one ounce of cheese has 240 milligrams of  

calcium and this is bioavailable calcium - so  I’m from Wisconsin adding a lot of cheese but  

cheese is a really good source of calcium make  sure it’s grass-fed organic hormone-free sesame  

seeds one tiny little teaspoon is 90 milligrams  tahini that’s that sesame seed butter you can get  

this from any grocery store this is a really  taste is very bland it’s kind of like peanut  

butter but I would mix it look at 1 tablespoon  263 milligrams of calcium Starr Dean’s one can  

is 370 milligrams and then we got kale is 94 per  cup broccoli one cup is 178 pretty good look it’s  

double kale salmon 3 ounces is 180 so when you  taking calcium realize that a lot of your food  

has calcium so it’s not hard to get calcium  you don’t eliminate as much calcium as other  

things like magnesium so you’d probably want to  get magnesium from the vegetables but usually  

what happens is that when you consume calcium you  need magnesium to work with it so in nature like  

you’re going to get calcium you’re going to in  these leafy greens you’re going to get calcium  

and magnesium together so they both work you know  harmoniously ok so the other point I want to make  

is if your stomach is too alkaline and that that  means if you had like heartburn or acid reflux  

or you’re taking anti acids chances are you’re  not going to absorb calcium because using real  

strong acid stomach to absorb calcium if you’re  deficient in vitamin D you will not be able to  

transport or absorb calcium either also there’s  another vitamin called vitamin k2 I create a lot  

of videos on that I’ll put some videos down below  but if you’re deficient in vitamin k2 you will not  

be able to mobilize calcium and starts to plug up  the soft tissues in the joints and the arteries so  

you get a whole bunch of issues with that but I  wanted just to kind of give you some sources so  

you might want to you know take note of that and  thanks for watching I’ll see you the next video