It’s amazing how minerals and vitamins play a key role in our lives. When I read an article in “First for Women ,” I began to understand the importance once again how vitamin D, calcium and magnesium cascades for vitality. Thanks to factors like dairy sensitivities, also NSAID’s medications and “stress” that can deplete magnesium levels in your body.
This can strain the adrenal gland and hinders their ability to aid in the regulation of calcium levels. Therefore, 95% of women lack this energy boosting mineral, which helps regulate pH balance as well as Elaine Shea in this article. Had her energy level take a nose dive as she had no ideal “why,” despite exhaustion, insomnia plagued her as she struggled with muscle cramps, brittle nails and exasperating brain fog (should have your thyroid checked as well.)
After visiting with several doctors, being prescribed Synthroid for a sluggish thyroid. Nothing seem to right her condition until she went to Naturopathic Physician Dr. Cammi Balleck, author of the book Happy, The New Sexy and she advises about the importance of calcium. Without adequate calcium, the thyroid slows an optimal functioning adrenal gland which drains energy.
Both help regulate hormone balance and are important to your overall vitality, with calcium coming under scrutiny after a 2011 study linking calcium pills to an 86 percent increase in heart attacks. Since that study the mineral in food form has been shown to lower your risk by 30 percent. This scrutiny of calcium supplements also made Elaine start eating calcium – rich foods.
Plus she began taking 450 mg of magnesium (to balance calcium) and 5,000 iu of vitamin D (to help the body absorb calcium) daily. Dr. Balleck also advised her to take a whole food supplement 200mg Standard Process Calcifood (www.standardprocess.com), bridging the gap between what she was receiving from her diet and daily value of 1,000 to 1,200 mg.
The problem with many calcium supplements are they aren’t adequately absorbed by the body and excess calcium accumulates in the blood and coats the arteries, raising the risk of heart harming blockage. Therefore, to be taken properly always consult a physician of the ilk… Dr. Lawrence D. Wilson M.D., the author of the book Nutritional Balancing and Hair Mineral Analysis.