Magnesium Supplements Research (part 1)

Fri, Jun 4, 2010

Nutritional Supplements

These regulatory mechanisms help to prevent a deficiency in calcium from developing in the bloodstream. When such a deficiency does develop, parathyroid hormone acts to transfer calcium from the bones in order to maintain the mineral’s all-important presence in the bloodstream. This of course strips your bones of their calcium and in turn weakens your bones, making them more brittle and subject to breaking.

The result of a mild insufficiency of calcium over the long term may be thinning bones, termed osteoporosis or the softening of bony tissue, called osteomalacia. The faulty metabolism of calcium during childhood may result in a condition called rickets.

Recent research even points to calcium deficiency as being a possible cause of hypertension (high blood pressure) and of colon cancer.

Severe calcium deficiency, which is defined as a reduction of calcium levels in the bloodstream below a certain normal range, has its own clinical manifestations. The main syndrome is tetany, which involves sensations of numbness and tingling around the mouth and fingertips and painful aches and spasms of the muscles. A clinically detectable deficiency of calcium is a relatively rare finding and is almost always caused either by a deficiency of parathyroid hormone or of vitamin D in the body, the two chief regulators of calcium metabolism. Usually the problem manifests as an insidious, low level of calcium over a long period of time, which is far more difficult to correct.

An ideal liquid calcium supplement should have the RDA recommended 1000 milli gram of calcium in the elemental form. If the liquid calcium supplement is further enhanced by the addition of some compounds which accelerate or maximize the calcium absorption, it would be more useful and functional.

Along with the calcium, if there is also Vitamin D added to it, then it will totally cancel the need for any additional Vitamin D supplements. The other vital part about calcium absorption in the gut is that if there is associated magnesium deficiency, then the absorbed calcium may accumulate in the soft tissues and a certain type of joint inflammation can result. So an ideal liquid calcium supplement can become more practically useful, if there is magnesium also added to the calcium and Vitamin D.

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