By Linda on Jun 8, 2011 in F.I.G.H.T., Food, Hormones | comments(0)
Linda’s comments” DIET is everything…..we are what we eat….VitD plays an important factor in our wellness journey….it is a MUST…..when you have a chronic illness this is one test that you should insist that your doctors run on you….while you are at it also ask for a B12- and Magnesium level too.
Dr. G’s comments:
Why are our tissues so calcified when we age? What has vitamin D got to do with it???
I have lectured on this for over 35 years now and we all suffer a tendency toward secondary hyperparathyroidism. This is because our SAD diet supplies on average 1400 mg of phosphorus and only 800 mg of calcium. This stresses our endocrine system and we get secondary hyperparathyroidism, as a result that leads to weak bones and hard calcified arteries. See text and CALCIPHYLAXIS by Hans Selye published by Univ of Chicago Press.
What this article shows you is that higher levels of vitamin D clearly help overcome this serious but nearly epidemic Endocrine condition. Vitamin D then can lead to less bone pathology and if bones are better mineralized, less of the calcium will wind up in blood vessels and you can achieve better blood vessel elasticity.
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Link: http://www.nhiondemand.com/hsjarticle.aspx?id=987&utm_source=NHI+OnDemand+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=49b87e5f60-HSJ_Jan18_2011&utm_medium=email
Excerpt:
“Hyperthyroidism” is when the thyroid gland is overactive instead of underactive. It secretes too much thyroid hormone. In this case, more of a good thing is definitely not better. Excess thyroid hormone can cause rapid heartbeat. Body temperature is elevated. The hyperthyroid individual may experience extreme weight loss, in spite of a huge appetite, because they burn up calories too fast. Hyperthyroidism can make a person nervous, emotionally unstable, and unable to sleep.
By Linda on Sep 2, 2010 in F.I.G.H.T. | comments(0)
Please stop patients from using massive doses of calcium now. The patients all have too much calcium in vascular tissue and now we have data showing that giving calcium is increasing heart disease. And, if possible, try to always administer calcium supplementation with EQUAL AMOUNTS of MAGNESIUM, as I have been teaching for over 20 years now.
Also please realize I use calcium in well over 90 % of my patients. It is in BAM, my multiple called Beyond Any Multiple. I usually never use more than 500 mg of calcium a day for my long-term patients, as that is all most will need since that is the amount we need to offset the excess of phosphorus over calcium in the American diet. This amount will help lower the tendency for the body to develop secondary hyperparathyroidism, which is how the body responds to a chronic dietary intake of more phosphorus than calcium.
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Results 15 trials were eligible for inclusion, five with patient level data (8151 participants, median follow-up 3.6 years, interquartile range 2.7-4.3 years) and 11 with trial level data (11 921 participants, mean duration 4.0 years). In the five studies contributing patient level data, 143 people allocated to calcium had a myocardial infarction compared with 111 allocated to placebo (hazard ratio 1.31, 95% confidence interval 1.02 to 1.67, P=0.035). Non-significant increases occurred in the incidence of stroke (1.20, 0.96 to 1.50, P=0.11), the composite end point of myocardial infarction, stroke, or sudden death (1.18, 1.00 to 1.39, P=0.057), and death (1.09, 0.96 to 1.23, P=0.18). The meta-analysis of trial level data showed similar results: 296 people had a myocardial infarction (166 allocated to calcium, 130 to placebo), with an increased incidence of myocardial infarction in those allocated to calcium (pooled relative risk 1.27, 95% confidence interval 1.01 to 1.59, P=0.038).
Conclusions Calcium supplements (without coadministered vitamin D) are associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction. As calcium supplements are widely used these modest increases in risk of cardiovascular disease might translate into a large burden of disease in the population. A reassessment of the role of calcium supplements in the management of osteoporosis is warranted.
