Here’s what you should know about arrhythmias and calcium.
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 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 is limestone you’d be better off chewing 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 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 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 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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Arrhythmias and Calcium By Dr. Eric Berg DC