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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: Hank Scorpio who wrote (4416)4/3/2009 2:06:19 PM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (1) of 39304
 
Davis thinks most get plenty of calcium. The K2 supplement also distributes it.

These comments will apply to only a minority of our Members, but it can be an important issue to those few.
By Dr Davis

Vitamin D is crucial for control over calcium metabolism. I often view vitamin D as a bricklayer, calcium as the mortar. The bricklayer--vitamin D--determines how, when, and how much mortar--calcium--is laid down.

For the great majority of people, vitamin D brings calcium absorption and deposition back to normal. With vitamin D restoration, calcium deposition in bones is restored and calcium deposition in the artery wall is slowed or stopped, perhaps reversed. However, there are occasional instances in which blood calcium should be monitored if calcium metabolism is abnormal to begin with.

Blood levels of calcium should therefore be monitored occasionally by your doctor under several unique circumstances:

1) If you have a history of hyperparathyroidism--This is a condition in which the parathyroid glands (near the thyroid gland) behave abnormally and extract calcium from bones.

2) If you have a history of cancer

3) If you have a history of high blood calcium

4) If you have sarcoidosis

5) If you have any active bone disease (except for common arthritis)

6) If you have kidney disease

Outside of the above conditions, distortions of calcium metabolism are rare and monitoring of calcium is usually not helpful. It is, however, worth having a calcium level checked every once in a while, simply because it can serve as a useful screening test for the above conditions.
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