Calcium supplements vary, you got to find a good one easy to be absorbed.
Still better if you combine also vit D and K2.
Both Magnesium (in most alkaline powders) and K2 will contribute to put calcium where it should be: in your bones, not in the arteries, tendons...
-------------------- From Dr. Mercola:
"Vitamin K2 is like a light switch—it switches on MGP and osteocalcin, which takes calcium out of the arterial wall and keeps it in the bone.
There's so much information showing this relationship between osteoporosis (not having enough calcium in your bones) and having an increased incidence of heart disease. What's actually happening, I think, a lot of patients are vitamin K2-deficient," Dr. Goodman says.
“So now, I tell all patients – especially when they have risk factors for calcification – ‘You’ve got to get vitamin K2 when you take your vitamin D, and your calcium, and magnesium.’ Because we need to make sure that the calcium is going where it’s supposed to go.”
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I also know that acidity in the blood (after you eat sugar, and / or more than 60 grams of protein in a meal and / or chemical additives...) will make bones leak calcium because calcium is alkaline.
The body gets desperate to cancel the high acidity and will try to bind acids with calcium.
The body pulls calcium from food, but also from the bones to cancel acidity in the blood: result is artery calcification + osteoporosis.
Proteins are acid : formed by aminoACIDS.
We all need proteins, but in smaller amounts than we usually take (the younger you are, you need more, but after 20, the amount we need drops considerably).
There is also a difference between vegetable proteins and animal proteins, I think.
That is the main mechanism of calcification, in my opinion: food and drinks that cause excess of acids.
This video of Dr. Braid explains nicely how this happens, and why bad diet, bad metabolism, lack of enzymes, acidification after meals will cause calcium deposits in your arteries (plus colitis, joint pain, tendon calcification etc).
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Dr Rau from Paracelsus is of the same opinion.
Not only lack of K2 vitamin and Magnesium is the source of calcification, but diet plays an extremely important role too.
So in conclusion, these alkaline powders do what they say: they alkalinize the body, you can measure with your urine.
The morning urine gets alkaline with the powder.
It is just a short term solution, though, not something to take for life (in my opinion, and dr Rau's opinion).
for life, the best is a total control on your diet.
So I suppose that these alkaline mineral powders won't cause calcification, because in fact, the most important mechanism of artery calcification and osteoporosis is acidity.
Same as for joint pains, chronic arthritis... These alkaline mineral powders are mainly consumed by people with joint problems here.
It became common sense almost, that if you suffer from any joint problem, taking these mineral alkaline powders help.
Funny Dr Braid mentions skin inflammation, joint pain, arthritis, digestive disorders, colitis related to metabolic acidity and hypercalcification & osteoporosis.
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