calcium

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Calcium

Calcium is a mineral essential for human life. It is the most abundant mineral in the body and crucial for the development and maintenance of strong bones. The heart, muscles, and nerves also need calcium to function properly. In addition to its primary function, calcium is also important for cell signaling, blood clotting, muscle contraction, and nerve function.

Category
Mineral
Molecular Formula
Ca
Mechanism of Action
Calcium plays a role in mediating vascular contraction and dilation, muscle function, nerve transmission, intracellular signaling, and hormonal secretion. It's also essential in the process of bone formation and resorption.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Calcium Carbonate
  • Calcium Citrate
  • Calcium Gluconate

Primary Benefits

  • Supports bone health
  • Supports cardiovascular health
  • Supports nerve function
  • Supports muscle function

Recommended Dosage

Adult Male 1000-1200 mg/day
Adult Female 1000-1200 mg/day
Children 200-1300 mg/day depending on age

Side Effects

  • Constipation
  • Gas
  • Bloating
  • Hypercalcemia

Precautions

  • People with hyperparathyroidism should not take calcium supplements
  • People with kidney disease or high levels of calcium in their blood should also avoid calcium supplements

Interactions

  • Doxycycline
  • Minocycline
  • Ceftriaxone
  • Levothyroxine

Key References

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6276611/
  • https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Calcium-Consumer/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK109825/
How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Dr. Sara Gottfried
Optimizing Women's Health: Hormones, Nutrition, Exercise, and Genetics Insights 2:28:41 0
“it would be to do a coronary artery calcium score by age 45 and sooner if you've got premature heart disease how is that taken so it's a CT scan of the chest you can self-order it like I think at Stanford Hospital you can self-order it last time a patient checked it was $250 so again disposable income but it it tells you it it almost gives you this fork in the road in terms of how much you need to pay attention to cardiometabolic health as a woman and it's 45 for men too so if you haven't had one have you had one no you need one”

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The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Maximizing Health Benefits with Creatine for Strength, Brain, and Longevity 25:24 0
“Creatine reduces something called the osteoclast activity or bone resorption so for some reason it really inhibits these osteoclasts from sort of chopping down our bone and increasing blood calcium levels when not needed.”

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The Optimal Creatine Protocol for Strength, Brain, and Longevity | Darren Candow, PhD
Maximizing Health Benefits with Creatine for Strength, Brain, and Longevity 1:26:37 0
“the phoc kinetics of creatine and uh caffeine do not oppose each other but from a cellular perspective they certainly do so remember when I talked about the cop plasma reticulum caffeine likes to release calcium but likes to take it in and some really good research out of Europe have shown that they the two molecules oppose each other from a muscle relaxation time but the dose of caffeine seems to be the most important factor if the dose is over 250 milligrams or even higher that's when it seems to have the interference effect if the dose is lower it doesn't seem to have an interference effect”

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239 ‒ The science of strength, muscle, and training for longevity | Andy Galpin, Ph.D. (PART I)
Optimal Ways to Enhance Longevity Through Exercise and Nutrition 1:28:30 0
“actually invest in ATP that gives you energy use that energy to that myosin back into place and now it's kind of sitting there but it can't bind strongly until calcium comes into the picture it gets released from the sarcoplasm reticulum that has to come to the equation it has to cause this confirmational change and act in and move these T tubules or that comes from T tubules we move some other things around once those things get moved around by the Cal theas is like oh boom it connects something and then it just almost subconsciously snaps as hard as it possibly can and that's why you can't regulate Force production is like it's just going to catch and snap catch and snap in order for that to go back you actually have to invest more ATP”

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Rhonda Patrick at Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (Keynote Oct. 3rd, 2015)
Optimizing Health Through Micronutrients: Key Role in Disease Prevention 17:02 0
“Eat Your Greens magnesium is high in spinach and kale and other green leafy vegetables um vitamin K calcium vitamin C um this is me drinking my my vegetable smoothie that I drink almost every day which has kale and spinach and charred and and more vegetables.”

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Rhonda Patrick at Orthomolecular Medicine Congress in Bussum, Netherlands (Keynote Oct. 3rd, 2015)
Optimizing Health Through Micronutrients: Key Role in Disease Prevention 18:39 0
“too much vitamin D is also not good because vitamin D also allows you to absorb more dietary calcium and as I mentioned calcium can precipitate and form plaques in the vascular system.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 0:31 0
“So we do a CT heart scan to generate a cardiac calcium score, and his score, let's say, is 400, which is a high score.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 57:04 0
“Calcium is very critical. If you have low calcium, you can have seizures and die, have heart rhythm disorder and die.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 1:01:09 0
“Those of us following these kinds of lifestyle changes are hyper absorbers of calcium that you get from broccoli or kale or spinach and those kinds of things.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 1:03:26 0
“Yeah, we know with good evidence that calcium supplementation may have a very modest effect in the first year of supplementation, but not much beyond that.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 1:03:48 0
“Magnesium. Big role restoration of lactobacillus reuteri a big role via oxytocin. Restoration of other healthy gut microbes, other lactobacilli, bifidobacteria species that enhance calcium absorption.”

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Leading Cardiologist: Your Doctor Is WRONG About Cholesterol | Dr. William Davis
Challenging Health Myths: Nutrition, Heart Health, and Gut Microbiome Insights 1:05:57 0
“So bone broth that is prolonged boiling of the bones and the addition of vinegar to mobilize minerals. It does mobilize some minerals, like calcium, magnesium, but it also releases the lead.”

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Gary Brecka: The TRUTH About Biohacking, Light Therapy, and Nutrients
Optimizing Health: Lifestyle, Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, and Social Connections 11:18 0
“we followed Trends in calcium supplementation in the elderly and really the fact that they weren't really impacting bone density and so osteopenic patients that were put on high doses of calcium still became osteoporotic.”

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Courtney Swan: Why Your ‘Healthy’ Food Is Actually Harmful | TUH #171
Understanding Dietary Misconceptions, Health Implications, and Consumer Empowerment 44:13 0
“And when you look at the importance of these nutrients in the human body you know how our calcium and phosphorus form hydroxyapatite to create bones. And that process needs 12 minerals.”

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Heart Surgeon Exposes Why Doctors Are Wrong About Cholesterol (with Dr. Ovadia)
Understanding Nutrition, Metabolic Health, and Disease Prevention Through Podcasts 23:15 0
“the CAC, the coronary artery calcium score only tells us calcified plaque. And then the clearly in the CTIO can tell us non-calified plaque.”

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The Longest Low Carb Study Ever Conducted is Finally Finished (the results are surprising)
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“calcium score is an indication of plaque the laying of plaque in the vascular wall that can be detected through one of these advanced CT scans or another type of advanced measurement.”

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The Longest Low Carb Study Ever Conducted is Finally Finished (the results are surprising)
Long-term ketogenic diet impact on health and cardiovascular outcomes 18:49 0
“And this patient not only had remarkable measures of cardiovascular disease through advanced cardiovascular assessments, they also had a calcium score of zero.”

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The Truth About Creatine & Exercise! 30% Of People Will Die From This! The Healthy Ageing Doctor
Optimize Your Health: Essential Insights on Nutrition, Exercise, and Hormones 26:52 0
“for breastfeeding mothers uh you will lose about 500 milligrams of calcium a day as you're making milk for your child you must replace that I like people to replace their calcium with whole food right with prunes and dates and and high calcium um Dairy if you will if you simply cannot do that okay take a supplement”

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“most of the drugs out there whether they're ACE inhibitors what's called angotensin receptor blockers calcium channel antagonists the main classes of drugs that treat high blood pressure aren't targeted toward restoration of nitric oxide.”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
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“Vitamin D is a pre-pro hormone it's not active at all vitamin D is converted in the liver first step to a compound called 25 hydroxy vitamin D that is a pro hormone it also is inactive it has no activity whatsoever from there 25 hydroxy vitamin D can be metabolized one of two ways it can either be one alpha hydroxylated in the kidney to the active form one alpha one uh 25 dihydroxy vitamin D which will then do all of the business of vitamin D such as calcium absorption from the gut suppression of the immune system at the toll like receptor 4.”

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Ask Me Anything: Lowering Cholesterol and Optimizing VO2max
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“Another one is a calcium score so basically is another scan that you can do and it's look at your and see whether you have some area in the arteries that might be starting to be clogged and if there are you can have some intervention.”

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Dr. Rhonda Patrick: Micronutrients for Health & Longevity | Huberman Lab Podcast #70
Optimizing Health and Longevity Through Nutrients and Lifestyle Choices 1:42:54 0
“So dark, leafy greens are how I like to get my magnesium. I think it comes along with all these other important. I mean, you get calcium in them. You get vitamin K1.”

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The Most Important Daily Habits For Health & Longevity – Dr Rhonda Patrick (4K)
Essential Omega-3 for Health, Longevity, and Disease Prevention Strategies 38:36 0
“vegetables particularly leafy greens are really high in magnesium, they're high in calcium, they're high in vitamin K, they're high in folate”

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Joe Rogan Experience #1735 – Peter Attia
Nutrition, exercise, genetics, disease prevention, and health discussion highlights. 1:15:56 0
“when i was 35 i went and had a calcium scan so it's a ct scan looks at your heart and i had a score of six”

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