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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 use 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 hypo calciumia. And each

one of them has its own series of symptoms. But what's common about hyper and hypo calciumia

is arrhythmias. 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. Many women are taking way too much calcium in their supplements,

especially if they're in menopause or after menopause. They're taking like 1 to 2,000 milligrams of

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