Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

All right, so calcium is vital for your immune system.

It allows your white blood cells to get fuel. The ability of your white blood cells to

multiply is dependent on calcium. So calcium is an essential signaling molecule

in the communication process within your immune system and also in your cells in general.

Your neutrophils, which make up the great majority of your white blood cells, are also dependent

on calcium. And in Chinese medicine, gypsum has been used for hundreds of years,

if not a few thousand years, for fevers, it's anti-feather. And this is why I got great success with

my kids, giving them calcium when they were younger, if they got a fever, because calcium

improves your immune system. Now, here's a question. What is the number one cause of a hypocalcemia,

low calcium in the blood? It's low vitamin D, and we know how important vitamin D is for the

immune system. And now you know another reason why, because it also helps absorb calcium.

So vitamin D, by itself, is vital for your immune system. Vitamin D helps absorb calcium in your

gut by a factor of 20 times. So it increases calcium from your intestine into the blood.

Hypocalcemia, which is low calcium in the blood, is one common finding in viral infections,

but there's quite a few other symptoms that you can get that aren't related to

immune system that I want to cover now. Okay, in this other symptom, excuse me,

oh man, a chronic cough, that was my dry sense of humor. Weezing or difficulty swallowing

can also be low calcium in your blood. Other symptoms would be nightcamps,

like in your legs or your foot or your calf, a trolley horse, restless leg syndrome could also

be low calcium. Now, bruising, technique, which is like twitching in your muscles,

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