What is up you guys? Welcome to Costa Rica edition of Controversial Thoughts. I am clearly not in Texas right now. I'm sitting in an Airbnb in Santa Teresa overlooking the ocean and the waves.

But I still wanted to do a Controversial Thoughts video this week. I apologize for the suboptimal audio. If you are watching on YouTube you can tell why that is the case. There's definitely some construction going on behind me. So if that happens during this mini podcast, I apologize.

But important question that I think a lot of you will ask, should you include a calcium source on your carnivore or animal based diet. This is something many of us has gone round and round about over and over.

And I think it's important to address and I think it's particularly timely now as we just released bone matrix at heart and soil.

Bone matrix is micro crystalline hydroxyapatite. I'm going to show some studies specifically with that that is calcium complex to phosphorus in bone. It's actually a bone meal quote unquote but it's a very high quality bone meal.

It's not just any bone meal. It's bone meal from grass fed grass finished cattle in New Zealand.

It's in the actual bone matrix, which is why we call it bone matrix. You're getting this micro crystalline hydroxyapatite. You're getting collagen, you're getting bone in active in A. You're getting other minerals that occur in bones like boron, manganese strontium, all of which are important for bone health.

But let's address the question here, should you include calcium on your carnivore animal based diet? Why would you not include calcium on your carnivore or animal based diet? Well, here's the thing. I just got back from Africa and people asked me do the hodze eat bones.

They definitely break the bones and suck the marrow. And when you do that, you're getting bone flakes with that. If any culture is going to be eating small fish like sardines or other things like this, you're going to be getting some calcium in those bones.

Some cultures in Africa like the Messiah have dairy. They're getting calcium in their diet from that. But for a lot of us on animal based diets like myself, dairy doesn't really play well with our immunology with our immune system and it causes my ex-menoflare no matter what I do.

Whether it's raw dairy, whatever. So that's, that's just me. I can't do dairy. If you can do dairy, check out colostrum, which is amazing. That's why we make a munimilk.

But a lot of people cannot do dairy. And so if you can't do dairy in your diet, should you have a calcium source? I think the answer is yes. And I'm going to tell you why.

In general, we have the majority of our calcium stored in our bones. And so we're going to get a very small amount in meat. I think it's about 60 milligrams per pound of calcium. Not a whole lot. The recommended daily allowance, which again is never perfect.

And it's probably based on diets that are standard American and very poor quality is around a thousand milligrams of calcium per day. So if you're only eating meat and organs and not doing any bones or anything else for a calcium source, you might be getting a hundred milligrams of calcium a day. There's a real divide there between the amount of calcium that you're getting in meat and organs and the amount found in or the amount at least recommended by the FDA.

Now, it is true that on higher protein diets, calcium absorption goes up in the intestines, but so does calcium excretion. So the flux seems about the same. Now, every day in our urine and our poop and our sweat, we lose some calcium.

We have a huge repository of calcium in our bones. But do we actually want to be tapping into that? How do you know if you're tapping into the calcium repository and your bones? You could check your parathyroid hormone, which is from a small gland located within the thyroid gland.

You want your parathyroid hormone to be low to be the lower end of normal. In fact, the lower quarter of the reference range of normal is where I like to see PTH parathyroid hormones.

You could also check C or N-tail of peptide to see if there's bone turnover happening. I'll get into osteoporosis a little bit later in this mini podcast. But I think for the majority of people, if you have osteoporosis, you are going to benefit from a bone based calcium and you are probably going to need to get more protein in your diet.

In fact, there's good evidence that high protein diets actually improve bone quality, bone resiliency, and decrease fractural rates rather than increasing them as some may incorrectly suggest.

So back to the original question, should you include calcium on your carnivore and animal based diet if you're not doing dairy? The answer for me is yes, because you are losing some every day in your urine, your poop, and your sweat.

Now, do you have to get it every day? No, you don't necessarily have to get it every day. Do the hod's get it every day? Probably not. But they definitely get some calcium from small animals, galagos, bush babies, birds. They're going to eat the ends of the bones. They're breaking the bones. They're getting bone shards in there.

So, hunter gatherers do eat calcium from bones. Carnivorous animals, quote unquote, like lions definitely eat bones. And it's known within zoology and zoos that the calcium nephosphorus ratio is important for humans.

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