The Big REGRET I Had in Practice

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, I'm going to share one of the biggest regrets I had in practice. I used to recommend 1200 mg of calcium, especially to post-menopausal women for bone health and people with osteoporosis or osteopenia.

People with osteoporosis lack calcium in their bones, but every osteoporotic person has excess calcium outside of the bone.

Fifteen independent clinical trials found that people taking an extra 500 mg of calcium per day had a 30% increased risk for heart attacks and 20% for strokes. One study that followed 61,000 people over 19 years showed that people taking over 1400 mg of calcium per day had a 114% increased risk of heart attack.

The average multivitamin is packed full of calcium carbonate. Coincidentally, ⅓ of all adults in America have calcification in their arteries. Consuming excess calcium doesn't mean it will go straight to your bones!

Calcium has a vital role in cellular communication. There is 1000 to 10,000 times more calcium outside the cell than inside the cell. Too much intracellular calcium leads to cell death. In fact, calcium accumulation is an independent risk factor of all-cause mortality.

Instead of taking large amounts of calcium for bone loss, vitamin C could help.

At least 6000 mg of vitamin C daily, broken up into 2 to 4 doses, may help improve bone health. Adequate vitamin C may help suppress osteoclasts—the cells that break down your bone. It can also help the absorption of calcium into the bone.

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0:00.0	So there's one really big regret that I have in practice that I wish I had the
0:06.2	information that I had now back then because the advice I gave on this one topic
0:12.2	was very bad advice. I used to recommend 1,200
0:15.7	milligrams of calcium to people, especially post-menopausal women, for bone
0:21.0	health, okay, and especially if they had any type of osteopinia or osteoporosis.
0:27.0	I mean, check this out.
0:28.0	If you have someone with osteoporosis, obviously they're missing calcium in the bone. That's true. Almost every
0:36.3	osteoprotic person without exception also at the same time has excess calcium outside their bone.
0:47.0	In 15 independent clinical trials,
0:51.0	they found an increased risk, 30% for heart attacks, a 20% increase in strokes just by taking
0:58.5	an extra 500 milligrams of calcium per day. In another study involving 61,000 people over 19
1:07.6	years, there is a pretty strong correlation between people taking over 1,400 milligrams of calcium per day and a
1:16.0	hundred and fourteen percent increase in dying from heart attacks. You just go to the
1:22.0	store and look at the vitamin bottles, right?
1:24.3	Look at the one a days.
1:25.6	What's the first ingredient?
1:27.6	Calcium carbonate.
1:28.6	Notice how heavy that bottle is because most of that product is calcium carbonate.
1:34.0	You're basically eating rocks.
1:35.5	I mean, when you think about how is it affecting the heart?
1:37.6	How is it affecting the tissues with all this calcium?
1:39.9	One third of all adults in America over the age of 45 have some type of
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