The Side Effects of Calcium Carbonate You Need to Know
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 16 June 2020
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Today we’re going to talk about the side effect of calcium carbonate. A lot of people take calcium carbonate, but they don’t know much about it.
The biggest thing you need to know is that calcium and other minerals need an acidic medium to be absorbed. If your stomach does not have the acidity you need, the calcium will not be absorbed well.
A lot of people take calcium carbonate for heartburn, and the calcium carbonate dries up the acid in the stomach over time. So not only is the calcium not being absorbed, but it also ends up actually causing heartburn. In my opinion, apple cider vinegar might be a better choice for GERD or heartburn. But, of course, check with your doctor.
Some studies show that high doses of calcium carbonate also do not increase bone density in osteoporosis. But, it did increase the risk of heart attacks.
Calcium carbonate may even lower the thyroid function and block a person’s ability to utilize T3 (the active form of thyroid hormone).
Side effects of calcium carbonate:
1. Loss of appetite
2. Constipation
3. Gas
4. Nausea
5. Vomiting
6. A decrease in hydrochloric acid (HCL)
Contraindications to calcium carbonate:
• Kidney stones
• Hypercalcemia
• Calcification
• A severe interaction with 210 drugs
A lot of people are taking massive doses of calcium carbonate, thinking that it will prevent bone loss when it could actually be creating other issues.
DATA: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
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| 0:00.0 | So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or intermittent fasting, whether you're starting |
| 0:05.3 | keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or you have a question about a product, |
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| 0:21.6 | Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So I wanted to do a video on the side effects of calcium carbonate, because a lot of people are taking it, but they don't really know much about it. The biggest thing that you need to know is that |
| 0:56.3 | calcium and other minerals need an acidic medium to be absorbed. So if your stomach does not have |
| 1:07.2 | the acidity that you need, that calcium is not going to be absorbed too well. A lot of people |
| 1:13.8 | are taking calcium carbonate for heartburn. And what happens, the calcium carbonate dries up |
| 1:21.2 | the acid in the stomach over time to the point where you have less and less acid. So not only |
| 1:26.4 | does that calcium not absorb and |
| 1:27.9 | benefit in you anyway, but the calcium ends up causing heartburn because now there's no way |
| 1:35.1 | of creating a signal to close the valve at the top of the stomach. And now you get GERD or acid |
| 1:41.7 | reflex. You need a really, really, really, really acid stomach to keep that |
| 1:45.1 | valve on the top of the stomach closed, so there's no acid that shoots up. Now, this is my opinion, |
| 1:50.5 | but I think you would be better off by taking apple cider vinegar for GERD or heartburn |
| 1:56.1 | than any type of calcium products. But of course, check with your doctor before taking any of my |
| 2:02.9 | advice. Now, there's a couple studies I'm going to put down below that talk about this. |
| 2:09.5 | High doses of calcium carbonate did not increase bone density in the condition of osteoporosis. But it did increase the risk of heart |
| 2:21.3 | attacks. Also, there's some interesting information on calcium carbonate lowering the thyroid function |
| 2:28.4 | and blocking the person's ability to utilize T3, which is the active form of the thyroid hormone. Here are some |
| 2:37.4 | of the side effects. Loss of appetite, constipation, gas, nauseam, vomiting, decreased in hydrochloric |
| 2:48.1 | acid. I talked about that. You need HCL to absorb calcium, |
| 2:52.1 | and the calcium being alkaline will decrease HCL, so it's a double-edged sword. There are various |
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