Before the news about the dangers of not getting enough calcium spread, did you know how important calcium was in your diet? There’s a good chance. Calcium has a big impact on your digestive system and heart health, but you may not know all the ways it can help.
You need calcium to break down your food and keep your heart beating. It’s one of the things that must be there for these things to happen. People who don’t get enough calcium in these two places are more likely to get heart disease and osteoporosis. When you don’t get enough calcium through your food and vitamins each day, your body will use the calcium stored in your bones to keep your body running. As a result, women who get older are more likely to get osteoporosis than younger women. They don’t even know that they’re at risk at first. When there is not enough calcium in your blood, your body will take calcium from your bones. This makes your bones more porous and weak. This is why there has been a rise in broken hips in older people, especially women. This is why this is the case.
In order to get calcium into our bones, we need to have oestrogen and work out. It’s hard to get both of these things in our later years, mostly because your body doesn’t make oestrogen after menopause, and as we get older, we can’t do as much as we used to. Because Vitamin D helps our bodies absorb Calcium, it is a back-up to the oestrogen and exercise problem, but it also helps our bodies absorb calcium. Thus, we have added calcium to milk, which is already high in Vitamin D.
If you have decided that you need extra calcium, there are certain forms of calcium that are easier for your body to break down. Carbonate or phosphate are the best forms of calcium to take in a pill because they are calcium salts that are easy for the body to use.
Doctors might tell you not to take calcium supplements if you already take medicine that has a built-in calcium supplement or if calcium and the medicine you’re taking together could cause a bad reaction.
Each day, children should get 800mg of calcium. This level is about right for women until they reach the post-menopausal age, when the level of oestrogen production drops or stops. It should be at least twice the amount of calcium that pre-menopausal women get each day at this point.
Dr. Leelamohan P.V.R
MBBS. MD(GEN. MED) MHA Fellowship in Diabetology (UK) CCEDM (Indore)
Consultant Physician and Diabetologist
Padithem Health Care, 338, 27th Main, HSR Layout Sector-2, Opp. KLM Mall,Bangalore – 560 102.
Email: drleelamohan@gmail.com
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