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Calcium

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:27 pm
by Rochelle
Does anyone know the reason for too much Calcium in the blood and what if anything can be done about it. It maybe associated with gall stones.
Thanks
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

Re: Calcium

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:35 pm
by Shannon Nelson
One possibility is hyperparathyroid. The parathyroids are responsible
for pulling calcium out of the bones as part of (among other things??)
their ongoing rebuilding process. Sometimes the parathyroids are
"overeager", pull out too much, leading to high levels in the
blood--and weakening the bones. There are tests to see if that's the
reason...
Shannon

Re: Calcium

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:19 pm
by Marco Franzreb
Hi there,
possible causes are: tumors, osteolysis of bone tumors or meteastases, hiperparathyroidism, malfunctioning of the metabolism =hyperproteinemia, low phosphate, hyperthyreosis, medicaments (diuretics..) ,.....
marco

rochelle wrote:

Re: Calcium

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:58 pm
by Irene de Villiers
Depends on the cause. There are pathological reasons for too much
calcium, but a common cause is simply dietary.
If you suspect diet alone, ask how much spinach they are eating?
Chances are they pull a face, and there's your bone calcium loss
reason:-)

Calcium is kept in the bones by Vit K, and the artificial form (Vit
K3) does not do that particular Vit K function, it needs to be
Vitamin K1 (from spinach usually) or from Vit K2 (through live
cultures like kefir and yogurt, though I do not see this source
working as well in practice).

Dandelion greens and collards are also good Vit K1 sources, raw or
cooked, with 300 or more mcg per serving.

Some specifics on Vit K1 per 100g cooked or raw:
Dandelions: 780 mcg
Collards 510 mcg
Spinach 483 mcg
From there it goes downhill, asparagus being next best at only 41 mcg.

Here's where to look up how much is in what:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

Excuses?
Spanakopita is an excellent way to get spinach for those who are less
than fond of the taste but like cheese.
So is spinach pie (made from spinach, mushrooms, onions, feta and
other cheeses in a cheesy white sauce with a flaky pie crust top.)
And you can put a lot of these greens into lasagne type foods or
curried dishes without being obvious.
Dandelion is especially good in sweet and sour curries.
Spinach salad is obvious.

I credit my own good bones to dandelion greens which I love. I have
an illness in which bone breaks, including spinal breaks, are very
common due to bone breakdown by cortisol.... Well, not mine:-)

Hopefully it goes without saying that the main fat sources in the
diet should be be extra virgin olive oil, fresh nuts, fish oil and
rice bran and
NOT seed oils.
But just in case, I added it:-)

Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

Re: Calcium

Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:47 pm
by Rochelle
Thanks Shannon and Marco. I understand more now.
Does anyone think it is something that could be sorted with homeopathy. This is not a patient or someone who will become a patient. I am enquiring out of interest after hearing about this.
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

Re: Calcium

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 3:08 pm
by Rochelle
Thanks for that Irene. I have only just found it because your posts always go straight to my delete folder and I never have worked out why!!! (My high bone density is due in part to lots of weight bearing exercise. I do eat Spinach and have some growing in my garden now!!)
I wondered if this person's Calcium problem could be due to her extended periods of the Atkins diet!!!
Rochelle
Registered Homeopath
EFT(Advanced) Practitioner
www.southporthomeopathy.co.uk

Re: Calcium

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:40 pm
by Irene de Villiers
I'm in the dogbox eh?
I also have had some folks go straight to my Mac's "junk" file.
However if I set a filter on their email address to okay it then that
fixes it. Not sure if your system works the same way. I have mine
set now so anyone in my address book will not be "junked" :-) So
when I find someone whose emails I want, in the junk file, I just
click them into my address book and that fixes it.
I believe that is quite relevant from what I have read. I have never
been able to do any significant weight bearing exercise, (my sports
being swimming, sailing, canoeing, cycling) and currently am in a
wheelchair - so I have managed good bones without the weight bearing
part, just with diet. My kids also have remarkably strong bones due
to diet. My younger son once fell 25 feet flat onto his back on hard
ground (out of a tree at age 15, and a big guy at 6 foot ten). He did
have three thoracic vertebrae broken clean through but the orthopod
whose office he WALKED into after that fall, said he had never in his
life seen such dense bones, and was in awe of the forces it must have
taken to break them. Anton sinks like a rock when he gets into a pool
(he's now in his 30s and weighs 320 lbs, slim looking big guy! but
quite the bones). Diet can be the be all or the end all for bones:
My mother had the worst osteoporosis and dowager hump I ever saw -
but her idea of a calcium-rich diet was three drops of milk in her
tea and plenty of cream on her scones. Her idea of weight bearing
exercise was walking to the mailbox daily at the end of the driveway.
She was not into spinach or anything green, and she paid the price
for these habits, even though she was small framed at 4 foot 11 in
heels. The calcium supplements her doctor made her take after age
70, did nothing of course.
Good for you! I prefer growing dandelions though many people think I
am nuts.
Probably that depends on how she used the diet principles. If I
remember, Atkins advocates high protein and low carb? That's also
what I eat - but I stress the high antioxidant aspects of that
approach a la Perricone et al. In fact it is my belief that the most
important part of any diet is the antioxidant and thus anti-
inflammatory aspect of it - followed by the need for high animal
protein of good quality. I consider that inflammatory foods are to be
avoided and anti-inflammatory and high antioxidant ones to be
stressed - and that almost automatically gets you to a high protein
and low carb diet - but in what I see as the right way:-)

Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

Re: Calcium

Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 8:46 pm
by Homeopathic Doctor
Hi Shannon,
good that you have the recipe of egg shells in vinegar. I have already asked Soroush about it as my grand mother used to prepare it but I have forgotten the method. Perhaps it was dipping the egg shells in grape vinegar, not artificial which is colorless and grape vinegar is black; perhaps in a night's time, the shells were dissolved or something like that. Do not remember exactly. Please let me know it and thanks. But she used to give us one tablespoon in half a glass of water with little table salt. We would get it in hot weather only and after a nice lunch. LOL...we are good eaters. She used to say that besides egg shells, the vinegar and salt would digest the food very soon and the summer heat would nnever cause indigestion, cholera, diarrhea etc. Take care.
Sincerely,
Zaidee.

"All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident."
(Schopenhauer)