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If your first thought when osteoporosis is mentioned is calcium, Trialix Review the "drink milk" ads have really accomplished their purpose. In fact, it may be hard to convince you that your bones are in danger if you drink milk or take calcium supplements every day. I understand that very well, as I was completely confident that I would never have any broken bones because I took 1500 milligrams of calcium every day. That was before I broke my hip the first time. The truth is that if you take a lot of calcium without the added nutrients that are involved in assimilating the calcium into your bones, you are throwing away your money.
Dr. Nan Fuchs, in her Women's Health newsletter and Robert Rowen, MD, in his Second Opinion health letter, have reported that much research has been done to confirm that most people with bone problems are deficient in magnesium, rather than calcium. It is an under publicized fact that you need an equal amount of magnesium in your diet as calcium. And you are probably already getting more calcium from your food than magnesium. If you have an undersupply of magnesium, your calcium will be excreted instead of being deposited in your bones.
Magnesium has 40 different functions in the body. Without it your heart can't beat. (By the way, most people with heart problems are also deficient in magnesium - so much so that many emergency rooms give heart attack patients magnesium immediately.) But magnesium is cheap, so we don't hear about it because the companies that do produce it in supplemental form, are not able to afford to advertise like the drug producers. But even if they could afford it, our federal laws prevent any company that produces supplements from making any health claims for their products. For that reason, you may have soft bones and not even be aware of it.
Of course, there are other factors involved also, such as vitamin D3 and vitamin C as I have mentioned in previous articles. Without enough Vitamin D3, calcium is not able to be absorbed into the blood stream, so it cannot be delivered to the tissues. But when the blood carries it to the parts of the body where it is needed, such as the bones and muscles and nerves, it just passes through the cell and is not deposited unless you have enough vitamin C in the tissues to make collagen. Without collagen, the calcium just won't stick there.
