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1. The Surprising Truth About Calcium and Osteoporosis
2. Why do Health Challenges Create Nutritional Deficiencies?
3. How to Support the Immune System when it overreacts?
4. Have you given up on trying to restore Health to Your Nerves?

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The Surprising Truth About Calcium and Osteoporosis

I have read an interesting study on Osteoporosis that is scheduled to be published later this summer. It's one of those studies that validates something I've been saying for decades — Yet doctors thought I was off my rocker for talking about it.

Before I get into the study, let me destroy a few myths about Osteoporosis. The first myth is about calcium, the nutrient people (and doctors) instantly think about when someone talks about bone quality.

Do you need more calcium? No.

Countries with some of the highest calcium consumption globally also have more problems with Osteoporosis. Studies also show drinking milk from a young age does little to increase bone health later in life.

Even the British Medical Journal says "Increasing calcium intake through diet or supplements should not be recommended for fracture or osteoporosis prevention."

This may surprise you.

What I'm writing here differs from what you've heard from other "experts." You see, your calcium levels in your body are tightly controlled by four tiny glands called the parathyroid glands.
(To give you an idea of how small they are, each parathyroid gland is about the size of a grain of rice.)

Now, your parathyroid glands are in charge of keeping your blood calcium levels regular. Notice I said BLOOD calcium levels.
Your parathyroid glands release a hormone that will break down bone to get calcium for your blood.

Simply put — If your blood calcium levels fall, you break down bones to get it.

The bottom line is calcium is OVERRATED for bone health — Bone health is NOT correlated with calcium INTAKE.

Here's the problem, most doctors forget bones are organs.
Bones have osseous tissue, nervous tissue, fibrous tissue, and a network of blood vessels. And, like all organs many things can hurt your bones, which means there are many things your bones need to stay healthy.

Now, If you want your bones to age well, you have to do things differently.

Aging causes you to lose…

• Muscle mass
• Strength
• Function

Once you hit 30 years old, you lose 3-8% of your muscle mass per decade. And You lose even more than that once you hit 60. To make matters worse studies show that as you age and lose muscle, you gain fat mass.

Doctors talk about Osteoporosis. But they rarely talk about sarcopenia (muscle loss) and that's a huge mistake.

Osteoporosis is a lagging indicator of sarcopenia.

Here's what I mean by that: A person rarely has bone loss but no muscle loss. But, absolutely every person who has Osteoporosis HAS LOST A LOT OF MUSCLE AS WELL.

If you have enough muscle, the chances of having Osteoporosis are virtually non-existent.

But, if you are losing 3-8% of your muscle mass, and you didn't have a lot, to begin with then you're going to end up with bone loss as well.

The reasons doctors talk only about bone loss, and shrug about muscle loss because there's a pill, they can give for Osteoporosis.
Problem solved.

On the other hand, the ONLY prescription for gaining or maintaining muscle so you don't lose 8% every decade is to lift weights.

Lifting weights is the MOST IMPORTANT exercise you can do.

So, if you're worried about your bones then build muscle.

Of course, there are a few other things your bones need to be healthy. For years, I've talked about how high circulating insulin destroys bone.

People thought I was crazy but not about the insulin-bone connection.

A study published a few years ago in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, and Metabolism agreed with me.

The study found several DIRECT and indirect pathways by which insulin resistance can affect bone size which means healthy bones need healthy insulin levels.

But there's more. Your bones also need Vitamin D. EVERY cell in your bones (chondrocytes, osteoblasts, osteoclasts) contains the VITAMIN D RECEPTOR. That's how vital Vitamin D is to your bones.

Remember, I said earlier that calcium INTAKE is not correlated with solid bones. That's true. We don't need MORE calcium. We need better calcium ABSORPTION.

That's where vitamin D comes up big. Vitamin D is like a bouncer — It lets calcium in. Without enough vitamin D, you can't absorb calcium from the gut into your bloodstream.

If you're low in vitamin D, you can eat as much calcium as you want. It isn't going to help your bones. But absorbing more calcium isn't the solution.

You DON'T want calcium to STAY in your bloodstream. Calcium will HARDEN your blood vessels — causing heart disease and strokes.

This is where vitamin K steps in. If Vitamin D is the bouncer…
Then Vitamin K is the TRAFFIC COP. It directs calcium from blood vessels to your bones.

(You can see why vitamin K suits your HEART and BONES).

Now, let me quickly talk about the upcoming study on Osteoporosis
That shows oxidative stress (free radical damage) can lead to bone destruction and Osteoporosis.

What is oxidative stress?

Think of a sliced apple left on the kitchen counter overnight. By morning, The apple is a brown, rotten mess.

That is oxidative stress.

Another way to think of oxidative stress is to picture an old rusty car. Rust is oxidative stress.

The same thing that gives us life — oxygen — also slowly kills us.
We are rusting out.

You may not realize it, but your cells are under CONSTANT attack from free radicals and free radicals CAUSE oxidative stress.

Free radicals, by definition, are unstable atoms. Think of free radicals like a drunk person walking through a fine china shop.
Imagine the damage they can do to the store. Free radicals can do the same thing to you

Brain
Skin
Joints
Mitochondria
Liver
Heart
Lungs
…and BONES.

If you want to fight oxidative stress — then you must fight free radicals. The biggest weapon you've got in the fight against free radicals is antioxidants. Which is why everyone should be taking a good antioxidant.

If you want strong bones…

Build muscle
Stay metabolically healthy
Optimize your blood levels of Vitamin D
Get enough Vitamin K
Fight free radical damage with a powerful antioxidant.

Read also Osteoporosis
Read Free Radicals and Anti-oxidants

Why do Health Challenges Create Nutritional Deficiencies?

The human body is an amazing organism.

The basic processes of life include organization, metabolism, responsiveness, movements, and reproduction. In humans, who represent the most complex form of life, there are additional requirements such as growth, differentiation, respiration, digestion, and excretion. All of these processes are interrelated.

One of the many actions the human body does is to attempt to repair itself when necessary. It can do this successfully if given the right conditions.

The body needs nutrients to repair itself. There are forty nutrients that cannot be made in the body. They are essential fatty acids, 15 vitamins, 14 minerals, and 10 amino acids. With these nutrients, the body synthesizes an estimated 10,000 different compounds essential to the maintenance of health. These nutrients must be consumed in the form of food or nutritional supplements.

So, what happens when the body gets injured or sick?

Let’s first look at the example of damaged nerves.

When a body has damaged nerves, it wants to fix this problem. The body always has a priority of things to repair. Damaged nerves interrupt the communication signals of the body and are thus a priority issue to fix.

The body needs specific B vitamins in order to repair the nerves. So, all the B vitamins that are in the food consumed will go to fixing the nerves first. If the body is using all of these to fix the nerves it can create a deficiency for the rest of the body’s needs. It can create problems for other parts of the body that also needs B vitamins to function well; the body will be deficient in B vitamins for its other functions – a healthy cardiovascular system, energy production, digestion, health gums and teeth – the list goes on.

When there’s an infection, the body needs vitamin C to combat it. The body will address an infection as a top priority as it is a big threat to the body’s survival. If the body uses all the vitamin C in the food consumed to address this infection, other parts of the body that need vitamin C will suffer.

It is important to consume enough of what the body needs. If you have an injured or ailing body, your body needs enough nutrients to repair the problem, plus enough for the rest of the body to function properly and maintain itself.

What are the "side effects" of not having enough of the different vitamins?

The side effects are the various nutritional deficiencies that result because all the vitamins the body has available go to repairing the body. This can result in other health issues.

What can you do?

Eating a diet full of nutrient-dense foods (superfoods), including camel milk, can help ensure your body has all the nutrients it needs to address health issues while also having enough nutrition for the rest of the body’s nutritional needs.

One good way is with Camel milk. Really, read about the benefits of this amazing drink. Camel Milk

How to Support the Immune System when it overreacts?

You know the overreaction where the body thinks pollen is a dangerous virus and you have seasonal allergies, or even hives.

How do you get your immune system to recognize the bad guys and the good guys or even the non-trouble makers.

Beta glucans are well-known as immune modulators. An immunomodulator helps make your immune system smarter, so your body can ward off and kill disease.

This is different than an immune stimulant, like goldenseal, echinacea, or colostrums. Beta glucan modulates or activates, but never overstimulates, which makes it safe even for long-term use.

Beta glucans are the most studied immunomodulators on earth. They are also the most commonly consumed immunomodulator due to their anti-cancer, insulin resistance, anti-hypertension, and anti-obesity effects.

Read about Beta Glucan

Research on Beta Glucan

Have you given up on trying to restore Health to Your Nerves?

I know all about that. I was working with neuropathy suffers since 2006. Since 2010, different companies started promoting formulas to help neuropathy.

Now, it is overwhelming all the different things that people will tell you will help your nerve damage. It gets very confusing.

However, when you call neuropathy by its cause - damage to the nerve - you can see that often a formula will attempt to cover up the symptoms - but doesn't really address your nervous systems health.

Some formulas have some of the nutrients that your body needs - but some of the ingredients are synthetic and some are water soluble so the body eliminates it before it can work.

Your nerves need a lot of nutrients (vitamins) in order for the body to restore nerve health.

How does each ingredient in the formula I recommend work, what is it that they address that the nerves need.

Read - Nerve Health and decide for yourself if it is worth a try. .

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