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Benefits
of Calcium
The more you look, the better it is for you.
That's calcium. There seems to be no end to
the benefits of taking it. Maybe that's why when God was
engineering the human body, his research team convinced him
to choose calcium to be the #1 mineral in the human body!
Check out this latest research on how calcium not only helps
reduce the liklihood of getting pre-concerous colon polyps, but
the even bigger news is the evidence that if you have some
polyps already, calcium lowers the risk by 45%!!
NOTE: The study was done using calcium carbonate
all by itself. Remember, at Life Force, we chelate the
calcium with oritic acid forming calcium orotate. Dr Allan
Spreen MD recently wrote an article called "Absorbing It All"
in which he compared the different forms of calcium supplements.
His conclusion was that of all the forms of calcium, the
best form by far was calcium orotate, which can be absorbed as
high as 95%. The downside of calcium orotate, according to Dr
Spreen, was that it was the most expensive, and very hard
to find.
Well, not unless you are a Life Force customer or member!
Anyway, if calcium carbonate alone can give you the kinds of
benefits shown by this study, what in the world might calcium
orotate be doing?!
Here's the data. Enjoy it, and know that everytime you take
OsteoProCare, you are doing your body a fantastic service!
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Calcium intake has been shown to help reduce the risk of
developing colon polyps. Now a new calcium study is even more
specific and more promising. The question is: Are you getting
enough of this mineral - in the right forms - to provide
adequate protection for yourself?
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Encouraging news
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In the most recent issue of the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, researchers from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, published an analysis of data
collected from 930 patients enrolled in the Calcium Polyp
Prevention Study.
All of the study subjects had been diagnosed with colorectal
polyps. Divided into two groups, participants received
either a 1,200 mg daily supplement of calcium carbonate, or
a placebo. Two colonoscopies were conducted approximately
one year and four years after each subject's initial exams.
The researchers found that calcium supplements provide
protection against the development of polyps. The supplements
proved even more effective against advanced polyps. Subjects
who received calcium supplements had generally fewer polyps
compared to the placebo group. But as the lead author of the
study, Dr. John A. Baron told Health Day News, calcium may help
lower the risk of advanced polyps by as much as 45 percent.
The subjects who experienced the greatest benefits were
those who also had high intakes of calcium in their diets,
as well as high fiber and low fat intakes (although these
other dietary interactions were described as "not
statistically significant").
According to Dr. Baron, this study expands on what we
already know about calcium's ability to prevent polyps with
the encouraging news that calcium seems to also offer
protection against polyps developing into cancer.
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A note on calcium
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As the Dartmouth-Hitchcock study suggests, one obvious way
to support the effectiveness of calcium supplements is to
make sure you include plenty of calcium-rich foods in your
diet, such as salmon, cabbage, kale, and yellow, green, or
waxed beans.
As I mentioned above, the type of supplement used in the
study was calcium carbonate. And as HSI Panelist Allan
Spreen, M.D., told us in the e-Alert "Absorbing it All"
(4/19/04), calcium carbonate is the most common, most
readily available and least expensive type of calcium
supplement. But the carbonate form does have two drawbacks:
It's not as well absorbed as some other inorganic forms of
calcium, and it binds the most acid.
The latter problem presents both a potential plus, as well
as a minus. Some scientists believe that calcium's ability
to bind acids may be the very reason it protects against
cancer. But binding digestive acids may also result in poor
absorption of nutrients and indigestion. So if a 1,200 mg
supplement of calcium is taken daily, along with good
sources of calcium in the diet, keep an eye out for
digestive problems that may be managed by adjusting the
dosage of the supplement.
In addition, Dr. Spreen notes that, "Calcium is not found in
nature (in edible form) without magnesium, and they
therefore should always be given together."
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