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(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 22, 2010 ) Greenville, SC – In the name of strong bones, Americans are swallowing billions of calcium tablets every year. According to a leading Functional Medicine practitioner, however, most of the calcium consumed in this way ends up being flushed down the toilet. Because of misconceptions about the relationship between calcium and osteoporosis, health-conscious consumers who rely on calcium supplements to protect their bones are not only wasting money but also missing their actual opportunity to prevent osteoporosis (www.yourmedicaldetective.com ).
“Osteoporosis is not a deficiency of calcium in the bone,” explains Dr. Ron Grisanti, D.C., the founder of Functional Medicine University, a post-graduate medical training program. “Rather, it is a breakdown in the matrix of the bone. If you have ever watched a construction crew creating a concrete sidewalk, you probably saw them pouring concrete over metal rods or mesh. You can think of the concrete as the minerals of the bone and the reinforcing rods as the bone matrix. If they poured concrete without the reinforcing rods, in no time the concrete would crumble and fall apart. The same is true of bone. When its fibrous protein matrix deteriorates, the bone cannot hold minerals, and it begins to lose mineral density over time.”
It takes a healthy balance of all essential minerals to prevent osteoporosis, Dr. Grisanti notes. Adding calcium only, by taking calcium supplements, doesn’t affect deficiencies in the other ingredients equally needed for healthy bone formation – including silica, magnesium, manganese, copper, selenium, iodine and phosphorus. “If the fibrous tissue of the bone couldn’t hold the calcium it already had, it can’t hold the calcium in a supplement, either,” he notes. “In fact, one very interesting study showed that supplementing all the minerals other than calcium cut the amount of bone loss in half for osteoporosis patients.”
Dr. Grisanti recommends the Essential Mineral Blood Test to determine whether or not the body has the right balance of nutrients for strong and healthy bones.
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