Everything You Need to Know About Calcium - Functions, Deficiency Symptoms, Supplements, & More

In this video, I break down everything you need to know about calcium - including:
What are the symptoms of calcium deficiency.
How calcium is absorbed.
What foods are highest in calcium like figs, almonds, leafy greens, bone broth, and more.

Who should take calcium and how much to take. Who shouldn't take calcium. What other nutrients work well with it.

What are the symptoms of calcium deficiency including muscle spasms, heart palpitations, and irritability.

What disease are linked to calcium deficiency like osteoporosis, colon cancer, and tetany.
How calcium is absorbed in the body
What medications can interfere with calcium absorption.
What are the functions of calcium in the body.
...and at the end, I answer all your questions about calcium

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*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This video is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. It is strictly intended for educational purposes only. Additionally, this information is not intended to replace the advice of your physician. Dr. Osborne is not a medical doctor. He does not treat or diagnose disease. He offers nutritional support to people seeking an alternative from traditional medicine. Dr. Osborne is licensed with the Pastoral Medical Association.

[RJHerb]

Hello Dr. Osborne! New sub here, living in Eugene, Or. I am amazed at the high level of information you are giving us, and I am in complete agreement with you regarding the piss-poor quality of our food here in the U.S. I am a staunch ingredients label reader. I am 68 years old and disabled, but I insist on cooking from scratch for myself twice daily and baking my own bread using organic ingredients purchased from the bulk foods section of my favorite grocery store. Eating healthy these days is no easy task. we need to always beware of toxins being added to our foods, as well as the environment in which our foods are grown. Always. Read. The. Ingredients. Label.
Thank you for sharing your time and expertise!

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[miklooo]

You didn't mention that vitamin D deficiency can cause calcium deficiency? Vitamin D is needed for calcium absorption isnt that correct?

[renoskontos]

If you want calcium you go with sesame seeds. They are the king!!!

[bibibobi]

Israel.
almost all your videos I've learned, and keep learning new/old ones

[sandratorresbeltran]

I know this is an old video but what about calcium phosphorus?

It wasn’t brought up in the video with the calcium’s you listed.

[micaonyx]

Ok ladies if you're concerned about brittle bones, get some pH strips and make sure your pH is balanced. Then take K2, D3, Magnesium, vitamin C, a good multivitamin and minerals and at least 6 mg of boron. Try to get some sun every day and lift weight bearing weights. Also try jumping from something at a height that you can do safely. Examples like walking down the stairs try jumping off the last or second to the last step. At 60 I jump from places like the kitchen counter after changing the light bulb, and fall all the time when going too fast while rolling blading. My 25 yr old daughter is more afraid of me breaking a bone that I am😊

[sabincioflec]

I think Hair tissue mineral analysis is much better than blood. In blood it's highly regulated but in HTMA you can see if you have excess or not enough.
Also you talk about vit K in cruciferous veggies and stuff but you don't mention that it's K1 and it's not that easy make into K2. Your gut microbiome makes some but if you don't have a good microbiome you're screwed. K2 is in natto and some fermented foods, especially fermented dairy and if i remember correctly in sauerkraut .
Also i don't think salt is bad for calcium, but if you're low on magnesium than it can be. Salt is very important for the body

[khticdz]

I'm joining you from Toronto Canada. I'm hoping you will expound on taking calcium supplements and best time to take it. I'm having all the symptoms of calcium deficiency so food alone can't meet my calcium needs. Thanks 🙏

[cynthiajones]

Hello, I’m from Atlanta Georgia. Thanks so much for this great information.😊

[lizcutajar]

Only heard a couple of your videos so far but I find them so informative and so well explained.
I suffer with chest pain from time to time and am wondering re: calcium supplements if it could increase the danger of calcification?
Oh ok I just saw a similar question to mine...just read your answer👍☺️

[artanddesignstudios]

I have unexplained hypercalciuria where my calcium gets excreted in my urine instead of absorbed.

If I don't get enough or take anything that blocks it, my parathyroid freaks out and pulls it from my bones and the pain is excruciating.

Never had a low calcium reading ever bc of that I guess. Makes total sense!

[BBurns-vgom]

Hi Dr Osborne. Should we take calcium tablets if we are low bone density, ? If you take 6 prunes a day is that enough for your Boron intake or should you supplement Boron.❤

[yottie]

Hello Dr Osborne. I’m British living in Marbella, Spain.

[vikrantsdogra]

Doc, you providing hell of important info to us. be blessed. i have one of my client is Hypothyroid and as I know Cruciferous veggies aren't good for them especially uncooked. so what do you recommend? appreciate your insights.

[b.b.finsclara]

I love your videos dr.P. Osbourne!!! Here, from Toronto,

[emmagustavsson]

Hi! Emma from Sweden.Can calsium supplements cause clogged arteries?

[ginamclane]

I haven’t listen to this entire video yet, but I’m hoping your address hyperparathyroidism

[lindintsuntdha]

😮Lindi watching from South Africa. Lam having a problem of having high levels of calcium in my blood

[artanddesignstudios]

What would you suggest for someone who reacts to vitamin c? Even small doses of the sublingual form cause me extreme anxiety.

I react to almost everything even at microdoses due to a homozygous mutation that affects my blood brain barrier. Directly related to this, I also have:

Idiopathic hypercalciuria

Chronic low d even in constant sunlight and with high supplementation of d and k (vdr mutation) on top of D foods

Chronic low potassium (less often than D but recurring often) even consuming the highest potassium foods and low sodium versions that have high potassium. It is still low taking slynd birth control bc it is similar to spironolactone and was for years while taking spironolactone, which I had hoped would at least make it normal for a change lol. Everything was much worse when I was on a combined pill with estrogen.

I also have a covid vaccine injury that completely disabled me when I was barely keeping it together already.

It started with being bedridden for a week, stomach in knots, nausea, vertigo, dizziness, migraines, weakness, fatigue, neurological issues, etc.

It progressed to severe serotonin syndrome within 3-4 months, but I did not know this yet. My dr told me to double my 30 mg cymbalta bc she thought I had MS. I asked for it to be lowered instead bc I felt it was too strong, which is the only reason I figured it out and am not dead today. The next day after one lower 20mg dose I could feel my face and arms again and breathe a little and I stopped urinating on myself.

Just as I was finally reregulating after wds from the cymbalta about 3 months later, I began reacting to everything I ate or drank with palm sized hives and itching so intense all over I wanted to set my skin afire.

I also wasn't much better, still bedridden most of the time, and still had all of the same problems. I learned that serotonin syndrome doesn't cause permanent damage so I knew I needed to keep looking.

That's when I figured out the mcas and realized out I had a lifelong histamine issue, as well as a mthfr mutation. Mthfr was confirmed by my primary. Saw an allergist/immunologist who poo pooed vaccine injury, and the likelihood of mcas since my tryptase was fine and ignored my research and treated me like a nutter. Despite him not being able to figure it out and him obvs knowing anything about histamine other than how it related to regular allergies or even that it also was a neurotransmitter. This is very bssic stuff. I just don't understand. And then to be so arrogant about it too, but whatever. Referred me to rheumatology. No answers from him either, except what I already knew that they all ignore or scoff at.

That's when, 6-7 months after my immediate bad reaction to the vaccine, I finally began connecting all of the dots back to my to the vaccine. Then began finding all kinds of research, case stidies, and links back to the vaccine and covid/lc, as well as the vagus nerve. Long history of neglect, abuse, trauma, and violence since I was in the womb smh.

Then the pots and tachycardia kicked in big time. Then all of the numbness old and new, neuropathy old and new kicked into high gear. More frequent and severe dementia and parksinsons episodes. Quadraparesis. Loss of executive function, etc. Almost complete loss of my hands and arms as well as my feet and legs. All kinds of horrible stuff.

All of my specialists gave up and referred me to vandy or mayo after clear emg/ncv, mri without contrast, and various bloodwork. They all refuse to acknowledge or consider the vaccine at all. I have a couple that will confirm it's possible to me, but not in my files or anything.

I'm positive I have some form of EDS, but no dr will confirm even after doing the points in bad shape and so stiff and swollen and meet the criteria as do my mom and materal aunt as well as grandmother. But I'm not super hyper flexible except in my hips and knees not so much my hands which they tend to look at more, and I don't have stretchy skin (probably bc I'm so swollen and inflamed), but I do have multiple genes related to it and various collagen deficiencies, mostly classic type and 7a. I also have the criss cross marks on my palms and soles. And so many of the odd symptoms since I was a kid too.

Homozygous comt aa which has to be a factor considering that particular vitamin c response is due to it raising norepinephrine levels, etc. I have had drs and nurses treat me horribly for saying I reacted to low or microdose vitamin c, some even told me it wasn't possible. Well, it is bc it happened lol. More than once with no other changes lol. 🤦‍♀️ So that was a very validating find even if they still choose to ignore it. 🙄

Sorry for this being so long. Hypercalciuria was one of my first diagnosis. He just told me to reduce my calcium intake. Had I been given the proper information in 2007, I don't think I'd be in such bad shape even with all of these other factors and the other health issues I have. It's devastating, all of the time I have lost and all of the unnecessary suffering I have had to go through and I hope this can help someone else in some way!

Thank you so much for this!!! Big fan already! 😊