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EXCESSIVE CALCIUM INTAKE CAN
CAUSE OSTEOPOROSIS
(© 1 July 2013:
Dr.V.M.Palaniappan, Ph.D.)
I read with
great interest a news feature that appeared in The Star (Star Educate, Sunday, 30 June 2013;
p.3) reported by Royce T.G. Tan.
The article has
highlighted the so-called beneficial effects of taking ‘plenty’ of calcium for
the prevention of osteoporosis in menopausal women.
According to
the researchers in University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), University Putra
Malaysia (UPM), and Cornell University in USA, consuming a fermented soybean
food item called tempeh, which is a Malaysian delicacy, has the potentials that
equal milk, in its calcium content.
Therefore, they
are of the opinion that if the menopausal women can take tempeh as a
supplement, they may not suffer osteoporosis.
They are of the
opinion that Malaysian women require an intake of 1000 mg of Calcium daily, and
that they are currently consuming only 30 to 60%.
According to
them, the elderly women in Malaysain rural areas have been taking less than
500mg, and often in the range of 200 to 300 mg per day.
While screening
200 women aged between 55 and 65, they had traced that some 133 had low bone
density.
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A BIG irony appears to prevail here.
Even before I can elaborate on the
‘misunderstanding’, let me quote a few scientists who have studied the role of
calcium in people:
Numerous people, since 1930’s have
brought to recognition that REDUCED calcium intake does NOT affect the bone
density or its development in people.
To quote a few, Nicholls and
Nimalasuriya 1939, Walker and Arvidsson 1954, Murthy et all 1955, Hegsted et al
1952, Malm 1958, and Palaniappan 1998, have all.
Recent publications are many in this
area.
I have, in my book “Obesity: Causes,
Cure, and Prevention” (1998) elaborated with adequate citations the
redundancy and dangers that are associated with excessive intake of calcium.
When excessive calcium accumulates
within the body, especially in children, it is called “idiopathic
hypercalcaemia”.
This condition can bring about loss of
appetite, vomiting, wasting, constipation, flabby muscles, facial bulge,
etc. can occur.
For more information on all these, you
may want to refer to my book “The True Causes
of All Dieseases” (2008), as well as my ALL other books.
The calcium concentration of plasma,
urea and cholesterol may get raised.
The blood pressure too can get raised.
Abnormal calcification can occur heart
and kidneys.
Mental retardation and brain damage
beyond repair can also occur.
The above are the findings reported by
Forfar and Tompsett 1959, Mitchell 1967,
Leitch 1964.
At this, even before we can understand
the effect of excessive calcium intake by the menopausal women, I would like to
‘dramatise’ a picture for an easy understanding of the phenomenon:
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Let us do the following experiment, by way of analogy to understand
the situation:
Let us say that you can hold in your hands a maximum of 30 kgs. of
weight.
Accordingly, you are holding a rock that weighs 30 kgs.
At this, what would happen if I add just one more kilogram weight?
Would you drop just that extra one kilo, or would you drop the entire
31 kgs.?
Doubtlessly, you would drop off the entire load!
Similar result occurs when our body is over-loaded with EXCESSIVE
Calcium.
The body does not just reject the excess and keeps the needed
quantity. But, it throws off the entire lot!
This is how ALL the AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES OCCUR in human / animal, or
even in plant body.
When a person (often a child) takes far too much of SWEETS, and
when the intake goes beyond body’s tolerance limit, the brain WITHDRAWS its
insulin production altogether, and that results in the death of the T-cell in
the pancreas, giving rise to what is called “Insulin-dependent Diabetes mellitus
Type-1”, otherwise called “Juvenile Diabetes”.
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The following sequence occurs in pre- and
post-menopausal conditions in women:
While a woman is fertile, substantial quantities of
calcium goes out of the body regularly at monthly intervals as part of the
menstrual fluids.
In addition to the regular removal of the calcium
excesses through the woman’s day-to-day urinations, this menstrual losses help
to very great extent in taking care of the calcium balance in the body of a
women.
When a woman enters into her menopausal stage, along
with the cessation of menstrual discharges, the regular losses of the calcium
excesses too stops, thus allowing its retention and accumulation within the
body.
Such accumulated calcium is retained in the cells of
various tissues / organs within the body, an that contributes to an increase in
the size (leading to hypertrophy initially and hyperplasia subsequently) of
EACH cell, tissues, and organs, and also the overall weight of the entire
menopausal woman.
It is common sight to see menopausal women putting on
weight and turning ‘plump’ month after month, with effect from the date of the
cessation of menstruation.
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In other words,
a menopaused woman would keep on accumulating calcium, month after month.
By right, such
women should REDUCE their calcium intake though food. If they did so, they would continue to
maintain their ‘original’ body weight and size.
However, what
happens nowadays appears to be different, in the following manner:
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With the false
assumption, menopaused women are ‘threatened’ and told to take more calcium.
Such increased
consumptions, along with the accumulations due to their stoppage of the
menstrual losses, ADDS on to an alarming extent to the body’s retention of
calcium.
This soon
reaches a level that is beyond the tolerance capacity or limit of the body.
If such a
condition is allowed to continue further, then, it would result in the woman
developing lumps, tumours and cancers, thus resulting in the death of the body.
(See
Palaniappan, V.M., 2010: Cancer: Causes, Cure and Prevention” for more and
elaborate information and evidences on this.)
In order to
protect the woman’s body from such mishaps, the brain secretes abundant LACTIC
ACID (similar to what happens when a person develops muscular cramps whenever
blood flow gets impeded), so that the acid can remove the calcium by
neutralizing it.
The continuous
flow of the acid dissolves, not only the calcium that is in excess, but also
the calcium that is contained in the bones, teeth, nails, and the like.
This phenomenon
is identical to what I had described above relating the dropping off of the
whole lot of weight from the hands, when just an extra kilo weight (beyond
tolerance) is added.
This results in
Osteoporosis.
Under such
conditions, if the menopaused woman takes more calcium either through
calcium-rich food items such a milk, tempeh, ikan bilis or other fishes
and seafood, or through extra calcium supplements, she is bound to develop
osteoporosis much sooner, and probably die of it, too.
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Another very interesting finding is (see
Palaniappan, V.M. 2012: Menses, Menopause, and Osteoporosis”):
We know very well that regular urinations remove
nearly all the unfixed, free-floating calcium excesses from the body.
When a woman, a menopaused woman in particular,
under-urinates, the calcium that is supposed of get leached out of her body
several times daily, would stay within, and would end up becoming very great
quantities of calcium EXCESSES.
This would undeniably SPEED UP the development of
osteoporosis.
If the woman frequently consumes tempeh (or other
calcium-rich items), needless to say that the damage would occur MUCH MORE
RAPIDLY.
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At this, in the interest of the public,
and in the name of science and research, it may not be improper for me to
highlight a point here that is worthy of mention and relevant to the subject
matter that is being discussed.
Apart from other researchers, I have
found and established that accumulation of excessive calcium within the body of
a person, whether that is due to excessive consumption of calcium or due to
UNDER-URINATION, swells up all the cells in the soft tissues, thus makes the
face bulged (besides several other parts of the body) – what is often cited by
poets as “moon-shaped beautiful round face”, which in fact, as I have observed
through my studies, makes the person over-weight and obese, and can give rise
to morbid obesity.
Morbid obesity can contain one or more
of the following, besides several others: white discharges, lumps, cysts,
fibroids, tumours, erratic menses, female sterility, (in males, the sperms
become larger in size, besides dwindling the number), serum iron inadequacy,
and the like.
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The story that
appeared in the STAR newspaper and the photographs of the researchers can be
viewed through the following link:
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Now, after having read all the above scientific
facts, would you still go for consuming MORE OF THE CALCIUM-CONTAINING FOOD
ITEMS as per suggestions put up in the research paper cited at the beginning of
this article?
I often used to say to all my patients the
following two:
‘ANYTHING IN EXCESS WILL BE DANGEROUS”
and,
“WHATEVER YOU HEAR FROM WHOM SOEVER IT MAY,
PLEASE EVALUATE THE TRUTH IN IT BEFORE ACCEPTING
IT”
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Well friends,
I am sorry for
not putting up any article in our BLOG for the past one month.
A few people
have been prompting me to ‘write soon.’
I was busy
conducting my Group Therapy programs (in my clinic, in Kuala Lumpur) for those
who have been waiting for it.
Now that I had
a break, I thought of putting up this, of course, only after reading the
article in the newspaper this morning, and feeling a lot uneasy about it.
I will be happy
if you find this useful to you for evaluating the truth behind some of the
research findings.
Please do not
forget what somebody had said a few years ago that “drinking beer is good for
your heart”.
I definitely
believe you will be benefitted by reading my latest book “Menses, Menopause,
and Osteoporosis”. It costs only RM15.00 in Malaysian bookshops. (If you can’t
find it, please contact me through my e-mail: vmpalaniappan@gmail.com)
I hope you will
be cautious in believing things.
With best
wishes,
Dr. Palani, Ph.D.
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