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"This data and the previous meta-analyses suggest that calcium supplementation may increase cardiovascular events," Dr. Rick Adachi, an osteoporosis specialist at McMaster University, told CTV News. "And that while a little bit of supplementation may be OK, high doses and over-supplementation are not."
When the team did further analyses, adding data from 13 other trials involving 29,000 women in total, they also found consistent increases in the risk of heart attack and stroke associated with taking calcium supplements -- with or without vitamin D.
"What we're suggesting is that we should move away from using supplements and instead, we should be encouraging people to get their calcium from their diet," he says.
"We should rely on our diet to source our calcium. And for people who are at a high risk of fracture, they should be relying on medicines to decrease their fracture risk, not taking supplements," he said.
Originally posted by alfa1
Am I in a parallel universe here?
A study says "dont take pills, but get your nutrients the natural way, from eating well".... and you cry conspiracy?
I would have thought the opposite would be true, if the study had said "dont bother eating well, but get your nutrients from pills".
This place never fails to amaze me.
Originally posted by sepermeru
How would big pharma benefit from people taking fewer pills, exactly?
Also, is the vitamin industry non-profit now -- did I miss something?
Originally posted by unityemissions
Originally posted by sepermeru
How would big pharma benefit from people taking fewer pills, exactly?
Also, is the vitamin industry non-profit now -- did I miss something?
They make money off of ill people.
Do you really need me to explain it any more than that?!
The authors suspect that the abrupt change in blood levels of calcium may be what causes the heart attacks and other heart events. As well, high blood calcium levels over the longer term are linked to calcification (hardening) of the arteries.
When the team did further analyses, adding data from 13 other trials involving 29,000 women in total, they also found consistent increases in the risk of heart attack and stroke associated with taking calcium supplements -- with or without vitamin D.
"This data and the previous meta-analyses suggest that calcium supplementation may increase cardiovascular events," Dr. Rick Adachi, an osteoporosis specialist at McMaster University, told CTV News. "And that while a little bit of supplementation may be OK, high doses and over-supplementation are not."
Reid believes that the calcium from food would not cause the same problems. Unlike the calcium in supplements, the calcium in food is absorbed slowly over many hours, so that blood calcium levels hardly change at all, Reid says.
Originally posted by unityemissions
reply to post by sepermeru
I'm not going to give you a full response. You're being manipulative, and I don't want to play.