Calcium is the number one alkaline mineral (meaning it is the most alkaline of the minerals, the eight alkaline minerals, that is). The body’s bones, skeletal system, and teeth are primarily made up of calcium and thus the body require adequate amounts of this mineral to sustain the health of the bones, skeletal system, and teeth.

Calcium derives from a Latin word ‘calx’ meaning, “lime.” Calcium is an alkaline earth metal element. Its atomic number is 20; its atomic weight is 40. Its metallic form is white, flammable solid, somewhat harder than lead. Calcium is commonly produced by the electrolysis or by the thermal dissociation of calcium chloride.

Calcium carbonate is the most common calcium compound, which when treated with hydrochloric acid, forms calcium chloride. Calcium is the fifth most abundant element in the human body and occurs mainly in the bone.

The body requires calcium ions for the transmission of nerve impulses, muscle contraction, blood coagulation, cardiac functions, and other processes. It is a component of extracellular fluid and of soft tissue cells. In the United States dairy products are the major dietary sources of this element.

The daily dietary allowances recommended by the Federal Food and Nutrition Board vary from 360 mg for infants to 1200 mg for women 15 to 18 years of age.

More than 90% of the calcium in the body is stored in the skeleton, which constantly exchanges its supplies with the calcium of the interstitial fluids.

The endocrine system controls the concentration of ionized calcium in the plasma. Only a fraction of this amount is ionized and diffusible; the rest is bound to proteins, especially albumin.

About one third of the calcium ingested by humans is absorbed, primarily in the small bowel. Vitamin D, calcitonin, and parathyroid hormone are essential in the metabolism of calcium.” Mosby’s Medical Dictionary, 3^rd edition, p. 186

Now why do I say there is a calcium conspiracy? Well, simply because there is. Mosby’s Medical Dictionary gives it away in its definition that “In the United States dairy products are the major dietary sources of this element.”

Dairy (cow snot) as the primary dietary source of calcium? Dairy is a foreign substance to the human body. The body does not recognize dairy products. This is why consumption of dairy makes white blood cell count rise. When white blood cells increase, it’s a sign of a foreign substance in the body and the body is attempting to protect itself from the foreign invader.

Dairy products are greatly implicated in cancer and cause a host of other degenerative diseases, especially those involving mucus (and thus making certain inflammatory diseases end with the suffix “itis” which means ‘inflammation’).

With all the dairy products Americans consume, especially females, we shouldn’t be faced with any diseases pertaining to lack of calcium, i.e. bone loss, osteoporosis, fragile bones, etc. However, the facts show that America leads the world in incidences of osteoporosis. What’s up with that? How can this be considering all the dairy (and thus calcium) we’re getting?

Considering the words of James F. Balch infra:

“People in the United States consume more dairy products and other foods high in calcium per capita than the citizens of any other two nations on earth put together. We even have orange juice and antacids that are fortified with calcium. Yet we eat far less total food, take in less calcium, and get less exercise that stimulate bone growth than our grandparents did. At the same time, we consume more animal protein and phosphate-containing foods such as soft drinks. Perhaps not surprisingly, therefore, we also have the world’s highest rates of osteoporosis and bone fractures among elderly people.”

How can a people who consume inordinate amounts of calcium lead the world in osteoporosis and bone loss? Something doesn’t add up unless you understand that there are two types of minerals – (1) oxide, and (2) phosphate, or inorganic and organic respectively, and humans must consume the right type or kind in order to thrive health-wise.

The right kind of calcium is organic calcium or bio-calcium (derived from plant sources) and not calcium carbonate, calcium lactate, calcium citrate, or calcium gluconate. Calcium phosphate is organic calcium and thus 100% digestible, absorbable, and assimilable.

Do some research on the calcium supplement you’re (if you are taking a supplement). I guarantee the brand will contain either carbonate, lactate, citrate, or gluconate of calcium. If the calcium supplement is white in color, you know you’ve been had because now you now you’re taking elemental calcium and it is only elemental calcium that is white colored, not organic calcium, which is green, the color of plants.

And for the past decade many people have been duped into consuming calcium derived from the coral reefs off the coats of Japan. That’s right! There are certain folks who have resorted to consuming plankton for purposes of attaining dietary calcium. There’s actually a whole industry that robs the ocean of its plankton, pulverizes it and sells it to people under the pretenses of selling them a natural source of calcium.

You can’t eat plankton! It’s too hard! You’ll damage your teeth!

We have been programmed and conditioned to link the color white with calcium. And yes, being technical I know white is not a color but the absence of color, but I’m stating white as a color within this article for the purposes of making a point.

Who says we need 1,600 – 1,800 mg of calcium? Who created this RDA (recommended daily allowance) for calcium? These RDA’s result from experiments and tests on middle age White men which means the RDA for nutrition (nutrients) does a disservice to everyone who’s not a middle aged white man.

While I would agree that white women require larger amounts of calcium, however, African and African-American women do not require large amounts of calcium or the same amount of calcium white women (Europeans, Caucasian) require.

African and African-American women should be more concerned about getting more iron, copper, and thiocyanate into their bodies rather than calcium.

However, getting proper amounts of calcium should not be neglected by African and African-American women. Instead of the RDA of 1,600 – 1,800 mg, 1,000 – 1,200 mg will suffice!

Calcium is Nature’s tranquilizer found plentiful in grass. Animals that consume grass are very calm creatures. Horses, cows, goats, buffaloes, oxen, etc. During menstruation, women lose calcium in addition to many other nutrients. The calcium in the brain is rerouted to the genitalia area to help out with that time of the month. However, once the menses is over with, the calcium doesn’t go back to the brain which is why replenishment is important. That calcium is replenished through diet, mostly green veggies, although many think it is replenished with consumption of dairy products which is incorrect.

When the amounts of calcium (in the brain) lost are excessive due to menstruation, women experience mood swings, medically defined as pre-menstrual syndrome or PMS. Remember, calcium is a tranquilizer.

Ten days before a woman starts her menses, her calcium levels begin to drop, and technically, it is this time that is called pre-menstruation and the effects of lack of calcium results in mood swings and irritability (PMS).

For many women, the irritability and mood swings can last from pre-menstrual to the end of the menstrual cycle, with the irritability and mood swings accompanied with flatulence (gas), abdominal cramping and spasms, headaches, nausea, etc.

A good formula here that can help women with menstrual woes and complaints is our Moon Cycle formula that consists of styptic and emmenagogue herbs.

In addition to Moon Cycle, a woman can take Women’s Formula, Bowel Mover, Nerves Formula, and Emerald Greens Formula during her menses for relief followed by normalization of her cycle making the cycle tolerable and short-lasting, 3-4 days. A woman will experience tremendous results on this herbal regimen. Guaranteed.

Good natural sources of calcium include Horsetail, Oat straw, Comfrey root and leaf, Moringa leaf, Red Raspberry leaf, Alfalfa leaf, Nettles leaf, Wheat grass, Barley grass, Chlorella, Spirulina, and Parsley leaf.

Our Nutrient and Emerald Greens formulas are great organic sources of calcium as well as our Iodine Formula.

Thank you for reading.

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