Hey guys, this is Heather from healthyeatingdstartshere.com. For those of you who been watching for a while,
you probably know here I am and that is at Phil’s parent’s place out in the country.
I hear a tractor starting up, so I apologize if there’s a little bit of a background
noise. Today, I want to talk to you about vitamins and nutrient deficiencies, and specifically
the cause of calcium deficiency. Is one of people worry about getting enough through
supplements.
But actually, more common causes are low utilization of calcium and poor absorption once it gets
in your system. When I was little, my mom would pump me full of calcium supplements
or at least she tried, I hated them because I couldn’t learn to swallow the pills.
And those chewable calcium tablets really taste terrible. So, it was always a struggle
for her to enough calcium into me. Now the reason she was trying to get me supplements
is because her, my brother and I – were all allergic to dairy and of course, everyone
tell you if you’re allergic to dairy you got to take calcium supplements, not mentioning
that there’s a lot of calcium in plant foods and it’s much more absorbable.
But anyway, regardless, we were trying to take this calcium supplements. I remember
that one time we resorted to taking thumps for me because these thumps tablets where
fruit flavored, so they tasted better than the calcium ones and they have a little tiny
bit of calcium in there with the anti-acids.
Now looking back, it probably did me more harm than good because I don’t have heartburn
or anything like that. So, this thumps are going down and depressing my stomach acid,
which is actually one of the main causes of calcium deficiency is low stomach acid.
So, I’d be taking this things and probably limiting severely my body’s ability to absorb
the calcium with tiny little bit what I’m getting from those thumps, but also the calcium
that I would have been getting from all of the great foods I was eating.
So it’s really important to look at the root cause of any deficiency and see what
maybe going on your system that causing that before you jump to just taking supplements.
That’s one of the reasons I put together my new health kick start program which if
you haven’t check out already.
Head over to healthyeatingstartshere.com/kickstart and what I wanted to do is help you guys figure
out what are the underlined causes of any kind of deficiency’s or imbalances and specific
symptoms that you might be having. So, I’m pretty excited about that so guy you must
check it out.
And also some other causes of calcium deficiency might be some different nutrients. There are
certain nutrients that help calcium absorption; there are certain nutrients that reduce calcium
absorption. And you also have to look at the quality of the supplement that you are taking
if you are taking one.
Some calcium supplements are really terrible and can actually cause some symptoms of deficiency
just because they are not the right form. So, if you want to check out those head over
to my blog at healthyeatingstartshere.com.
And, I want to hear from you guys and what you’re experiences are with calcium. Do
you think you’re deficient and if you do, do you think it’s a low intake or do you
think that there are some kind of an underlying root cause that you haven’t figure out yet,
or maybe you have figured out, or maybe I gave you a hint there with a low stomach acid
maybe that’s an issue for you.
So let me know leave me a comment and be sure to go over and read about those other causes
of calcium deficiency.