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One of the hazards of being a man today is that of penile fibrosis, along with general calcification of the arteries.
And there are a lot of studies that show a high correlation between coronary calcification and erectile dysfunction.
Knowing that there’s a relationship, it makes sense to find out how to reduce that coronary calcification.
So now here’s a study showing that taking more calcium may lower the calcium that’s in your arteries.
There are good points and bad with every study.
For this study, the good part is that they show what happens with men who have high calcium in their diets versus low calcium.
The bad part is that the researchers also pretend to study high and low magnesium intake.
But they don’t.
Because the research doesn’t study people taking enough magnesium to make a difference.
The difference between the high magnesium group and low magnesium group wasn’t very high.
But even with the limited magnesium levels studied, they had some interesting findings.
We’ll discuss those in a bit.
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We can appreciate this study for its information on calcium, though.
The study showed that the more calcium you consume, the healthier you are.
As I’ve shown you in a past newsletter, higher calcium often helps.
So what does high calcium mean to your health?
Well, it lowers parathyroid hormone.
And we know that lowering parathyroid hormone promotes better health.
Also, higher calcium helps to offset the damage from our high phosphorus diets.
Both meat and grains are very high in phosphorus, but they’re low in calcium.
But high phosphorus is very hazardous to your health.
So we need additional calcium to oppose all that phosphorus.
As you can see, people consuming more than 1599 mg of calcium per day had a “hazard ratio” of 0.70.
That means that they had a chance of dying in a particular period of years equal to 70% of those people who are “normal.”
In other words, they had a much better shot at living longer than those who consumed less calcium.
And the people who had high magnesium AND high calcium maintain that lower hazard ratio.
Extra magnesium and calcium can be extremely helpful in living longer and healthier.
This study was done only with men in Sweden, and it’s not a bad study — it gives researchers a good place to start.
Other than the fact that they didn’t raise magnesium levels that much, the study supports more research into the relationship between calcium and magnesium.
And as far as calcium is concerned, the data are pretty sound.
It indicates that we should be increasing calcium intakes.
Doing that will lengthen our life.
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/171/7/801/86417/Dietary-Calcium-and-Magnesium-Intake-and-Mortality
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