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["Wendy" <crazygardens AT verizon.net>]

Taking calcium by itself will only cause the extra calcium to wind up places 
you don't want it like stones of calcium deposits.  Our bodies can't use 
calcium by itself.  It needs magnesium as a co-enzyme to put it into a 
useable form.  Vitamin D is also used in a later step.  Magnesium deficiency 
is the most common cause for arterial damage also.  People who drink very 
soft water or do not eat enough veggies (or eat only store veggies that are 
grown in depleted soils that have been re-fertilized with chemical 
fertilizer) often have magnesium deficiencies.

Wendy


> O.K., good example of what you are talking about.  We were just talking
> about Bev and the possible kidney stone.  There are numerous studies that
> show that folks who get kidney stones (the calcium type) are more likely 
> to
> get another stone if they take calcium in pill form BUT not if they get it
> in natural form (and I do mean natural, which most dairy products can't
> really be called, so sweet potatoes, beet greens, tomatoes [particularly
> paste], clams, beans, blackstrap molasses, squash, etc.).  Naturally
> occuring calcium is great for the bones, etc. and doesn't bind with the
> oxylates to form stones.  HOWEVER, you won't hear a doc telling his
> peri-menopausal patients to eat their beet greens, lots of beans and fish.
> Noooooo, he'll prescribe a pill, particularly now that Big Pharma has 
> gotten
> in on the bandwagon.  Even though if he took two seconds to think about it
> he'd realise that the rise in incidence of kidney stones in American women
> is more than most likely directly the result of women being encouraged to
> take their calcium in pill form!
>
> Lynda
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "roxann" <roxann AT ancientearthwisdom.com>
>
>
> Yes, I mean the allopathic drugs prescribed by doctors. The reason I don't
> trust them is because our bodies did not evolve to recognize them as they
> have with plants and herbs. A prescription drug isolates one compound or 
> one
> component of what makes a plant effective (if it is a plant-based drug), 
> and
> then synthetically reproduces it. Herbs contain dozens or more components
> that work together to bring about a change or make an effect, and even
> though sciences identifies one or two of them as the 'active' ingredient,
> they all work together and i don't like separating out the 'active'
> ingredient. For example, the plant once used in a lot of diet products,
> ephedra, has a component that brings about the desired metabolism 
> increase.
> That's the one identified as "active". It also has other components that
> counteract that component and helps to keep actions in the body more
> balanced. When only the active ingredient is separated out and used, it
> causes all kinds of health issues and now the herb has been labeled as
> "dangerous and bad". But if the whole herb is used for the things it is 
> good
> for, opening sinus and bronchial passages, for example, it is not 
> dangerous
> when used with restraint and common sense. Unless of course, you are 
> already
> on medications that might interact with it and intensify the effect it
> causes.
>
>
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