Calcium, The Low Down and the High Points

The Cancer Pod: Integrative Medicine Talk

99% of calcium is in our bones. The last 1% is a fine balancing act between hormones and nutrients. So how much should you consume? What are the best supplement forms? What foods (besides dairy) have the highest amounts? What if it’s high or low on your lab reports? Tune in and find out as Tina & Leah tell you all about our most abundant mineral, calcium.

• Links to relevant prior episodes:
  Supplements 101: Understanding The Basics
  Dairy: Does it Promote Cancer?
  Bone Health: Survivorsh!t!
  Magnesium: The Goldilocks Nutrient?

Linus Pauling Institute: Micronutrient Info Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Take on Calcium
Pumping up with Hanz and Franz (SNL)
Pump It Up! (Official YouTube Music Video)

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1. Doctor-splaining (00:00:00)

2. Introduction & more Doctor-splaining (00:04:07)

3. When to take supplements, a review (00:05:24)

4. When to take a calcium supplement (00:07:26)

5. Roles of calcium in the body (00:09:32)

6. Acid-Alkaline Balance (00:12:22)

7. Forms calcium in supplements (00:14:42)

8. Coral Calcium- Better? Worse? (00:18:21)

9. Vitamin D + Magnesium (00:21:18)

10. What's the maximum absorbable dose? (00:23:11)

11. That calcium is gonna kill ya! (00:24:11)

12. Sources of calcium... cheese!?! (00:27:33)

13. Anti-nutrients- phytates, oxalates, and lectins, oh my! (00:29:37)

14. Calcium & cancer (00:31:43)

15. Colorectal cancer & calcium (00:32:06)

16. Prostate cancer & calcium (00:32:30)

17. Multiple Myeloma & calcium (00:36:22)

18. Some cancers can cause high calcium (paraneoplastic syndrome) (00:37:23)

19. High or low calcium on labs- can be a red herring (00:38:28)

20. Cancer drugs that lead to calcium deficiency (00:39:11)

21. Interactions (00:40:40)

22. Vitamin K & calcium (00:44:34)

23. Kidney stone concerns and prevention (00:47:31)

24. Tina & Mark Hyman? (00:50:26)

25. Leah, remember our ultimate dream? (00:53:52)