The balancing act between, calcium & magnesium, sodium & potasium, copper & zinc
Your body will balance itself no matter what you think, do or say. This is one of the many things they don’t teach us in school. And not much is written about it.
For instance, your body insists the calcium in your body be balanced with the magnesium in your body. Well, everybody’s heard about taking calcium to protect your bones, so we take extra calcium not realizing that it may not be doing us any good. Most of us have a magnesium deficiency. As long as your magnesium level is low, your body will keep dumping calcium out of the body until they balance. Well, not entirely. Some of the calcium seems to get lost on the way out and ends up where it doesn’t belong-in our arteries. It appears we get enough calcium through diet and shouldn’t supplement with calcium at all, and what is really needed is extra magnesium so that our bodies will us the calcium we already have in our diet.
There’s also the deal where the body wants to balance sodium and potassium. When you swear off salt, your body dumps potassium, which raises your blood pressure. So the doctor says to really, really cut out salt, which ends up lowering your potassium even more. and thus increases your blood presssure. Ditch table salt, though. They process the life out of it, then bleach it, then add bad stuff to it. Use sea salt. You get good sodium-plus more than 80 trace minerals our bodies need.
And how about copper and zinc? They also have a ratio to maintain. But birth control pills-and other sources of bogus estrogen really raise women’s copper levels big time and effects our copper/zinc ratios. A whacked out copper/zinc ratio leads to thyroid problems big time. Half the population has thyroid problems, but most don’t know it.
So what do we learn?
Magnesium will help your body take up and use calcium. If you have a calcium problem, it might mean you are lacking magnesium. Try it and see if it helps.
If you have a potasiuim problem, (thnik high blood pressure) it might mean you need a little more sodium in your diet. Try it with your potasium and see if your HBP reduces.
If you have thyroid problems due to high copper levels, take extra zinc and see if you feel better.