More about Magnesium & "Vitamin" D deficiency and the connection to excess Calcium in body tissue - "Kidney disease requires magnesium", by Dr. Carolyn Dean

"....Elevated calcium and phosphorous trigger an alarm in the endocrine system which responds by trying to keep calcium and phosphate serum concentrations in balance. However, elevated PTH (parathyroid hormone), even though it does decrease phosphorous, also increases calcium. Vitamin D3 made in the kidney, will decline, and that decreases calcium. So there is a great push and pull in the midst of all these balancing mechanisms. As kidney disease progresses, the rise in serum calcium and phosphate leads to calcification in soft tissues, particularly in blood vessels....

...Modern Medicine is also all agog about the newly-discovered hormone that regulates phosphate. Fibroblast growth factor (FGF-23) acts on the kidney in two ways. It causes the kidney to excrete phosphate bringing those levels down and it regulates vitamin D3 production, which adjusts phosphate absorption. Here again, they don't mention that vitamin D3 is also going to absorb lots more calcium bumping out magnesium in the process...."

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