Back in the 1980's I went to the #1 Nursing program at a major University. Nutrition was an Elective for doctors, It was a requirement for nurses and pharmacy students. We had only 3 M.D. students in our class. It has not changed much since then. My last doctor argued with me because he said there was no such thing as vitamin K2 when I told him I was taking it with my Vit. D3. Imagine how many of his patients get a massive dose of Vit. D3 when they test deficient but are not told about K2 or the danger of taking Calcium daily (probably CA carbonate).
May I ask what brand of d3 and k2? My doctor told me start taking 2000IU of d3 and 1000mg of calcium. Upon watching this video I’m afraid of taking calcium.
I love my doctor... I now have osteopenia. He told me to get a weighted vest, walk more, and do weight baring exercises. Never promotes a drug, always lifestyle changes, which have all worked so far for me!
You can be very fit from cycling and similar sports where there's little to no load bearing and have osteopenia. Cycling, in particular, is prone to it because any body weight, except in the legs is assumed to slow you down. Racing cyclists crash a lot and which makes monitoring bone density doubly important. Even worse for women cyclists. A good example of professional sports people not being fit in an holistic sense.
@@cuebj you are so right! I was a runner for many years. Then I got older with the usual runners injuries and surgeries. Then when Covid hit, or really before I started to cycle to work. Not weight baring. Then being a white, Irish woman the crap hit the fan! Keep up the good fight. It’s all we can do! ❤️
My cardiologist always warned me to stay away from to much vitamins especially calcium. He told me he had more patients that were sick because excessive vitamin intake than any other condition related to the heart. This last visit he gave me vitamin D every 48 hours Vitamin K and vitamin C and told me to rest one week of not taking any vitamins. When I saw your video I clicked on it right away and I was so happy to hear you say exactly the same thing my cardiologist just told me!!! Love all your videos! Thank you for teaching us so many things about our body 🙏🏻
At menopause I was diagnosed with osteoporosis after 3 months in a cast for leg fracture. Was prescribed lots of calcium supplementation. I refused Fosamax. Then 2 years after I had an emergency visit to hospital with very painful kidney stones. Then I decided to join fitness club and never had kidney stone or fracture ever since. Now 78 years young. Thanks dr Berg.
@@cynthiamartinez3192 Gym 3x a week. Walking 4 km a day. Less gluten. Less white carbs. Reduced red meat. Resveratrol. Vit D. Black seed oil. Happiness.....
@Hughes SignCo Yup. Same for my Mum. The Dr said she needed to take calcium tablets. Ruined her kidneys. She put a lot of trust in her Dr. I prefer the herbal/food route.
I am a Nurse practitioner and Dr. Berg is amazing, I follow his advice all the time because I know he has done his research because I do my own as well.
My doctor had a fit because she said u have osteoporosis and obviously I was not taking the calcium she ordered. I was taking that. That was 20 years ago. I am 74 and so far no bone issues. I walk 5 miles a day and use to run.
My mom got osteoarthrtis and the only her doctor recommended were omega 3 and vitamin C (prescribed based on the lifestyle and age). Change diet, eat a lot of vegetables and fuits, drink a lot of water, walking around, doing gardening (her hobby) and one year later she joined marathon.
Western medicine Drs are not trained in nutrition. That's why there are nutritionists, dietitians and naturopaths. Find a great naturopath and a health food store run by a nutritionist who can offer free advice
@Yuri R. Calcium deficiency is very rare in America, UK and Europe. 95% of people have too much calcium and inadequate magnesium, throwing off the balance needed to build bone.
I mentioned this to my cardiologist and he said calcium supplements don’t build up in the cardiac arteries. However, years before I had a cardiologist, my primary physician sent me for a cardiac calcium score...and I was worse than 75% of women my age. Years before that, I was told by my physician to take calcium supplements. I developed osteoporosis anyway.
Great advice. A few years ago my doctor told me to take calcium along with vitamin D. I was always skeptical about the calcium and never took it. I eat red meats moderately and try to eat healthy. Thanks so much for keeping us informed and why we shouldn’t take calcium. Blessings and be safe.
I am just going into menopause this year (I'm 50yo). So my GP told me to "make sure" I take a calcium supplement. After watching Dr. Berg's videos I ditched the calcium supplement and started taking vit D, K2 and magnesium. (I eat dairy a fair bit anyway). I also have an exercise physiologist who strength trains me twice a week. I can't believe it that even a trained medical doctor has no clue how to treat osteoporosis effectively in this day and age.
At a certain age, living in the city, I believed all the crap we were told about how we must wear sunscreen, even with no sunshine in Melbourne and take calcium supplements as a female to avoid brittle bones etc. I ended up with serious Vitamin D deficiency and all sorts of nasty foot bones problems, which I thought were caused by years of ballet dancing, but they weren't. I stopped the calcium supplements and sunscreen, stopped wearing spongy gym shoes and doing standard gym for a year, just walked around for miles in the sun and did some balletic stretches instead of gym and drank tons of water. My feet I thought had been permanently damaged mysteriously repaired themselves after I stopped the calcium supplente and got rid of gym shoes.
@@cindymyrick7335 Coconut oil is not a sunscreen. Some literally apply oil to tan even more, this will damage your skin even more and cause skin aging.
I've been taking 500 mg of calcium plus D for my osteoporosis as suggested by my PC for the past 10 years. Need to have a talk with her regarding what I've just seen. Thank you Dr. For this video.
The heart foundation needs to make more doctors aware of this vitally important information. I think the link to, and the importance of, "gut health" should also not be under-estimated.
If only doctors do what they are supposed to do unfortunately that's not the case the majority of the time nowadays. Dr Berg we are blessed with your information. May it bring a wave of enlightenment for people's awareness of looking after themselves and a wake up call for the sincere doctors out there
Most Dr's want to keep you a frequent customer for life. They don't want to fix you because then you won't need them. They treat your symptoms and ignore the root causes.
The medical community has lost their credibility from covid and many things before it. Making it normal to inject you or have you digest poisons, routinely removing things that are meant to help you like your tonsils, appendix and gallbladder. The only interest 90% of doctors are to get paid. They don't even uphold their oath to do no harm
most docs nowadays just want our co-pays. (the irony is, one of the vessels in florida a very nice yacht has a name COPAY, can you believe it?) if not for lockdown/covid i'll be visiting them 6X a year (because of my cancer history). in our visit to them, they want us to pay first before they can press their stethoscopes on us. if for some reasons we can't show up on our appointment, we have to cancel it within 24 hours prior otherwise they'll going to bill us just the same. i was complaining about my throat and they (2 docs to be exact) prescribed meds for my tummy. they really don't want their patients to get better.
doctor and dentists still need to learn but don't let the dentists drill make the teeth get hole to get money and in 10 year later a lot of people get damage teeth , all the dentists in Vietnam do that to all people, and may dentists kill all people teeth and doctors also do, and that country isn't good for travel too , do not travel to that place
@Mag but they object to invaluable information that is based on science, information that has saved thousands of lives of which mine is one. Maybe they look like humans, but they act against them.
I have early-stage shelf osteopenia and I told my doctor the other day I will not take any more calcium he looked at me like I was speaking a foreign language
Look into all the things needed for healthy bone and work out what you are missing. I bet you your major issue is actually chronically low magnesium intake....
@@rhondapelletier2141 thanks I know I miss going to the gym with the covid-19 but I do exercise at home and use light weights don't have all the equipment like the gym
@@ursulamullikin4723 you can use a suspension trainer like a TRX and do some additional bodyweight exercises like different push-ups, squats and lunges, maybe some sprints outside. I also miss going to the gym, they are still closed in Prague. 😠
In 1991 I was diagnosed with early osteoporosis. In 1996 I stopped all dairy products. In 2004 the osteoporosis was no longer evident in the x-rays. I still don't drink milk or most dairy products and have little evidence of arthritis or osteoporosis. I eat plenty of vegetables and some meat, hardly any takeaways and no artificial sweeteners or palm fat. My blood pressure is a bit on the high side but blood sugar is low to normal. No cholestrol issues. My general health improved radically when I gave up dairy products.
My doctor and I got into a “discussion” over why I wouldn’t take a calcium prescription. She insisted, I said absolutely not. At every visit, they bring it up. The answer is still no.
But Dr u forgot about Sun rays from which one can get natural vitamin D and calcium by just exposing our bare body to open sunlight every day for one hour. PROF KSK BELGAUM CITY INDIA
Just got diagnosed with Osteopenia and am so thankful for Dr. Berg. I knew what the Orthopedic doctor was telling me about taking tons of Calcium was not going to make things any better.
Dr Berg, I was diagnosed with severe osteoporosis at 44. It runs in my family. I have already had skin cancer surgery and see a derma annually to burn and biopsy other spots. I take Vit D pills, but my Derma advises strongly to wear sunskin. What else can I do since I cant get natural vit D?
In the case of your grandma it's a bit more complicated: Too much calcium in the blood (hypercalcemia) is almost always a result of an enlarged parathyroid gland (there are four in your neck). It's non-cancerous. But removing that enlarged gland almost always results in a cure. Here's the problem: no-one knows why that parathyroid gland became enlarged and overactive. It would obviously be better to understand what is really going on, but in the meantime hypercalcemia can be live-threatening, so the gland is removed. Maybe one day we'll understand more fully.
I almost died from kidney stones from taking calcium daily. I became septic and critical within minutes. It took 2 years for me to recover my strength. Not worth it. I'm a kale fan bigtime. Great videos! Thanks so much!
@@fever3583 Eating Kale (among other cruciferous vegetables) *raw* for a long enough period of time will significantly reduce your thyroid function. It's *common knowledge* amongst nutritionists and nutrition enthusiasts. Kale is very high in oxalate (spinach is the worst), so that could explain @Jane Pedersen 's kidney stones. (The theory though is that if you love high oxalate foods, that you eat those with foods very high in calcium. Don't eat them separately. That way the oxalate crystals will bind with calcium and exit through the feces rather than the oxalate crystals making it into your blood (of which your kidneys filter). On the other hand, Eastern Asian medicine claims (and for good reason) that oxalate in moderation are good for health, as they help to remove excess minerals from the body via the urine. And in fact, your liver makes its own oxalate crystals from l-glycine when needed.)
Water is the most important thing to be careful with. I'm 75. We had an artesian well with pure mineral water 99% so I know the difference. What I now do is use CPAP bottled water and for minerals drink Fiji water. Beware of fluoride. First used in Aushwitz to keep people DOCILE.
Gkynda Pfundston: You’ll notice how heavy a bottle of that calcium is when you pick it up from the shelf. That’s because it’s rock which is tricky for your body to digest.
I have to take Calcium Carbonate because I have to take a prescription drug that stops my estrogen because of breast cancer. Every 6 months I get a calcium infusion. I have to take this prescription for 10 years. My infusion will stop in a year. I also take a Vit D3 too. Never took Vit. K or was told to take it. I eat good healthy dark greens. I use to be a competitive swimmer, rode my bike weekly and hiked a lot. Since BC, my ability to move has almost stopped. My 62 year old body has grown from 115 to 285 lbs. 5’4” height is shrinking too. I just want to die. I hate how I let my body get soooo out of shape. I never was one to take pills, I always ate good. I see my oncologist next month in August. Time to go clean and go back to my 20 year old life style. Forget all these video doctors and my in person doctors. Time to just live!
Dr. Darren Schmidt has an interesting take on this subject as well. He blames "lactic acidosis", whereby the blood, being highly acidic due to excess sugar metabolism, triggers calcium loss in order to balance the body's PH, calcium being alkaline. He observes that many elderly people have serious bone loss, yet have high levels of calcium in their soft tissues, resulting in deteriorated postures with stiff joints and muscles. Answer; lay off the sugar. This simple acton on our part is a cure for countless ailments.
I'm happy I stumbled across this video. By the time I was 50 I had 6 bulging disc 14 vertebrae crumbling and I asked the question why. I've always had a low vitamin D level 2 being my lowest I average around 10 most my life. I did finally start taking vitamin D3. I also have been allergic to milk since birth and with these issues I had my suspicion of why my bones in my back were bad. They did the bone density test I have Osto Pena. They told me to take calcium pills along with D. I had thought this odd because my calcium levels weren't low. Makes more sense D K play into the strength of bones
Rach Kate I take magnesium daily too! Sometimes I take ‘Calm’ which is a powder you mix with water. I have a couple different types in capsule form too. Gotta have it daily!
@@kristymarie6065 just a glycinate is fine for general magnesium related jobs. L-threonate is more for sleep/ anxiety/ depression/ and brain related things. Having said that, the body can send any excess or surplus of L-threonate to anywhere else in the body as it’s the only type that can break the blood-brain-barrier.
I am 62. I was experiencing lots of stress daily and dropped 17 lbs quickly for no apparent reason. No doctors could figure it out. Went to multiple specialists, had so many tests, even went to a womans clinic. No one had a clue. It also affected my memory. I called it brain farts. Meanwhile, I came across an article in a health letter I subscribe to. They talked about symptoms of adrenal insufficiency. They all matched mine. I ordered their supplements and thankfully I finally have more energy, memory is better, and have gained some weight back. That is just after a couple weeks. I also sleep much better. I don't know why not a single doctor tested my adrenals!!!!😶
@@rosemastrosimone3898 Advanced Bionutritionals in the U.S. I also take moringa which seems to make me feel calm. It has over 90 nutrients and is considered the most nutrient dense plant in the world.
UHHH . Get a load of this. I had been feeling burned out for yrs . Like went to E.R FOR PAIN. LING STORY SHORT THEY DID A CT SCAN. U KNOW E.R. YEP AND LOW AND BEHOLD I HAVE A BEGIN TUMOR SITTING ON MY LEFT KIDNEY. YEAG😕.. NO THERE NOT TREATING IT I WAS TOLD BASICALLY MANY PEOPLE LIVE WITH IT. HELL TO THE NAH. YES . FATIGUED AT ITS FINIST. . DIGESTIVE.. HIGH BLOOD . Loss of weight poor appetite .. ...
Well that's great 20 years ago, my OB/GYN insisted at the beginning of my 6 month check up that we must be taking 1,500 mg of calcium to make sure we did not get osteoporosis when we age. Now I have soft tissue calcium deposits in multiple locations.
My doctor is a specialist in this area and he recommended calcium ionic or ionic calcium rather. It's very highly absorbable and you don't have to take very much it's an in liquid form.
Glad I saw this! I was taking it more for acidemia, than osteo. It works better than bicarbonates. I had osteo by 65 but took the best calcium supplements every day religiously, with Magnesium and D. I walked 4 dogs once a day and excercized 3x week- for 40 years, so calcium supplementation is obviously not the problem. I'm also a vegetarian and live on greens. So, just leaves genetics.
@Rada 008 That might be the case where you live, but in Europe Soy it is not GMO. I don't say you should drink soy milk, but don't claim that something is everywhere the same, because it isn't.
Just wanted to say thank you for this information . I am a retired nurse. I have been trying to find a Calcium supplement that I would be comfortable taking. I believe and trust God . I will not be looking for a supplemental that I do not need. Will follow your advise . K2 diet change and exercise. I am already on D3. Thanks again. BTW I already have a heart ❤️ condition.
@@rickdouglas8286 , two surgeries...one adenoma removed, then 2 more hyper-plastic para’s removed. One left which leaves me with hyperplasia...a lifetime condition.
Excellent video, Dr. Berg! I was wondering if you think that my taking lots of calcium supplements in the past may have contributed to me getting congestive heart failure?! Since you talk about a lot of calcium buildup in the arteries leading to heart attacks and stroke!!! Thank you very much, Dr. Berg!
For anyone with a little Medical or pharma knowledge knows this fact. Main cause of post menopausal OP is nither calcium nor vitamin D3, its estrogen deficiency.
I have Osteoporosis too, at age 83. I take 2000 units if vitamin D. every day. I started to take calsium without asking Dr. I am diabetic,went for my blood test. ( every 3 months ) Dt got results, and told me to stop , as I had too much in my system. PS, don’t take anything without asking your Dr. I live in Vancouver Canada. 🇨🇦❤️
Thank you for sharing. My mom started watching your videos that are translated to Russian and has started exercising recently. :) I hope her health improves.
I use arsenic alb30 camphora30. My city police commissioner has given arsenic alb 30and camphora 30 to all his staff. It is recommended by many doctors. Please consult a doctor before taking any medicine.
Great video! Although what you forgot to mention is that osteoporosis is due to silica depletion. You see, silica is required for the bones to mineralize such as calcium. Osteoporosis is simply a loss of collagen of the bones due to lack of silica and vitamin C, both of them restores collagen and elastin. Silica is a piezoelectric material that generates electricity under pressure. When the collagen matrix is stressed, which applies pressure on the silica molecules, an electrical current is generated that electrodeposits minerals in to the collagen matrix. This allows bone to gain density. As a component of collagen and elastin, silica also aids in giving bone its flexibility, and therefore much of bone's strength and shock absorption. Without silica, the bones would be unable to mineralize, and even if the bone could mineralize it would easily fracture like a piece of chalk. Silica aids in the absorption of calcium, and displaces the heavy metal lead, which is detrimental to bone. Although calcium is better known as an important nutrient for bones, silica is actually the most important nutrient for proper bone health and strength. Decreased silica levels leads to poor bone mineral deposition in bones, and loss of flexibility and shock absorption, increasing the risk of fracture. So best I recommend would be either butcher's broom herb, bamboo stalks or diatomaceous earth food grade (DE), for DE you add a fullspoon in gallon container filled with water and let it sit there for 3 to 5 days to settle, this is because silica converts to organic silica form called orthosilicic acid which gets very absorbed in the body. The same thing how silica gets converted to orthosilicic acid by our stomach acid. You simply drink the water without disturbing the DE since that water has trace amount of orthosilicic acid. That is how you do it.
@@iwantthetruthandnothingbut6521 You are most welcome! Yes a lot of people don't know about silica or silica hasn't been mentioned so much these days unfortunately.
@@caramelobear1952 You are most welcome! Silica is the number 1 most important nutrient to fix issues like osteoporosis or even premature aging skin, osteoarthritis, especially COPD, many doctors claims that COPD cannot be cured, but if people understand the deepest part of physiology is that COPD is a breakdown of both collagen and elastin of the alveoli, so how do you restore these 2? Silica and vitamin C. That is how you do it.
When I had my hip fracture (aged 49), I was told then I had osteoporosis. They put me on calcium carbonate which I took for a while until I read up about it. I then bought my own non-carbonate calcium. However, having had a femur fracture since then I have twice been given an infusion for my bones. it's only recently that I found out it was calcium carbonate. I feel so mad that they didn't tell me this, leading me to believe it was a superior form of calcium.
That was excellent information, I have degenerative osteoporosis and arthritis. I never heard of vitamin K2 until now. I will definitely try it. Thank you 4/26/21 Myra Dennison
I started taking calcium carbonate and after a few weeks it hurt when I peed. I immediately stopped. A friend of mine ended up with kidney stones and her doctor had her stop. I stick to eating leafy greens and impact exercises.
No vitamin C amounts can increase tendency to kidney stones!!! Actually calcium carbonate it's the safest kind of calcium. It gets absorbed less than the other types. It mostly will come out in the poop. So don't take too much, resulting in constipation, Maybe.
@@lloydbishun6713 Not according to personal experience. Theory doesn’t always work in real life unfortunately. Calcium is best absorbed from food like leafy greens. Maybe it depends on the person’s own kidney function and water intake.
.. Yes, a lot of mis.information and disinformation regarding calcium supplementation been circulating already.. and there you are.. giving us a free education on these health-related issue.. so thanks much for this relevant information Doc.. God bless 👌😊
Dr. Berg, I can't thank you enough for everything you are sharing with us. Thank you. I'm gonna share this with my mother because she is a die hard fan of calcium.
Absol true - I cudn’t walk with my osteo knee and rickety bones w loss of estrogen - vit d and k has made me a diff person - and so quickly! Great advice Dr B 👏👏👏
Dr. Berg is the greatest. He's always been way ahead of the curve when it comes to health and fitness. Nevertheless, Dr Berg left out some important points. It really is more about exercise and here is why. There was a famous study that was done. They measured the bone density in professional baseball pitcher's arms and found that the pitching arm had three times the bone density as the non-pitching arm. This tells you two things. One, the importance of exercise for bone density and two, the importance of bone density in relation to the part of the body that you exercise. Another significant piece of information that Dr Berg left out is telling you what calcium carbonate really is. Calcium carbonate is limestone. Limestone is what is added to sand to make sand harden and turn sand into cement. Now you understand why calcium carbonate causes kidney stones, heart attacks, and strokes. It's literally hardening the inside of your body. The last significant point is that it's not about getting too much calcium. It's all about the type of calcium you consume. You can get all the calcium you want from green plants and other natural sources of calcium and it's not going to cause kidney stones, heart attacks, or strokes. And now you know the rest of the story!
Thanks!! Unfortunately docs wont take the extra 3-5mins to explain this to patients. Seriously!! The $$ dictates their practice. Im cynical having worked in medical field > 40 Years with Numerous doctors. The good 1s Few. VERY sad!!
i find it hard to believe that drinking unfortified milk alone could cause hypercalcilemia. It's a combination of milk and calcium supplements, not just milk alone.
Dr Erik I like so much how you explain in your video because it's important for ordinary people who don't know everything about the situation or sickness they have, really appreciate 🙏❤💙💚🙋♀️
I know it's been over a year, but I wanted to mention that (if you didn't find this out already) it's about "elemental" magnesium and calcium that's available in the supplement. So magnesium citrate doesn't have the same percentage of elemental magnesium as magnesium oxide, magnesium glycinate, etc. If you google "aafp Therapeutic Uses of Magnesium" and select the first search result, Table 2 shows the elemental magnesium percentages from magnesium oxide and magnesium citrate, for example. And if you google "mayoclinic healthy-lifestyle nutrition-and-healthy-eating in-depth calcium-supplements achieving the right balance" then, under the heading Types of calcium supplements is a "table" of elemental levels of calcium in four different calcium supplements. I believe the optimal ratio for calcium-phosphorus-magnesium is 2:2:1. (It's important to consider phosphorus too, when talking about bone health. And other minerals like manganese, zinc, and copper . . . in addition to vitamins like K2 as mentioned in the video.)
not enough said about actual "load " bearing weight / resistance training / diet / sleep life style that demands actual consistent and progressive HARD WORK to remind the body to keep bones stronger for the needed support for the load bearing "life" you must lead. even "Silver Sneakers" has you moving but . . . NO. You most likely never challenge yourself . . You may also preserve muscle mass and strength. When looking at the multiple components of what can constitute a diagnosis for "Frailty' and sarcopenia, and you should, you'll turn off the computer, tell Alexa to shut up and then get to work. Modern life makes things way too easy- and complacent, saggy-baggy, fluffy-flabby not so golden oldies are waddling around everywhere
Thank you Dr. Berg for sharing your knowledge. I’m new to your page but am so grateful to have found it. I’ve been to so many physicians & not one wants to listen to alternatives to their very dangerous medications. Knowledge is power…thank you🙂
Just wanted to say thanks for listening to us about the format. Having the info up the whole time is fantastic, but the subtle facial expressions which highlight important data points was an unexpected feature missing in the 2-shot experiment. Really appreciate just how much you’ve helped change all of our lives for the better. Success story: 2-weeks in to consuming 2-3 tbsp each of unfortified nutritional yeast and organic spirulina has allowed me to stop my 10-year kolonopin rx in its tracks, cold turkey. One day I woke up and the anxiety that had plagued me for a decade was simply gone. I am about to become a crusader for B-vitamin awareness! (Edit: IF 20:4, Keto, 45 M, 6’ 225... down from 310 12 months ago)
Doctors always prescribe plant D2 and Calcium. They never recommend taking K2. Need both Mk-4 and Mk-7 versions of K2 as well not just one or the other
Can osteoporosis or the effects of it be reversed? You talked about how to avoid it but not if/how it can be reversed. Please do another video on this!
