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You know you need calcium when you bite into like a wrap from starbucks and your brittle teeth just fall apart realistically you probably don’t need extra calcium okay we probably are getting enough from the diet the reality is is it’s usually the other minerals that we are deficient in but if you understand how calcium works it can tell us a lot about like when
You need some so i’m going to explain sort of the biochemistry of how a muscle contracts with calcium and how magnesium plays a role there too so you can determine oh maybe i should get a little bit more calcium in whether it’s through supplement form or maybe through some foods okay so we’ll break it all down after this video i do want you to check out thrive
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On this channel they are awesome so inside your muscle you have this thing called the sarcoplasmic reticulum which again sounds like some kind of weird almost horror zone that you don’t want to go into okay but the sarcoplasmic reticulum has a bunch of calcium in it okay and what happens is when you start to contract a muscle when it receives a nerve signal the
Muscle the sarcoplasmic reticulum spits out a bunch of calcium so this calcium leaves the sarcoplasmic reticulum and binds to something called tropomyosin when it binds to tropomyosin it triggers this whole change within our muscles okay and it triggers something else called myosin to bind to something called actin now this is all complicated weird stuff but
Basically this calcium is triggering the chain reaction that allows a muscle to contract once you have actin and myosin touching each other or bound to each other by you know this crossing of proteins then the muscle can contract well what happens is after the muscle is done contracting it releases the calcium and the calcium comes back into the muscle okay well
And then it repeats the cycle all over again but when calcium is not binding to those receptors outside of the sarcoplasmic reticulum magnesium is okay so magnesium is present when your muscles are relaxed and the second that a muscle is contracted it’s calcium related so a lot of times you are having too much calcium right where you are like constricted all the
Time and you’re you’re contracting and you’re cramping so a lot of times it’s not that you need to reduce your calcium when you’re cramping it’s that you need to possibly increase your magnesium now a general rule of thumb to know here slight digression is that magnesium cramps are usually going to come later on after like a workout they usually come in the middle
Of the night like a magnesium cramp will hit your leg in the middle of the night whereas a potassium related cramp which is a different story usually happens like during a workout so if you get immediate cramps during a workout probably potassium related but what does it feel like if you’re low in calcium well have you ever had those workouts where you feel like
You’re just not able to contract you’re not able to send a signal from the brain to your muscle like you just feel kind of weak and and kind of just dead that is generally a calcium-related thing and usually again it’s usually about having so much calcium that your body has unbound calcium and bound calcium that’s not doing its proper job so even when you are
Potentially deficient in calcium it’s probably not manifesting in the way that you think okay it takes quite a bit to become deficient in calcium it’s usually just a off-kilter ratio of magnesium to calcium so the three things you kind of want to watch out for to indicate that yes you might be having a little bit of a calcium imbalance it might be time to take a
Calcium supplement okay one is going to be you neurologically just cannot get stimulated in the brain like you cannot get your brain to fire i’m not talking about motivation i’m talking about just that sharpness that edgness that you would normally get okay the next one is going to be again just not being able to contract your muscles not being able to feel it not
Being able to feel like you’re connecting with your muscle feel like it’s so constantly in a relaxed state because remember calcium is involved in that triggering in that contraction so if you’re not feeling that contraction well that’s a good indicator if it’s that extreme it’s a good indicator that you probably need to add more calcium i would never recommend
Adding more than like 100 to 200 milligrams of calcium at a time because it is what is called excitatory it can stimulate you to be almost too tonic and too like tight and too contracted all the time which is exactly what we’re trying to avoid when we take magnesium another thing that you might notice is like it’s a little bit anecdotal is this extra thirst all
The time this is anecdotal and i haven’t found any clinical evidence on this but it makes some sense right the reason you might feel extra thirsty when you are deprived of calcium is simply because you are having such a concentration of calcium you’re having such a concentration of other minerals that it’s throwing off some of the nerve signaling so it’s throwing
Off this signal that you might feel a little bit more thirsty now that doesn’t mean every time you get thirsty you need calcium it’s just one of those things when it’s combined with that inability to contract a muscle that you might feel so the bottom line is outside of testing calcium stores outside of bone density outside of those things there’s not a lot of
Things that tell us that we are deficient in calcium but it can happen in an acute level during a workout but generally speaking you’re going to excrete more magnesium potassium and possibly sodium than anything else the first thing that i would recommend if you feel like you’re deficient in calcium before even adding calcium in is actually add sodium in because
That’s going to help hold some of those other minerals in but if you look at a lot of electrolyte products you typically find that they usually have sodium potassium and magnesium they don’t add calcium in because most of the time when we’re talking about exercise related mineral deficiencies or mineral loss we’re not losing calcium we’re usually holding on to
Calcium and it’s making us contract too much so at the end of the day it’s probably not happening but you need to be paying attention either way i’ll see you tomorrow
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Symptoms of Not Getting Enough Calcium By Thomas DeLauer
