Anyone hear of calcium harming arteries...?

[susancook]

no i was NOT referring to you on this forum...
i was referring to those with degrees to practice as doctors of medicine...
i do not see any doctors who specialize in hormone bio identicals on this forum...
if you have such far reaching knowledge of bio identical hormones.....
as a lecturer, a practioner, etc.....perhaps that should be in
your signature on forum...or perhaps you have a title that goes with it...

and i had no problem with the "veracity" of the information in Ms Somers books on hormones and menopause...
i do not disparage Ms Somer's licensed medical advisors she consults with,
just because they work with her...i do not disparage Ms Somer's knowledge
just because she works in show business...she has done a lot of her own
research in finding doctors who are investigating the field of menopause
and other uses for hormones....
my own experiences with bio identicals and the premarin type stuff before that has taught me a lot about what works and what doesn't work for ME.
i do not give out medical advice...
i was referring to the opinions of doctors who believe bio identicals are superior, are specialists who have written books, and have either done the research or reviewed the results...
.. ..there are many books containing that information sold at my specialists office in Venice, CA

i have never seen you....i have certainly never been your patient!!

why would i have been your patient.? for what reason would i go to you?
...i do not know what you are referring to...
or why you are taking this personally.
i am not you, so i do not need to "be hesitant"... "making generalizations" about what i write about bio identicals, since what i wrote was based on facts...and what i got from my doctors and the research they have been involved with.
i do not claim to be an expert on anything except my own experiences.
i do not claim to be a doctor.

and i know all about FDA approved forms of estradiol...i do not think as highly
of them, nor do my hormone specialists...

jess

I will not make further comments. My credentials as a professional are substantial but not relevant to my being on this forum and there is no need to list them....as I am on this forum as a woman with scoliosis who is worried about future surgery. Susan

[jrnyc]

i started this thread to bring up topic of calcium and arteries and bone
density treatment...

by all the paragraphs of your views on hormones, or your information,
you do not sound like just a scoli patient...and some paragraphs come
across as lectures in my opinion.

i want to look into how much research there is and how good it is on
calcium and it's good and bad impact on female health...
there is enough controversy about forms of estrogen to take up
another thread....i was not trying to get into a debate as to which
form is better.

jess

[Pooka1]

PS: I went to Dr. Hu for a second opinion and her nurse gave me some resources on scoliosis, and told me not to read this forum as there is a lot of misinformation.

This is the understatement of the century. I have been stating for YEARS that this is the case. Having a research section on a forum with 99.999999999% lay people is a recipe for disaster. There has been symphonic levels of nonsense posted about scoliosis, enough to choke 52,000 elephants. We had a person claiming up and down that scoliosis was explained by germ theory despite the fact it bears no resemblance to an infectious disease. It raises cluelessness to a zen art. I became so alarmed that I started posting articles on studies of why people rely on folk science because that's pretty much only what goes on in the research section.

[jrnyc]

OK...but i am not presenting mis information...
i am trying to investigate how calcium has an impact on
arteries...and if anti inflammatory substances, especially "natural"
ones, as in herbal supplements, do something for bone density...

any information anyone comes across on studies of this would
be helpful.

i am NOT looking to contribute to any mis information.
and this thread is not about any person...it is meant to be
about calcium information and the risks vs. benefits of taking it.

jess

[Pooka1]

No Jess I wasn't talking abut you! I have no idea about calcium or hormones.

I was talking about SCOLIOSIS and specifically ETIOLOGY and the antics in the Research Section. The other sections are largely testimonials which are by definition TRUE.

[jrnyc]

the Harvard Health Newsletter mentions this...

The flap comes in the wake of a German study that found a significantly increased risk of heart attack among women taking calcium supplements, but not among those who got their calcium from food. The study appears in the June 2012 issue of the journal Heart.

it also says people should not stop taking calcium based on this study...
but i would guess this is something that will be further investigated...
i do want to look into anti-inflammatories and see what they have to
say about whether they help bone density.

jess