Calcium is the only mineral to have its own regulating gland, the parathyroid glands (they’re the glands near the thyroid but have nothing to do with the thyroid)! Calcium’s main functions are:

1.    To provide electrical energy for your nervous system. The way it does this is to provide the means for electrical impulses to travel along your nerves. Calcium is what your nervous system uses to conduct “electricity”, which is why the most common deficiency symptoms are nervous system ones such as depression, weakness, tiredness – like a power failure.

2.    To provide the electrical energy needed by your muscles, which really just brings us back to the nervous system as it controls the nerves that conduct the electricity into your muscles.  In order for them to function correctly, they need to contract and relax.

Pretty much like a heartbeat. Your heart is just a big ole muscle. It contracts and relaxes. Calcium is what makes it contract to pump blood through your body. That’s why deficiencies in calcium can cause heart and other muscular problems. They can’t contract without adequate calcium. Symptoms can include weakness, muscle cramps or spasms, PMS symptoms, tension etc.

3.    To provide strength for your skeletal system. Most people know that calcium is necessary to build strong bones and teeth. However, your bones actually serve as a good vault, like in the bank where you keep your reserves – a storage depot. When you have sufficient calcium, your body can draw on these reserves when needed.  Any time your body needs calcium your parathyroid glands make a withdrawal to compensate for shortages or deposit excesses back into the vault. Pretty neat, huh?

It’s not only for the prevention of osteoporosis or kidney stones but is vital for life and the prevention of tension, anxiety or stress.

Calcium, the most abundant mineral in your body, is required for muscle contraction, blood vessel expansion and contraction, secretion of hormones and enzymes, and transmitting impulses throughout your nervous system. Your body strives to maintain constant concentrations of calcium in blood, muscle, and intercellular fluids.

It also happens to be the most powerful painkiller there is - far superior to morphine!

Colds, ‘Flu and Polio

Hard water containing calcium bicarbonate (the kind that leaves a calcium deposit in your teakettle) is the best for drinking. Do not confuse this with calcium carbonate. Calcium bicarbonate is completely assimilated and builds your bones by combining with the organic phosphorus (an important mineral) found in grains (we don't encourage the dead refined stuff sold nowadays) and lecithin (an emulsifier) in natural fats.

It is this calcium bicarbonate that is essential in the blood stream to prevent children from becoming susceptible to polio, colds and diseases of childhood which produce fevers.

In fact, calcium bicarbonate deficiency alone can cause a child to have recurrent fever, a fever which disappears at once on the administration of calcium lactate or calcium gluconate (which form calcium bicarbonate after absorption). Calcium deficiency fevers are common in children during the ages of rapid bone growth, especially where the child is getting too much of the cereal foods such as processed dry cereals, without enough hard water calcium. The phosphorus is out of proportion to the calcium bicarbonate intake. Phosphorus needs to be kept in balance with calcium.

Some Calcium Deficiency Symptoms

Symptoms of hypocalcemia (hypo=low + calcemia=calcium) include numbness and tingling in the fingers, depression, stress, insomnia, tension, hyperactivity, inability to “switch off”, muscle cramps, convulsions, lethargy, poor appetite, and abnormal heart rhythms, etc, etc.

And What Of Magnesium?

Whilst calcium contracts your muscles, magnesium relaxes them.

Take the heartbeat example above. The calcium contracts your heart and magnesium relaxes it. That’s how muscles work. If you’re deficient in calcium, your muscles can’t contract. If you’re deficient in magnesium, they can’t relax. Either way is not good.

Magnesium is also needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in your body. It helps your body maintain normal muscle and nerve function, keeps your heart rhythm steady, supports a healthy immune system, and keeps your bones strong.

Magnesium also helps regulate your blood sugar levels – making it vital for diabetics and hypoglycemic people, promotes normal blood pressure, and is involved in energy metabolism and protein synthesis. Magnesium also plays a role in preventing and managing hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes. Magnesium is absorbed in your small intestines and excreted through your kidneys.

Some Magnesium Deficiency Symptoms

Early signs of magnesium deficiency include loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, and weakness. As a magnesium deficiency worsens, numbness, tingling, muscle contractions and cramps, seizures (sudden changes in behaviors caused by excessive electrical activity in the brain), personality changes, abnormal heart rhythms, and coronary spasms can occur. A severe magnesium deficiency can result in low levels of calcium in the blood (hypocalcemia) as well as low levels of potassium (hypokalemia).

Calcium and Magnesium Ratios

Calcium cannot be utilized without its balancing partner, magnesium. They work in tandem. In order for your body to be able to utilize calcium, it needs to be in a 2:1 ratio with magnesium with the correct pH so that they can be absorbed.
Calcium and magnesium are both alkaline and need some kind of acid to be absorbed. Vitamin C or apple cider vinegar does a pretty good job to create an optimum pH.

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That’s why we made Instant CalMag-C the way we did: two parts calcium gluconate with one part magnesium carbonate and vitamin C to ensure that both the proportions and pH are correct. This makes it absorb speedily.

Most people feel the effects within minutes.

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As part of my daily routine, I need to have lots of energy to produce what’s necessary. By lunch time, my metabolism was getting weaker and weaker. Since I started to follow Desiree’s program, I don’t have problems with my metab any longer, even if I don’t do any exercises. This is really great as I now have enough energy – even till late at night!

Also, I used to have problems with sleep before. I could not fall asleep for a long time and this program solved this matter for me. Now, as soon as my head touches the pillow, I fall asleep. In general, I have much more pep!  Previously I was taking vitamins with the viewpoint that it’s needed in general but did not feel that they were doing anything for me.

On this program, I can feel their effect and if there are days that I miss my vitamin intake, I immediately feel the lack of them. I believe that it’s great that we have someone who can help solve problems with the body and thanks to this program, I feel much healthier by 200%. AK, Russia

Your body is largely made of protein; your skin, muscles, internal organs, nails, hair, brain, and even the base of your bones. Only when protein of excellent quality is supplied can each cell function normally and keep itself in constant repair. Since your muscles contain a greater amount of protein than do other body structures, a glance at yourself in the mirror will give you a rough estimate of the adequacy of your protein intake.

Posture

Strong well-nourished muscles automatically hold the body erect. When muscles have not received the food necessary for their repair, they lose their elasticity, like old rubber bands, and posture becomes poor. A mother who says to a child, “Stand up straight,” is complaining of her own failure to provide nourishing food. Without conscious effort a healthy person holds his head high, his chest out, his shoulders and abdomen flat; he has only a slight forward curve in the center of the back. The pelvic bone is almost horizontal, supporting the viscera (the large internal organs of the body collectively, esp those in the abdominal cavity) in the way a large salad bowl holds its contents; the feet have well-defined arches; the step is rhythmical.

It is almost unbelievable how quickly faulty posture can improve. Not long ago I planned a nutritional regime for a sixty-eight-year-old woman. A few weeks later she told me that for the first time in her life it was easy for her to hold herself erect; as a young girl her shoulders were so rounded that she had begged her mother to buy her a brace. It has always been impossible for her to hold herself erect except for a few strained moments, but at last her desire had been achieved. Another case which I found astonishing was that of a three-year-old boy; his chest was sunken; he had an enormous pot belly and feet as flat as a table top. Three months later this child had a high chest, beautifully arched feet, and a total absence of protruding abdomen. The rarity of good posture and a rhythmically, graceful stride tells of our widespread protein deficiency.

Hair and Nails

Since hair and nails are made of protein, this nutrient must be adequate to maintain their health. Like the muscles, hair which lacks elasticity and resiliency and perhaps breaks or refuses to take a permanent will often change to healthy hair after a few weeks of improved nutrition. Nails which break, peel, or crack can likewise change when the diet is improved.

Energy

Advantages of an adequate protein intake are that energy is readily produced and sustained, and life is made easier. Although a major cause of fatigue is low blood sugar, there are other causes resulting from protein deficiency which are less quickly corrected: low blood pressure, anemia, and the body’s inability to produce the enzymes necessary for the breakdown of foods into energy.

Blood Pressure

Blood pressure means the push or force of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels. Only when the tissues of the vessel walls are strong can the blood pressure be maintained at its normal level. If these tissues become flabby and weak, they expand, making more room in the vessels. Since the volume of blood remains the same, the blood presses with decreased force against the walls; less blood plasma, carrying all the nutrients, is pushed into the tissues. Adequate supplies fail to reach the cells; thus fatigue results. Since relaxation is greatest during the night, person with lod blood pressure finds that is especially exhausted in the early morning; getting out of bed is a chore, and he is usually irritable and sluggish until his blood pressure has been increased by the stimulus of strong coffee. After a diet has been made adequate, however, low blood pressure usually becomes normal in one to three weeks.

Fatigue

Another cause of fatigue, particularly common among women and children, is anemia, or lack of red corpuscles, which are made almost wholly of protein. Without adequate protein anemia quickly results and persists until the nutrition is made normal. Anemia, however, can result from any number of nutritional inadequacies.
All energy is produced by means of enzymes, organic substances whose principal component is protein. Vitamins are important only because they form part of certain enzymes. When protein is inadequate, however, none of the enzymes can be formed in adequate quantities. Fatigue is only one of many abnormalities which result.

Disease and Infection

If protein is abundantly supplied and the diet is otherwise adequate, we can expect high resistance to disease and infections. Although there are many mechanisms which help protect the body against infections, two are particularly dependent  upon the protein intake: antibodies and white blood cells. Under normal circumstances, the liver produces proteins known as gamma globulins, or antibodies, whose purpose it is to combine with and make harmless various bacteria, bacterial toxins and presumably virus. Studies of persons suffering from almost every type of infection, including polio, show that the gamma globulins of the blood are undersupplied. These globulins might be thought of as a militia guarding your health.

Within recent years, it has become medical practice to take blood globulins from the plasma of healthy persons who have built up immunity and to inject these globulins into malnourished persons; such a treatment has been widely publicized as a means of preventing polio. If your nutrition is adequate, your body can produce all the antibodies it needs and more, but that simple fact is not given publicity. Experimental work has shown that when a low-protein diet is replaced by one high in adequate proteins, the antibody production is increased a hundredfold within a single week.

Another marvelous mechanism which helps to protect our bodies from infections is the production of cells known as phagocytes. Phago  means to eat; cyte means cell. Some of these white blood cells circulate in the lymph and blood. Other phagocytes are stationary and remain in the walls of the blood vessels in the tiny air sacs of the lungs, and in other tissues where they, like the antibodies, stand constant guard. When bacteria invade the body, the phagocytes mobilize, surround the enemies, and digest them. These valuable cannibals are made of protein and are produced in adequate amounts only when proteins of high quality are obtained in the diet.

Digestion

Adequate protein is also necessary to maintain normal digestion. Since enzymes necessary to change food into particles which can dissolve in water and pass into the blood, are made of protein, the stomach, small intestine, and pancreas can pour out enzymes only when adequate protein is supplied. The walls of the stomach and intestine are muscular and, like other muscles, contract and relax alternately, thus mixing foods with digestive juices and enzymes and bringing already digested food into contact with the intestinal wall where it may pass into the blood.

Furthermore, the entire digestive system must be held in a normal position to work efficiently. When proteins are undersupplied, muscular walls and ligaments become flabby, and the “internal posture” suffers: the stomach may sag, the transverse bowel, or colon, may coil in snake-like fashion on the pelvic bones; the uterus or urinary bladder may be tipped; and other internal organs may be displaced. The flabby muscles of intestinal walls no longer contract normally; much food remains undigested.

Constipation

This food, on reaching the large bowel, supports the growth of billions of putrefactive bacteria; gas formation and flatulence result. Because flabby muscles are unable to push waste material from the body normally, constipation often occurs. Laxatives or cathartics may be used, causing food to be forced through the body before the protein it contains can be digested; or enemas may be resorted to which further break down the worn muscles. Only when the protein intake is entirely adequate does digestion become normal again.

pH Balance

Proteins help to prevent the body fluids from becoming too acid or alkaline; they can combine with and neutralize either acid or alkaline substances. They are the raw material from which most of the hormones are made.

Clotting of Blood

Proteins are also necessary in helping blood to clot. They have almost endless other functions.

Water Retention

In still another particular way proteins are immensely important in regulating body processes. A protein known as albumin, produced by the liver provided all the building stones are furnished by the diet, makes urine collection possible. As the blood cruises through the capillary beds, the force of the blood pressure pushes the plasma into the tissues; when the blood thus becomes concentrated, the protein albumin attracts fluids from the cells back into the blood. In these fluids are dissolved the waste materials, urea, uric acid, carbon dioxide, and others from the breakdown of tissues within the cells. These wastes are then carried to the kidneys and lungs.

When the diet is so inadequate that sufficient albumin cannot be formed, waste materials are not completely removed from the tissues. Many weeks or months of mild protein deficiency may occur without the accumulated water becoming noticeable; such a person merely thinks he is overweight and often tries to reduce by cutting down still further his protein intake. If the deficiency becomes more severe, the tissues are noticeably puffy, and the entire body is waterlogged. The ankles swell, especially toward the end of the day; swollen face and hands and puffy bags under the eyes are evident in the morning. This condition is extremely common in persons of all ages. For example, most reducing diets are now fairly high in protein. It is not unusual for a person staying on 1,000 calories a day to lose 8 or 10 pounds during the first week; 3 pounds of this loss may be fat, and the remainder is usually water held because of previous faulty urine collection. Not long ago I had young woman for whom I had planned a reducing diet lost 18 pounds the first week. Two women who came with legs and ankles badly swollen from waste-laden liquids lost 18 and 24 pounds respectively in two months, although neither was given a reducing diet.

Unfortunately, water held in the tissues gives the appearance of chubbiness often associated with health, especially in children; thus this abnormal condition may be looked upon as advantageous. Studies of youngsters suffering from polio and many other diseases show that the blood proteins, both the albumin and the globulins, or antibodies, are low and have been low long before the onset of the disease. Children entering the hospital with diarrhea or various infections or diseases are frequently so waterlogged that they appear to be fat; when a diet high in protein is given them and normal urine collection is resumed, they can be seen to be extremely emaciated.

Protein Selection

It is my belief that only when the role of protein in building and maintaining health is understood will persons make the effort to select food with sufficient care to promote health.

Taken from the book Let's Eat Right To Keep Fit by Adelle Davis. With kind acknowledgement to Adelle Davis.

Did you know that every single cell in your body is replaced and renewed within a period of seven years your entire life?

This includes your brain, your heart, your liver, your nerves, etc, etc.  Some cells get renewed in a few hours, some a few days, some months, some years but at the end of a 7-year period, you have a completely new body. Old cells die and are replaced by new cells. More on Want a New Body? Here’s How!

Welcome to our "sleep" page. We hope you find what you're looking for and that we can help you sleep better. We have many testimonials on this topic as we have helped a lot of people to sleep better, ourselves included.

The inability to sleep can be caused by almost any health condition, including things like depression, heartburn, cancer, asthma, arthritis, muscle and back pain.  Other things that can lead to sleep difficulties are the side effects from medications, or drug and alcohol use, as well as a high sugar or refined carbs (starchy food) consumption or insufficient protein before bed.

Besides the B vitamins being essential for good sleep, calcium and magnesium also play a big role in helping you sleep well.  Calcium and magnesium are both essential for your nerves and hormonal system to function normally and the two minerals cannot work without each other.

The harm done by sleeping tablets, to say nothing of the thousands of dollars spent annually on them, could largely be avoided if the calcium and magnesium intake is adequate and they are in a form that can be absorbed by your body. In fact, sleep meds just worsen the problem as they have side effects and one of the side effects is the destruction of nutrients in the body, robbing your body of energy too.

The intense nervousness caused by a lack of magnesium can also make it impossible to fall asleep. Calcium and magnesium also help to prevent or relieve leg cramps and muscle spasms of the toes or feet (Charley horses) which frequently wake some people or prevent them from falling asleep.

These two minerals are part of the nerve messenger system and if they're deficient, the nerves can't relax, which makes it impossible to sleep or have a restful night's sleep. Insomnia is really just an inability to relax.

In addition, potassium cannot be retained by your cells unless magnesium is also present. Without adequate magnesium, the potassium leaves the cells, creating an artificial potassium deficiency in them, making it even harder to fall asleep.

To be used by the body, calcium and magnesium need to be in a 2:1 ratio with some kind of acid to make the correct pH.

The key is absorption into the body so it can actually get these vital nutrients and you can feel the difference.

Instant CalMag-C has been formulated exactly per the body's requirements to absorb and use it.

With kind acknowledgement to Adelle Davis.

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Anyone who exercises knows that muscles can “feel” the effects of having done so. Whether you’re fit or unfit, your muscles sure let you know that you’ve just exerted some energy.

There are various reasons for this happening. One of them is the burnt fuel – just like when you make a fire. There are residues from the burnt fuel. In your body, this burnt fuel can make it ache and cause you to feel tired because there's nothing there to spark the energy.. More on Overcoming Muscle Pain While Exercising