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.

Instant CalMag-C

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.

Instant CalMag-C is great for the whole family – from baby to granny!

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Almost everyone in America now appears to have abnormal fatty substances- of which part is cholesterol – deposited in the walls of the arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis. These deposits, which have the same composition as the fats in the blood, may narrow the channels through which blood passes to the point that circulation is markedly decreased. Such a partial blockage, limiting the blood supply in the eyes, hastens the onset of cataracts and other abnormalities, in the legs, feet, or hands, it causes coldness, discomfort, cramps, pain, and sometimes gangrene, making amputation necessary; in the brain it may cause confusion, forgetfulness, premature senility, or strokes; and in the heart, angina or attacks known as coronary occlusion.

These fatty deposits seriously complicate such diseases as diabetes and nephrosis¹ and delay recovery from almost every illness. They may be localized as tumors, or atheromas, on the skin or be so generalized that they clog all arteries uniformly, the space left for the blood so decreased that high blood pressure results and becomes progressively more elevated as the atherosclerosis advances. High blood pressure from other causes, however, makes atherosclerosis worse.

Although atherosclerosis has been described as “universal and life-long,” it has been produced in hundreds of thousands of animals, and when the diet is made adequate, health is restored. The same is equally true of humans.

Atherosclerosis² is reversible. Deposits containing cholesterol can often be seen in the skin around the eyes as yellow fatty accumulations; these tiny tumors quickly disappear after the diet is improved. A woman who consulted me had dozens of them under pendulous breasts; six weeks later none remained. On one occasion I was asked to see a ten-year-old child who had more than 200 such deposits on her back and abdomen and a blood cholesterol above 1000 mg; after her diet was made adequate, the deposits seemed to melt away. A retired postman, brought to see me in a wheelchair, had such constant, severe pain in his legs because of atherosclerosis that his physician had recommended amputation; two months later he walked in to see me. Such cases indicate that this problem can be corrected.

Countless experiments with healthy volunteers, survivors of heart attacks, persons in prisons and mental institutions, and innumerable animals show that when fatty substances are being deposited in the arterial walls, the blood cholesterol is invariably high and in abnormally large particles and that the fat in the blood which is combined with phosphorus, known as phospholipids, or lecithin, is too low. Yet these abnormalities are corrected as soon as all nutrients needed to utilize fats are supplied. Atherosclerosis and such seemingly unrelated problems as gallstones and much obesity appear to be caused by a combined undersupply of many nutrients essential before fats can be used normally. Cholesterol is merely the innocent little pig that got stuck in the barn door. More on Those "Cholesterol" Problems

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.

From a very young age, I suffered from restless legs - until I heard of Calmag-C.  I have been using Calmag-C for the past 3 months and I no longer have sore or restless legs!  I highly recommend it!  I can't tell you how good it feels to get into bed without having restless legs!  Thanks very much, Helping Hands.  I don't think there is anything else that really works!  People, try it!  You won't regret it!  EL Meyerton

Your Mind and Your Body

Every mental problem can be traced back to a physical cause!

That’s right. Mental problems are always caused by something that happened to your body and the good news is that you can control or rectify them.

Your mind is separate from your body. It contains pictures or ideas.

If the pictures or ideas are negative, you are being affected by a hidden part of your mind, known as the reactive mind. It is hidden from your view but it makes you feel and act in a way that you don’t like and always makes you lose.

Seventy percent of illness is caused by what is known as psychosomatic ills. This means that the source of the illness is caused by something in your reactive mind. (Don’t get confused with the word hypochondriac. This is not hypochondria.) The illness or non-optimum sensations you are feeling are real. You’re feeling them, aren’t you?

The question is, what is causing them?

 If the pictures or ideas in your mind are positive and you’re achieving your goals in life, you’re being influenced more by your “thinking” mind, known as your analytical mind.

There is a solution to your physical and mental health problems. Click on this link and watch the videos to get the answers. http://www.dianetics.org/?branch=index/nav/videos&pageid=videos#/videos

I cannot tell you how much having, knowing and using this data has helped me, my family and hundreds of my friends. It also saved my son’s life, literally.

Nutrition’s Role in Your Mental and Physical Health

If your body is deprived of proper nourishment or adequate rest, you can and will have problems mentally and/or physically.

There is no question of that.

What happens is that too little sleep, hunger, low blood sugar, poor dietary habits – too much sugar and refined carbs, not enough raw or undercooked vegetables (organic ones), inadequate protein intake, alcohol, drugs, meds  – will cause these hidden sources of anguish in your reactive mind to activate far more readily, get “sucked” in and activated without you realizing what is happening and you can start to feel quite awful.

Conduct your own tests on this.

A simple one is to watch a child consuming sugar and turning into an uncontrollable brat.

Another one is to go without food for a few hours and see how you feel. Do you start feeling anxious, nervous, fearful, worry about things, get agitated or just plain lose it?

Watch a baby who is overdue on his feed. He sure can get angry and then, even if he’s fed, can still be disgruntled and out of sorts because his hidden sources of anguish in his reactive mind have already been activated.

The Solutions and My Recommendations

• Eat as much salad, undercooked veggies and protein (organic is best) as possible.
• Leave out refined carbohydrates like chips, cakes, pastas, etc.
• Keep sugar to a minimum. There is sugar in everything here in the USA. Check the bread some time. Where I come from, we don’t have sugar in our bread  and our cakes and cookies are waaayyy less sweet. So, look out for the hidden sources of sugar. Sugar alone can cause untold mental reactions.
• Avoid alcohol as much as possible and definitely avoid drugs and compensate for the side effects of your meds with increased nutrition and supplements. (Our bodies are not deficient in drugs or created with excess organs and glands. We have an over-medicated and over-“surgeried” society. The ongoing debates on health care reform is singularly lacking in good common sense nutrition and supplementation.)
• Keep caffeine to a minimum. If you can give it up, good. If you can’t, try and reduce your intake.
• Drink enough good quality water.
• Make sure you supplement your food with the basics: a good multi vitamin and mineral, calmag, additional minerals. (This is a great regimen for boosting your immune system too!)
• Watch the video in the link above and see how you can reduce and get rid of the hidden anguish in your life. The procedures are simple to do and can be done by you and a friend or family member. (My youngest daughter was 11 years old when she started doing the procedures on others and spoke on the radio about it. The only prerequisite is understanding and applying the simple techniques correctly.) Everyone has a reactive mind. Get rid of yours and help your friends and family get rid of theirs and watch everyone’s health improve dramatically.

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My biggest reward is helping people and knowing that they’re doing better, so please do let me know any positive results you have with any of my suggestions.
The reverse is also true. If you have a problem and need help, contact me immediately.

Excerpted from the Office of Dietary Supplements, a department of the US Government.

Magnesium: What is it?

Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is essential to good health. Approximately 50% of total body magnesium is found in bone. The other half is found predominantly inside cells of body tissues and organs. Only 1% of magnesium is found in blood, but the body works very hard to keep blood levels of magnesium constant.

Magnesium is needed for more than 300 biochemical reactions in the body. More on More About Calcium's Balancing Partner, Magnesium

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*Myelin is a fatty material that coats, protects, and insulates nerves, enabling them to quickly conduct impulses between the brain and different parts of the body. Myelin also contains proteins that can be targeted by the immune system. Myelin coats the nerves of both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system; the destruction of the myelin in the central nervous system is what triggers many of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).

Nerve cells are coated with sections of myelin, and the tiny spaces between the sections are called nodes. As the brain sends messages through the nerves of the spinal cord, the impulses jump from node to node. Myelin prevents these impulses from escaping from the nerve at the wrong point.

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