When there is inflammation, and the body's pH is acid, there is a tendency to patch the screaming ions with Calcium. This is inconvenient in the case of Fibromyalgia, for example, where one French study of eleven people showed the deposition of Calcium in muscle and connective tissue.
This French study was done by a painful "core drilling" of the tissue, so to speak, hence the small group. This cycle of inflammation and Calcium deposition can be aggravated by the migration of a pathogen to the irritation, which causes chronic sub-acute irritation long after the initial cause for the inflammation is gone.
Dr. Larrian Gillespie made a wonderful breakthrough into a process she calls "Leaky Cell." Gillespie is the Hormone Diva, but her area of expertise is urology. Her urinary tract patients were all experiencing pain after eating certain foods. Gillespie found there are amino acids, the T-amino acids--Tryptophan, Tyrosine, Tyromine--which aggravate a process of de-mineralization of tissue, in this instance, bladder tissue.
Leaky Cell is the acid pH of the body eating away at the G.A.G. layer of the cell. This Glucose Amino Glycans/G.A.G. layer holds minerals in suspension, protecting the cell wall. When there is too much acid in intracellular/interstitial body fluids, it eats away at the mineral buffer coat held in place by G.A.G., and then starts eating THROUGH the cell, robbing the minerals inside in an effort to correct the body's pH. This is why the urine of urinary tract patients is alkaline. Gillespie therefore showed it is ill advised to further acidify the body with Cranberry Juice.
The supplement Chondroitin, powdered cow trachea, is a virtually pure source of Glucose Amino Glycans. And the purest commercial source of this, I have found, is available as an equine supplement, J-Flex, at springtimeinc.com. This is a good adjunct to reversing Leaky Cell with dietary minerals, apart from avoiding the T amino acids, like Tryptophan, found in turkey, a no-no for those with bladder infections. Get Dr. Gillespie's book, "You Don't Have to Live with Cystitis" for the deep dish on Leaky Cell and her Leaky Cell diet, which can help abate pain in other cases.
Leaky Cell can affect any tissue group in the body, not just the cells lining the bladder. Trash Calcium can deposit as a patch at such Leaky Cell sites. So it's a great idea to beef up the mineral mix to alkalanize the body with a nice plant source, like Kelp.
If there is trash Calcium deposition, as with Bone Spurs in the neck or on the heels, or Spinal Stenosis, eating Celery, which contains pure Sodium, not Sodium Chloride, or table salt , can help. This Sodium in Celery will help keep the trash Calcium in solution and can remove painful depositions, as in Spinal Stenosis. But you have to help by keeping the body pH properly alkalnized. You can see how this process would be a factor in Osteoporosis, as the body will snitch bone Calcium to quench Leaky Cell.
Candida can aggravate Leaky Cell and calcification because it robs the body of Magnesium, which keeps the body alkaline, and keeps Calcium in solution. That's why people feel great taking Apple Cider Vinegar. This product of fermentation has, like Candida or "yeast" overgrowth in the gut after taking Antibiotics, robbed all your Magnesium.
One sneaky way to overwhelm a Strep Throat is to take Apple Cider Vinegar or eat Apples. This provides the Magnesium which Strep dislikes, growing as it does in a Magnesium-deficient environment (as in Toxic Shock Syndrome, where there has been the mechanical removal of vaginal fluids rich in Magnesium). This illustrates how those with Candida can fall into the trap of Strep infections and antibiotics; which causes Candida to bloom; which steals Magnesium; and low Magnesium encourages more Strep infections. The root cause of Candida must be removed.
Do not underestimate Candida's ability to uptake and bind Magnesium, with its important role of keeping Calcium in solution instead of amping up calcification. They say, "The worm eats first." The parasite has first dibs on nutrients. Here's an example of "The worm eats first."
When treating malnourished kids with parasites, if you give them vitamins and minerals first, they will die as the parasites eat first, overwhelming the weakened system. So the parasites have to be removed first before giving vitamins and minerals.
Many Irish and Native Americans have low stomach acid, which decreases nutrient digestion and absorption, so they tend to be more de-mineralized. In those instances a suite of digestive enzymes would be useful. This is, I think, why all those "fair, fat and forty" women tend towards Gallbladder troubles. They may have a touch of the Irish and bad absorption, are demineralized, have a deranged pH, and start making stones, a kindred calcification, in their irritated Gallbladder. Ironic, no?
One may well suspect that Flouride, ubiquitous in water supplies and toothpaste, is generally enhancing the process of calcification. Flouride helps lay down Calcium fast, though the tooth and bone formation is more brittle. And our modern diet is gererally lacking in minerals because of Nitrogen fertilizers, which burn and strip the soil colloids that hold minerals in suspension for plants to eat. Minerals just wash out of the soil while though plants grow big and tall. One thing I have noticed about the old folks, our beloved geezers and gaffers, is that they have a garden in their past. "God bless us everyone!"
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