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Published on Green MedInfo.com, by Sayer Ji, May 25, 2012.
Calcium Supplements Increase Heart Attack Risk by 86 Percent:
Why Do We Obsessively Consume Rock, Bone And Shell Calcium?: … //
… Turned To Stone: When Calcium Goes To The Wrong Place:
Or, the body attempts to disburden itself of this inappropriate calcium and dumps it into the bowel (constipation), or pushes it through the kidneys (stones). Worse, high levels of calcium can accumulate in the blood (hypercalcemia), which can contribute to destabilizing the atherosclerotic plaque through the formation of a brittle calcium cap on the atheroma, can contribute to thrombosis (clot) formation, hypertension (that’s why we use calcium channel blockers to lower blood pressure), and perhaps causing arrhythmias/fibrillation and or heart muscle cramping, or coronary artery spasm (a rather common, though rarely recognized trigger of ‘heart attack’) … (full long text).