DEATH BY CALCIUM: PROOF OF THE TOXIC EFFECTS OF DAIRY AND CALCIUM SUPPLEMENTS
Book written by Thomas E. Levy, MD, JD goodreads book review https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26586296-death-by-calciumOVERVIEW

- Women with the highest calcium consumption, regardless of source (diet, supplements), had a death rate two and one-half times higher than the women with lower consumption. This was a prospective study on 61,433 women followed over a 19-year period.
- Women with osteoporosis do not have a generalized, body-wide deficiency of calcium. Rather, there is a deficiency of calcium in their bones, but the rest of their bodies have a calcium excess.
- While calcium supplementation alone can increase the calcium density in the bones, it does not decrease the chances of an osteoporotic fracture. It is a cosmetic improvement only, and it further fuels the excess of calcium outside of the bones.
- Typical American diets supply enough calcium for the needs of the body when blood vitamin D levels are maintained in the proper range.
- Because of the emphasis on increased calcium intake, the typical osteoporosis patient faces a much higher chance of death from heart attack and stroke than from the consequences of an osteoporotic fracture.
- Osteoporosis is a focal scurvy (severe vitamin C deficiency) of the bones.
- All chronic degenerative diseases feature increased levels of calcium inside the cells of the body.
- Measures that decrease further uptake of calcium inside the cells of the body substantially decrease the chances of death from all causes (a generalized reduction in mortality).
- Increased calcium deposition outside of the cells, as well as increased levels of calcium inside the cells, increase the chances of malignant transformation and the development of cancer.
- Many natural agents increase calcium in the bone, decrease calcium excesses throughout the body, and decrease the chances of death from all diseases. These include magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin C, vitamin K, and essential fatty acids (omega-3).
- The proper restoration of deficient levels of sex hormones (estrogen, testosterone) and thyroid hormone helps normalize calcium metabolism and also decreases the chances of death from all causes.