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What are the benefits of Calcium and Vitamin D?
Calcium and Vitamin D are essential for having healthy, strong bones. It is important to have enough Calcium and Vitamin D in a person's diet. Calcium also helps a person's blood to clot.
What happens to calcium if there is not enough vitamin d to absorb it?
When calcium is needed, the parathyroid gland sends the parathyroid hormone to the kidneys to trigger the production of vitamin D (which is actually classified as a hormone). The vitamin D hormone, in turn, prompts the intestines to transfer calcium from food to the blood. When calcium intake is too small to support normal functions, both vitamin D and the parathyroid hormone trigger a process in which stored calcium is mobilized from the bones.
How does calcium helps in blood clotting?
Calcium works together with vitamin K and a protein called fibrinogen in the clotting cascade. Without adequate levels of calcium and vitamin K, blood will take longer to clot, and if both nutrients are missing you might bleed to death. Most people gain enough calcium and vitamin K from their diets, but in some cases supplements may be prescribed.
What does it mean when epiphyseal plates become thick?
It means the person is not growing properly due to lack of calcium or it could mean there is enough calcium but the person is lacking vitamin D. This person needs to get calcium via milk or some type of supplement and a trip out in the sun will help with the vitamin D issue.The guy who generated the answer by reading the book
What happens if you dont get enough Vitamin A?
if you dont get enough vitamin A your eyes will start to hurt and poor night vision.
Most Americans don't get enough dietary fiber vitamin A vitamin C calcium and iron in their diets?
True
What are the benefits of Calcium and Vitamin D?
Calcium and Vitamin D are essential for having healthy, strong bones. It is important to have enough Calcium and Vitamin D in a person's diet. Calcium also helps a person's blood to clot.
How do you get osteoporosis?
There are many ways including getting older, not intaking enough calcium and not intaking enough vitamin D.
Can you get Osteoporosis?
There are many ways including getting older, not intaking enough calcium and not intaking enough vitamin D.
What do vegetarians really need to make sure they get enough of?
Protein, calcium, iron, vitamin B12
Why do elderly people need more vitamin d?
Vitamin D is needed for calcium to be made useful in the body (for instance in bones). As you get older you tend to lose calcium from the bones and it becomes necessary to try and prevent this by ensuring that there is enough calcium in the diet and that this calcium is usable by the body. Vitamin D is made in the body by the action of UV sunlight on the fat layers just under the skin. If there is not enough exposure to sunlight the body becomes short of vitamin D and bode deformities can occur in growing children (rickets). Therefore in the young and the old it is important that both Calcium and vitamin D are present in the diet.
How does rickets affect bones?
Rickets' is a vitamin deficiency disease of infancy and early childhood caused by lack of vitamin D. Rickets causes soft bones because enough vitamin D is not present to assist in calcium absorption. When enough calcium is not absorbed by the bone, it does not harden properly, and is too soft to support the weight of the growing body properly.hope it helps.
What is the relation of PTH and urinary calcium level?
PTH is released when the body senses low serum calcium levels. PTH does everything in its power to increase serum calcium- it rips it from bone, increases its absorption from food, increases VIT D production (which also aids calcium absorption) and reduces its excretion from the body in urine. It therefore reduces urinary calcium.Above it was stated that PTH increases vit D production.This is wrong. Exposure of the skin to sunlight when the angle isn't too low and certain foods and supplements increase vit D. When serum calcium is low, PTH is sent by the parathyroids to signal vitamin D to activate itself and enable calcium absorption. When there is sufficient dietary calcium and vitamin D, serum calcium rises appropriately, and PTH is then decreased. When there is not enough dietary calcium and vitamin D, PTH can't get the calcium it needs. PTH then goes to the kidneys to look for temporarily stored calcium. If there isn't enough there, it goes to the bone to get the calcium there. Urinary calcium is from excess calcium that is absorbed into the blood with help from vitamin D (and thyroid) or absorbed when the bone is broken down. I learned that when urinary calcium is very high (above 300), PTH is high, but serum calcium is normal, this may indicate primary hyperparathryoidism even if serum calcium is normal. Good luck finding a doctor who will look further into primary hyperparathyroidism for patients without high serum calcium, regardless of high PTH and high urine calcium.
Why do animals get rickets?
Rickets is a deficiency of vitamin D. So they get it from not having enough vitamin D in their diet. It could also be a deficiency in phosphorus, calcium or simply that the animal is not getting enough sunlight.
What cures rickets?
Rickets is caused due to Calcium and/or Vitamin D deficiency. Proper Calcium intake and Vitamin D synthesis will cure Rickets. Calcium is needed to maintain and build bones. Vitamin D helps in synthesizing Calcium. Vitamin D can be obtained from Sunlight exposure. About 30 minutes of exposure to Sunlight twice a week is enough. Minimum Calcium intake should be 13 mg/kg of body weight. Most common source of Calcium is Milk. 1 average glass of Milk contains about 250 mg Calcium.
Why you drink milk?
Milk has calcium and vitamin D. However, you don't have to drink milk. You can take supplements or eat other foods rich in calcium. 15 min of direct sunlight can provide enough vitamin D for a day for a person.
Why do people take Vitamin D supplements?
Vitamin D helps the metabolizing of calcium and phosphorus in the body. Most people get enough of this with sunlight but the rest of people have to use supplements.
