The safest and most effective calcium supplement method is to strengthen calcium intake in daily diet. Food calcium supplement is safer than drug calcium supplement and will not cause blood calcium to exceed the standard.
Experts suggest that the elderly should drink two cups of milk every day and eat more calcium-rich foods such as dairy products, shrimp skin, soybeans, green beans, tofu and sesame sauce. Secondly, choosing a healthy lifestyle, drinking less coffee and cola and not smoking will lead to bone loss. In addition, sunbathing and outdoor exercise are also beneficial to the absorption and utilization of calcium. These are all safe ways to supplement calcium, and it is not necessary for the elderly to supplement calcium every day.
Experts pointed out that many middle-aged and elderly people take calcium supplementation as anti-aging nutrition, which leads to diseases such as fracture and ectopic calcification, and even some diseases such as kidney calculi's disease and arteriosclerosis are related to excessive calcium supplementation. With the overwhelming advertisements encouraging people to supplement calcium, it has become a must for doctors to publicize the scientific knowledge of calcium supplementation. In recent years, under the hype of many calcium supplement products manufacturers, the calcium supplement market has expanded extremely. Calcium products, which were previously limited to children with calcium deficiency, are now welcomed by consumers of all ages. Moreover, calcium products are basically sold in OTC pharmacies, and consumers can easily take them themselves without the advice of doctors. According to reports, the body of the elderly is very different from that of teenagers, and all aspects of functions have deteriorated, and the metabolic level of nutrients in the body is also different. In particular, whether calcium, which has a great effect on osteogenesis, can play a positive role in preventing osteoporosis depends entirely on the bone condition. Middle-aged and elderly people generally have poor bone condition, and some people lose collagen and protein seriously, so calcium can't be deposited on bones. At this time, if we blindly supplement calcium, it will only make a lot of calcium that is difficult to deposit wander in the body and deposit in the wrong place, leading to ectopic calcification, kidney calculi and other diseases. If osteoporosis patients can't absorb a lot of calcium normally, the risk of hip fracture will increase greatly.
2, calcium supplementation needs to supplement collagen.
Experts point out that bone health refers to the health of the whole skeletal system, including bones, cartilage, joints, tendons, ligaments and so on. However, simply supplementing calcium can only promote osteogenesis, but can not guarantee the flexibility, flexibility, impact resistance, tensile resistance and overall coordination of the whole skeletal system. Therefore, for middle-aged and elderly people, only by comprehensively supplementing bone nutrition and making the nutritional components in bones get a balanced ratio can the whole body be strong, flexible and elastic.
According to reports, many middle-aged and elderly people may have symptoms such as slow walking, creaking joints, squatting and unable to stand up, morning stiffness, short height and hunchback. These are all signs of pathological changes and aging in the skeletal system of middle-aged and elderly people, mainly caused by nutritional deficiency of connective tissue in the skeletal system. Collagen is an important component in connective tissue, which exists in the form of insoluble fiber and has high tensile strength. It is an important component that determines the flexibility and elastic strength of bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, skin keratin, blood vessels and other tissues. Collagen accounts for 90% of bone organic matter, and calcium absorbed by human body must be attached to collagen before it can be deposited in bone in large quantities. At the same time, it still exists in joints, which determines the lubricity and impact resistance of joints; It exists in cartilage, reducing the friction of cartilage; It exists in the base layer, which makes it have good deformability and separability.
Therefore, experts remind that middle-aged and elderly people should pay attention to supplementing collagen while supplementing calcium. Only by strengthening balanced nutrition including magnesium, manganese and zinc can we achieve real bone health.