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🥛 Strong bones or Heart Attack:
There is a calcium paradox.
When calcium is deposited in bone and teeth it helps strengthen and fortify these structures. When deposited in kidneys (kidney stones) it's agonizing, when deposited in arteries, deadly.
Is calcium healthy or deadly?
It depends on where it is put. This is vitamin K2's job.
Vitamin K2 activates proteins (osteocalcin and Matrix GLA protein) that keep calcium out of your arteries and into bones and teeth.
K2 is mostly from animal foods.
Yet
people limit animal foods for "heart health" reasons, thereby becoming K2 deficient and increasing cardiovascular risk via vascular calcification.
Most people who think they need fluoride or calcium
supplements (to strengthen teeth and bones) really need fat-soluble vitamins K2, D3, and A that come nicely packaged in meat along with the fat necessary for absorption.