Re: Big news on cause of cell death in PPMS

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On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:45:45 -0000, you wrote:

>Now for my amateur question of the day: Calcium and other minerals

>are of course hugely important to the body, but can taking them as a

>supplement possibly increase this risk of calcium flooding into axons

>and killing them?

>

I don't know the answer. All I know is that I have PPMS, don't take

calcium supplements but my nails grow so fast they need cutting at

least once a week. So, does that mean I process calcium too

efficiently for my own good.

Steve

[Guest guest]

<Now for my amateur question of the day: Calcium and other minerals

are of course hugely important to the body, but can taking them as a

supplement possibly increase this risk of calcium flooding into axons

and killing them?>

Aegis thinks, no such luck. Calcium exists as free (ionized) and as

bound to various proteins in serum. These two forms are in

equilibrium with each other. It is the free calcium which is

important. If free calcium goes down, some of the protein bound

calcium is released to increase the free calcium (and vice-versa)

pool.

A