What is Calcium?
The answer is that Calcium is a mineral. Where is it found? Its found in mineral deposites in the ground. How do we as humans use this Calcium?
The calcium we use mostly come from calcium enriched foods such as milk, or dairy products, certain calcium rich vegetables which we can incorporate into our diets.
So where does this calcium get deposited in our bodies? The most calcium gets deposited into our bones, infact 99% of our calcium is in our bones and the rest 1% is in our soft tissues or blood.
What are the key functions of Calcium?
Everyone may say that calcium is only need for healthy bones. The answer is right or partly right. Yes it is need for our bones but it has a number of other major roles in our bodies functions. Sadly most people are not aware of these.
The key functions of Calcium are :
- Primarily to build strong bones as discussed earlier
- To assist in muscle contraction, which in turn helps in all our muscular functions, especially breathing, walking and bowel movement
- Enzymes protection or production: This is very important if you are diabetic. Do you know that calcium is need for the proper production of insulin in our bodies.
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