While about 96% percent of the body is water, protein, and tats, the remaining 4 percent is accounted for by minerals. When we think of minerals, the first one that comes to mind is calcium. Others include magnesium, phosphorus, zinc, iodine, potassium, and sodium. Hard skeletal structure is composed primarily of minerals, but we could not survive or reproduce without adequate and balanced amounts of the minerals that form the nuclei of soft tissues such as muscle and nerve cells.
Minerals are responsible for regulating a few crucial functions, such as nerve responses, and for maintaining the acid-base equilibrium that helps in the absorption of minerals and contraction of muscles.
The best food sources of calcium have typically been milk and dairy products, followed by green leafy vegetables and some types of fish. An excellent low-calorie, high-calcium drink without a trace of caffeine is bancha tea, otherwise known as green twig tea or kukicha tea. A 3—4-ouncc serving of this tea contains more than 700 me of calcium—-or two and one-half times the calcium of the same quantity of whole milk. Bancha is brewed by steeping a few teaspoons of the delicate, cut-up twigs in boiling water for a few minutest. It has a light tea favor, contains virtually no calories, and is a nutritious tonic drink. You can buy bancha tea at a health food store and enjoy a cup or two a day.
Dosage: For severe uterine cramping and nervous irritability, you may do better with calcium supplements to get maximum dosage. If you prefer calcium supplements, my choices among the many calcium compounds are calcium gluconate and boncmc.il tablets. Drink at least one cup of hot or cold unsweetened brancha tea.
Calcium gluconate; For cramps take two 500-mg tablets twice daily; more than four tablets (or 2.000 mg) is not necessarily better, and do not exceed six tablets (3,000 mg) a day. Take calcium with 350 mg of magnesium, 1,000 units of vitamin D, and 100 mg of phosphorus.
Bone meal: Bone meal compounds often come in already balanced formulas. Check the labels to be sure it contains vitamin D, phosphorus, and magnesium, or add supplements as you need them. Begin taking two or three honemeal tablets per day about ten days before your menstrual period, continuing them through your cycle.
Best selection of foods with calcium: Dairy foods are prime sources of calcium, but since their tat content may be implicated in exacerbating symptoms of endometriosis, the wiser course is to reduce intake for ten days a month. Begin lowering the amount of these products a week
before your menstrual period is due and during the cycle. You may want to have toy products one day and alternate these with a limited amount of dairy products the next. Other than milk, cheese, and yogurt, excellent sources are bancha tea, canned salmon (with bones), dams, broccoli, turnips, greens, and kale.
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