Md Robert Thompson - The Calcium Lie II: What Your Doctor Still Doesnt Know: How Mineral Imbalances Are Damaging Your Health

The Calcium Lie II

What Your Doctor Still Doesnt Know

Robert Thompson, M.D. Kathleen Barnes

Contents

Foreword
by Dr. David Watts, vii

Introduction, 1

Chapter 1
Minerally Bankrupt, 9

Chapter 2
The Calcium Myth, 31

Chapter 3
Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Calcium, 51

Chapter 4
Digestive Dilemmas: Poor Protein Digestion, Sodium Deficiency and Cell Membrane Dysfunction, 67

Chapter 5
Metabolic Failure: How Excess Calcium Causes Weight Gain, Thyroid and Adrenal Malfunctions, and Five Types of Hypothyroidism, 87

Chapter 6
Womens Issues: Pregnancy, Childbirth and Menopause, 115

Chapter 7
The Vitamin Lie, 139

Chapter 8
Who Needs Calcium and Why, 169

Chapter 9
The Road Back to Health, 177

Chapter 10
Doctor to Doctor: An Impassioned Plea, 199

Resources, 213

References, 219

Index, 226

About the Authors, 234

Dedications

To my precious family, immediate and extended, I love you all. Without your continued support and love, life becomes more difficult. There are many ways to count our blessings. You bring much joy and immeasurable wealth to each and every day of my life.

To my children, Nathan and Tiffany, it has been a privilege beyond compare to watch you grow and to see you blossom. I am proud to know you, let alone to call you my children. Thank you for your love, your courage, and for making great choices and living lives of distinction, character, integrity and grandchildren. You make a dad smile.

To my patients and mentors for teaching me and challenging me and to my Lord for the wisdom, blessings and salvation you have given me. I am eternally grateful and thankful. May this book bring honor and glory to your name through my life.

And to my sweet daughter-in-law, Cristin, and my son-in-law Cody, I could not ask for a greater blessing of love for my beloved children. I love you and your families with all my heart. I am proud to call you my children-in-law. I am amazed and awe stricken that you are such perfect and beautiful soul mates.

Dr. Robert Thompson

For Joe, as always, with all my heart.

Kathleen Barnes

Foreword

Dr. Robert Thompson is an enlightened physician.

His medical education gave him the knowledge of human physiology and biochemistry that he needed to become a competent physician. Dr. Thompson is among the elite, however, because his education did not end after graduation, but has continued throughout his career.

He became enlightened when he used his medical and scientific knowledge to surpass the knowledge of most other doctors, and formulated nutritional concepts based on basic scientific truths that are effective in treating and, dare I say, curing diseases that conventional medicine proclaims incurable.

Dr. Thompson is enlightened because of his unending dedication to helping his patients return to health and his passion for finding answers to his patients health challenges.

Robert Thompson is a doctor in the true sense of the word. He is a teacher, as evidenced by his writings. Beyond all else, The Calcium Lie is intended to teach. Not only does this remarkable book teach about the intricate workings of the human body, it is also thought provoking.

The Calcium Lie can aid the average individual to understand and make sense of the complexities of the body in a down-to-earth fashion. This knowledge helps us to begin to ask questions about our health care rather than just accepting the status quo.

The Calcium Lie is a call to action to everyone who wants to become involved in and take responsibility for his own health.

Dr. Thompsons enlightenment is also demonstrated in the pioneering spirit of this book. The information contained herein is the wave of the future, because it teaches that we are individuals, and that therapeutic intervention should be based upon the individual need, and not merely a condition or disease process.

Dr. Thompsons viewpoint is certain to be controversial. It is my sincere hope that all readers, patients and physicians alike, carefully review the information offered here and recognize its value.

David L. Watts, D.C. Ph.D., F.A.C.E.P.

CEO of Trace Elements, Inc., Addison, Texas

Introduction

W e are all victims of health lies. These lies, held with an almost religious zealotry, are quite literally killing us.

Primary among those lies is the notion that bones are made of calcium, with the dogmatic exhortation from almost every doctor on the planet that we all need supplemental calcium in order to have strong bones. This is absolutely untrue and without any reliable scientific evidence. In fact, our bones are made of at least 12 minerals, including calcium, and we need all of them in proper proportions in order to have healthy bones and a healthy metabolism. This is a no brainer found in every biochemistry textbook, and yet we are all programmed to believe that we need calcium.

From this scientifically unfounded get your calcium supposition comes a cascade of health consequences that are nothing less than devastating. In this book, we will expose The Calcium Lie.

All research confirms our simple observation. It quite simply makes sense: We must abandon the notion that we cannot have strong bones without supplemental calcium. We must reveal the truth behind The Calcium Lie as quickly as possible, and begin to correct our mineral deficiencies and imbalances by replacing trace minerals with balanced trace minerals. Bones are made of minerals, not just calcium. Calcium hardens concrete!

You must know for certain your sodium, calcium and potassium levels and get expert advice about exactly which minerals to replace and in what amounts and which to avoid. All nutritional and medical recommendations without this information are fundamentally and scientifically flawed.

This is serious stuff. Much of our civilization and the health of future generations depend on it. Please do not underestimate the significance of these truths we describe to your long-term health. This is of paramount importance. Tell everyone you know and love to take minerals, not just calcium.

Weve written and expanded this second edition of this book from a place of passionate conviction that our collective health is at risk from The Calcium Lie and a handful of other nutritional lies to which we are all subjected.

The truths in this second edition include an update of the original text with a few new and added thoughts, more detail, more bold statements, additional new references and a new chapter. We hope what you read here will lead you to a new life of exceptional health. That is anyones most precious asset.

From Dr. Robert Thompson:

I am a caring doctor who went to medical school with altruistic ideas and a belief in doing the right thing and serving people. When I completed my medical training, I greeted my chosen career with great excitement about practicing medicine on the cutting edge, and doing the best job I could do for my patients.

Over the next few years, I grew increasingly disenchanted with my profession and with the uncharitable attitudes of many of my colleagues, who frequently resisted basic science and medical advances in the name of protecting their status quo. Even a local hospital where I worked was unhappy with me when some of my more advanced procedures (that included laparoscopic surgeries) resulted in outpatient, rather than inpatient, surgeries and shortened hospital stays. It really burst my idealistic new doctor bubble to learn that this hospital wanted its patients to stay in the hospital longer no matter what the trauma to the patient, becauseca-chingthe hospitals make more money that way. I guess I was just ahead of my time. Today, of course, outpatient surgery has become commonplace and routine as has laparoscopic surgery. For most of these procedures, the routine surgeries and profits are at an all-time high.