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Title: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: Rawdietforhealth on December 12, 2010, 09:58:17 pm: One thing I noted about Raw Food diets is the limited amount of calcium. If it is not easy to get raw milk, what do you do? I find in the past when I did not have enough calcium, I get leg or foot cramps and once I take calcium supplements for a few days this goes away. I noticed the same thing again lately when on a raw food diet. I can take supplements but what do others do for calcium?
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw mi
Post by: TylerDurden on December 12, 2010, 10:12:59 pm: The vast majority of us don't bother as calcium in large quantities is not needed on a palaeodiet, raw or cooked. There's plenty of solid evidence re Bantu women(on low calcium diets) having stronger bones, for example, than those on western diets:-

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2466922/

In short, one can get easily enough calcium from raw fish/meat/fowl.
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: Hannibal on December 12, 2010, 10:49:23 pm: A lot of vitamin D is of paramount importance.
How does your diet currently look like? What do you eat?
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: Stancel on December 13, 2010, 12:25:24 am: Vitamin D is more important as Vitamin D deficiency can cause osteoporosis. Vitamin D regulates calcium levels.

Also, many plants and some animal foods (bones, small fish) are good sources of calcium. I think over-domestication and soil depletion is why there isn't as much calcium, for example the wild fruit baobab has more calcium than milk.
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: achillezzz on December 13, 2010, 05:10:56 am: Don't worry about milk and calcium our ancestors had minimal access to high calcium foods so we developed some weird mechanism that when we consume calcium our body makes everything to work on it and leaves over things.

But usually calcium in nature comes with good ratio magnesium phosphors vit d and stuff like that its important so your body can use the calcium!!!

Correct me if im wrong :)
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: raw-al on December 13, 2010, 05:23:25 am: Get as much skin exposure to sunlight as you can. That's true no matter the diet.
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: Rawdietforhealth on December 13, 2010, 05:47:38 am: Quote from: Hannibal on December 12, 2010, 10:49:23 pm
A lot of vitamin D is of paramount importance.
How does your diet currently look like? What do you eat?

I alternate by eating raw (wild salmon or tuna) with raw or at least very rare beef, I also eat 2 raw fertilized duck eggs, 5-6 young coconuts a day, one portion of fruit and consume plenty of fresh vegetable juices a day.
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: yuli on December 13, 2010, 06:28:52 am: If you want some raw paleo calcium you can just eat a crushed eggshell, it has calcium and other minerals too ;)
Title: Re: What do you do for calcium intact on a Raw Food diet if you can't get raw milk?
Post by: Hannibal on December 13, 2010, 03:21:46 pm: Or eat the bones like this guy - http://tiny.pl/hw63c ;)