A new guideline suggests that dietary and supplemental calcium intakes lower than 2500 mg daily don’t affect CV risk.

So elderly persons taking Calcium supplements need not be worried if they are taking Calcium supplements upto 2500mg per day. 

Calcium is important for optimal bone health throughout your life. Although diet is the best way to get calcium, calcium supplements may be an option if your diet falls short.

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• Calcium Intake ~ Daily Recommendation
• Calcium in Food
• Calcium Content of Some Common Food Items
• Absorption of calcium

What could be a problem with too little Calcium !

If you don’t get enough calcium, you could face health problems related to weak bones:

• Children may not reach their full potential adult height.
• Adults may have low bone mass, which is a risk factor for osteoporosis.

Yoshinori Ohsumi, a Japanese cell biologist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct 3 2016 for his discoveries on how cells recycle their content, a process known as Autophagy.

Autophagy or Self Eating is a crucial process in cell metabolism. During starvation, cells break down proteins and nonessential components and reuse them for energy. Cells also use autophagy to destroy invading viruses and bacteria, sending them off for recycling. And cells use autophagy to get rid of damaged structures. The process is thought to go awry in cancer, infectious diseases, immunological diseases and neurodegenerative disorders. Disruptions in autophagy are also thought to play a role in aging.

But little was known about how autophagy happens, what genes were involved, or its role in disease and normal development until Dr. Ohsumi began studying the process in baker’s yeast.

The process he studies is critical for cells to survive and to stay healthy. The autophagy genes and the metabolic pathways he discovered in yeast are used by higher organisms, including humans. And mutations in those genes can cause disease. His work led to a new field and inspired hundreds of researchers around the world to study the process.

Dr. Ohsumi’s work opened a field that has now exploded, with implications that are “the stuff of science fiction.”
If the autophagy system is knocked out, he said, the result is premature aging, with ailments like cardiovascular disease, skeletal weakness, glucose intolerance and cognitive decline.
Now drugs that stimulate this system are being studied. If you take a drug and stimulate the system, you will make the organism live longer in a cancer-free way.