What are the functions of Calcium?
Calcium is essential to: • maintaining total body health, • normal growth and development, • keeping your bones and teeth strong over your lifetime( they contain 99% of the body’s calcium, the remaining 1% is in blood), • ensuring the proper functioning of muscles and nerves, • keeping the heart beating, • helping blood clotting and regulating blood pressure, • metabolising iron, • the action of a number of hormones (particularly those associated with the thyroid and parathyroid glands), • cell structure, and • absorbing vitamin B12. Calcium also prevents muscle or leg cramps in some people.
