nigma
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'The parathyroid hormone (PTH) is an important regulator of calcium metabolism. If dietary calcium isn't sufficient, causing blood calcium to decrease, the PTH increases, and removes calcium from bones to maintain a normal amount in the blood. PTH has many other effects, contributing to inflammation, calcification of soft tissues, and decreased respiratory energy production.'
Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths
Milk in context: allergies, ecology, and some myths
Why should PTH cause soft tissue calcification? You would think if serum calcium was low, and PTH was elevated to increase the level, that it would then go where it was needed.. rather than into soft tissue. What are we to think of this? Is it just because PTH is a backup emergency system, operating in a low ATP state of the body, and so things can't be expected to exactly to plan, so you have some collateral damage to tissues?