Her professors or instructors are saying that high dietary protein
increases urinary calcium excretion, and then they make the assumption that, therefore, it's bad for bone health, but that's only part of the puzzle, and they're not understanding the increase in intestinal absorption of calcium that animal protein and protein in general leads to.
Calcitonin inhibits PTH secretion, decreases both bone resorption and intestinal calcium absorption, and
increases urinary calcium excretion (Figure 1).
Not exact matches
a)
increased protein intake from animal sources (milk and meat) lead to significant
increases in
urinary calcium excretion.
It has been shown that small amounts of aluminum - containing antacids
increase the
urinary and fecal
excretion of
calcium, inhibit absorption of fluoride, and inhibit absorption of phosphorus, creating a negative
calcium balance.
A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that when women drank 1/2 to 1 liter of grapefruit, apple or orange juice daily, their
urinary pH value and citric acid
excretion increased, significantly dropping their risk of forming
calcium oxalate stones.
The old thinking would predict that then there would be no
calcium loss since there is no excess acid to buffer, but no, even though the acid load was neutralized there was still the excess
urinary calcium, consistent with the radioactive isotope study, «challenging the long - standing dogma that animal protein consumption results in an acidosis that promotes the
increased excretion of
calcium....
Unexpected observations were a prominent reduction in
urinary calcium excretion from the run - in to the intervention phase with the fruits - and - vegetables diet and no
increase in
calcium excretion with the combination diet.
This pattern of findings can potentially be explained by the high fiber content of these two diets, which may have impeded
calcium absorption.22 Nonetheless, the substantial
increase in
urinary phosphorus
excretion with the combination diet suggests that the subjects in this group did consume more dairy products than the other participants.
These
increase calcium absorption and deposition, while reducing
urinary calcium excretion.
Increasing dietary protein intake enhances intestinal
calcium absorption, as well as
urinary calcium excretion (9).
It was initially thought that high - protein diets may result in a negative
calcium balance (when the sum of
urinary and fecal
calcium excretion becomes greater than
calcium intake) and thus
increase bone loss (11).
In the kidneys, PTH stimulates the conversion of vitamin D into its active form (1,25 - dihydroxyvitamin D; calcitriol), which rapidly decreases
urinary excretion of
calcium but
increases urinary excretion of phosphorus.
Because of the
increased calcium excretion brought on by furosemide (i.e. an
increase in
urinary calcium levels), there could be a problem using this medication in patients with a history of
calcium oxalate bladder stone formation.