Exhaustive Aerobic Exercise Increases Serum Calcium Levels and Dietary Requirements
You probably have heard of the fundamental importance of calcium as a structural component of bones . Yet, calcium is way more than the building block of our bone structure and the concrete the of the hopefully non-existent plaque in your arteries. It is also one of the major players in muscle contraction . Thus, it is not very surprising that a group of Iranian Scientists ( Pourvaghar. 2011 ) found major effects of pro-longed (15min) high intensity aerobic exercise on serum calcium levels of 12 randomly selected student athletes (22.36y; 75kg @ 1.76m): […] the participants' mean of serum calcium concentration in the first stage and before Balke exhausting aerobic exercise was measured 98.38 ng/mic L. In the second stage, i.e. after the exhausting aerobic activity, it increased to 114.96 ng/mic L. Research results indicated that the difference in serum calcium concentration between the first and second stages is significant (P= 0.0001). With the calcium that is appearing in the bl...