Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 96
Different Kinds of Balance within Man’s Body 95 important it is for calcium to be present in the body in exactly the right proportions. Sometimes due to viruses or environmental factors, cattle begin to show signs of sudden loss of energy which is very perplexing for a farmer, as there is no outward reason for this to happen. For example a cow, perfectly healthy the night before, suddenly buckles at the knees, drops like a dead weight and simply cannot rise again. There is no fever and no sign of any disease, just a slump into death. A capable veterinary surgeon could of course save the cattle by the injection of readily soluble calcium, miraculously injecting life into the dying animal. This is how important it is for calcium not to drop below the minimum required level. A healthy human needs a minimum amount of 9. 2% calcium and a maximum of 10. 4% calcium. 7 Sometimes persistent progressive debility among humans is traced to a gradual decrease in calcium. So far, the principle to understand is that the delicate levels of calcium should not be disturbed, as this would be dangerous for human health. Generations of scientists working on this may not have quite understood all the factors responsible for the maintenance of this delicate balance. The role of calcium in the composition of the human body is a complex one. Calcium phosphate gives rigidity to the human skeleton and the calcium salts provide the hard structure of the bones and teeth