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Researchers have found out that the calcium contained in dairy products, can destroy a brain, informs The Sun.
Scientists believe, that this element can narrow blood vessels that leads to dementia at older persons. And vitamin D which promotes calcium assimilation and is important for formation of bones can only aggravate the situation.
Results of the research with the participation of older persons in the age from 60 till 86 years have shown that with other things being equal, people who used a lot of calcium and vitamin D had more tissue involvement in a brain.
Scientists believe that calcium precipitations block vessels and prevent blood from coming to a brain.
Doctor Martha Pain from Duke University in Northern California, who conducted the research, says: “The more researchers are worried about consequences of calcium surplus, especially when advertising induces to take it in big amounts”.