Calcium: Another Perspective - Part 1

Here we go again... more confusing news. I can hear the rumbling frustrations of the millions of women who have been diligent with their calcium supplements in the belief that it helps prevent osteoporosis; a dangerous, sometimes crippling condition primarily associated with post-menopausal women.

In recent news, it was suggested that perhaps all those years of religiously taken your calcium supplement may not have done much good. A report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 354, pp. 669-683) is the source of this recent hubbub. The study organizers followed more than 36,000 women, and they have concluded that supplementation did not actually improve the risks of hip fractures during the course of the study. But the news report is quite misleading.

The study focused on calcium and vitamin D supplementation, and concluded that although they did record an increase in bone density, they did not notice any substantial difference in actual hip fractures over the course of seven years. However, my concern with this broad generalization is the same concern I had in all the years of the “experts” telling women just the opposite; they CAN minimize their risk of osteoporosis by taking a calcium supplement. The bottom line is… it is just not that simple, but how we wish it were.

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It's About Time

“Time”… We spend Time. We bide Time. We waste Time and lose Time. There is a Time to weep and a Time to laugh; a Time for talk and a Time for song. And whether we like it or not, Time marches on. Try though we might, we cannot slow or stop Time. And the reversal of Time should best be left for the H.G. Wells class of authors.As a child, I experienced many mornings when I would wish I had a stopwatch that I could use to stop Time, so that I could get that extra hour of sleep before school. This dream began after seeing a movie in which the main character had a stopwatch that would stop the world around him. As an adult, I still find myself dreaming about owning such a device that would allow me to accomplish many tasks in a given time period.
Albert Einstein taught us that Time is not “universal”. Instead, Time is “relative”. As children, we had the luxury of occasionally calling for a “Do Over!”, which in a child’s relative perspective, is their way of turning back the clock. As adults, we have learned that about the best we can do is try and squeeze more into less. Or at a minimum, turn back the results of Time.

At our company, we have understood the challenges of “beating the clock”. As any business owner knows, beating the clock is an ever-present shadow that looms over us while we go about our tasks of nurturing our vision and trying to do too much with too little; too little help, too little expertise, too little money, or too little Time. But what is of vital consequence for us – and is in fact the main reason we began this business back in ’97 – is not so much the passage of Time, but the effects of Time. We may not possess a stopwatch, but from a relative perspective can we postpone (or reverse) the effects of Time? Yes.

The first step is to shout – with all the intensity of a child’s heart - “Do Over!” This is the mental step, and for many people it can be the toughest. Too many of us get caught up in believing, “I’m too old for that.” But is that true? From my experience (being of a competitive nature), I have certainly heard the echo of those words in my own mind. I still want to race motorcycles, but I’m too old for that. I still want to mountain bike the Continental Divide, but I’m too old for that. I still want to hike Mt. Fuji, but hey… I’m too old for that. Or am I…?
Do Over!

I don’t need to be competitive to have fun. I don’t need to break records to feel alive. I don’t need to *be* young to *feel* young. And I know it begins with attitude; with my head, and with my heart.

We have made a business out of developing products to help reverse the effects of Time on our bodies. *Now* is always the time to reverse the effects on our minds. Ask for a Do Over. Heck! *Demand* a Do Over! It is up to you.

After all, isn’t it about Time?

Now, where did I put that map of Fuji…