How Calcium Protects your Bones

Male: What happens when your body does not get enough calcium?

Male: When sources in the blood run low, a normal process called resorption begins. Resorption steals calcium from bones to be recycled for using other parts of the body. During resorptions, scavenger cells called the osteoclast attached to bone surfaces, tunnel into bone and regurgitate calcium into the blood stream for use by other body parts. Resorption is complemented by a normal process called formation. During formation, construction cells or osteoblast move into the tunnels left by osteoclast and release strands of collagen into the holes.

Bone weakening and loss occurs when the osteoblast cannot keep up with the osteoclasy. But another way, over time, the bone breaking cells continue about their business while the bone building cells slow down. The result of these bones, they are too weak to carry their load.

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