AIMAN INAM

TORONTO: The basic need of our teeth and bones i.e. calcium also plays an important role when it comes to control cholesterol levels, claimed a latest research.

Academics are optimistic that this breakthrough could lead to new approaches to antidote high blood cholesterol.

Targeting calcium in the cell could trigger a new way to manage cholesterol metabolism that boosts the odds of mounting heart attack or stroke. 

In a mice experiment, while analyzing a calcium-binding protein, the investigators discerned an intense augmentation of blood cholesterol concentration among mice when the protein was not there. 

Considering this, Marek Michalak from the University of Alberta in Canada maintained that the research denotes that insufficient calcium could conceal cholesterol from the synthetic machinery.

If you drop calcium, your synthetic machinery reckons that there is no cholesterol and it onsets generating more even if there is already ample.

Another researcher from the McGill University in Quebec, Canada Luis Agellon, while praising the ramifications asserted that discovering such association potentially unlocks many doors as to develop innovative modus operandi to manipulate cholesterol metabolism.

However, more research is needed in this line before writing the final verdicts, said the scholars.

Their up shots have been detailed in the paper published in the Scientific Reports.

P.S. It is pertinent to mention here that today’s generation hardly consumes calcium rich food particularly milk, which makes the situation worse.. Sufficient calcium is indispensable for healthy growth and development.