Excerpt from Bragg’s Build Pow­er­ful Nerve Force Book — Chap­ter 5
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We are gen­er­ally more defi­cient in cal­cium than in any of the 30 other min­er­als the body needs to main­tain health and suf­fi­cient Nerve Force. Cal­cium lev­els in the cor­rect pro­por­tion give us sound teeth, strong bones, nerves of steel, good mus­cle and skin tone, a reg­u­lar heart beat, an erect pos­ture, a sharp mind and healthy vital organs. If your blood cal­cium level drops too much you may become ner­vous, cross, moody, depressed, grouchy and irri­tated. Cal­cium helps con­trol your health and moods as it shapes your entire personality.

Cal­cium is all-important for proper func­tion­ing of the nerves. This min­eral helps to trans­port impulses through the nerves from one part of the body to the other. With­out cal­cium, you would not be able to pull your hand away from a hot stove, get out of the way of an oncom­ing car or even taste the food you eat! Cal­cium defi­ciency may cause cramps or con­vul­sions, heart pal­pi­ta­tions or a slow pulse. Cal­cium also helps main­tain the body’s del­i­cate acid-alkaline bal­ance, Bragg Vine­gar helps also.

Cal­cium defi­cien­cies can be read­ily rec­og­nized by stunted growth, decayed teeth and brit­tle or porous bones which show up in x-rays. It is more dif­fi­cult, how­ever, to rec­og­nize cal­cium defi­cien­cies that pro­duce changes in the soft tis­sues. Yet these are the warn­ing signs which we must learn to detect in order to pre­vent unnec­es­sary mis­ery and phys­i­cal handicaps.

Only 1% of the body’s cal­cium is used by the soft tis­sues. But if this essen­tial 1% is lack­ing it flashes a dan­ger sig­nal of cal­cium defi­ciency. The most notice­able sign is extreme ner­vous­ness. With­out the proper amount of cal­cium in the blood, the nerves can­not send mes­sages. Ten­sion and strain result. It is impos­si­ble for the body to relax. This is appar­ent in chil­dren who are highly emo­tional. It shows first in a mean and unpleas­ant dis­po­si­tion, fret­ful cry­ing and tem­per tantrums which later devel­op­ing into mus­cu­lar twitch­ing, spasms and even convulsions.