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THE MIRACLE OF HORMONES

You will never encounter this situation; the example has been given
just to emphasize the importance of the amount of calcium in the blood.
If a liter of blood were placed before you containing no calcium, the
amount of calcium you would have to mix with it would be one tenth of
a gram. In the five liters of blood in your body, there needs to be a total of
only half a gram of calcium. If there is any more or less than this, serious
illness or even death may result. Clearly, the human body has been creat-

ed in a marvelously delicate balance. A person weighing 80 kilos requires
only half a gram of calcium circulating in his blood—any more or less,
and he will die.
Calcium ensures the operation of several vital functions in our bod-
ies. Without calcium, the blood would not clot and a person could die

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