Are Calcium Supplements Effective?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2015-11-18

What is the optimal daily dietary calcium intake and might benefits for the bones outweigh the risks to the heart of calcium supplements?

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What’s this about calcium supplements and heart attacks and strokes?! You must have missed by “prequel” video, Are Calcium Supplements Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-calcium-supplements-safe)

And the more milk = more fractures galactose thing? That was covered in Is Milk Good for Our Bones? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-milk-good-for-our-bones/)

For those not getting enough sun (see my recommendations here (http://nutritionfacts.org/2011/09/12/dr-gregers-2011-optimum-nutrition-recommendations) I do advise vitamin D supplementation. For background on how I arrived at my recommended dose, check out my vitamin D video series from a few years ago:
• Vitamin D Recommendations Changed (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vitamin-d-recommendations-changed/)
• Evolutionary Argument for Optimal Vitamin D Level (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/evolutionary-argument-for-optimal-vitamin-d-level/)
• Is Vitamin D the New Vitamin E? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-vitamin-d-the-new-vitamin-e/)
• Vitamin D and Mortality May Be a U-shaped Curve (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vitamin-d-and-mortality-may-be-a-u-shaped-curve/)
• Vitamin D Supplements May Be Necessary (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/vitamin-d-supplements-may-be-necessary/)
• The Difficulty of Arriving at a Vitamin D Recommendation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-difficulty-of-arriving-at-a-vitamin-d-recommendation/)
• How the Institute of Medicine Arrived at Their Vitamin D Recommendation (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-the-institute-of-medicine-arrived-at-their-vitamin-d-recommendation/)
• Resolving the Vitamin D-Bate (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/resolving-the-vitamin-d-bate/)
• Take Vitamin D Supplements With Meals (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/take-vitamin-d-supplements-with-meals/)
• Is Vitamin D3 Better Than D2? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-vitamin-d3-better-than-d2/)

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