My personal opinion after reading a lot of research is that supplements don’t do anything and they’re just a waste of money and time. As far as the other commenters about bone medicines, they can’t tolerate my suggestion is that they get the doctor to write a prior authorization request to the insurance companies. The insurance companies just want to give you the cheapest creepiest medicine they have available. I just read in California that there’s a law being proposed that would stop insurance companies from interfering with doctors requests. I always spend time learning in depth about the medication’s. I’m going to put in my body then I go back to the doctor and I negotiate what we think is best. These days the insurance companies have list of approved things which are incredibly ridiculous because they aren’t even recommended for what ails you. So I always look very very carefully at their list and I do not take what is on their list. I asked the doctor to prescribe the better medicines. If the doctor agrees he / she writes for it because they know the consequences of taking something that doesn’t match the patient needs. He will have to become vigilant and proactive in your own healthcare. The doctors are all very overworked and sometimes they don’t notice because they are removed from your insurance company. I have always been successful. Sometimes I’ve been able to do it directly without the doctor by informing the insurance company directly that I can’t take a certain medicine and that I have tried it and it failed for one reason or another and then it easily will get approved. The problem is that they can no longer keep more than a year worth of your history and my history goes back 30 years with taking medicines that can’t be tolerated. So sometimes I just have to read off the list of all the things I’ve done over 25 years. They know that I haven’t had the same doctor and they really don’t want to accept the records so they approve it. So if you have gastrointestinal problems or like me if you have lactose intolerance or gluten intolerance, it puts you in a certain class of medicine that cost them more money, but I’m here to tell you that you can get it and you should talk about this with your doctor to make sure you’re both on the same page. I am on the rec class and the TYMLOS. Not at the same time of course and they require being informed. I had temporary severe side effects, but have gotten over both in relatively short time couple months. It’s well worth it for improved bone quality. I also began again bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Because hormones are the best way to build bone and muscle, there is no magic bullet and you have to be committed to your own improvement. On top of this it takes exercise to get all those medicines into your muscles and bones. I’m not a fan of exercise. 😊 I’m also not a fan of wasting my money on supplements that can’t get to where your bones and muscles are and are complete scams. Make sure you look for clinical trial trials and peer reviewed evidence on all that stuff. It’s mostly junk, IHMO 😊