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What's the evidence on Calcium and Vitamin D for bone density?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Dec 18, 2024 | Replies (341)Comment receiving replies
10/16/19 BMJ article on fracture risk and supplemental calcium/Vit. D. Abstract and full text are available (free).
BMJ Open. 2019 Oct 16;9(10):e024595. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024595.
The conclusion: "...supplements that included calcium, vitamin D or both was not found to be better than placebo or no treatment in terms of risk of fractures among community-dwelling older adults. It means the routine use of these supplements in community-dwelling older people should be treated more carefully."
How can we know if we are taking too much cholesterol is serum cholesterol is not reliable. From another medical journal article:
"...not only is it impossible to predict calcium balance based on serum calcium, but doing so may lead to inadequate and, sometimes, deleterious decisions for the patient."
(I can send links to anyone who wants them).
Let's question our endocrinologists - and doctors, in general - using recent, well designed studies as the basis of our questions.
Some of them are relying on outdated and/or flawed guidelines.
L.W.
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Don't forget we need vitamin K2 to get the calcium to go to the bones and not the arteries!
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@mslw Thanks, Lisa. This sounds like excellent and very valuable information. I would definitely like to have the links so when I do finally get to see an endocrinologist I can be as well informed as possible, and if necessary tell him where I got the info.
So, the conclusion is that taking a calcium/vitamin D is not helpful? I am going for my Vitamin D test tomorrow, from what you are quoting it sounds as if my vitamin D level is irrelevant. I hope that’s not true, and that increasing it will be helpful. I want to believe that I can improve my DEXA score, preferably without the pharmaceuticals that all seem to have very negative side-effects.
Thanks again.
JK