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How do you halt the progress of osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Dec 15, 2023 | Replies (148)Comment receiving replies
I am in the same boat. There is a lot of info out there about the possible risks of calcium supplements and many docs now say to get calcium from food.
Two problems with that for me: I cannot eat dairy, any dairy. I have considered pursuing desensitization. Second, with all these fractures, there isn't much room in my tummy for a lot of food so fitting in the other sources is problematic!
I hope that taking D3 and K2 keeps it out of my arteries, to some extent anyway. I only take 800mg in supplements. On Tymlos I would be nervous not ingesting any.
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For what it's worth, my female cardiologist is taking the calcium/vitaminD3/vitaminK2 trio herself. She likes the studies suggesting that K2 is artery-prorective. I've been taking the stuff for over 5 years and a recent echocardiogram was so good my PCP double-checked the date because I also have chronic high cholesterol and cannot tolerate leg cramps from statins. So, we amble forth and do the best we can and figure the human body is still, by and large, a mystery.