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5 Foods for Strong Bones | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A

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The Risks of Overdoing Calcium Supplementation

People can cheer lead for dairy all they want to. People really are not drinking milk and don't particularly want to. Researchers at Harvard found that calcium supplementation is particularly risky if you're taking it on an empty stomach. A lot of that is tied also with vitamin D. Vitamin D pulls the calcium out of your digestive tract into your blood. That's a whole job. It helps you absorb it. You need it from the sun. But if you're not in the sun a supplemental do you? And most doctors would say about 2000 international units per day.

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