#471: Salt & Bone Health – Is There Cause For Concern?
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What Are the Common Nutritional Links With Osteoporosis Risk?
The process of bone mass accretion is something that develops particularly over childhood and adolescence. We reach peak bone mass somewhere around the age of 30, if I remember correctly. Over time, depending on external factors such as dietary intake of these minerals and dietary protein, vitamin D status, and also external factors like mechanical loading, exercise, physical activity can all then influence the rate of bone retention. And so we'll refer a lot to BMD, likely the density ofThese minerals and bones.
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