Episode 324: 323. Is Calcium Bad For You? Calcium Supplementation? Eating Calcium?

https://heart.bmj.com/content/108/12/964

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.003815



We have a study that says leads to increase all cause death with calcium supplements

We have a study that says calcium supplement leads to increase in coronary artery calcium

Foods that are high in calcium besides dairy include things like kale, spinach, broccoli, chia sees, collard greens…

Hard for me to believe someone with a diet of excess kale and spinach will have an increase in all cause mortality anytime soon.

It is easy for me to believe that supplements in a pill don’t fix the problems like we wish—we see this all the time with some many electrolytes and nutrients—there is a difference between taking a pill and eating a nutritious diet