What's the Best Way to Get Extra Calcium?

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What's the Best Way to Get Extra Calcium? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times Best selling author, celebrity nutrition expert and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert Donna from my Facebook community, the JJ Virgin lifestyle community asks, what's the best way to get extra calcium? Well, I've got a question for that question and I will be right back with it.

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All right, so I'm actually recording this live in my Facebook lifestyle community group and Donna jumped in and asked this question, what's the best way to get extra calcium? So I asked, well, why do you need extra calcium? And she said, osteopenia. And I'm glad she said that because I really wanted to get down to this kind of myth bust that if you've got thinning bones, that all you need to do is throw some calcium at it. Because one of the things you want to think of is not just what's the best way to get calcium, but what's the best way to keep the calcium you have, right? And so one of the big challenges is if you are having, if you're diet is more acidic than it should be, meaning probably you're not getting enough non starchy vegetables, which is the one of the easiest ways to help have good acid alkaline balance in your diet, or you're under stress, which is catabolic and makes you more acidic, you could be leaching more calcium from your bones. So when someone has osteopenia, I want to find out why is it truly a calcium deficiency? Because when you look at your bones, there's a lot more to building strong bones than just calcium or what else could be at play. When estrogen starts to go low and when you get out of balance with your estrogen and progesterone, both super needed for good bone health, you can end up with thinning bones. If you've got low thyroid function, you can end up with thinning bones. If you're under stress, which can also then impact your estrogen and progesterone and your thyroid, you can have thinning bones because it makes you catabolic. If you've got that acidic diet right, you'll eat calcium from the bones. If you're vitamin D deficient and vitamin D and K1 and K1 and 2 deficient, you can have thinning bones. Why? Because vitamin D is needed to help your body absorb calcium and then vitamin K1 and 2 help direct it to the right places. So that's super important. And then all the great bone minerals and when I think of it, calcium, I, I like go immediately to yeah, but what about the magnesium? That's super important too. And of course things like boron and then beyond those, what about the exercise that's so keen, important? And no, walking is not enough here. You really need to axial load your spine. How do you do that? That means like standing up with weights and pushing them up over your head, doing, because that'll load your spine, doing squats, that'll load your hips. So things like that that are going to do exactly what you want them to do, which is to put some resistance on your bones so they get and stay stronger. So you need a little bit of resistance to them in order for that to happen. So it's a lot more than just looking at. I'm going to take some calcium, which I just, I'm always amazed because I feel like we're really behind and there's an urban legend there that won't catch up. And I'm going to give you one other important thing and that is good omega 3s, fish oil, freshly ground flaxseed seed, flaxseed meal. These things can help with bone remodeling as well. So there's a lot of things to look at that are gonna help you tremendously and ideally, like we've been doing these for years because you don't wanna play catch up with your bones. You want to keep your bones strong the whole way through. This is JJ with Ask the Health Expert. I do this five times a week, so make sure you never miss a show by going to subscribetojay.com.

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