Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition's Ask the Nutritionist podcast brought to you by

nutritional weight and wellness. My name is Leah Kleinschrode and I'm a registered and licensed

dietitian. We're thrilled to be celebrating 20 years on air discussing the connection between what you eat

and how you feel.

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feedback helps others find these important real food messages. So on today's show, I will be

answering one question that we received from one of our Dishing Up Nutrition listeners.

This listener asks, is there any truth to the relationship between calcium supplements and heart disease?

So super interesting question, and it's an important question to consider.

Calcium supplements are very popular.

You go to any supermarket or supplement store or you do a quick search on Amazon, you're going

to find yourself facing a wall of calcium supplements to choose from. Most of the clients I see in

clinic are taking calcium supplements or they're taking calcium in high amounts because they're

women. And most of the time it's because we're looking to preserve our bone health or to prevent

osteoporosis.

Calcium does play other roles in the body, too.

And I just want to highlight those.

They're important for proper muscle contractions, proper nerve signaling, relaxing our blood

vessels. And it also helps in the release of some

important hormones, insulin being one of them. So it's not just all about bones. Calcium has other

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