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Hi, everyone.

Today I spoke with Chris Cressor about calcium supplementation and if calcium

supplementation is effective and if calcium supplementation may pose health risk, namely

cardiovascular disease risk.

Very insightful conversation with Chris.

If you've heard Chris in the past, you know that him and I tend to have the same analytical framework through which we analyze medical information. So definitely that was true in this episode also. I'll give you a few of the conclusions.

Calcium supplementation has not been adequately demonstrated to improve bone health. In fact,

it's shown not to improve bone health by some fairly compelling data. Also, fairly compelling

data, meaning meta-analyses, that calcium supplementation may increase

cardiovascular disease risk. So not a strong case to be made for using calcium supplementation.

We also touched on a few other items that are important to get clarity on.

One in particular is that dairy is a good source of dietary calcium that does correlate, most importantly, with the outcome of improved bone health.

Now, it's not to say that if you have definitively objectified that you have a

problem with dairy, that you should force yourself to eat it. However, my fear is that people

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