Is drinking milk essential for building strong bones? | Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Got milk? When it comes to building strong bones, you shouldn’t just stick to the dairy aisle—but many people are starting to skip it all together, with a demonic narrative evolving around milk in recent years. So which should we believe? To find out, Jen travels to the hills of Mongolia to learn all about lactase and breaks down the basics of what makes bones weak, and where to find the key ingredient to make them stronger (spoiler: it’s not in your grocery cart). This is an episode of Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. For more episodes, find and follow Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter wherever you're listening to this. Read the full transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/BSTscript4

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Dr. Shoshana Ungerleiter, back with another episode of Body Stuff with Dr.
0:11.2	Jen Gunter today.
0:12.6	I hope you like it, and if you want to hear more episodes, find and follow Body Stuff
0:17.2	wherever you're listening to this.
0:20.5	There's another podcast you might enjoy.
0:22.2	It's called Am I Normal from the Ted Audio Collective?
0:25.5	It's back with a new mini-series all about the stories behind the statistics.
0:30.9	What does adulthood mean in a place where more than three-quarters of people between ages
0:34.8	18 and 35 live with their parents?
0:37.9	What defines joy when you live in one of the top ranked countries for happiness?
0:42.0	Here from the people that make up every interesting data point, listen to Am I Normal, wherever
0:46.2	you get your podcasts?
0:49.3	We have been told so much about milk.
0:53.3	We were told that milk was good for your bones.
0:55.6	I remember my mom always made me drink it.
0:57.8	It was supposed to be very good for my health.
1:01.7	Think about all the milk messages you've heard in your life.
1:07.0	My dad's mother had just the largest hunch in her back, and that was used as a fear tactic.
1:15.6	Sit up straight, drink your milk.
1:17.5	We had people from farms that would visit our elementary school and tell us about the
1:21.7	positives of milk.
1:24.6	I remember advertising when I was a kid that milk is critical for healthy mind and body,
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