The Calcium Questions Everyone’s Googling - Answered

Dishing Up Nutrition

Nutritional Weight & Wellness, Inc.

Nutrition, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Dishing Up Nutrition, Britni and Kara tackle the most-Googled calcium questions: What are the best food sources? How do you know if you’re deficient? Are your supplements actually helping — or hurting? They also dig into surprising calcium connections to PMS, sleep, heart health, and even dairy sensitivity. If you’ve ever been confused about calcium, this is the practical, myth-busting episode you’ve been waiting for!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.
0:15.0	Today we are going to be answering all your questions about one of our most important minerals, and that is
0:23.2	calcium. We're going to be answering, what are the best dietary sources? How do you know if
0:29.4	you're getting enough calcium or if you're deficient? How do you know if your calcium supplement
0:36.2	is actually working and not a waste of money?
0:39.2	Could your calcium supplement actually be causing harm?
0:42.9	And how much calcium should we be aiming for each day?
0:46.5	We are going to be answering all of these questions and more coming up.
0:51.5	First, let's introduce ourselves.
0:53.7	I am Brittany Vincent, a registered and licensed
0:56.3	dietitian, and with me today is Kara Carper, who is a licensed nutritionist and certified
1:02.7	nutrition specialist. Anne has been co-hosting, Dishing Up Nutrition for...
1:08.0	How many years? A long time, almost since the beginning.
1:12.4	I mean, I think it was, it's been about 15 years.
1:16.5	Wow.
1:16.9	Since I got licensed and started hosting, Dishing Up Nutrition.
1:20.7	I love it.
1:21.7	So, yeah, thanks, Brittany.
1:23.3	It's very good to be here with you today.
1:26.4	And, you know, we're going to talk about this important topic of calcium because it does come up a lot.
1:32.1	And with good reason.
1:33.7	People, especially women, associate calcium with bone health.
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