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And today on this Total Wellness Tuesday edition, we're going to be talking about calcium supplementation

and how we've been told now for decades that it's really healthy for us and

actually we should be using it on a daily basis if we're over 40 or 50 years old.

We're mainly told that because we want to increase our bone strength.

We want to protect our bones from osteoporosis,

from falling, from potentially breaking a hip, any of those things that might send us to the

emergency room and actually cause us to then have to go into maybe a rehab

facility and then a lot of times we see from there people really start to

go downhill and of course we don't want that but is using calcium as a

supplement the best way to prevent that because we do want to prevent it but let's take a look so we

know that using calcium will help with osteoprosis it helps with muscle cramps it

helps with muscle pain. It helps with bone health, teeth health. It even helps some people with relaxation and insomnia. It helps better metabolize iron, increase the oxygen and red blood cells, and it does help with mental

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