If I am going Dairy Free, do I need extra calcium?

Assuming you are taking the calcium for bone health. It is interesting, because dairy products are touted for bone health for their calcium, but they are highly acidic which lowers your pH and can actually cause you to leach calcium from your bones to buffer your pH back to normal.

While calcium is of course important for bone health, there are a variety of things you should be doing for an integrative approach to bone health:

1. Maintain optimal vitamin D levels through 20 minutes of daily sun exposure without sunscreen AND supplementing as needed to bring levels to 60-70 ng/ml of 25 hydroxyvitamin D

2. Take a high quality calcium-magnesium supplement.

3. Eat non starchy veggies with each meal to help maintain good acid – alkaline balance. You can also drink a green drink to help here.

4. Eat fish, freshly ground flaxseed meal and take essential fatty acids to help with bone remodeling. I take Designs for Health OmegAvail Synergy which is a blend of EPA, DHA and GLA.

5. Lift the heaviest weights you can handle in good form at least 2-3 times a week. Use free weights and do multi joint, full body style movements.

6. Maintain good hormone balance, estrogen is essential for strong healthy bones
Monitor your bone health-get a DEXA bone scan now – the younger the better and then talk to your doctor about an ideal monitoring schedule to make sure you are not losing bone.

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