Is consuming enough calcium and magnesium enough to keep bones strong or is there more to it?

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Colin Diment · Answer

Hey, Laura, this is a great question. Calcium. And magnesium are definitely important. Those are some of the fundamental building blocks of bone. So if you don't have enough of them, there will definitely be some consequences for bones for bone health. But there's definitely much more to it. And the biggest thing to consider is load your body and your bones respond to the load, and the forces that are placed upon. It, one of the best examples of this which speaks to Directly to your question is in astronauts when an astronaut spends a bunch of time, up in space at the space station. Their bone density drops really quickly because they don't have the forces of gravity on them to stimulate them to maintain their bone health. So when an astronaut comes back from the space station, almost always there suffering from some degree of osteoporosis and it takes time back on Earth being loaded. It Again, by the forces of gravity to rebuild their bone health back to normal levels. So we can learn from that and recognize that we need to be loading our body and loading our bones to maintain our bone density to maintain our muscle mass. So resistance training in particular, is one of the best ways to maintain your bone health, as we get older

Zachary Cohen · Answer

This is a great question, so when it comes to nutrition, you know, I'm definitely not the person who everybody should be speaking to about this as a being a physical therapist and strengthening professional by trade. However, there are some basic commonalities that carry across and one of them when it comes to bone is something called Wolff's law. Wolff's law essentially says, much like muscle that bone responds to stress, meaning that we need to be put weight bearing pressure on to Bones to force it to then have to adapt and handle that stress. It's the reason why astronauts, when they come back from space because they're not weight-bearing Against Gravity as much experience things like osteopenia, symptoms of osteoporosis, things like that. So in addition to the Nutritional side of things, which I don't want to go into too much expert on since that's not fully my expertise, you want to make sure we're doing weight-bearing activities, such as weight training, things like That so that the bones are being stimulated to have to lay down more tissue become denser, more resilient, and be able to respond to stress for specific nutrition questions, that's where things like getting a blood test and having a nutrition expert Analyze That to see where there's our deficiencies if there are, any is also a helpful solution.

Nick Hadinger · Answer

So supplementation is a good start to bone health, but if you really want your bones to get stronger, you really should be looking at doing some strength training. So when muscles pull on their attachment site to the Bone, It causes the bones to lay down more strong dense, bone cells. That will help to improve the strength and tensile capacity of the bone. So strength. painting is probably the most efficacious and safe form of bone health, stimulation that anyone can do

Dr. Ben Pearl · Answer

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"Is consuming enough calcium and magnesium enough to keep bones strong or is there more to it?"