Should you take Calcium Supplements?🤔

I'm going to get started.

All right, so today we're actually talking about the calcium story, which is calcium supplements.

And the reason I was interested in this story was that it actually is quite topical.

In the newspaper and the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail as well, there was actually several articles which a lot of patients saw and actually came in to talk to doctors about.

So in this, it was actually about, just about a month ago, in the Globe and Mail, this was the headline, Calcium Tablets Risk Could Outweigh Benefits.

And what they said is that, you know, there's a growing body of evidence that suggests that calcium supplements may actually do more harm than good.

Just about the same time, the Toronto Star actually published a similar article, Bone Building Calcium Supplements Increase Heart Attack Risk.

And in that, they note that a lot of people are taking, a lot of postmenopausal women are taking calcium supplements to ward off osteoporosis, but that may actually increase their risk of heart attack and strokes.

And what they say is, maybe we should reconsider the near universal supplementation of calcium in our diet.

So that started me thinking whether or not we should do it, because I think a lot about calcium anyway, because we use it a lot for our renal patients, but I'm not really going to talk about renal patients in this.

I'm going to get started.

All right, so today we're actually talking about the calcium story, which is calcium supplements.

And the reason I was interested in this story was that it actually is quite topical.

In the newspaper and the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail as well, there was actually several articles which a lot of patients saw and actually came in to talk to doctors about.

So in this, it was actually about, just about a month ago, in the Globe and Mail, this was the headline, Calcium Tablets Risk Could Outweigh Benefits.

And what they said is that, you know, there's a growing body of evidence that suggests that calcium supplements may actually do more harm than good.

Just about the same time, the Toronto Star actually published a similar article, Bone Building Calcium Supplements Increase Heart Attack Risk.

And in that, they note that a lot of people are taking, a lot of postmenopausal women are taking calcium supplements to ward off osteoporosis, but that may actually increase their risk of heart attack and strokes.

And what they say is, maybe we should reconsider the near universal supplementation of calcium in our diet.

So that started me thinking whether or not we should do it, because I think a lot about calcium anyway, because we use it a lot for our renal patients, but I'm not really going to talk about renal patients in this.