Book Review

Calcium is the third top selling supplement in the United States. Osteoporosis affects 10 million people. One in two women and up to one in four men over age 50 will break a bone due to osteoporosis (bonehealthandosteoporosis.org). But what if the problem isn’t low calcium? Calcium leaches into the blood stream from an osteoporotic bone, leaving the bone brittle. We take calcium supplements but if the right transport mechanisms are not available, that calcium isn’t going to go back in. It’s going to go somewhere it does not need to be. And that’s where the problem lies therein.