DiscoverBody Stuff with Dr. Jen GunterIs drinking milk essential for building strong bones?
Is drinking milk essential for building strong bones?

Is drinking milk essential for building strong bones?

Update: 2021-06-0921
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Got milk? When it comes to building strong bones, you shouldn’t just stick to the dairy aisle—but many people are starting to skip it all together, with a demonic narrative evolving around milk in recent years. So which should we believe? To find out, Jen travels to the hills of Mongolia to learn all about lactase and breaks down the basics of what makes bones weak, and where to find the key ingredient to make them stronger (spoiler: it’s not in your grocery cart). Read the full text transcript for this episode at go.ted.com/BSTscript4

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Kelly Stout

I was surprised vitamin K2 was not mentioned for bone health.

Jun 24th
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Aly Sergie

While I see the title is about Milk - the necessity is to go into bone physiology, vit k etc

Jun 19th
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Is drinking milk essential for building strong bones?

Is drinking milk essential for building strong bones?