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Q&A: Calcium & Gut Biome

Give your body the raw materials—and let your body do what it was designed to do. The human body is pretty amazing. We don’t have to drink blood in order for our bodies to make blood. A woman doesn’t have to drink milk in order to produce breast milk. Our bodies take raw materials and use incredibly complex systems to build, regulate, repair and maintain themselves. I look at nutrition in much the same way. Calcium is tightly regulated by the body, and bone health involves far more than simply eating more and more calcium. Hormones are regulated through complex systems. And our gut microbiome responds and adapts to what we eat. For me, that doesn’t mean constantly trying to micromanage every process with another food or supplement. Unless there’s a medical reason something needs to be…