Do a deep dive into Good Food For Bones and Joints. If you follow a plant-based diet, you may be interested in Plant-Based Food for Strong Bones. Explore the world of bone-healthy nutrients and supplements.
If you’ve researched the vitamins you need for healthy bones, you’ve probably come across vitamin K. And you might agree that this is not a simple vitamin. I see it debated on social media. How much vitamin K do you really need for bone health, and what’s the best way to get it? And so
Vitamin K is an important nutrient for your bones. But is that just one more supplement you need to add to your growing at-home dispensary? What is the best way to get vitamin K from food? For starters, vitamin K is not just one vitamin. It exists in several different forms, and they don’t all
For most of your life you have probably heard a strong message. Thinner is better, both for looks and for health. This may have come from your friends, your family, the media, and even your doctor. Now you are thinking about keeping your bones strong. Is thinner still healthier when it comes to your bones?
If you are looking at the nutrients you need to build up your bones and keep them strong, zinc is near the top of the list. Zinc is also an essential mineral, meaning you need it just to stay alive. It is used in hundreds of chemical reactions throughout your body. People I work often
Sardines have seen better days. Back in the early twentieth century, sardines were the ultimate convenience food. They frequently showed up in lunch boxes, college dorm rooms and on pantry shelves, ready for a quick meal or snack (1). Now we are flooded with convenience foods of all sorts, and sardines have fallen out of
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You are working hard to keep your bones strong, getting plenty of calcium and vitamins D and K, and taking all the supplements. Is there something you are missing? What about staying alkaline? In this article you’ll learn why staying alkaline is important for your bones. We’ll talk about how to start your day off
It’s a scary thing to learn that you could fracture a bone. You might feel you will do whatever it takes to prevent that from happening. There are lots of expensive products out there that promise stronger bones. In this post, you’ll learn how you can strengthen your bones on a budget. Do you have
You want to strengthen your bones, but you want to do it naturally. You may have heard that eating alkaline foods is better for your bones. In this article I will delve into exactly what an alkaline diet means. You will learn how we know which foods are alkaline. You will learn some pros and
Your bones don’t exist in isolation, they are affected by all the other systems in your body. When you strengthen your digestion, your insulin regulation or your microbiome, you are doing something that benefits your bones. The research on flax seed and bone health can be a little confusing, so in this article I’ll give
If you eat an alkaline diet you probably know that butter and milk products are firmly on the acidic side of the scale. But what about ghee – is ghee alkaline? Read on to find out how ghee can give you that butter experience without tanking your pH. What is Ghee? Even though ghee is
