Your hormones and inflammatory status
also play a role in bone health—a fact that
should not surprise you at this point.
Chronically elevated blood sugar and cortisol
levels and systemic inflammation all
accelerate bone breakdown and inhibit the
formation of new bone cells.
If the first fallacy is thinking that bone
health is all about calcium, the second is
believing that our intake of calcium is all that
matters. If this were true, then how do you
reconcile this:
The United States has one of the highest
rates of osteoporosis in the world, despite
having one of the highest calcium intakes.
It makes no sense ... unless there’s more to
the story than how much calcium we’re taking
in. And there is: It’s also about how much
we’re able to absorb and retain.
Phytates (anti-nutrients) in grains and