{"id":766762,"date":"2026-06-29T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766762\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T01:00:09","slug":"taking-vitamin-d-and-calcium-every-day-doctors-reveal-why-supplements-may-not-protect-bones-the-way-many-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/766762\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking vitamin D and calcium every day? Doctors reveal why supplements may not protect bones the way many believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; font-size: inherit; list-style: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; overflow: visible; font-family: inherit; color: inherit; display: block;\">Bones are living tissues. They are constantly being broken down and rebuilt. This process depends on far more than just two nutrients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blindly taking vitamin D and calcium supplements may not prevent fractures or make bones stronger,&#8221; said Dr Anup Khatri, Senior Consultant-Orthopedics at Gleneagles Hospital, Parel, Mumbai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, good bone health will be based on factors like regular exercise, a balanced diet, sunlight exposure, and overall lifestyle. Supplements should be taken when there is a deficiency or on a doctor&#8217;s advice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Think of bone health like constructing a house. Calcium and vitamin D may be bricks and cement, but without workers, maintenance and a solid foundation, the structure cannot stand strong. Exercise, muscle strength, hormones, sleep, protein intake and healthy body weight all influence how bones age.<\/p>\n<p>The body&#8217;s skeleton also responds to movement. Weight-bearing activities such as walking, climbing stairs and strength training stimulate bones to become stronger over time. A pill simply cannot replicate that biological response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bones are living tissues. They are constantly being broken down and rebuilt. This process depends on far more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,63,14747,79623,137,532,365110,1290,39505],"class_list":["post-766762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-calcium","tag-calcium-supplements","tag-health","tag-nutrition","tag-supplements-for-bone-health","tag-vitamin-d","tag-vitamin-d-supplements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}