The ugly truth about that big calcium study

It’s like standing outside in the rain and insisting that you’re not wet.

It’s not just WRONG. It’s downright DELUSIONAL!

Today, my friend, I’ve got the results of a study so delusional that I have to wonder if the folks behind it were on some kind of hallucinogenic.

It takes one of the absolute basics about bone health… and tosses it right into the trash.

It claims that calcium and vitamin D won’t do squat to strengthen bone and cut your risk of a break or fracture.

But don’t toss your own vitamins into the trash just yet.

Toss this study in there instead!

How big a grain of salt have you got?

I bet everybody’s been telling you not to bother taking your vitamins – all because they read some headlines that said that those calcium and D supplements are a waste of time and money.

But y’know how you shouldn’t believe everything you read? Well, right now is when you should take that to heart.

Because even if everybody’s jumping off of this bridge, you’ll want to stay put.

This bit of “research” is what I’d call a textbook example of science… assuming the textbook was called How Not to Do Science.

It wasn’t a conclusive gold-standard, placebo-controlled clinical trial. It was a hodge-podge of earlier studies, a form of mix-and-match that allows researchers to pull off whatever ugly voodoo they want in order to hit some predetermined, agenda-driven outcome.

For example, some of the studies they mish-mashed together didn’t test people’s D levels.

We have no clue whether the folks who took part already had normal D levels and therefore wouldn’t really benefit from supplements to begin with… or if they had low D and truly NEEDED those supplements.

And if they did NEED the supplements, we have no idea if the tablets actually worked and raised their D levels!

That’s not just a minor oversight — that’s a fatal flaw, like trying to calculate a car’s miles per gallon without knowing how much gas was in it or how far it was driven.

The study also never examined levels of something else: vitamin K, which is just as essential to building bone as calcium and D. It’s so critical that low K levels almost always mean lower bone mineral density.

This isn’t far-fetched nonsense from the fringes of “alt-med” — this is just basic human biology!

And while the researchers claim to have used 33 studies, a good chunk of the data came from the Women’s Health Initiative, a study wherein we know that many patients DIDN’T take their supplements as directed… and at least SOME took their own various supplements.

No way in heck you could draw conclusions from that — yet somehow, the Journal of the American Medical Association couldn’t wait to publish this nonsense.

It’s more proof that it’s not interested in health. It’s pushing an agenda – one that steers patients like cattle toward drugs by convincing them that nothing else works.

Don’t let them herd you into that pen. Take your vitamins with water… and take any of the wild claims in these headline-making studies with a huge grain of salt.