The Truth About Coffee and Bone Health

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Oh, I put that coffee down. What? It's dangerous. For your bones? These bones? Yeah, the study from the NIH showed that drinking coffee triples your risk of fractures. From the NIH? Yeah, I know I don't normally trust them, but you realize PubMed is just a database, right? What? It's like you're saying your Harry Potter book was written by the New York Public Library. Whatever, it's still a study. You shouldn't drink that, bro. A study. Yeah, from 1991. Uh, yeah, and another one showed that caffeine makes you pee-out calcium, which you need for your bones? Did you even look for other studies, or did you just hear these from some video of a sunburnt dude yelling at you from a coffee aisle? Now, bro, he knows his stuff. You know that triple fracture risk you said was from them drinking more than eight cups of coffee per day? And that study was included in a 2023 meta-analysis where they looked at a whole bunch of studies on the topic? Caffeine and bone health? And that one was a serious outlier. Some even But they concluded that there was no strong association between tea and coffee and bone mineral density or fracturing. Is he still talking? I might be late for my bioquantam detox session later. And a 2017 review of a whole bunch of studies on caffeine and bone density found basically no risk of up to four cups of coffee per day. And maybe a small amount of impact on four to eight cups? Which you can partially offset by having a little more calcium? Sorry, Rajesh. Speaking of which, that whole peeing out more calcium study showed that drinking one full, cup of coffee makes you pee out an extra five milligrams of calcium. You can balance that with a teaspoon of milk. Okay, fine. I guess that means I could go back to sticking the coffee up my...

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☕Is Coffee Bad For Your Bones? ☠️ 🦴 The problem with social media is that there’s never enough time or interest to capture the proper level of nuance required for a true scientific discussion. This is just one small question that took me several days of research to cover properly, as part of the larger series on bone health I’m working on (coming in full via the YT and ✉️ soon!) 📚 Studies Discussed: Original Study – PMID: 2058578 Calcium Peeing Study – PMID: 7054349 2017 Meta-Analysis – PMID: 28438661 2023 Meta Analysis – PMID: 37374383 #health #Nutrition #diet #science #coffee #bonehealth #edutok #learnontiktok #stem

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