Best podcast and book resources I've found

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I'm going to recommend a couple of podcast episodes and books for osteoporosis. There is so much information out there, and some of it may not be well researched. So this is what I've found most helpful so far.

1. The Bone Coach Episode #15 - He interviews Dr. Lara Giongregorio, Ph. D. who works for Health Canada. I looked through all their episodes and most don't appear to be well researched and appear to have iffy information, but this one was great. She was thorough in discussing resistance and impact training for osteoporosis and going into the research. Since she works for Health Canada, which is non-profit and motivated to reduce Canada's health-care costs, her information is likely very good. She explained things very well.

2. The Doctor's Farmacy, Episode 576. The podcast is about functional medicine overall, where doctors seek to treat illness by optimizing overall health and treat with dietary changes and supplements instead of medicine where possible. This episode is about osteoporosis and they interviewed a great doctor, Dr. Todd LePine (and a couple of other guys). I really enjoyed it. If other episodes of the podcast are of interest, they are worth listening to as well. I believe the information they provide is, for the most part well researched.

3. Dr. Keith McCormick's books. The first one is "The Whole Body Approach to Osteoporosis" and published in 2009. He got osteoporosis himself by overtraining (i.e. doing Ironmans which requires a huge amount of training in running, swimming, and biking; there is a local doctor here who also got osteoporosis at a young age by doing Ironmans). In this book, in Chapter 2, he has a section on thiazides, and what to do instead if a doctor recommended a thiazide for excess calcium excretion. It is 8-10 servings of fruits/vegetables a day, eliminating sodas and caffeine (this I've already done in the last couple of months), minimize red meats, minimize dairy and take calcium citrate instead, and supplement with 1 to 5mg vitamin K, 300 to 900 mg/day of potassium bicarbonate, 400-600mg a day of magnesium, and 10 mg/day of boron. His recommendations appear to be very well researched, and he seems to really want to help people, not just to make money.

His newest book, which just got published, is called Good Bones. I'm going to order the hard copy (I got the Ebook for the first one because I really wanted the natural approach for eliminating my thiazide pill).