Dr Caoimhe Hartley

And there's no safety net of having the discussion about dietary calcium as well.

We direct a lot of people to the International Osteoporosis Foundation website.

They have a really good calcium calculator on us.

So you can go through and you take along like I take this much milk in my diet.

You know, I think they give you like in an average week and then they give you all these different foods and you say roughly how much you eat of all these different foods.

And then at the end, it tells you if you're meeting your thousand milligrams or twelve hundred milligrams, depending target of calcium.

But it also shows you, which I think is really interesting, how much calcium is in all these different foods.

So it's a good, like there's some that are really surprising.

Of course, I can't think of one now, but like say almonds or something.

Yeah.

I never realised that's like, you know, pretty high.

It's pretty bang for your buck when it comes to calcium.

I must actually look into that too.

Especially if you don't want to eat dairy.

I have loads of people who don't want to eat dairy.

So, I mean, I have a primitive understanding of this too, because I don't think anybody really knows a huge amount.

And I won't shock you by saying there's not a huge amount of research.

The concept is that mast cells, which are part of your immune system, they make histamine.

And that with more estrogen, we trigger these mast cells to release more histamine.

So you get like a histamine response, which may be itchiness, although sometimes that's dry skin.