Dr. Vonda Wright

So for breastfeeding mothers, you will lose about 500 milligrams of calcium a day as you're making milk for your child. You must replace that. I like people to replace their calcium with whole food, right? With prunes and dates and high calcium dairy, if you will. If you simply cannot do that, okay, take a supplement. But if you forget to do that, I mean, I get it. I was a young mother.

So for breastfeeding mothers, you will lose about 500 milligrams of calcium a day as you're making milk for your child. You must replace that. I like people to replace their calcium with whole food, right? With prunes and dates and high calcium dairy, if you will. If you simply cannot do that, okay, take a supplement. But if you forget to do that, I mean, I get it. I was a young mother.

I'm exhausted. I wasn't a young mother. I was a 40-year-old mother. Exhausted. You have to be so mindful as the baby's latching on to eat some calcium, eat your yogurt, eat your calcium, chew from whole foods, if you will, so that you rebuild your bone, which you're completely capable of doing.

I'm exhausted. I wasn't a young mother. I was a 40-year-old mother. Exhausted. You have to be so mindful as the baby's latching on to eat some calcium, eat your yogurt, eat your calcium, chew from whole foods, if you will, so that you rebuild your bone, which you're completely capable of doing.

Studies show you will rebuild your bone, but not if you're not aware, not if you're in the, I've got to lose the baby fat starving phase. Let's not do that.

Studies show you will rebuild your bone, but not if you're not aware, not if you're in the, I've got to lose the baby fat starving phase. Let's not do that.

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Well, if we just talk about, just choose one of the proteins that bone makes, osteocalcin. So as that's released into the bloodstream, one of the places it goes is into the brain and it can cause, it can aid in the neuroprotective effects. So what does that mean? Under normal metabolism, we develop free radicals due to normal metabolism cell work. We develop oxidative stress.

Well, if we just talk about, just choose one of the proteins that bone makes, osteocalcin. So as that's released into the bloodstream, one of the places it goes is into the brain and it can cause, it can aid in the neuroprotective effects. So what does that mean? Under normal metabolism, we develop free radicals due to normal metabolism cell work. We develop oxidative stress.

And osteocalcin works to decrease that oxidative damage, to repair cells in the brain. So that's number one. Number two... It stimulates the release of something called brain-derived neurotrophic protein, BDNF factor, which stimulates the growth of neurons in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is involved in memory. And here's the opposite side of it.

And osteocalcin works to decrease that oxidative damage, to repair cells in the brain. So that's number one. Number two... It stimulates the release of something called brain-derived neurotrophic protein, BDNF factor, which stimulates the growth of neurons in a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is involved in memory. And here's the opposite side of it.

We know in people that have low bone density, They also have higher brain cognitive dysfunction with age and vice versa. There's an association in the literature with osteoporosis and cognitive decline and vice versa.

We know in people that have low bone density, They also have higher brain cognitive dysfunction with age and vice versa. There's an association in the literature with osteoporosis and cognitive decline and vice versa.

I think the critical decade for most of our health, Stephen, is no later than 35 to 45 for men and women. That's because we know for women... that's when estrogen starts to decline or become chaotic. So when we're in our 30s to 40s, that is the time to get all of our health habits together. It's time to get a physical to see what your baseline labs are.

I think the critical decade for most of our health, Stephen, is no later than 35 to 45 for men and women. That's because we know for women... that's when estrogen starts to decline or become chaotic. So when we're in our 30s to 40s, that is the time to get all of our health habits together. It's time to get a physical to see what your baseline labs are.

I think it would be critical for men and women, particularly men. To get a baseline testosterone so that in the future, when we're thinking about supplementing testosterone, we're supplementing back to your particular level. Because in the future, let's say when you're 50, a man's testosterone could be 600, which falls within the normal range.

I think it would be critical for men and women, particularly men. To get a baseline testosterone so that in the future, when we're thinking about supplementing testosterone, we're supplementing back to your particular level. Because in the future, let's say when you're 50, a man's testosterone could be 600, which falls within the normal range.

But if he's still feeling low energy, not himself, a lot of tendon and ligaments injuries, well, his young testosterone might have been 800 or 1,000. So I like people to get baseline labs if they've never been to the doctor before, around 35, all things, so that we know what we're returning you to, number one.

But if he's still feeling low energy, not himself, a lot of tendon and ligaments injuries, well, his young testosterone might have been 800 or 1,000. So I like people to get baseline labs if they've never been to the doctor before, around 35, all things, so that we know what we're returning you to, number one.