Supplements To Support Bone Health

It's important to carefully access your diet and your supplement intake to make sure you're getting all the nutrients you need for optimal bone support. This can be done totally with diet, but I use a combination of healthy nutrition and supplements. The supplements I take are listed below, but you might want to find other ways to meet your nutritional needs. See Nutrients For Bone Health and Foods For Bone Health to get recommended amounts of bone-building nutrients and foods high in these nutrients.

Calcium citrate is easily absorbed, inexpensive, and well researched. Citracal +D is the type of calcium used in almost all studies, but there are many generic forms of calcium citrate with D that cost less and have the same ingredients. Citracal +D and generic forms are available at most food and drug stores. I also use the following supplements for bone health which I buy at Vitaminshoppe.com

Vitamin Shoppe Magnesium (250 - 400 mg)
Carlson Mini-Multi (or other multivitamin) for manganese, copper, zinc, extra D
Vitamin Shoppe Boron (3 mg)--3 times a week
Source Naturals Vitamin K (500 mcg)

Specifics of supplement plan I use for bone health:

Before breakfast: I take these minerals alone because calcium can interfere with absorption of other minerals.
1 Carlson mini-multi vitamin for Zinc, Copper, Manganese, extra D and other nutrients
1 Vitamin Shoppe Boron 3 x a week

After breakfast:
1 Calcium Citrate + D (330 mg + 200 IU Vit D)
1 Magnesium (250 - 400 mg)
1 vitamin K

Afternoon (anytime from lunch to dinner):
1 Calcium Citrate + D (330 mg + 200 IU Vit D)

Before bed:
1 Calcium Citrate + D (330 mg + 200 IU Vit D)