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Anyone know of the best vitamins/minerals/supplements to take for promoting bone growth and healing?

It seems calcium and vitamin D are pretty commonly recommended. And rational dissent on this? Any others that should be taken?

What do you think is the relative advantage of LessWrong in nutritional advice for a specific medical problem over generic net info or your doctor? Not criticizing the choice, this isn't a rhetorical question and I might have done something similar, I'm genuinely curious.

6Lumifer10y

Theoretically, you should actually measure your blood levels of vitamin D and then get them to optimum levels and maintain them there. If you don't know what your baseline is, you don't know how much to take. Other than that, vitamins A and K are synergistic with D.