Originally Posted by spelger

i think you need to be careful about making the claim that calcium supplements counter bone loss. in the first link even in their argument for the research they admit that this is only a hypothesis. This same article states in their results that calcium supplementation prior to, or during, does not improve cycling performance, in contrast to the claim in the second link you pointed out. i read only the first link. i can read it in a half hour but i think it would take a couple to fully understand it all, much goes over my head (dammit jim, i'm an engineer, not a doctor). the second llink i began to read but at over 300 pages i quickly gave up.

i suspect that the researchers are on to something though. maybe if i remember, i'll take a tums before every ride.