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Endurance athletes should consider pre-exercise calcium feeding to mitigate dermal calcium losses during long training sessions or events.
If you are an endurance athlete doing long sessions, you lose calcium through sweat. Consider consuming calcium before these events to help maintain bone health, as this loss is often overlooked compared to sodium replacement.
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Dermal calcium losses might be an important consideration for endurance athletes, particularly during long training sessions or events. In these situations, some consideration should be given to pre-exercise calcium feeding.
Why this rating
The paper identifies it as an 'important consideration' but notes a 'lack of information relating to the longer-term effects'.
Source
Nutrition and Athlete Bone Health
Craig Sale et al. · Sports Medicine · 2019
DOI 10.1007/s40279-019-01161-2
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