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Bone Up! with Susan McCandless

Week of May 24, 2025

Session 1: Discover 5 Surefire Ways to Power Up Your Bones
Let’s get personal…I’m sharing a nutritionist’s perspective on lessons learned over the last decade.  You will go home with recipes and tools for you to assess your bone-supportive nutrition and personalize your plan.

  • Be strategic with a 2-pronged approach
  • Make it an integrated plan
  • Know your numbers
  • Keep your eye on the prize… preventing a fracture
  • When it comes to nutrition, bones don’t rely on one nutrient or food alone!
  • You need a healthy gut to absorb nutrients 

Session 2: The Calcium Conundrum
Conundrums surrounding dietary calcium, minerals and our bone health.  Get the facts!

  • Optimize your calcium intake and absorption.
  • What are the best sources of calcium?
  • Directing calcium into the bone and away from soft tissue/arteries.
  • Beyond calcium; other key minerals.

Session 3: Let’s Solve the Protein Paradox
Optimal protein status improves bone health but how much is optimal? Discover how to create a delicate metabolic balance.

  • Global eating patterns and bone health
  • Sarcopenia and the relationship with protein intake, bone health and fracture risk.
  • What are the best dietary sources?
  • Protein requirement for your stage of life.
  • The Better Protein Formula to optimize bone health.

Session 4: The Gut-Bone Connection
You are not what you eat, but what you absorb! The connection may seem surprising, but ultimately optimal bone health is dependent on a good healthy gut.

  • Assessing your gut health – What’s normal?
  • Get a better gut microbiome to improve bone health.
  • What to add and what to remove:  Key nutrients.
  • Consider healing foods and favorite herbals to stimulate digestion and nourish the gut.

 

Susan McCandless, RDN, IFNCP, a Functional Dietitian Nutritionist, is a sought-after speaker known for her expertise in delivering engaging educational workshops. She is an effective health coach with a distinct ability to translate the science right to the plate and inspire powerful diet and lifestyle habits. Board Certified in Integrative and Functional Nutrition, Susan understands how body systems work together. She focuses on improving client function and performance by treating the root cause of nutrition imbalances. In her private practice with MINT Nutrition, Susan is delivers clients proven results through in-depth assessment, food-first solutions and a personalized nutrition toolbox.  Susan holds advanced certifications in integrative and functional nutrition, digestive health, immunology, genetics, food sensitivities and intuitive eating.