Ward off Polyps with Calcium Supplementation
Researcher John A. Baron, MD, of the Dartmouth Medical School recently updated a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research on the Calcium Polyp Prevention Study. Calcium supplements, which many people take to help ward off osteoporosis, may have a beneficial side effect: This study reports that calcium supplements protect against the development of colon polyps, which can turn cancerous. This protective effect seems to persist for as long as five years after people discontinue taking the calcium supplements.
