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Best diet to heal broken bones
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Regular: Plus multivi and calcium plus vitamin D = 1500-1800 mg daily.
Answered 2/9/2017
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Avoid delay: Mostly regarding diet, you want to avoid substances that delay wound healing including most commonly nicotine and NSAIDs. Taking the recommended daily allowance of calcium and vitamin d is a good idea in general, but has not clearly been shown to increase healing rate.
Answered 10/7/2018
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