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Several minerals and vitamins play a major role in metabolic processes that product and the matrix of bone and cartilage. Benefit is apparent in bone integrity when trace minerals such as manganese and zinc are added to calcium supplementation of the diet. Vitamin D has unequivocal importance in bone health and levels of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D fall with age.
