About Osteoporosis

matthewsmommy asked:


I’m lactose intolerant and cannot drink milk. I put soy milk in recipes, but don’t drink it. Could I be at increased risk for osteoporosis? I’m only 27, and do take a calcium supplement.

Anita

PiscatawayPeg asked:


I can’t get an answer I can understand, but there is some correlation between the citric acid in the oranges and either the calcium or the osteoporosis. Can someone explain this in plain English?

Annette

katjam234 asked:


At what age should a woman start taking an osteroporosis pill (Boniva etc.)? Do you have to wait until you are diagnosed with osteoporosis before you take something or can you take it before it develops?

Don

Graeme Lanham asked:


Many of our diseases are the result of a sedentary lifestyle as well as an unhealthy diet. Your body is meant to be used and will quickly deteriorate if it is not.

Physical activity should be a high priority in your daily program. Try to engage in some form of aerobic exercise at least five days a week and some form of resistance exercise at least two or three times a week. Here’s why.

Aerobic exercise is essential for building stamina and cardio-respiratory fitness but you also need strength training. The Australian Council on the Aging has listed the following benefits, based on medical research, of strength or resistance training:

1 Regain and retain muscle strength, no matter what your age.

2 Improve strength, balance, gait, flexibility and coordination, which in turn improves your ability to lift, walk, bend, climb stairs and enjoy life.

3 Is an effective method of preserving bone density and combating osteoporosis.

4 Is an effective strategy for fat loss and management of type 2 diabetes.

For the purpose of this article, I will focus on items three and four.

PRESERVING BONE DENSITY.

Osteoporosis is caused by the gradual loss of calcium from bones after the age of 35, when the bone building cycle changes and bones start to break down faster than they rebuild.

Osteoporosis is preventable and its progress can be halted even after calcium loss has started.

Dozens of studies show that weight bearing exercise, even something as simple as walking, actually strengthens your bones. Resistance training slows down the loss of bone mineral content thus reducing the risk of osteoporosis.

Keeping your bones and muscles strong means you maintain functional strength for everyday activities. Loss of muscle and strength is a natural part of aging, but this will speed up with inadequate diet and lack of exercise.

To be fully effective your exercise should be combined with a bone building diet. Your diet should include plenty of calcium rich foods. Good sources of calcium include tinned fish, green vegetables, sesame seeds and paste, oysters, almonds and baked beans. If you take calcium supplements, it is important that you combine with magnesium and vitamin D. Magnesium helps keep calcium in the bones and vitamin D helps keep your bones strong. A major source is sunlight which enables your body to make vitamin D in your skin cells. This is crucial for calcium absorption.

FAT LOSS AND DIABETES MANAGEMENT.

Weight training has much to offer those who are overweight, due to the role of muscle in increasing metabolism. Muscle tissue is a huge user of your available energy supplies and will burn calories even when you are at rest. So the more lean muscle you are able to develop, the more fat you will burn even when you are not exercising.

Those with type 2 diabetes will benefit from resistance training. There is a strong correlation between obesity and insulin resistance, where the body develops an inability to metabolise sugar. Insulin resistance hinders the absorption of glucose from the bloodstream into human cells.

Never start a new treatment before consulting your doctor, especially if you are currently taking medication. The information published in this article is not intended as a substitute for personal medical advice from your physician or other qualified health-care practitioner. It is for information purposes only.



Angela

James S. Pendergraft asked:


If you do not know, osteoporosis is a disease that actually weakens your bones. This can cause a lot of bad health problems as you can guess. Things like fragile bones can make them a lot easier to break. However, osteoporosis is not a disease that you have to live with. In fact, this is a health problem that can be prevented and treated very easily.

If you have osteoporosis and you let it go untreated, then you are going to end up with weakened bones that will break. Today we are going to talk about a few guidelines that women can use to help prevent osteoporosis. After all, as women age they are the most likely to get osteoporosis, and thus, they have to know how to treat it.

The first thing that you should already know is that you need to avoid a diet that is low in calcium and other minerals that your body needs. Of course, you also need to go with a reduction in other things. For example, you will need a reduction in natural hydrochloric acid in the stomach. That is because it will just accelerate the osteoporosis process in both men and women.

The other minerals that you will need to include in your diet will come as no shock to anyone. You will need certain vitamins like C, D, E, and, of course, K. However, that does not mean that you can forget about things like magnesium and phosphorus. You will have to make sure that your body is also getting enough silicon and iron. This goes for manganese, zinc and copper as well.

A few other things that you should cut out of your diet to help protect yourself from getting osteoporosis are things like soft drinks. Although you do not have to cut them all out, they can actually lower the calcium levels in your body. They do this by blocking the calcium from being absorbed by your body. This may also help you cut down on the amount of caffeine you take in.

Whenever you drink a lot of caffeine, this actually increases the urinary excretion of the calcium in your body. Although some people do not like to hear this either, you should try not to drink alcohol or smoke. Both of these can cause negative calcium balances in your body. Pretty much, the balance means that you are losing more calcium than your body is taking in.

Things like excess salt and, of course, sugar are not good for you either. They aid in the depletion of calcium that is stored in your body. Cutting down on these kinds of things can help you. Overall, just be sure that you know the overall goal that you need to reach as far as the amount of calcium you need in your body. It is better to have an overall goal as to how much calcium you need in your body than just to go into it blind. Remember that having too much calcium in your body is no good either. Both of these extremes are bad.



Laura

Jocelyn asked:


Bone increases in density when there is stress put on it. When someone uses high resistence there is a definite pull of the muscle on the bone even though there is no weight bearing. There is weight bearing during the standing position.

Beverly

Jody asked:


I would like to start out by saying I am not a doctor and I do not make medical claims, I am a concerned citizen who has a passion for researching smart alternatives for our health and sharing them with others who are taking an initiative to do their research and make their own educated decisions.

There continues to be greater and greater concern about the public healthy issues surrounding what medical science has names osteoporosis.  Osteoporosis is where the (BMD) bone mineral density is reduced to the point where bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous protein in the bone is altered, the bone has become porous like a “honeycomb.”

In 2001, national attention was focused on the ever-increasing concerns regarding bone diseases when both the House and Senate jointly commissioned the Surgeon General to issue a first-ever Report to the Nation on the status of research and education on osteoporosis and related bone disease.  Furthermore, to set forth a plan of action to comprehensively address the urgent need to reverse the increasing toll of the disease.

In 2004 the Surgeon General’s “Report on Bone Health and Osteoporosis” was released.  In summary, the Report calls osteoporosis a “silent” condition because many Americans are unaware that their bone health is in jeopardy.  In fact, four times as many men and nearly three times as many women have osteoporosis than those that report the condition.  Plus, osteoporosis affects men and women of all races, and while bone weakness manifests primarily in older Americans, the Report made a point of emphasizing that strong bones really begin in childhood.

One recommendation that came from the Report was focusing on the value and impact of proper nutrition.  Especially foods that contained significant sources of Calcium, Phosphorus and Vitamin D.  This Report also calls upon Health Care Professionals to help Americans maintain healthy bones “by evaluating risks for patients of all ages..” that may indicate someone is at risk.

With this information said, here are my comments.  For Health Care Professionals to be able to help their patients determine if they are at risk for having or developing bone disease, they must be able to establish if there is an ongoing mineral deficiency in progress before their patients’ bones ever begin to get close to osteopenia, which is “bone poverty,” the next step is osteoporosis.  Common bone density tests are looking at the ongoing effect after the fact, not the cause.  Truly strong bones must begin in childhood with proper nourishment. 

So how can we maintain strong bones at any age?

*Your LIVER needs to be in proper working health, to supply the needs for the rest of the body, this includes, Water, Oxygen and Calcium.

*Calcium, your body needs the right types of Calcium in the daily diet, moving through the intestinal tract, in order for all organs and tissues of the body, through the liver, to be perfectly supplied with enough mineral energy from the food.  Calcium deficiency in the digestive tract, means poor mineral energy production and delivery.

*Food, should be our primary source for  minerals.  However, with the endemically mineral deficient foods available today, the diet must be supplemented only with the correct Calcium types and associated minerals and vitamins necessary for each individuals needs.

*Vitamin C and D, are needed for healthy bones and any organ.

*Vitamin K

*Magnesium

*Chemical Colloids, the prime source for Chemical Colloids, comes from either high quality, (high Brix), (Brix is the unit of measure from a refractometer that can directly interpret the sugar content, the higher the Brix reading the greater the nutritional value), foods grown incorporating soft rock colloidal phosphate.  Chemical Colloids can levitate in air or water and go with the flow of either.  The harder the substance, the more chemical colloid must be available to supply the needs of the cells as they are replaced, rebuilt and restored.

*The ultimate determinate of how strongly bone is built or how quickly bone is restored when minerally depleted.  Chemical Colloids act as friction reducers to the movement of mineral molecules into the cell, all mineral (except nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon) can only be carried into the cells attached to phosphate.  Chemical Colloids are a significant source of this vital nontoxic phosphate that moves mineral into cells.

*The prime construction of material of bone is Calcium Phosphate, including chemical colloids. 

*Bones are the main Mineral Reservoir and anytime the body is unable to get enough mineral, especially Calcium, from the diet, it will take from the bones.  This is generally the start of osteopena.

This can be a start to determining where to start and how you can ultimately maintain stonger bones…at any age.

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Ellen J asked:


thin weak and easy to break. notice that I walked bend over is that one of the side effect of this disease. I am also taking fosamax and with my precibrication coverage I find I quite expenses is there anything out there less expenses.

Katherine

Gilles Coulombe asked:


A common disease that affects more women than men, osteoporosis often goes undetected at the early stage but can become quite debilitating as it is usually the reason behind falls and bone fractures. Osteoporosis is characterized by an accelerated loss of bone mass, resulting in more fragile bones that are susceptible to fractures. As life expectancy increases in North America and in many countries, osteoporosis is expected to affect a growing number of people and prevention is becoming increasingly important. One of the best ways to avoid this disease is to ensure an appropriate intake of calcium and vitamin D from birth since bone development during childhood and adolescence is a key determinant of adult skeleton health. Although it’s never too late to build up your calcium and vitamin D stores, the earlier you start, the more you’ll benefit when you’re older. The recommended daily intake of vitamin D depends on your age. From age 4 to age 50, 400 IU. Over age 50, 800 IU and 200 IU during pregnancy and breast feeding.

BEST WAYS TO OVERCOME OSTEOPOROSIS

The sun is clearly the main source of vitamin D but there are other food sources including dairy products, eggs and fish. Vitamin D plays a key role in helping the body absorb calcium from food to build strong bones. It is estimated that vitamin D can boost calcium absorption by 30% to 80%. Most individuals do not meet their daily vitamin D requirements because of people’s lifestyle and climate. A deficiency of this vitamin can lead to various health problems like high blood pressure, fatigue, joint problems, skin rashes and osteoporosis.

VITAMIN D AND NATURAL SUPPLEMENTS

Everyone, regardless of age, must get enough vitamin D to ensure proper bone development but there are some groups that are more susceptible to vitamin D deficiency. In the first place, the Elderly, because its production by the skin slows down as we age. The elderly must therefore make sure to get an adequate supply of vitamin D in order to maintain good bone health and prevent the ravages of osteoporosis. Then you have the people with little exposure to sunlight. Such individuals must obtain their vitamin D from natural supplements. They can get all daily vitamin D with Instant Sunshine and all Calcium with Ultimate Calcium. Press on the banners below and place your order. Take action and responsibility for your health now.

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qwerty2613 asked:


If taking calcium supplements, which is better? Calcium in tablet form or the effervescent form of tablet?

James