| Strong, dense bones are the best defense against osteoporosis; exercising and maintaining optimal intake of calcium and other essential minerals throughout life shows great success in developing osteoporosis-resistant bones. During childhood and adolescence, adequate calcium and vitamin D in the diet are crucial for the development of strong, dense bones. During the middle years, when calcium loss from bones exceeds calcium gain to bones, dietary calcium may slow the rate of bone loss.
Bones undergo a continual process of remodeling, in which old bone is removed and new bone is deposited. |
| During and after menopause, dietary calcium is essential to prevent the rapid bone loss associated with the advanced stages of osteoporosis, yet the average woman consumes only half the recommended intake for calcium, and amounts that low are associated with bone loss and the development of osteoporosis.
According to a study of bone resorption in animals, catechins can reduce excessive resorption that could lead to excessive loss of bone mass. Epidemiological studies of human populations support this theory. |
| In recognition of findings such as these, tea drinking has been identified by the Mediterranean osteoporosis Study as a protective factor against osteoporosis.1
Green tea may also give hope to sufferers of another bone disorder, osteogenesis imperfecta. Osteogenesis imperfecta is a rare inherited disease in which the bones are abnormally brittle and fragile. Fractures are the main symptom, and the most severe cases are fatal. The only treatment currently available is to take measures to reduce the risk of fractures. Clearly, other treatment options are anxiously awaited. Dr. G. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Mike Adams: And yet most Americans think if you have fragile bones or the symptoms of osteoporosis, you have to drink more milk!
Robert Cohen: Which is accelerating the bone loss because of the tremendous amount of sulfur-based amino acids.
Mike Adams: And of course, there are lots of prescription drugs they can take to further mask those symptoms.
Robert Cohen: Which is a shame because they cause a cascading of events. I mean, look at what women take to prevent bone loss -- Premerin? You know what Premerin is? Premerin is one of the number-one prescribed drugs in America. |
Tom Bohager
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 The major cause of osteoporosis is the gradual loss of protein matrix tissue from the bone. This loss results in weakened bones, which can cause pain in the back and hips, loss of height, increased risk of fractures, and spinal curvature. The underlying mechanism in all cases of osteoporosis is an imbalance between bone resorption and bone formation. Bone undergoes a constant process of formation (using nutrients and particularly minerals absorbed by the body) and resorption (the process by which the body breaks bone down to absorb calcium into the blood). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If someone is suffering from osteoporosis, let's get realistic about the words we use to describe the condition: it's really Brittle Bones Disease. And it should be treated with things that will enhance bone density, such as nutrition, physical exercise and avoidance of foods and drinks that strip away bone mass from the human body.
All of this information, of course, is rather shocking to old-school doctors and practitioners of western medicine, and the bigger their egos are, the more they hate the idea of naming diseases in plain language that patients can actually comprehend. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 In other words, whether progesterone is produced within the body naturally or is a bio-identical formulation added back into the body, it definitively balances estrogen and has a cardioprotective effect. osteoporosis prevention
Progesterone is also responsible for the stimulation of bone building that can prevent or treat osteoporosis. Dr. Morris Noteloviz, author of Estrogen, Yes or No? states, "Progesterone receptors are present in osteoblasts. |
| Calcium is even more important for women who are approaching menopause or who are in the midst of it, because calcium helps to put the brakes on the development of osteoporosis, a debilitating bone disorder that causes brittle bones and a bent or stooped stance. osteoporosis is a virtual epidemic among American women past the age of sixty, and it results from the body having insufficient calcium.
Men, too, need calcium. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 The combination of osteoporosis and sarcopenia results in the significant frailty often seen in the elderly population. The degree of sarcopenia as we age is a predictor of disability and is linked to decreased vitality, poor balance, slower gait speed, falls, and fractures.
As in the prevention of osteoporosis where we want to build our bones while we are young to help us preserve them longer through the aging process, the same is true for sarcopenia. We want to build our muscle mass now to prevent premature aging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Let's look at the Big Five -- in America, the number one killer is heart disease, and then we've got osteoporosis and cancer, and diabetes and asthma. We look at nations where they drink milk, we find these diseases are common. We look at nations where cheese consumption has tripled in the last 30 years, like England and France and Canada and the United States, we find also a tripling of asthma and breast cancers. Guess what country has the highest rate of breast cancer? |
| Robert Cohen: There's a place on this planet where they have more people living over age 100 than anywhere else, where the average woman lives to age 86, where people don't even need x-ray machines because they don't get breast cancer or osteoporosis. That place is 160 islands between Japan and Taiwan called Okinawa. Now the book was written by Wilcox and Suzuki called "The Okinawa Plan," and you read that these people are eating 1/20th the amount of calcium that we do, yet they don't get bone breaks. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This, by the way, helps explain why so many senior citizens get osteoporosis today even though they think they're taking plenty of calcium supplements. The reason is they don't have enough vitamin D to actually absorb the calcium. So they start out with a vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunlight, and they end up with a calcium deficiency even though they're taking lots of calcium supplements. The end result is, of course, osteoporosis or osteomalacia, the advanced stage of osteoporosis. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 When bone resorption, the removal of old bone, occurs at a faster rate than the depositing of new bone, osteoporosis is likely For every man who develops osteoporosis, eight women do. Their relatively small bones and the hormonal changes that accompany menopause put women at greater risk for developing the disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is why you end up with drugs to treat osteoporosis, for example, when osteoporosis is quite clearly not caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency.
There is no meaningful effort in medicine today to actually prevent disease, teach holistic nutrition to patients or promote non-patentable things that help people heal (like sunlight, water or medicinal herbs). And that's partly why conventional medicine doesn't work. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Scandinavian countries consume more dairy products than anywhere else in the world, yet they have the highest rates of osteoporosis.34 As pointed in out in Conscious Eating and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there is a problem of excessive protein in the diet. This excessive animal protein creates acidity and a high phosphorus content that pulls calcium out of the bones, and therefore is a plausible explanation for why those with the highest dairy intake have the highest rates of osteoporosis. |
David Wolfe
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 An acid-forming diet, over the long term, will leach minerals from the bones, leading to osteoporosis. To reverse an osteoporosis condition, please reference Lesson 14: Sapoty Brook's CaPNaK Chart. Use the CaPNaK Chart to consistently introduce significantly more calcium-residue foods into your diet, such as lettuce, kale, collards, oranges, figs, broccoli, etc. in combination with specific seeds (flax seed, pumpkin seed, hemp seed).
Additional help with osteoporosis can come from adding progesterone supporting nutritional supplements or foods into the diet. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| This is why you end up with drugs to treat osteoporosis, for example, when osteoporosis is quite clearly not caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency.
There is no meaningful effort in medicine today to actually prevent disease, teach holistic nutrition to patients or promote non-patentable things that help people heal (like sunlight, water or medicinal herbs). And that's partly why conventional medicine doesn't work. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| This excessive animal protein creates acidity and a high phosphorus content that pulls calcium out of the bones, and therefore is a plausible explanation for why those with the highest dairy intake have the highest rates of osteoporosis. A 1985 study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests that dairy products offer no protection against osteoporosis, probably due to the high protein content of milk.35
The bottom line is that calcium deficiency is not a threat to someone eating a plant-source-only cuisine. In fact, inadequate calcium intake appears not to be a problem at all. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you've been diagnosed with "osteoporosis," that sounds a lot more official than a doctor saying, "Your bones are fragile and full of tiny holes." When the word "osteoporosis" is used, it sounds like a bona fide disease (which probably calls for some kind of drugs, by the way), but if someone says your bones are fragile, that's merely an observation, not a disease.
What I like to do is translate so-called complex health concepts into everyday language that anyone can understand. |
Ray D. Strand
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 In a clinical trial supplementing vitamin K in patients with osteoporosis reduced urinary calcium loss by 18 to 50 percent. This means vitamin K helps the body absorb and retain calcium rather than excrete it.16
Manganese
Manganese is necessary for the synthesis of connective tissue in cartilage and bone. Like magnesium, manganese is lost in the processing of whole grains into refined flour. A study of osteoporotic women showed their manganese levels were only 25 percent of those of the women in the control group. |
| Several new drugs have arrived on the market for osteoporosis, such as Fosomax, Actonel, Evista, and Calcitonin, which have the ability to actually increase bone density. Doctors are recommending these drugs more and more instead of HRT, primarily because of the growing concern over the adverse effects of long-term HRT therapy. Short-term studies using these drugs have demonstrated a significantly decreased risk of fractures and repeat fractures.11 For a thorough discussion about these and other problems women face during their menopausal time, I recommend Dr. |
| As I've mapped out, osteoporosis is not simply a disease arising from a lack of calcium and estrogen. Our bodies need multiple nutrients for bone remodeling and the production of good healthy bone.
We also need to control our oxidative stress. Recent studies demonstrate that people with decreased bone density have increased oxidative stress. So you not only want to supplement with these important nutrients needed for bone production, but also take all of the antioxidants and supporting nutrients to build up your antioxidant defense system. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| Although most people think of calcium deficiency as a woman's problem, of the 25 million Americans with osteoporosis, one in five is a man. The percentage rises as age increases, so that after the age of seventy-five, 50 percent of those affected are men.
Products made with milk are a great source of calcium; however, there might be hormones in your milk that can cause you harm. In 1994, the FDA approved the use of a bovine growth hormone called recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST). According to rBST manufacturers, injections of this hormone cause a cow to produce up to 20 percent more milk. |
| Tender breasts
þ osteoporosis ? Water retention
2. Premenopausal or perimenopausal women:
• My last menstrual cycle started on_(date).
• I am currently menstruating; this is the_day of my cycle.
3. Men:
Q Weight gain ? Burned-out feeling
þ Abdominal fat ? Prostate problems
þ Decreased mental clarity Q Decreased sex drive
þ Increased urinary urge Q Decreased strength
þ Decreased stamina Ql Difficulty sleeping
þ Decreased urine flow Ql Irritability
þ Depression ? Erectile dysfunction
þ Hot flashes ? Night sweats ? Poor concentration
C. Stress Level
1. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 Maca is used in the treatment of adrenal exhaustion, anemia, chronic fatigue, erectile dysfunction, fatigue, infertility, irregular menses, low sperm count, memory loss, menopause symptoms (hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings), osteoporosis, premature aging, rheumatism, stomach cancer, tuberculosis, and vaginal dryness. It is also used to support convalescence.
Edible Uses
Maca roots can be eaten much like sweet potatoes, raw or cooked. They have a flavor like that of butterscotch and are often baked, roasted or made into a porridge known as mazamorra. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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| Progesterone is also responsible for the stimulation of bone building that can prevent or treat osteoporosis. Dr. Morris Noteloviz, author of Estrogen, Yes or No? states, "Progesterone receptors are present in osteoblasts. Based on in vivo (in the body) and clinical studies, it is now believed that bio-identical progesterone replacement may stimulate new bone formation, although the mechanism has not yet been identified. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Burson-Marsteller focused on the studies which found that women taking estrogen experienced less osteoporosis in old age. Ads in medical journals from those years can still be seen in any large library, and they are convincing. Older women with disfiguring humps, X-rays of weak bones and other creative ads all proclaimed, "Avoid osteoporosis."
Of course, ads from drug companies are seen in a very different light than information coming from non-profits. When we know that a group has been organized for the sole purpose of benefitting the rest of us, we are more open to their message. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| It is used in the treatment of arthritis, cancer, diarrhea, jaundice, osteoporosis, rheumatism, and warts. It is also used to prevent miscarriage.
Topically, teasel can be prepared as a healing wash to treat acne, eye inflammation, itchy skin, sties, and wounds. It also can be prepared as a poultice to get rid of warts.
Edible Uses
The young leaves, can be eaten raw or cooked. Other Uses
The tops of the teasel plant, with their downward-hooked bracteoles, have long been used to tease or card wool. A blue dye can be made from the plant. |
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