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 In other words, the weak bones happened first, and then the diagnosis of osteoporosis followed.
The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you "get" the disease, then you are "diagnosed" just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.
But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones get fragile. |
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 The idea that a nutrient like vitamin D -- available free of charge from sunlight -- might actually prevent depression, osteoporosis and cancer all at the same time is downright horrifying to conventional medicine. How would doctors, hospitals and drug companies handle the loss of tens of millions of revenue-generating patients if people suddenly learned the truth about vitamin D and started preventing all three of these diseases at home, without a prescription, and without paying any fees whatsoever?
Conventional medicine doesn't like to admit that sunlight has any healing powers whatsoever. |
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 Reversing osteoporosis with sunlight
Sunlight can actually reverse osteoporosis. A lot of senior citizens are taking calcium supplements but not getting sunlight, so the calcium is passing right through their bodies. As a result, they're losing bone mineral density. However, by adding vitamin D to the equation through sunlight (remember, your skin generates vitamin D in response to sunlight exposure), senior citizens can start assimilating calcium and rebuilding their bones.
This is information that doesn't get told to senior citizens, and modern doctors don't even understand it. |
| They think that you treat osteoporosis with drugs, which is ridiculous. The only thing you need in order to treat osteoporosis is sunlight, calcium and a little bit of physical exercise. You will rebuild bone mineral density very rapidly on that kind of program.
The bottom line: Get some sun on your skin
Make sure that you're getting sunlight on your skin. If you do this one thing, and do it consistently, it will create such a positive health outcome. Sunlight will make a world of difference in your life. It will change your mood. It will change your biochemistry. |
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| Note that the study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes absolutely no causal relationship between depression and osteoporosis. It only points out a correlation. Leaping to the conclusion that one disease actually causes another disease is a common error of intellectually challanged journalists who have no understanding of basic logic or the difference between causation and correlation. The truth is that many news reports that claim one disease "causes" another are blatantly wrong: Most of these correlated diseases simple have a common root cause. |
| REPPED: Conventional medical researchers around the world are scratching their heads over new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine that shows a strong correlation between depression and osteoporosis. Amazingly, none of them apparently have the presence of mind to consider the simple, common cause behind both conditions: Chronic vitamin D deficiency.
This new research found that 17 percent of women with depression showed thinner hip bones, while only 2 percent of non-depressed women showed the same thinness of hip bones. |
| Therefore, in their little distorted brains, they believe that taking antidepressant drugs may reverse osteoporosis!
It's nothing short of astonishing. Did these people actually make it through medical school? Did they fail logic class? How on earth did they leap to this ridiculous conclusion? And just as importantly, how did all the journalists working for U.S. News and World Report (and other mainstream media sources) take this quote seriously and not even question the basic logic assumption behind all this?
It just boggles the mind. |
| Okay, so get this: The researchers somehow believe that taking antidepressants can reverse osteoporosis even while their own research shows that the women suffering from the worst bone loss were already taking antidepressants!
Geesh. Sometimes I have to just sit back and shake my head in amazement when I observe the idiocy in modern medical research. And then when the mainstream media takes this garbage and reports it as fact, I have to vigorously shake my head yet again like a 1980's heavy metal band riffing on a guitar solo. It's like all these people are just complete idiots. |
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The problems with modern medicine and the mainstream media
This reporting about the link between depression and osteoporosis brings up several important concerns:
1. The medical community is incapable of identifying the common nutritional causes behind correlated diseases, even when those causes should be obvious.
2. The mainstream media is incapable of accurate scientific reporting on the nutritional causes of disease.
3. Both mainstream journalists and medical researchers remain nutritionally ignorant.
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Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We also know that if you're vitamin D deficient, not only does it precipitate and exacerbate osteoporosis in older men and women, but it causes a very subtle and quite devastating bone disease known as osteomalatia. Long story short, osteomalatia is like adult rickets. And what it does is it causes severe bone discomfort, achiness in the bones and also in the muscles. And these patients are often misdiagnosed as having fibromyalgia.
Adams: Yes, that makes sense.
Dr. Holick: There was a study done in Minnesota by Dr Plotnikoff and what he showed was that, he looked at over 150 individuals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The drug poster makes it sound like osteoporosis strikes first, and then you get weak bones. The cause and effect is all backwards. And that's how drug companies want people to think about diseases and symptoms: first you "get" the disease, then you are "diagnosed" just in time to take a new drug for the rest of your life.
But it's all hogwash. There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones get fragile. |
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 It's used to treat osteoporosis in Europe and Japan. And it's also used to treat bone disease and kidney failure patients, and has a lot of other uses as well.
Adams: So as you were doing the research on this, you were able to immediately observe the health impact of it, right away.
Dr. Holick: Exactly, and what we began to realize was that vitamin D was much more complex than thought. |
| So you mentioned the positive impact on people who had trouble walking, who had osteoporosis, and various bone diseases. What other effects did you observe?
Dr. Holick: We also realized a few years later was that your skin doesn't only make vitamin D, which I think we'll talk about a little bit more in a minute, but it also recognizes activated vitamin D. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 It fortifies your bones. osteoporosis doesn't have much to do with the brain, but it's important to mention because you need a strong carriage to continue exercising as you age, and it is a largely preventable disease.
Osteoporosis afflicts twenty million women and two million men in this country. More women every year die from hip fractures — a vulnerability of osteoporosis — than from breast cancer. Women reach peak bone mass at around thirty, and after that they lose about 1 percent a year until menopause, when the pace doubles. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We're spending $300+ billion fighting a war in Iraq, and we won't spend even $100 million a year educating our own people on how they can prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, birth defects, osteoporosis, clinical depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and other diseases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The only thing you need in order to treat osteoporosis is sunlight, calcium and a little bit of physical exercise. You will rebuild bone mineral density very rapidly on that kind of program.
The bottom line: Get some sun on your skin
Make sure that you're getting sunlight on your skin. If you do this one thing, and do it consistently, it will create such a positive health outcome. Sunlight will make a world of difference in your life. It will change your mood. It will change your biochemistry. |
| I'm talking about prostate cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, mental depression, osteoporosis and even, to some extent, type 2 diabetes. The interactions between sunlight and body chemistry for these diseases are quite complex, and I'm not going to go into them all here, but let me give you the highlights.
Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption
First, you most likely already know the importance of calcium for your health. If you don't have enough calcium circulating through your blood, you're going to have cardiovascular problems and you will probably end up with heart disease. |
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| Every grocery store in America sells foods containing cancer-causing chemicals (sodium nitrite), heart disease promoting ingredients (hydrogenated oils), and drinks that promote osteoporosis and bone loss (carbonated soft drinks). It's almost like a disease store, not a grocery store, since most items on the shelves are actually "disease in a box" rather than real food.
In Washington these days, there's a lot of talk about "protecting Americans." But I say that if we really want to protect Americans, we need to start banning the food ingredients that are killing Americans. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 It is to our muscle mass what osteoporosis is to our bones. 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. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 Take below-average bone density among women in their forties and fifties, a condition that has been branded as "osteopenia," a precursor to osteoporosis that many doctors and patients believe has to be nipped in the bud with powerful drugs. Sometime between the ages of thirty and forty-five, women (and some men) begin to lose calcium in their bones, a natural process that may lead to osteoporosis, or truly brittle bones, by the time they are elderly. Brittle bones break more easily, and a hip fracture in a frail, elderly woman often leads to a host of complications that signal impending death. |
Melody Petersen
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 In 2003 this global market for osteoporosis drugs such as Fosamax and Actonel was worth five billion dollars, and analysts said then that they expected it to reach ten billion dollars by 2011. The sellers of the osteoporosis drugs had discovered that the side effects from some medicines can open up billion-dollar sales opportunities for other types of pills.
The harm caused by medications may not be apparent for years, and even then it may be so subtle that scientists find it only when they look for trends among large groups of patients. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There is no such disease as osteoporosis. It's just a made-up name given to a pattern of symptoms that indicate you've let your bones get fragile.
As another example, when a person follows an unhealthy lifestyle that results in a symptom such as high blood pressure, that symptom is actually be assumed to be a disease all by itself and it will be given a disease name. What disease? The disease is, of course, "high blood pressure." Doctors throw this phrase around as if it were an actual disease and not merely descriptive of patient physiology.
This may all seem silly, right? |
| When your bones are brittle, it's not brittle bones disease; it's called osteoporosis, something that sounds very technical and complicated. And to treat it, western doctors and physicians will give you prescriptions for expensive drugs that somehow claim to make your bones less brittle. But in fact, the real treatment for this can be described in plain language once again: regular physical exercise, vitamin D supplementation, mineral supplements that include calcium and strontium, natural sunlight, and avoidance of acidic foods such as soft drinks, white flour and added sugars. |
| In fact, virtually every disease that’s prominent in modern society -- diabetes, cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, clinical depression, irritable bowel syndrome and so on -- can be easily described in plain language without using complex terms at all. These diseases are simply misnamed. And I believe that they are intentionally misnamed to put the jargon out of reach of everyday citizens. As a result, there's a great deal of arrogance in the language of western medicine, and this arrogance furthers the language of separation. Separation never results in healing. |
Tom Bohager
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 Osteoporosis afflicts more women than men, particularly postmenopausal women, since their ovaries are no longer producing estrogen, which helps to maintain bone mass. osteoporosis is also more common in smokers and drinkers and is associated with chronic obstructive lung disorders, such as emphysema and bronchitis. Additional causative factors include lack of exercise, a calcium-phosphorus imbalance, lactose intolerance, and a diminished ability to absorb calcium through the intestines. Approximately 15 to 20 million Americans suffer from this disorder. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 Provera* has been shown to cause irreversible osteoporosis. It has been given a 'black-box' warning from the FDA stating, "Women who use Depo-Provera?may experience a significant decrease in bone mineral density that might not be completely reversible after discontinuing use."1 How could the use of one drug cause irreversible osteoporosis? It goes back to the statement that you can't poison a crucial enzyme or block an important receptor for the long-term and expect a good result. Provera*, being a foreign substance to the body, blocks the body's receptors for progesterone. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 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. |
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