Osteoporosis
It was not all that long ago that conventional medical wisdom held that osteoporosis was simply an inevitable age-related medical condition, a part of the irreversible march of time, something that moreover struck almost exclusively at women (because of the connection with the hormone estrogen).
Now we know that osteoporosis is a chronic degenerative disease that strikes without consideration of gender, and something that is, moreover, largely of our own making!
It is now quite clear that osteoporosis is not ‘inevitable’ at all.
It is, in fact, a cumulative result of poor diet, a lack of regular exercise and a widespread exposure to and usage of pharmaceutical drugs in the treatment of other diseases and medical conditions.
It occurs either when your bones start allowing calcium back into your blood stream too quickly or alternatively, when such calcium is deposited in the bones too slowly.
Slowly and unobtrusively, osteoporosis robs the sufferer of bone mass, gradually leaching calcium and other minerals from the heart of the bones, until the inevitable fracture finally heralds its presence.
And, the tragic thing is that, by the time you are aware of its presence, it is almost inevitably too late to fight against osteoporosis, because, whilst it is preventable, it is not curable!
It strikes with the most crippling of force, often making its victims entirely incapable of even the most simple and basic of tasks.
As an example of just how severely debilitating osteoporosis can be, of those patients who suffer a fracture of the hip due to their condition, 20to 24% will die within one year.
Of course, many of the victims will be of fairly advanced years and age is a significant contributory factor to these numbers, but they are still staggeringly high!
So, is it possible to prevent osteoporosis?
Absolutely it is, with these simple steps:
Proper Diet
Regular Exercise
Supplementation with vitamin D and Calcium
Despite millions of dollars on research and the development of expensive and often exotic pharmaceutical concoctions, the best preventative treatment still appears to be daily supplementation with calcium and vitamin D, which has been shown to lower the risk of fracture by 70%!
In fact, there is significant evidence that, rather than supplementing with calcium and vitamin D alone, a far better and more effective approach is to take a good quality multi-vitamin and minerals tablet every day.
In particular, several other vitamins and minerals that would be found in such a balanced supplement, including vitamins C, B6, b12, K, Folic Acid, copper, manganese and zinc all provide terrific support to the enhancement and strength of the skeletal structure.
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