Prevent or Reverse Osteoporosis  Two.....

Today's post:  Wednesday, 5-10-2017

Despite the common belief even among many doctors that this is not doable, this IS doable in most cases.

(In very late stages nothing short of a way to reverse time or something like the device the fictional Dr McCoy in the original Star Trek series used will do it.

When it gets that bad people die directly of osteoporosis;

-- and short of that but severe osteoporosis can cause a fractured pelvis or cause a hip fracture without an accident to cause it that can result in a broken pelvis or severe head injuries from the falls it causes.  These events have a very high death rate and cost huge amounts of money to deal with.

Wouldn’t it be far better to prevent all this or reverse it well before these things happen?

Despite the common belief even among many doctors that this is not doable, this IS doable in most cases.

Each of these methods have been tested to work. (Only 2 of the very newest ones we list at the end have not, though one of the 3 HAS been tested to work.)

And like many health protocols that work, these methods get the best results when you use ALL of the techniques.

But two things help. 

*You can start with just the most effective ones and those easiest to do to get more than half way to the effect of doing everything that works.

*Most of the techniques enhance or protect your health in other ways too!

Few things in health protection are as much fun as finding something prevents something you want to avoid only to discover you have been doing that already for over ten years because it also prevents something else!

1.  Remove the biggest causes first and do things instead that are the antidote to those causes:

*Stop soft drinks and their sweeteners and hybrid wheat and excess sugar AND take magnesium and eat foods high in it. 

(We covered this in detail in our last post.

Here’s the summary:  Soft drinks both regular and diet do all kinds of harm most people know nothing about.

But the worst thing they do is to cause osteoporosis more effectively than smoking causes cancer.

Cola drinks cause osteoporosis all those ways AND the phosphoric acid in them triples the effect!

If you don’t want to give yourself osteoporosis, what is the safe intake of soft drinks?

ZERO!)

Here’s the other major way that soft drinks cause osteoporosis:

The very high intake of free fructose or greater intake of sugary foods when diet soft drinks or their artificial sweetners are used does many harmful things.

AND, it also depletes the magnesium this excess causes your body to undergo to process it.  

Add to that most of the people who drink these drinks are deficient in magnesium to start with and don’t take magnesium supplements or eat many of the foods high in magnesium.  The result is a grave shortage of magnesium.

Since to repair bones or make new bone to replace even normal wear, magnesium is essential, that means that soft drink drinkers tend to have less and less new bone to replace the old when needed.

This is a DIRECT cause of osteoporosis. 

To reverse it, drinking zero further soft drinks and taking magnesium supplements and eating more greens and raw tree nuts for those not allergic is very helpful if not essential.  Taking 400 mg to 800 mg a day of magnesium is important.

(It is possible to take too much magnesium if you take this much AND use a lot of milk of magnesia for heartburn.  So since the supplements have less potentially harmful ingredients, just taking those makes sense.)

Later we will cover other actions and supplements that build bone that it’s a good idea to also add.  There are several and they work well!

*Women near or beginning menopause or right after it; consider estrogen replacement PLUS a 100% low inflammation lifestyle.

*Studies show that in this early stage of menopause even the artificial estrogen replacement made from horse urine is safe to take during that period particularly if you do two things:

1.  Stop when menopause halts periods entirely or possibly if you reduce the dose AND use the bioidentical estrogen replacement instead or after that.

2.  Do the things that dramatically lower excessive chronic inflammation!

This is hugely important because it does all these things:

It makes the estrogen replacement safe to take. 

It makes both all cancers and heart attacks and strokes less likely.  Without cutting inflammation at this time it goes up and adds to all these risks!

It too tends to turn off hot flashes and night sweats and insomnia just like the replacement does! 

So doing both does that very effectively!

And, it prevents the bone loss that otherwise occurs at this time!

The best resource for lowering inflammation is the book, Anti-Cancer at new way of life by Dr David Servan-Schreiber MD.  So buy it and read it and use its advice!

Wouldn’t you like to prevent osteoporosis and turn off those unpleasant effects and prevent breast cancer and ovarian cancer and heart attacks and strokes?

If so, get this book.  Read it.  And, take its advice!

2.  Take the easy and fast steps that build and strengthen bones: take boron and 10,000 iu D3 and K2.

Besides magnesium and getting enough calcium in your food, studies show that taking 10,000 iu of vitamin D3 and 5 mg of vitamin K2 a day causes your body to use calcium to help magnesium build your bones AND the K2 also prevents the calcium from hardening your arteries at the same time! 

(I take Solgar 10,000 iu capsules of D3; but Jarrow makes a 5,000 iu one you can take two a day to get 10,000.  Unlike D2 taking that much D3 is safe, particularly if you take it with K2.  Carlson makes the 5 mg capsules I take of K2.)

Taking 3 mg a day of boron as a supplement is quite inexpensive.  It has some anticancer effects and improves alertness according to a US military study on having pilots take it.  But its best benefit is that when you take it, the bones you build are much stronger and much harder to break!

(I take the 3 mg NOW boron supplement.)

Best of all, you can buy these at a local health food store or on Amazon and be taking them all in a few days!

3.  Do the more challenging but extremely effective things that our bodies need to build and keep strong bones.  Do walking AND strength training or an effective alternative that works better for you.

This one is a big topic by itself. So we will cover it next week. And we’ll cover the others later also.

4.  Stop or do NOT begin the old line drugs for it & do all of the above plus add Bulletproof vibe and strontium instead.

5.  Consider these things that actually do what those drugs were supposed to do but do not do.  

Try adding strontium;

or use the Bulletproof vibe; or try treatment with platelet rich plasma or do so AND use the Bulletproof vibe.

 or if it gets FDA approval and actually does NOT have side bad side effects that show in its first year, Medical News Today reports a new drug that is a kind of anabolic steroid in its effects that actually causes new healthy bone growth and density improvement that strengthens bones.