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Osteoporosis Cures and Bone Health

CYCLO-OXYGENASE 2 IS ESSENTIAL FOR BONE FRACTURE HEALING – (08-14-03)

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Cyclo-Oxygenase 2 Function Is Essential for Bone Fracture Healing

I honestly think that this was a side effect the pharmaceuticals did not anticipate. Consider this–if COX-2 is essential for bone healing, how does this impact on patients with osteoporosis?? What about the seniors, a group with higher use of COX-2 selective inhibitors due to higher prevalence of arthritis? Hold tight–the house of cards may come tumbling down soon…

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BONE QUALITY IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BONE DENSITY – (12-15-04)

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BONE FRAGILITY AND COLLAGEN CROSS-LINKS

So much attention over the years has been focused on purely bone density without any thought to the quality of the bone present.

This research has started to surface, and it’s not very pretty. The fragility (and therefore the quality) of the bone is a very important factor in whether or not a bone is going to fracture. The quality of a bone is much more than just stopping the bone’s breakdown (via biphosphonate therapy like Fosamax) and needs to involve a wide spectrum approach including more of a plant-based/alkaline diet, high quality calcium as well as the numberable micronutrients needed for health bone. This also lends much credance to check the urine for the breakdown products of bone–a urine test that has been commercially available for many years now.

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BONE TURNOVER A GOOD PREDICTOR OF FRACTURE RISK IN WOMEN – (03-15-04)

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Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism, Prediction of Fracture in Elderly Women

I’m a little surprise at this article. The authors determined that urinary markers of bone turnover are a good predictor of verterbral fracture risk in elderly women. However, these markers have been commercially available for years. Oh well–it’s still nice to see the acknowledgement of these tests in the medical literature anyway.

Bone mineral density has been used for too long as a stand alone test for bone health when it is only a snapshot of bone and does not tell how fast or how slow you’re losing bone. Also, there is some concern that bone density does not always equal bone strenth. The crosslinks in bone are very important in the tensile strength of bone, and these are not adequately evaluated by DEXA scans.

http://www.jbmr-online.com – Biochemical Markers of Bone Metabolism and Prediction of Fracture in Elderly Women.

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DENSITY AND QUALITY OF THE BONES EFFECT THE FRACTURE RISK – (09-24-03)

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Reduced Osteocyte Density with Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture

The idea that the denser the bones, the stronger the bones, is an idea that is far too simplistic. We now know that it is not just the density, but the quality of the bone that also plays a role in fracture risk. This study finds that there are less active bone cells (osteocytes) in patients who have suffered vertebral fractures. The authors suggests that less osteocytes would make the bone less response to microtrauma and changes in stress on the bone.

Reduced Iliac Cancellous Osteocyte Density in Patients With Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture.

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THIOL ANTIOXIDANTS PLAY CRUCIAL ROLE IN ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY BONE LOSS – (10-01-03)

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A crucial role for thiol antioxidants in estrogen-deficiency bone loss

Osteoporosis is, in reality, a disease of lifestyle. Somewhere along the line we managed to convince the masses that it was all about calcium, and that milk was the answer. Well, it ain’t so easy (not to mention the fact that the countries with the highest intakes of dairy have the highest incidence of osteoporosis…). Here we see that heavy duty antioxidants such as glutathione plays a role in protecting bone, and that supplementation (albeit in a rat..) with NAC or vitamin C help regenerate glutathione and protect bone.

JCI — Abstracts: Lean et al. 112 (6): 915

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CALCIUM CARBONATE NOT A WAY FOR BONE HEALTH – (10-04-04)

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Comparison of the effects of calcium loading with calcium citrate or calcium carbonate on bone turnover in postmenopausal women

This one has been an ongoing debate in the natural healthcare field for some time now. While this is a small study, and one study does not constitute a definitive answer, I usually tell patients that, if they are serious about bone health, then calcium carbonate is NOT the way to go. So, toss the TUMS and pick up calcium citrate or MCHC. SpringerLink – Article –

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CADMIUM EXPOSURE MAY CAUSE FOREARM FRACTURES – (07-02-04)

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Cadmium Exposure and Distal Forearm Fractures

I remember an elderly patient of mine awhile back. She was scheduled for carpal tunnel surgery and I had run a hair analysis on her looking at whether heavy metals may be contributing to the nerve issues. She had been a smoker for many years and the results came back very high in cadmium. She had been dealing with high blood pressure and severe osteoporosis (she had already had multiple hip replacements) as well. These were all hallmarks of cadmium toxicity. I referred her out to a physician doing IV chelation, but her surgeon would not perform her surgery until the cadmium issue was put to rest via a letter from me saying it was not relevant to her surgery. Her friend/home care nurse was livid and could not see how cadmium fit into her clinical picture.

This article, in the highest blood levels of cadmium, showed almost a NINE times risk of forearm fracture. The patient ultimately had the surgery and never followed through with the chelation due to the ignorance of one nurse. Who knows how this patient’s overall health would have improved had she done the chelation?

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