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Osteoporosis cures and bone health

USE OF TNF ALPHA BLOCKADE RESULTS IN INCREASED BONE DENSITY – (07-25-05)

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Body weight, body composition, and bone turnover changes in patients with spondyloarthropathy receiving anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha treatment

While, as mentioned above, I am not a fan of the TNF-alpha inhibitors, this article does once again show the strong link between inflammation and bone health.  Use of TNF-alpha blockade three times in 6 weeks resulted in increased bone density of 5.6% at the spine in one year with a 50% reduction in urine markers of bone turnover within 3 months.  Move over Bessie!!

DAIRY PRODUCTS MAY CAUSE OVARIAN CANCER – (04-10-06)

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Dairy Products and Ovarian Cancer

While the association between ovarian cancer and 3 servings of dairy per day was not that strong, the fact that any risk was there is of concern given the blind faith we give in dairy products. I have patients that guiltily admit that they don’t drink milk and so are worried about their bone health. I have patients in community health presentations that are astounded that I would even suggest that dairy is not good for us. I will continue to give the dairy industry credit for one of the most phenomenol marketing campaigns in history: getting the American public to religiously believe that dairy is absolutely essential to good health despite very minimal evidence to support this.

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RED YEAST RICE HELPS IN BONE FORMATION – (10-02-06)

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Red yeast rice stimulates bone formation in rats

Keep in mind that this was a rat study, but not bad news overall. But, given that an approach to bone health is systemic and requires consistent exercise, sunlight exposure and anti-inflammatory lifestyles, I’ve never been a big fan of using one nutriceutical to manage any condition and this is no different.

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MATERNAL VITAMIN D STATUS DURING PREGNANCY – (02-13-06)

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Maternal vitamin D status during pregnancy and childhood bone mass at age 9 years

A whopping 49% of the pregnant women in this study did not have an adequate Vit D status, and this was found to lead to lowered bone mass in the children at 9 yrs of age. I really do believe that we are beginning to see the devastation that our fear-mongering of the sun has created. Increased colon, breast, prostate cancer, worsening insulin resistance, autoimmune conditions like MS and now bone health in kids. What a tangled weave our health really is.

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EAT LOTS OF FRUITS AND VEGGIES FOR GOOD PROTEIN INTAKE – (12-19-05)

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Long-term protein intake and dietary potential renal acid load are associated with bone modeling and remodeling at the proximal radius in healthy children

This is something the high protein diets do not take into account. In this study, higher protein intake was helpful for building stronger bones, BUT, only when accompanied by higher intakes of alkalizing minerals like potassium and magnesium to offset the acid from the proteins. Interesting, calcium intake had no effect.

So, just like everything else, it is about balance-maintaining good intakes of protein in the face of lots of fruits and veggies. You don’t hear this message about true bone health from the dairy industry…

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CORELATION OF VITAMIN D AND CALCIUM INTAKE – (12-19-05)

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Relationship Between Serum Parathyroid Hormone Levels, Vitamin D Sufficiency, and Calcium Intake

We’ve really done a great job convincing the American public that osteoporosis is all about calcium and making sure you get your 3-a-day of dairy. Unfortunately, this has led to much misunderstanding about bone health. Osteoporosis is a disease of lifestyle, NOT a disease of not getting enough cow’s milk. A lifetime of more acidic foods and higher levels of inflammation are the major players in bone health. And don’t forget to get enough of that dreaded, dangerous sunlight.

This study found that, at adequate levels of Vit D in the bloodstream, the is no need for more than 800 mg per day of calcium. However, up to 75% of the population is believed to be deficient in Vit D…

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Heart Disease Ruins Bones: Osteoporosis and Heart Disease Linked

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It’s almost comical how mainstream medicine has cordoned human disease into specialties and yet the human body metaphorically thumbs its nose at the idea that systems act in isolation.  Every system effects every other system.

We see this time and time again.  Heart disease patients who also have colorectal cancer.  Patients with stomach complaints that also have osteoporosis.  My favorite is diabetes and cardiovascular disease.  From my viewpoint, there is no difference between heart disease and diabetes.  If this sounds strange, consider that 70% of diabetics die of cardiovascular complications, and almost every single cardiovascular patient has signs that they are either diabetic are heading towards diabetes.  The lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes are the same ones that will protect the heart.

Which then brings us to this particular study.  Researchers looked at the rate of osteoporotic fractures in patients who were being treated for heart failure and found an increased risk (about 33% after all other risk factors for fractures were accounted for).

Just pointing out the association is important and will hopefully wake up clinicians who do not view treatment of a patient from a whole body perspective.  I have never had a patient diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis who was given any information beyond the drugs available and take some more calcium.  Rarely is vitamin D even touched on, let alone other lifestyle related factors that contribute to bone destruction.

The researchers however, in their conclusion, demonstrate that they just don’t get it.  The conclusion is that this means that patients with heart failure should be screened more often for osteoporosis and given more drugs.

UGH!! 

 These conditions are on the same trajectory!  They are not separate disease entities that need to be treated independently by another litany of drugs.  We need to understand that poor lifestyle changes lead to EVERY disease and that fixing the lifestyle is key, NOT medicating the symptoms!  (Ok..I feel much better now…)

LIFESTYLE FACTORS DETERMINE DEVELOPMENT OF BONE MASS – (04-04-05)

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Lifestyle factors and the development of bone mass and bone strength in young women

Geez, I hate to see articles that support what I’ve been saying for years…  I would have to say, that, of all the myths I bring to light in the community and my office, few receive more resistance than the idea that dairy is actually, at best, neutral, and at worst, harmful.

This article, while small, did not find that calcium intake had any impact on bone development (milk for bone health, anyone?  Did see THIS one in the mainstream press, did you?).  Number one beneficial item?  Exercise.

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