BONE HEALTH & OSTEOPOROSIS
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for learning more about your skeleton and the causes of osteoporosis,
and Nutritional Supplements designed to support the
bones and teeth, and muscles and nerves.
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here to learn more about your skeleton, what is and what causes osteoporosis
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more about your skeleton, what is and what causes osteoporosis:
The Skeleton
The skeleton is made up of over 200 bones. It is a rigid framework which
gives shape and support to the body. Bone is a highly vascular (large
blood supply), living, constantly changing, mineralized connective tissue.
It is remarkable for its hardness, resilience, growth mechanisms, and
regenerative capacity. The organic matrix (structure) of bone is made
up of bone salts, which give bones their hardness and rigidity. The
most important of these bone salts are: calcium, magnesium, phosphate,
carbonate, hydroxyl, chloride, fluoride (elemental), and citrate. Nutritional
deficiencies of these crucial building blocks can be the
root cause of many skeletal conditions.
What is Osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a very common
condition that affects women more than men and Asian and Caucasian people
more than African-Americans. Osteoporosis is a decrease in bone mass
and density, that leaves porous spaces (holes) in the bones. This causes
a loss of the supporting mineral bone structure, weight and height loss,
thin, painful, brittle bones, and easily broken bones. Osteoporosis
is the most common whole-body bone disease in America, affecting approximately
40 million people, mainly women, causing thousands of injuries and deaths
per year.
What causes Osteoporosis?
Mineral (calcium and magnesium)
deficiencies; menopause and unbalanced female hormones, protein and
collagen deficiencies, excess cortisone or steroid use (Cortisone, Prednisone),
smoking, excessive consumption of animal protein, sugar, salt, caffeine,
soft drinks and/or hard liquor consumption, heavy metal and environmental
chemical exposure (especially cadmium and nickel) are all underlying
factors of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is an epidemic in America. Bone
density and mass reach their maximum levels for women at approximately
age thirty and thirty-five. There is a normal decrease in bone mass
after age 35-40, but due to causative factors (see above), this bone
mass loss is increased in persons with osteoporosis. Almost $4 billion
is spent yearly in America treating conditions related to osteoporosis.
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