Osteoporosis: A Fresh Review By Walter Sorochan Emeritus Professor San Diego State University
Posted May 28, 2010] Updated November 16, 2021. Disclaimer
What's the problem? Americans are creating their own osteoporosis by
the way they live. Meanwhile, doctors in the past treated their
patient's supposedly weak bone "disease" by prescribing calcium and inadvertently
created more health problems.
The general consensus now is that prescribing just calcium to prevent osteoporosis is doing more harm than good.
Lack of good information, in turn, has made osteoporosis appear more complicated than it really is. But all this is about to change.
Misinformation:
There is a great deal of misinformation about osteoporosis in organized medicine.
Article by Adams: Disease Illusion is no longer active.
Medicine is a highly lucrative disease -- more than 17 billion dollars were spent treating osteoporosis in 2001
alone. Adams: review of osteoporosis
The various medical organizations, are not up to date on the latest research.
Information in newspapers, TV and the internet is usually incomplete and
misleading and this adds to the confusion the public
has about osteoporosis. Many medical doctors [ not all ] are
treating suspected osteoporosis with calcium supplements that can cause an
imbalance of co-factors causing other health problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, gall stones,
bone spurs and glaucoma. Stating the implications of these side-effects in
another way, medical doctors, in spite of good intentions, are often making the
health condition of their patients worse and inadvertently practicing bad medicine!
What is osteoporosis?
"Osteoporosis" originates from `osteo`, which means bone, and `porosis` which implies thinning
or becoming more porous. [ This definition may be different from other
organizations ] Hence, osteoporosis literally means `thinning of bone.`[ as high-lighted in yellow in the image above ]
Medically speaking, osteoporosis is a disease of the bone in which the bone
mineral density (BMD) is reduced which means one has a low bone mass and
deteriorating bone tissue. In simple words, the bones become thin, brittle and
may be easily broken. Bone mass (bone density) is the amount of bone present in
the skeletal structure. The higher the density the stronger are the bones. Bone
density is strongly influenced by genetic factors, which in turn are sometimes
modified by life style, environmental factors and medications.
Anyone can get osteoporosis, but women are more likely to get it than men. They have lighter
bones than men, and they lose bone rapidly after menopause, because their bodies
are producing less estrogen. But men aren`t immune, especially if they drink
heavily, smoke or have taken steroid drugs.
Osteoporosis itself has no specific symptoms; its main consequence is the increased risk of bone fractures.
Prevalence:
“According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), osteoporosis is a major public
health threat for and estimated 44 million Americans, or 55% of people age 50
and older. In the disease, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low
bone mass, placing them at increased risk for osteoporosis. In 2005,
osteoporosis-related fractures were responsible for an estimated $19 billion in
costs. By 2005--due to the expanding numbers of people living longer—experts
predict that these costs will rise to approximately $25.3 billion.”
Causes of osteoporosis:
Misinformation contributes to the confusion about
osteoporosis. Many articles provide a small piece of information similar to viewing a
tree instead of a forest. Just as the tree blocks the view of the forest and one
never sees the big forest, so misinformation clouds medical practice in dealing
objectively with osteoporosis. The media makes osteoporosis more complex than it really is.
1. Consumption of highly acidic foods and junk food ingredients.
2. Lack of physical activity, causing bone mass.
3. Lack of exposure to natural sunlight or lack of vitamin D.
"Sufficient levels of vitamin D are crucial for calcium absorption in your intestines. Without sufficient vitamin D, your body cannot absorb calcium, rendering calcium supplements useless."
Dr. Michael Holick
4. Lack of a balance of supporting
co-factor ratios.
# 1 Cause:
"The strong primary dietary cause of osteoporosis is the consumption of highly acidic
foods and food ingredients, such as refined white sugar, refined white flour, high-fructose corn syrup, soft drinks, cookies,
candies, sweets, desserts, and anything containing sweeteners. Something rather destructive happens in your body when you
consume acidic ingredients. Your blood must maintain a specific pH level in order to support human health. If
your pH varies from a level of about 7.1, you start to suffer rather destructive
side effects, and if it strays extremely far from 7.1, you will die within a
matter of minutes. So the body does everything possible to make sure that your
blood maintains a healthy pH level. When you consume highly acidic foods, your
body has to come up with a strategy for buffering the acidity of those foods with alkaline minerals,
and the way it does that is by reaching into your skeletal system to find those
alkaline minerals such as calcium and magnesium, then releasing those into your bloodstream to buffer the acidity of the
food ingredients you have absorbed. In this way, your body can balance the pH of its blood and keep you alive.
So every time you drink a soft drink, or drink a product containing corn syrup or sugar,
you are effectively taking a few grams of bone density right out of your
skeletal system. This gets passed through your kidneys, where it can also
contribute to kidney stones, by the way, and then leaves your body in your
urine. In a very real sense then, you are pissing away your bones when you consume refined sugars and
refined white flour. Anything that's highly acidic will cause this effect in your body.
This is the
number one dietary cause of osteoporosis -- not a lack of calcium. And for many
women, especially older women, it comes in the form of the
sugar in their morning cup
of coffee. They start their day with a drink that depletes their bone mass. And
then they continue on with the day engaging in other
lifestyle habits
that deplete their bones even further. A couple of calcium supplements cannot
undo all this damage.
To prevent
losing your bone mass to dietary causes, simply avoid consuming any white flour,
processed sugars, added sugars, soft drinks, sweets, candies, breads, or any
other ingredients that are made with
refined
carbohydrates. Essentially, if you follow the low-carb diet, you will be
well on your way to avoiding refined
carbohydrates -- but
beware -- red meat is also
highly acidic. In fact, meat products are acidic in nature and will contribute
to the acidity of your diet. If you want to have an alkaline diet, you need to eat fresh
vegetables like
broccoli, cabbage, onions, celery, and other green, leafy vegetables. You need
to get plenty of calcium and magnesium from healthy sources such as organic,
plant-based vitamins. You also need to supplement your diet with various sea
vegetables, which are naturally alkaline. Those include seaweed, kelp, and many
others. And one of my favorite
foods for supporting an alkaline diet is, of course,
sprouts. I love sunflower
sprouts, broccoli
sprouts, clover sprouts, and other varieties. These are all considered
super-foods because they have extremely high nutrient density."
#2 Cause: "The
second cause of
osteoporosis, or loss of bone mass, is lack of
physical activity,
and to understand this, you have to look at the miracle of the
human body and
understand how the human body knows to build bone mass in the first place. Bones
are piezo-electric devices. As such devices, they give off an electric current
when they are physically stressed. In other words, if you take a bone, and put
it on a lab table and apply pressure to it, it will actually produce an electric
charge. In your body, this electric charge attracts a matrix of minerals to the
location that's being stressed where they add to the bone mass density and
essentially build bigger and stronger bones.
In other words,
by simply getting up and standing on your legs, you are telling your body you
need to build stronger leg bones. If you walk on a regular basis, you're telling
your body you need stronger hips. And the more you engage in these frequent
stresses of your bones, the stronger your bones get. Your body has a very strong
adaptation response to the activities that you choose to pursue, and this is one
of those adaptation responses. In my book, it's a rather miraculous response
because it allows the human body to adapt over time to almost any level of
physical activity you choose to pursue.
Now, this is
all basic stuff. This is really Anatomy and Physiology 101. These are the
basics, right here, and yet I'm amazed at how many doctors neglect to tell their
patients about the importance of physical exercise. Instead, they tend to treat
osteoporosis with nothing but
drugs. They imagine that osteoporosis is caused by a lack of
prescription drugs,
and therefore drugs are the only thing that can treat it. In fact, drugs are
only marginally effective. The body has a much stronger, built-in system for
reversing brittle bones disease, or osteoporosis if you want to call it that,
and that mechanism is to simply stress your bones and then let your body build
up higher bone density on its own. You don't even have to think about it -- all
you have to do is stress your bones. Your body builds stronger bones
automatically.
Now, to see
some examples of why what I'm telling you is true, take a look at what happens
to astronauts when they
orbit the planet in zero gravity environments. The longer they stay in zero
gravity, the more bone mass they start to lose. If they stay in zero gravity for
several months, the bones literally become mushy (this is one of the major
problems with long-term space travel). Their heads get spherical like a balloon
and start to lose their earthly shape. When they eventually come back to earth,
some astronauts can hardly walk at all -- their bodies have lost the ability to
support their own weight, and they have to undergo physical rehab (gravity
training, basically) in the earth's gravity in order for their body to readapt
to an environment that has to support their
body weight.
It can happen
that fast, and if you sit on the couch most of the day, or lay in bed most of
the day, and don't expose your body to earth's gravity by standing or walking,
you are essentially giving yourself a sort of zero gravity treatment -- you're
telling your body that you don't need your bones, and therefore your body will
get rid its "extra" bone mass. See, the body is a highly efficient machine. The
body lets go of things that you don't absolutely need. That's because during
human evolution, calories were scarce, and it didn't make strategic sense for an
organism to invest caloric energy in muscle mass or bone mass that wasn't
needed. That's why if you stop working out you'll lose muscle mass, and if you
stop walking and stressing your bones, you will lose bone mass. Once again, this
is really basic stuff -- there's nothing complex in this at all. Osteoporosis is
simply a name given to a set of symptoms that will appear when a person stops
exercising their body and stops stressing their bones. Physicians never describe
it in these terms, of course. They want to make it sound complicated, technical,
and out of your intellectual range. But if you can understand the effects of
gravity and the acidity of unhealthful foods, you already know all you need to
know about preventing osteoporosis.
With all of
that in mind, it's very easy to see how you can prevent and even reverse
osteoporosis regardless of your current age. The first thing is, of course, to
shift to a highly alkaline diet and avoid all acidic food and drinks. The second
thing is to engage in regular physical exercise, such as walking, jogging,
swimming, cycling and so on. Of course, you should always be working with a
health professional before undergoing any new exercise program to make sure that
you're capable of handling it, but even if you can't engage in something like
jogging, there's always something you can do -- there's some way you can move
your body, even if it means sitting in a chair and pumping some dumbbells a few
times a day.
In all of this,
I must also stress the importance of undergoing
strength training.
Nothing increases your bone density like strength training. And I'm talking
about going to the gym and pushing weights on weight machines. This will
increase your bone mass density so rapidly that it will absolutely stun you and
your doctors. No
prescription drug can come close to duplicating the effectiveness of
strength training on your bone mass.
See, when you
lift your own body, you're stressing your bones to a certain degree, and that's
helping build bone mass to a limit. But when you start adding weight to your
body and lifting that as well as your body weight, you're telling your body that
you need even more density in your bones. So, if you put 100 pounds on your
shoulders and squat that weight using your leg muscles and your pelvis for
support, you are essentially telling your body that you need stronger leg
muscles and a stronger skeletal system to support that weight. This gives you a
higher degree of adaptive response than you could possibly achieve from lifting
only your body weight. So strength training is absolutely essential, especially
for elderly people who
wish to prevent or reverse osteoporosis, and yet it is precisely elderly people
who tend to avoid strength training because they carry the misconception that
it's an activity for young people only. But in reality, it is older people who
need it far more than younger people."
# 3 Cause: "Moving onto the
third part of
osteoporosis, let's talk about natural sunlight. When you don't get
natural sunlight, your body thinks that you're in hibernation, in a sense. And a
lot of things start to go wrong with your body and your mind when you lack
natural sunlight on your skin. Osteoporosis is one of those things. That's
because when you expose your skin to sunlight, your body automatically generates
vitamin D, and vitamin D is essential for using calcium to build increased bone
mass. Without vitamin D in your body, your body cannot use the calcium that
you're eating in your diet. So you could be eating all the calcium in the world,
and you could be exercising every day, but if you're not getting sunlight on
your skin, and you're not getting vitamin D into your body, and you don't have
the fundamental building blocks that your body needs to add to its own bone
mass. This will inevitably result in a great loss of bone mass or an inability
to add any new bone mass.
Natural
sunlight is absolutely essential to this process. You have to get it on your
skin, on a frequent basis, without
sunscreen. The next best
thing if you can't get natural sunlight is to take vitamin D supplements such as
cod liver oil. You
can also get vitamin D in other forms, but cod liver oil is the best form
available. You can find it any health food store. But remember you can make
vitamin D yourself simply by getting some sunlight on your skin (your body is a
living, breathing vitamin D factory...).
The bottom line
is that if you put all these three together -- diet, physical exercise, and
exposure to natural sunlight -- you can quite easily prevent and even reverse
osteoporosis. This is a very simple disease. It has a few simple causes, and
it's incredibly easy to reverse. You do not need prescription drugs to treat
this disease. You do not need surgical procedures or other radical medical
therapies. Osteoporosis is a natural result of poor dietary and lifestyle
habits, and it can be easily reversed in a matter of months by changing what you
do on a daily basis."
New research discloses that nutrients do not work in isolation by
themselves; as had been perceived previously by the medical establishment.
Instead they work collectively in a reinforcing manner to help nutrients become
active and function. For example, while
calcium needs magnesium for absorption, it affects the body in ways that are
opposite to that of magnesium. Magnesium counteracts and regulates
the influence of calcium; slows the heart while calcium
speeds it up. Calcium needs vitamin D, as well as other nutrients, referred to as
co-factors, in order to maintain adequate blood levels, absorb calcium
into the blood and other functions in the body. Such a collaborative
and supporting relationship has been overlooked and ignored by researchers and
the medical profession. Many nutritional researches were improperly
designed and their findings were flawed and misinterpreted.
Although new information provides many new insights into how calcium and
co-factor nutrients work, there is still very important information about
calcium that we do not know. For example, the most pressing need is the
most appropriate working ratio between calcium and magnesium and cofactors.
Manufacturers of nutrient supplements are making best guesses
about co-factor ratios, with very little supporting scientific evidence.
This is a very important reason for medical doctors to refrain from prescribing
calcium and other co-factorial nutrients until we have better definitive
information. Less harm is done by following the suggestions of this review;
focusing on the recommendations below.
What has been made out to be a complex problem in dealing with osteoporosis
is perceived by strong Adams and others Article by Ignelzi: Bone up on bone strength is no longer active.
Isaacs: natural prevention of osteoporosis
to be a simple issue of indifference, ignorance [ bad habits ] of lifestyle and misinformation. But osteoporosis is prevalent today
because, in spite of lack of good and available information and well intended but misguided
intentions of the medical profession, the general public lacks the
will and discipline to live a healthier life style. The American culture
lacks government reinforcements for a healthier life style.
Fixing osteoporosis:
Alkali Diet
Exercise
Vit D
Western medicine has focused on relieving the pain and discomfort of osteoporosis with drug medications and surgery. A review of medical research
suggests a less costly and more rewarding approach by relieving the causes of
the disorder instead of relieving pain and discomfort. Additional
information about osteoporosis is available at: Health related issues
Recommendations:
focus on changing life styles
Healers:
Instead of directly prescribing calcium medications or some other healing
modality, healers should analyze behavioral-life styles
with their
patients/clients:
1. three day diet-food analysis to identify food intake of nutrients
2. do a blood test for nutrients, including co-factors
3. analyze sun exposure
and vitamin D status
4. try to adjust co-factor ratios on an experimental basis that
respects biochemical individuality and needs
5. prescribe physical activity/exercise as needed
6. on basis of the above analyses, thereafter prescribe therapy
7. provide support for change by monitoring progress of patients
Individuals: work
with their therapist/medical doctor on the following:
1. do a three day diet analysis
2. request
vitamin D, calcium and magnesium blood tests
3. get adequate sun [ UVB ] exposure or/and supplement with vitamin D
4. adapt an alkali diet 5. participate in minimum of 30 minutes of appropriate exercise at least
four times a week
Conclusion:
Everyone needs to kick the bad habits! Osteoporosis is a problem of life
style and less of being a medicalized disease. We need a public relations
approach to help the lay public, the healing
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Our culture [ individuals, regulating agencies, mass media, education, FDA, government, politicians and the healing professions ] needs to adopt the proper orthobiosis
attitude; that is .... the right or proper style of living to prevent and treat this health disorder. We need a coordinated effort with leadership coming from the federal, state and
local governments to bring about immediate change. Currently we do not have "economic incentive" systems in place to encourage people to live healthier lives! Article by MSNBC: Restaurants make kids sick is no longer active.
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More information is presented below for those wanting more details.
Example of eating a descent diet:
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[ There are some things that you can do to increase your joint health from a
food perspective. ]
Eat more sulfur-containing foods; eat foods like onions, garlic, slow-cooked
beans, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, etc.
Eat less sugar foods that are empty calorie foods.
Eat whole foods and no processed foods.
Eat whole grained bread versus white bread.
Eat brown rice versus white rice.
Eat fresh fruits like oranges and apples, don’t drink the juice.
Eat foods that will rot and spoil, but eat them before they do.
Eat food that will sustain life. Food that will rot and spoil will sustain life.
Eat a cave man type diet. A cave man diet is a diet without bottles, cans,
packages, boxes, or wrappers. The idea is to eat as if we didn’t eat all of the
convenience foods of today.
Eat simply and eat fresh. alkali diet Cook at home so you can control ingredients and calories in the meal
Some Risk Factors for Osteoporosis
Risk factors you can’t change:
Getting older
Being a woman
Being Caucasian or Asian
Having a family history of osteoporosis or fractures
Modifiable risk factors:
Cigarette smoking
Excessive alcohol consumption
Inactive lifestyle or prolonged bed rest
Poor nutrition, particularly insufficient calcium and vitamin
D
Use of certain medications like oral glucocorticoids and some
anticonvulsants
Low estrogen levels in women or low testosterone levels in
men
Anorexia
Source:
National Institutes of Health
This above list by NIH is incomplete. Below is a more extensive list:
Factors Contributing to the Loss of Bone Density and Strength: acu-cell osteo
Drinking too many sodas: Excess phosphorus intake through drinking too many sodas, particularly colas, causes
the body to balance this phosphorus by drawing calcium from the bones.
corn syrup
Magnesium deficiency is a huge factor
for osteoporosis. Magnesium is actually more important than calcium for bone
growth and bone density. As many as 90 percent or more of us are deficient in
magnesium.
Estrogen deficiency among women(a group of hormones) post menopause has been correlated to a rapid
reduction in BMD.
Aging:The increased risk of falling associated with aging, leads to fractures
of the wrist, spine and hip, and in many instances the fall is actually caused
by the breaking of a bone when taking a step, especially when stepping downward
on stairs or stepping off porches.
Other hormone deficiency states can
lead to osteoporosis, such as testosterone deficiency. Glucocorticoid or
thyroxine excess states also lead to osteoporosis.
Malnutrition:Not eating foods rich in Calcium,
Vitamin D and Phosphorous can also
cause bone loss. Calcium and/or vitamin D deficiency from malnutrition also
increases the risk of osteoporosis.
Medicines can inhibit the body`s
ability to absorb calcium. This may cause the bones to weaken. These medications
include cortisone/corticosteroids, anticoagulants, thyroid supplements, and some
anti-convulsive drugs.
Illnesses or diseases: such as
over-active thyroid, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis may also cause bone loss.
A disease such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia can cause changes in a person`s
estrogen level and lead to osteoporosis.
Family history:
Sedentary lifestyle is a major factor
in osteoporosis. Exercise strengthens bones - inactivity encourages the body not
to rebuild unused resources.
Consuming too much fat in our diets
can contribute to osteoporosis as well. Vegetarians are shown to have greater
bone mass than meat eaters.
Excess alcohol consumption interferes
with calcium absorption.
Drinking too much coffee. A study of
84,484 patients showed a correlation between bone fractures and heavy coffee
consumption.
Smoking:particularly heavy smoking, boosts bone loss.
Vitamin D deficiency:which can be obtained by exposure (not over-exposure) to sunlight, is
also an important factor in bone loss.
Vitamin D
Vitamin K deficiency:in the system is an often overlooked contributor to osteoporosis. New
research has shown that this little known vitamin is the key to calcium balance
in the body.
Trace minerals: which most of us are deficient in due to our mineral depleted
soils, are necessary for the transport and absorption of calcium.
Prescription drugs can increase bone
loss. These include cortisone, blood thinners, antacids containing aluminum,
chemotherapy, lithium, and certain antibiotics.
Birth control pills reduce the folic
acid content in the body.
Excess consumption of dairy products
actually causes bone loss, contrary to what many might believe. This is due to
the high animal fat content in dairy products, and the lack of CLA in modern
dairy products.
Junk foods:Excess salt and sugar consumption in junk foods leach calcium from the
bones into the urine.
Signs
and Symptoms of Osteoarthritis:
early morning joint stiffness
and pain
loss or restriction of joint
mobility
pain that is worse after use
stiffness after periods of
rest
creaking/cracking of joints
after movement (also known as crepitus)
tenderness and swelling in
certain areas
restricted mobility
pain in the joint before or
during changes in the weather
deformity of the joints
Common Drugs used to treat Osteoporosis include: acu-cell osteo
SERM Potential side effects: experienced with
are hot flashes, sinusitis, fever, or flu-like symptoms and/or
increased incidence of infections, headaches, joint pain,
indigestion, abdominal pain, insomnia, weight gain,
urinary / gynecological problems, dizziness, leg cramps.
Calcitonin Potential side effects: experienced with
calcitonin spray
are nasal irritations, runny nose, nosebleeds, hives, itching, difficulty breathing, swelling of lips, tongue, or face.
With injectable calcitonin, they are skin rash and
/or flushing, nausea, vomiting, and allergic reactions similar to
those with the spray.
Teriparatide
(Forteo):
Potential side effects: experienced with
Teriparatide
(Forteo) are joint pains, headaches, leg cramps, angina, hypertension, shortness of breath, nausea, various digestive
problems, depression, insomnia, fatigue, rhinitis, dizziness, skin rash and sweating.
Bisphosphonates Potential side effects:experienced with
bisphosphonates
include heartburn and various digestive problems, allergic reactions, esophageal ulcer, esophageal cancer,
difficulty swallowing, headaches, joint / muscle painor cramps, fever / flu-like symptoms, serious atrial fibrillation
(abnormal heart rhythm), and osteonecrosis of the jaw. This is a condition in which the bone tissue in the jaw
fails to heal after minor trauma such as a tooth extraction, causing the bone to be exposed. The exposure can eventually lead to infection and fracture and
may require long-term antibiotic therapy, or surgery to remove the dying bone tissue. Patients using
bisphosphonates should avoid tooth extractions and other major dental work while on the drugs.
REMINDER Alert:
These drugs may not be the best way to heal or prevent osteoporosis.
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between different factors, nutritional, environmental, lifestyle and
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osteoporosis and subsequent fractures. Although our understandingof
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Prologue: selling
sickness
Selling to everyone : high cholesterol
Doughnuts for the doctors : depression
Working with celebrities : menopause
Partnering with patients : attention deficit disorder
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