Osteoporosis

Loss of normal bone density, mass and strength, leads to increased porousness and vulnerability to fracture.  Osteoporosis is seen more often in post menopausal women and the elderly.  There are close to 1.2 million osteoporosis related bone fractures in the United States each year.  50,000 people die every year from post-fracture complications, and as many as one-fifth of people suffering from osteoporosis ends up in a nursing home.  

Home Remedies For Osteoporosis:

Exercise:

Weight-bearing exercise, whether it is walking, doing squats or pushups, or working out with weights, will help to increase the density of the bones. And gives you lots of other health benefits too. The long term results make exercise well worth doing. Studies even show it increases mental ability and function.

Diet:

Soft drinks are high in phosphoric acid and sugar, making these drinks highly acidic.  Calcium is the main mineral utilized by the body to neutralize that acid.  Phosphoric acid depletes calcium levels, causing calcium to be pulled from the bones.  Calcium is pulled out of the body when this happens, and this lowers blood calcium levels.  To remedy this, the parathyroid gland restores calcium balance in the blood by pulling calcium from your bones. Consequently, anything highly acidic, like soft drinks, can directly lead to osteoporosis.

A diet high in meat and carbohydrates, with few greens or fruits, is highly acidic and causes the body to utilize calcium to neutralize the acids.

Milk:

For more than 50 years milk has pitched as a wonder food whose calcium is the only protection we need against weak bones. Yet, Americans have one of the world’s high calcium intakes, but still suffer from one of the world’s highest rates of osteoporosis.

African women in the United States eat at least four times more calcium than African women in Africa, and have nine times more osteoporosis. Asian women in the United States eat at least 60% more calcium than Asian women in Asia, and have three times more osteoporosis. Calcium consumption in Hong Kong and Greece doubled in the last 30 years, and the rate of osteoporosis tripled in Hong Kong, and more than doubled in Greece.

Supplements:

First, introduce magnesium into your diet.  Take a magnesium product for at least a month, before adding calcium to you supplements, so the magnesium will have built up enough for your bones to absorb the calcium.  Two parts calcium to three parts magnesium is the normal ratio for optimum bone calcium replenishment.

Potassium 50 mg, Zinc 5 mg, Manganese 1.5 mg, Boron .375 mcg, Copper 500 mcg, Chromium 40 mcg, Selenium 38 mcg, Iodine 28 mcg, Vanadium 30 mcg, Lithium 7 mcg, Rubidium 30 mcg, and Silica 8 mg, and Fulvic acid to further enhance absorption.  There has been much research showing that strontium is highly effective at improving bone density.  Vitamin D and Vitamin K, are essential to rebuild bone density and mass.

DHEA is the master hormone in your body.  When your supplies are plentiful, your body can use it to make any other hormone it needs. When stress (or a high carbohydrate diet) raises cortisol levels, DHEA levels fall. DHEA has anti-aging properties, because it counteracts Cortisol, which cannibalizes our body and causes destruction of tissues, causing rapid aging, and contributes to osteoporosis.