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"One wonders how many of the women taking this drug actually benefit, since, as we have seen, it does not reduce fractures when used to prevent osteoporosis. And for women over 70—even those with severe osteoporosis—Fosamax's cousin, Actonel, significantly reduces the risk of hip fractures only in women who have already had spine fractures. Meanwhile, how many women taking these drugs are aware of the research showing the significant benefits of exercise in preventing fractures and, more important, improving overall health and longevity? Those are 10 of the 15 best-selling drugs for seniors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"John Lee, that topically applied natural progesterone cream will not only prevent osteoporosis but will actually increase bone mineral density and prevent fractures. In his publications, Dr. Lee had become the strongest advocate of the role of progesterone in preventing and reversing osteoporosis. He asserts that almost all women can successfully prevent and reverse osteoporosis and improve their bone density by as much as 15 percent with this cream and that estrogen replacement therapy is very seldom a necessary component. Although I respect much of the groundbreaking work done by Dr." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"It's necessary for bone health and to prevent osteoporosis (as important as calcium and less publicized). If you want to have the most restful sleep you've ever had and you happen to have access to an M.D. who believes in nutrition and uses vitamin drips in his or her practice, get that doc to give you a magnesium infusion and you'll sleep like a baby. Atkins used to call magnesium "a natural calcium channel blocker." (Calcium channel blockers are a major class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure and abnormal heart rhythms." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Conversely, if you maximize the factors that enhance bone formation in childhood, it's likely you can prevent osteoporosis in adulthood. Your children will reach their potential peak bone mass if you do the following: ?Maintain normal vitamin D levels during pregnancy. ?Make sure your children get enough vitamin D from diet, sun, and/or supplements. ?Provide your children with an acid-base-balanced diet that has adequate protein and omega-3 fatty acids. ?Make sure your kids do weight-bearing exercise starting as soon as they can walk." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"For example, if you're trying to prevent osteoporosis, swimming isn't the optimal activity, because it doesn't increase the strength of your bones. Frank Shearer first put on water skis in 1939. At age 99, he still enjoys the activity. "I like the outdoors and the exercise, " he says. There, working against gravity, walking, standing does more to increase bone metabolism than swimming does. Then there are exercises designed to improve your balance. Tai Chi is one people talk about, or yoga. Those are exercises that have been associated with reducing the risk of falls." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Soy supporters claim it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, alleviate menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis. However, when you look beyond the propaganda, the facts about soy paint a very different picture. In spite of soy's impressive nutritional content, soy products are biologically useless to the body, for reasons explained below. Today, soy is contained in thousands of different food products, which has led to a massive escalation of disease in both developed and underdeveloped countries." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"When women think about what they can do to prevent osteoporosis, most women think of calcium supplementation. Calcium improves bone health, increases bone mineral density, and improves the effectiveness of osteoporosis medications. Although most studies do not show a positive effect of calcium in reducing fracture risk, in the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial, hip fractures were significantly reduced in older women on the calcium supplement program.65 Calcium supplementation has also been shown to decrease bone loss in postmenopausal women." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Lifting weights to prevent osteoporosis from devouring our bones releases growth factors that make dendrites bloom. Conversely, taking omega-3 fatty acids for mental acuity strengthens our bones. The mental and physical diseases we face in old age are tied together through the cardiovascular system and metabolic system. A failure of these underlying connections explains why people who are obese are twice as likely to suffer from dementia, and why those with heart disease are at far greater risk of developing Alzheimer's, the most common form of dementia." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"CALCIUM AND VITAMIN D Doctors routinely recommend supplementation with calcium and vitamin D to prevent osteoporosis and bone fractures in postmenopausal women. Taking calcium increases calcium in the blood, making more available for uptake into the bone. With normal aging, there is a decrease in calcium absorption by the stomach. Vitamin D (cholecalciferol) is known to increase calcium absorption in the gut as well as to act synergistically with calcium to promote bone density." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "A moderate investment of time is all that's needed: fifteen to thirty minutes of weight training two to three times per week provides the bone density you need to prevent osteoporosis if you work all your different muscle groups and let your muscles rest for a day between workouts. Of course, it's great if you can start resistance training before you enter menopause, but even if you start later you will avoid the usual bone loss and even increase bone density slightly." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"OVERVIEW OF HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY Hormone replacement therapy (HRT), now often called HT as well, has been used since the 1950s to treat menopause symptoms and to prevent osteoporosis and heart disease. Several key studies, of the last nine years in particular, have challenged previously held beliefs about the safety and efficacy of long-term HRT use. The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was the most famous of these studies and was a large-scale, randomized, controlled clinical trial of 16,608 menopausal women aged 50 to 79.28 This study, of 0." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "They reject the notion of taking a drug for the rest of their lives, especially if they have other options, especially if they can do other things to help prevent osteoporosis and heart disease, and especially if that drug increases their risk of a life-threatening disease. Women are the biggest consumers of health care in America. A menopause supplement to OB-GYN, the journal of the American College of Ob-Gyn, states, "Focus groups, involving women age 40 to 60, reveal that women know more about herbal medicines than about estrogen." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"What about using these drugs to prevent osteoporosis? Fosamax and Actonel were approved by the FDA to treat women with osteopenia based on studies that showed that they significantly increase the bone density of these women. It is important to remember, however, that bone density is only a surrogate end point; the real reason for taking these drugs is to reduce fractures, and hip fractures in particular. The study of Fosamax published in JAMA in 1998 (mentioned earlier) also included women with osteopenia. Did Fosamax reduce their risk of fracture?" - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Too little vitamin A can also be a problem because adequate vitamin A is needed to prevent osteoporosis. Vitamin D deficiency can be a contributor to osteoporosis. Without enough vitamin D, the bones cannot properly mineralize. Either sufficient sunlight or 600 to 700 IU of supplemental vitamin D daily have been found to lower the chances of osteoporotic fracture. Vitamin K is needed to bind minerals to bones. Vitamin K is used as a coenzyme to enable bone mineralization. Several studies have found a correlation between higher vitamin K levels and lowered risk of hip fracture." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "To prevent osteoporosis in older people: (a) Keep vitamin A in the diet and supplements at a minimum. (b) Eat the RDA of vitamin A in food. (c) Take double the RDA of vitamin A in supplement form. (d) Take vitamin A only in the form of retinoic acid. 34. Calcidiol is: (a) Stored in the liver. (b) The active form of vitamin D. (c) Made in the skin from sunlight. (d) Made by irradiating a fungus. 35. People in areas far from the equator may get too little vitamin D because: (a) The days are shorter. (b) Protective clothing is common." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "To prevent osteoporosis in older people: (a) Minimize vitamin A in the diet and supplements. (b) Take in the RDA of vitamin A. (c) Take in double the RDA of vitamin A. (d) Supplement with the maximum upper limit of vitamin A. 10. The storage form of vitamin A in the liver is: (a) Retinyl palmitate. (b) Retinal. (c) Retinol. (d) Retinoic acid. CHAPTER 4 Vitamin D The Sunshine Vitamin The main function of Vitamin D is regulating calcium and phosphorus to make bones strong. Vitamin D is an unusual vitamin." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Vitamin K2 helps to prevent osteoporosis, which it is estimated will affect more than 52 percent of women and men aged fifty and older by the year 2010. Nattokinase helps to make vitamin K2, which in turn helps to make a protein called osteocalcin; osteocalcin helps get calcium into the bones where you need it. Research has also shown that those who already have osteoporosis also have a lower level of vitamin K2. "0 C 73 m n c 73 m If you're already on blood-thinning medications, be sure to work with your health practitioner if you're eating natto or taking nattokinase." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Known to increase immune function, enhance white blood cell production, act as an antiviral, support cardiovascular health, regulate cholesterol levels, speed healing of wounds and broken bones, prevent osteoporosis, and even help with diabetes and allergies, vitamin C has also been shown to protect the body from cancer, as well as help it to heal from cancer, and to prolong the life of those with cancer. In 1928, Hungarian biochemist Albert Szent-Gyorgyi first isolated vitamin C. Since then, massive amounts of research have been conducted on vitamin C's health-giving abilities." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The National Osteoporosis Foundation was started in 1984, the same year the National Institutes of Health reported that estrogen could help prevent osteoporosis.54 Wyeth, which was the leading estrogen manufacturer, saw an opportunity and helped organize and fund the new group—a fact no one publicized at the time.55 Another Burston-Marsteller strategy involved publishing articles on the benefits of estrogen in women's magazines as well as medical journals." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"II: Himalayan Crystal Salt Health Benefits of Himalayan Salt • Balances blood sugar and acid levels and helps the body's cells generate electrical energy • Acts as a natural antihistamine by regulating phlegm and mucus in the sinuses and nasal cavity • Helps prevent osteoporosis, muscle cramping, and irregular heartbeat • Promotes healthy sleep and intimacy patterns How to Eliminate Toxins from Table Salt • Replace table salt with natural Himalayan salt or Celtic Sea Salt. These are natural (not processed by humans)." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"However, there have been no studies on the long-term safety of triple-estrogen or on whether it can prevent osteoporosis. Triple-estrogen is available by prescription through compounding pharmacists. Progesterone Progestins (progesterone-like compounds, such as Provera) are frequently prescribed along with estrogen to prevent the uterine-cancer-promoting effect of estrogen. However, progestins are not the same as the natural progesterone manufactured by the ovary. Natural progesterone is not only much safer than progestins, but possibly more effective against osteoporosis. John Lee, M.D." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "While ERT does help prevent osteoporosis during the early years of its use, the benefits decrease with time. By age 75, more than 70% of the improvement in bone density resulting from continuous ERT is lost) Moreover, bone loss can be minimized in other ways.1 ERT is also said to prevent heart disease, because women who use ERT develop heart disease less often than women who do not. However, the reduction in the incidence of heart disease may be attributable entirely to the fact that women who take hormones are healthier and more motivated before they start the treatment." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "In addition, there is very little research on whether administet-ing triple-estrogen or estriol by itself will prevent osteoporosis, heart disease, or other problems. Triple-estrogen is typically administered for 25 consecutive days each month, with natural progesterone (not Provera) added on days 14 to 25. Clinical observations suggest that 2.5 mg of triple-estrogen is similar in potency to 0.625 mg of Premarin. For additional information about estrogen therapy, please see Natural Hormone Replacement for Women Over 45, by Dr. Wright." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.) "Conventional therapy, which consists mainly of calcium supplements, estrogen, and exercise, does not reverse or even fully prevent osteoporosis; it merely slows down the rate at which bone loss occurs. In addition, estrogenic drugs such as Premarin are not without risk, as underscored by recent studies showing higher rates of breast and ovarian cancer in estrogen users. Newer treatments such as calcitonin and alendronate (Fosamax) have shown some benefit, but the long-term safety of these drugs has not been demonstrated. DR. WRIGHT'S CASE STUDY M ary Hallgren looked happy." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Abramson also wonders "how many women taking these drugs are aware of the research showing the significant benefits of exercise in preventing fractures and, more important, improving overall health and longevity?" When Less is Better Is it "harder" to become a lifelong exerciser than it is to pop Fosamax? Sure it is. But unlike Fosamax, which not only doesn't prevent fractures but also can cause nausea, abdominal cramping, gastrointestinal upset, and in some cases, osteonecrosis (bone loss) of the jaw, exercise pays off with incalculable dividends." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"You're probably wondering exactly how much fruits and vegetables are necessary to prevent osteoporosis. In general, plant foods—especially vegetables—should comprise the majority of your diet. This means at least seven to ten servings a day. That's a lot of plants, but blending makes it a lot easier since you can drink your fruits and veggies. (See the Program for Vascular Health in chapter ten for a comprehensive discussion of diet." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"In Pakistan, practitioners of Unani-Tibb use it for general debility, to prevent osteoporosis, to treat muscle wasting, and to improve weakness from heavy menstrual bleeding. Also, it is taken during convalescence from serious illness to enhance recuperation. In Africa, the southern Sotho people use a decoction of the root for chills and colds. Other indigenous African people use it as a uterine tonic for women who habitually miscarry, to treat syphilis, typhoid fever, diarrhea, and lack of libido and for infections and eruptive diseases." - David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes, Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief (Get the book.)

"We don't know yet whether regular vitamin D intake (or sun exposure) will prevent osteoporosis, but we wouldn't be at all surprised if that were the case. The Mediterranean Diet There is growing recognition that certain foods may increase inflammation while others dampen the body's inflammatory responses. Numerous epidemiological studies suggest that both the prevalence and severity of rheumatoid arthritis may be lower in regions where people consume more fish, olive oil, fruits, vegetables, and legumes." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "The idea was that they would be on estrogen (plus progesterone, unless they had undergone a hysterectomy) for decades and that this would prevent osteoporosis and the resulting fractures. The findings of the WHI threw the wisdom of that simple approach into question. Although hormone replacement therapy (HRT) did cut the risk of hip fracture by more than 30 percent, it increased the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and breast cancer.785 After these findings were released, many women decided that they were more concerned about heart attacks and strokes than broken bones." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.) "In 2004, the FDA approved a low-dose estrogen patch to prevent osteoporosis. This transdermal patch, called Menostar, releases 14 micrograms of estrogen as (17-beta)-estradiol a day. This form of estrogen is different from the mixture found in Premarin or Prempro but the same as that found in some other estrogen pills for postmenopausal women. Estrogen is absorbed well through the skin, so the dosage delivered in a skin patch can be a lot lower than the dosage in a pill. This dose is quite a bit lower than those of other commonly prescribed estrogen patches used to treat menopausal symptoms." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

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