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Osteoporosis is a public health problem affecting 75 million persons in the United States, Europe and Japan, including one third of postmenopausal women and most of the elderly in the United States, Europe and Japan. Osteoporosis results in more than 1.3 million fractures annually in the United States.

What is osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by deterioration of bone tissue leading to decreased bone mass and bone fragility.

Osteoporosis treatment
Reduce alcohol
Reduce caffeine
Reduce or stop smoking
Weight bearing exercises
Calcium at mealtime with dinner calcium supplement is available at Physician Formulas web site. You can have a diet with dairy foods or take extra calcium supplements.
Vitamin D is useful in preventing or treating osteoporosis. Foods rich in vitamin D include milk, cheese, sardines, cooked greens. Exposure to sun a few minutes a day. Evidence supports the use of calcium, or calcium in combination with vitamin D supplementation, in the preventive treatment of osteoporosis in people aged 50 years or older. The ideal dosage of vitamin D and calcium varies with each individual, but, on average, we suggest a minimum doses of 1000 mg of calcium, and 600 IU of vitamin D.
Reduce or avoid soft drinks due to their phosphorus content.
Soy isoflavones such as genistein
Dried plums may exert positive effects on bone in postmenopausal women.
Estrogen replacement--use lowest amount of natural estrogens
Selective estrogen-receptor modulators

Diet and osteoporosis
The Mediterranean diet has food items that contain a complex array of naturally occurring bioactive molecules with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and alkalinizing properties. Therefore, the Mediterranean diet is beneficial in terms of osteoporosis prevention or treatment.

Osteoporosis prevention
To prevent osteoporosis, try to be physically active, preferably throughout life. Walk, dance, do pushups, do yoga or stretching for flexibility, reduce smoking, and, if possible join a gym where you lift weights using all muscle groups. If you can't join a gym, buy a few cheap barbells and lift weights at home, do gardening, or lift rocks in your backyard... anything to make your muscles work. When muscles contract, they pull tendons that are attached to the bones, and this tells the bones to deposit calcium and thus bones become stronger and less apt to fracture. Bone is a living tissue that responds to exercise by becoming stronger. Just as a muscle gets stronger and bigger with use, a bone becomes stronger and denser when it is called upon to bear weight. Taking lots of calcium without being physically active is not going to be as effective. Take preemptive action and reduce your chances of having to rely on osteoporosis drugs.

Cause of osteoporosis
The major processes responsible for osteoporosis are poor bone mass acquisition during adolescence and accelerated bone loss in persons during the sixth decade (the perimenopausal period in women). Both processes are regulated by genetic and environmental factors. Reduced bone mass is the result of varying combinations of hormone deficiencies, inadequate nutrition, decreased physical activity, comorbidity and the effects of medications used to treat various unrelated medical conditions.

Hormones that cause osteoporosis
Depo-Provera (depot medroxyprogesterone), a popular birth control injection, seems to promote bone loss or osteoporosis, and the effects increase over a 2-year period.

Depression as cause of osteoporosis
Low bone mineral density is more common among women with major depression.

Osteoporosis medications
There is no proof that any one group of osteoporosis medications works better than other groups. n December of 2008, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a team at the Rand Corporation in California to compare six drugs in the class known as bisphosphonates. These drugs include alendronate known generically as (Fosamax); zoledronic acid (Zometa); amidronate (Aredia); etidronate (Didronel), risedronate (Actonel); and ibandronate (Boniva). The report also evaluatred at estrogen, a synthetic hormone called calcitonin, calcium, vitamin D, testosterone, parathyroid hormone and drugs in the selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERM) class such as raloxifene. There was no proof that bisphosphonates prevent fractures better than estrogen, calcitonin or raloxifene.
However, estrogen and raloxifene (Evista) can have serious side effects such as strokes, blood clots in the lungs or bleeding in the uterus. Not enough evidence exists to determine how exercise or taking testosterone compares to medications in preventing osteoporosis-related fractures, the researchers said.

Bisphosphonates and osteoporosis
Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs that inhibit the resorption or breakdown of bone tissue. Bisphosphanates are used for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, multiple myeloma and other conditions that involve bone fragility. In the last 10 years, millions of patients have taken biphosphanates for the prevention of osteoporosis and bone thinning from cancer. Bisphosphantes once seemed safe, but lately concerns have been raised. Bisphosphante use is now believed to be associated with osteonecrosis (dead bone) of the jaw. Osteonecrosis of the jaw is an uncommon complication, but it is estimated that among the 500,000 American cancer patients who take the drugs because their disease is affecting their bones, up to 10 percent may develop the problem. Some dentists are refusing to treat patients taking the drugs, fearful that the dental work will induce a case of osteonecrosis, and lawyers are lining up to sue the drugs' makers, saying they failed to give patients adequate warning. Cancer patients, mostly those with multiple myeloma and breast cancer whose disease has spread to their bones, generally take one of two bisphosphonates, Zometa or the older Aredia, intravenously. Osteoporosis patients usually take bisphosphonates as oral pills, in lower doses that patients with cancer. These bisphosphanate drugs include Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva.  

Osteoporosis emails
Q. I had a hysterectomy at age 24. I am now 35 and have been diagnosed with osteoporosis. I am having a very hard time trying to find out how much of what I need to take and what would be most helpful for me at my age. The doctors of course want me to take medication. Unless absolutely necessary I do not wish to that. Any guidance that you can give would be most appreciated and helpful.
   A. We suggest your doctor read this osteoporosis page and guide you.

Q. Regarding the osteoporosis treatment product OsteoPhase. It is supposed to regulate calcium homeostasis. I have osteoporosis and would not mind the expense if the product is effective. What is your opinion? OsteoPhase contain Ostea Tealienwhanensis (shell), Astralagus polysaccharide (root), Coix Lachryma-Jobi (seed), and Angelica Sinensis (root)

 

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