Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a disabling disease affecting an estimated 20 Million Americans. Currently one-third of postmenopausal women in the United States have osteoporosis, and the U.S. has the highest rate of osteoporosis fractures in the world. However, this condition can be halted, and even reversed, using alternative treatments such as nutritional supplementation, diet, herbs, and natural hormonal therapy with PHP Progesterone Cream. (More information can be found on our Menopause page.)

Each year, in the United States, 1.3 million people (men and women) over forty-five years of age experience bone fractures associated with osteoporosis, mainly in the vertebral spinal column, wrist and hip. While these fractures can be painful, and vertebral fractures can lead to skeletal deformity, hip fractures are even more serious. 20% of older people with hip fractures die within a year of the fracture. The resulting immobility becoming debilitating, causing a downward spiral with rapid loss of muscle, bone, endurance, strength and appetite.

Causes of Osteoporosis: Decreased levels of hormones primarily progesterone that play important roles in bone building. This disease can also result from poor diet and insufficient exercise.

The American diet of processed foods, carbonated soft drinks, caffeine, high protein, sugar and salt consumption lead directly to loss of calcium and other minerals promoting osteoporosis. High protein diets create excess waste products like ammonia and other acids which prevents calcium from being absorbed by the kidneys, depleting the bones of alkaline minerals.

Other risk factors include the use of broad spectrum antibiotics which depletes normal intestinal flora that supplies vitamin K needed to build bone. Fluoride, once thought to be an osteoporosis treatment is in fact, toxic to the bone cell resulting in abnormal structure of bone, lacking strength. Research shows that even small amounts in drinking water increases the risk of fractures. Studies indicate that cigarette smoking promotes osteoporosis by inhibiting hormones which effect bone cells. Smoking also increases carbon dioxide retention leading to high blood levels of carbonic acid which the body attempts to neutralize with calcium taken from the bones.

The nutritional supplements we use are of high quality with the most absorbable type of calcium and other vitamins and minerals needed to protect and rebuild strong bones. The energetic homeopathic remedies stimulate the body’s innate ability to regenerate now stronger bone cells at a faster rate.

We recommend changes in diet reducing excess protein and the elimination of non-nutritional foods such as sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and carbonated drinks while increasing calcium and other mineral containing foods such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, beans and fish.

Natural Hormone replacement, natural progesterone cream (PHP) made from plants sterols, which is safe and effective has been confirmed by testing at Vanderbilt University.

Including regular weight bearing exercise is known to build bones.

Menopausal hormone replacement therapy – either estrogen alone or a combination of estrogen and progestin --- was used for prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. However, in July 2002, a landmark study revealed that hormone replacement therapy increases the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke in some women. Hormone replacement therapy is known to help preserve bone and prevent fractures, but is not generally recommended at this point for osteoporosis because the risks are thought to outweigh the benefits. It does nothing to maintain new bone formation. The resulting bone is made up mostly of older bone cells that are more crystalline and brittle and may be subject to fracture.

In women who have been on hormone replacement therapy in the past then stopped it, the bone begins to thin again—at the same base as during menopause.

Evista is an osteoporosis drug that has some actions similar to estrogen, such as the ability to maintain bone mass. However studies have shown that it doesn’t increase the reisgh of breast or uterine cancers like estrogen. Evista does cause blood clots and often increased hot flashes.

Actonel, Boniva and Fosamax (also available as generic) treat osteoporosis by inhibiting cells that break down bone and slowing bone loss. Actonel and Fosamax are usually taken once a week while Boniva is taken once a month. There are strict ways to take these medicines, since it they are taken incorrectly; they can lead to ulcers in the esophagus. These medicines do not promote new bone growth.

The Optimal Osteoporosis Package proven to increase bone density six or more times greater than other Calcium and related nutrients.

 

(TOSPLG) Osseoappatite Plus – (Microcrystaline Hydoxyapatitie (MCHC) and Lypholized bone tissue matrix) This product supplies the maximum amount of nutrients used to support bone building integrity.  MCHC has been found to not only halt bone loss, but restore bone mass.  It does this by increasing bone density at a far greater degree than any other Calcium product.

(T5) Bone Liquescence – This product is a proven homeopathic remedy that provides potentized nutrients that improve the body’s ability to regenerate bone and reduce Osteoporosis.

(T8) Fatty Acid Liquescence – This product provides potentized homeopathic nutrients essential in reducing inflammation and rebuilding cells around the bone matrix destroyed by the osteoporotic condition.

Individual price: $98  Package price: $78

 

 

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