"First, your bones are living tissue, not dead cement. By living tissue, I mean that bone is comprised of living cells (osteoclasts and osteoblasts) that are continually removing and replacing the mineral deposits that we normally think of as bone. The brilliance of this system might not at first be obvious. After all, what possible advantage could there be to getting rid of good bones. Isn’t that osteoporosis?
But it’s only osteoporosis when we mess up the balance, when we lose more bone than we build. If building and replacing bone wasn’t a dynamic process, how could you mend broken bones or replace aging fragile bones? And if the process went only one way (just building bone), your body would eventually become one solid mass of bone as your bones continued to grow and grow. When you are healthy, it is this dynamic process of removing old bone minerals and replacing them with new bone minerals that keeps your skeletal system healthy, as long as that process is in equilibrium. As with almost all diseases, it is deviation from the natural state of balance that causes problems: when we start losing bone minerals faster than we replace them. That’s osteoporosis.
So, what causes us to go out of balance? Again, if you believe most of what you read and hear, it’s hormonal imbalance and insufficient calcium in the diet so that we cannot grow new bone fast enough -- thus the need for calcium supplements, high dairy intake, and HRT. But the facts don’t bear this out: the incidence of hip fractures (a good indicator of osteoporosis) in countries that have the highest dairy consumption (Norway, Sweden, and the U.S.) is fifty times higher than in countries like New Guinea and South Africa that have extremely low consumption of dairy products (and animal products in general). High calcium intake does not prevent osteoporosis, not even among people who use coral calcium supplements."
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But it’s only osteoporosis when we mess up the balance, when we lose more bone than we build. If building and replacing bone wasn’t a dynamic process, how could you mend broken bones or replace aging fragile bones? And if the process went only one way (just building bone), your body would eventually become one solid mass of bone as your bones continued to grow and grow. When you are healthy, it is this dynamic process of removing old bone minerals and replacing them with new bone minerals that keeps your skeletal system healthy, as long as that process is in equilibrium. As with almost all diseases, it is deviation from the natural state of balance that causes problems: when we start losing bone minerals faster than we replace them. That’s osteoporosis.
So, what causes us to go out of balance? Again, if you believe most of what you read and hear, it’s hormonal imbalance and insufficient calcium in the diet so that we cannot grow new bone fast enough -- thus the need for calcium supplements, high dairy intake, and HRT. But the facts don’t bear this out: the incidence of hip fractures (a good indicator of osteoporosis) in countries that have the highest dairy consumption (Norway, Sweden, and the U.S.) is fifty times higher than in countries like New Guinea and South Africa that have extremely low consumption of dairy products (and animal products in general). High calcium intake does not prevent osteoporosis, not even among people who use coral calcium supplements."
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