Each day we live, we grow older failing to see that our bones and muscles demand activities to continue strength, endurance and resistance to life’s nasty living demands. Our bones need continued activities throughout our lives starting as a child. Until we turn 30, the bones continue to build. After this age, the bones begin to disintegrate. You can cutback this degeneration process by taking care of your bones in youthful days.

How it is achieved

Bone health is achieved through activities, such as exercise. In addition, you maintain healthy bones by increasing calcium. Supplements are available, which include the FDA marked remedies to help reduce bone loss from natural aging.

Taking calcium is very important during our entire life. Children should drink 2 cups of milk each day and adults 3 cups. Calcium in food is better to take than pills because you get more of it; food sometimes doesn’t have the right amounts in it due to the way it has been processed. Get that calcium in your body at an early age and keep it there. Besides calcium however, your bones demand a mixture of magnesium. You will also need a healthy dose of phosphorous. Vitamin D facilitates calcium to flow through the bloodstream. Free flowing bloods make a healthier you.

To improve bones, we also need to start at an early age getting plenty of vitamin D. As we get older, we have a tendency to stay out of the sun more. Don’t sit in the house all day. Rather try to get outside around noon and get some sun with all those vitamin D rays. Supplements can be used but again the sun is better. Maybe take a walk for 15-20 minutes each day to get the sun.

As we aging into the later years of our life, we have to keep those bones strong. You can benefit from weight bearing works, such as walking. Keeping those bones strong will help you survive falls. Falls is one of the leading reasons of bone breakage or fractures, especially as we grow older.

Unfortunately, adolescents don’t realize the importance of taking care of our bones. As these adolescents pass puberty however, their bones start to decline. Once a person reaches 50, the bones start to deteriorate, which puts you at high risk of fractures, disease and breakage. As the bones weaken, the muscles and joints will also degenerate. Injures then can lead to gouty arthritis, arthritis, osteoporosis and so on.

The high-risks of bone fractures are charted, which include hip fractures being the most common injure amongst the elderly. Hip fractures may sound like a minor ordeal, yet the truth is hip fractures are responsible for some deaths.

Weak bones are avertable even once you are middle age. It’s never to late to repair or mend our bodies.

Staying fit is the key to preventing risks of disease, hip fractures etc since the bones will stay healthy. In view of the fact, you want to consider a daily schedule, which includes activities and exercise. You want to keep those muscles free to move, since the muscles protect the bones. Stretch workouts and exercise will prevent your joints from feeling stiff as well, which joints support the muscles and bones.

When you exercise you, maintain weight. As you start to age, the body fat increases to more than 30%. This is too much added weight for the muscles, joints and bones. Carrying around this kind of weight on the feet, legs, etc will cause problems later. Maintaining your weight will help prevent and lower your risks of heart disease, bone disease, high-blood, high-cholesterol, diabetes and so on.



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I would like to start out by saying I am not a doctor and I do not make medical claims, I am a concerned citizen who has a passion for researching smart alternatives for our health and sharing them with others who are taking an initiative to do their research and make their own educated decisions.

There continues to be greater and greater concern about the public healthy issues surrounding what medical science has names osteoporosis.  Osteoporosis is where the (BMD) bone mineral density is reduced to the point where bone microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and variety of non-collagenous protein in the bone is altered, the bone has become porous like a “honeycomb.”

In 2001, national attention was focused on the ever-increasing concerns regarding bone diseases when both the House and Senate jointly commissioned the Surgeon General to issue a first-ever Report to the Nation on the status of research and education on osteoporosis and related bone disease.  Furthermore, to set forth a plan of action to comprehensively address the urgent need to reverse the increasing toll of the disease.

In 2004 the Surgeon General’s “Report on Bone Health and Osteoporosis” was released.  In summary, the Report calls osteoporosis a “silent” condition because many Americans are unaware that their bone health is in jeopardy.  In fact, four times as many men and nearly three times as many women have osteoporosis than those that report the condition.  Plus, osteoporosis affects men and women of all races, and while bone weakness manifests primarily in older Americans, the Report made a point of emphasizing that strong bones really begin in childhood.

One recommendation that came from the Report was focusing on the value and impact of proper nutrition.  Especially foods that contained significant sources of Calcium, Phosphorus and Vitamin D.  This Report also calls upon Health Care Professionals to help Americans maintain healthy bones “by evaluating risks for patients of all ages..” that may indicate someone is at risk.

With this information said, here are my comments.  For Health Care Professionals to be able to help their patients determine if they are at risk for having or developing bone disease, they must be able to establish if there is an ongoing mineral deficiency in progress before their patients’ bones ever begin to get close to osteopenia, which is “bone poverty,” the next step is osteoporosis.  Common bone density tests are looking at the ongoing effect after the fact, not the cause.  Truly strong bones must begin in childhood with proper nourishment. 

So how can we maintain strong bones at any age?

*Your LIVER needs to be in proper working health, to supply the needs for the rest of the body, this includes, Water, Oxygen and Calcium.

*Calcium, your body needs the right types of Calcium in the daily diet, moving through the intestinal tract, in order for all organs and tissues of the body, through the liver, to be perfectly supplied with enough mineral energy from the food.  Calcium deficiency in the digestive tract, means poor mineral energy production and delivery.

*Food, should be our primary source for  minerals.  However, with the endemically mineral deficient foods available today, the diet must be supplemented only with the correct Calcium types and associated minerals and vitamins necessary for each individuals needs.

*Vitamin C and D, are needed for healthy bones and any organ.

*Vitamin K

*Magnesium

*Chemical Colloids, the prime source for Chemical Colloids, comes from either high quality, (high Brix), (Brix is the unit of measure from a refractometer that can directly interpret the sugar content, the higher the Brix reading the greater the nutritional value), foods grown incorporating soft rock colloidal phosphate.  Chemical Colloids can levitate in air or water and go with the flow of either.  The harder the substance, the more chemical colloid must be available to supply the needs of the cells as they are replaced, rebuilt and restored.

*The ultimate determinate of how strongly bone is built or how quickly bone is restored when minerally depleted.  Chemical Colloids act as friction reducers to the movement of mineral molecules into the cell, all mineral (except nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and carbon) can only be carried into the cells attached to phosphate.  Chemical Colloids are a significant source of this vital nontoxic phosphate that moves mineral into cells.

*The prime construction of material of bone is Calcium Phosphate, including chemical colloids. 

*Bones are the main Mineral Reservoir and anytime the body is unable to get enough mineral, especially Calcium, from the diet, it will take from the bones.  This is generally the start of osteopena.

This can be a start to determining where to start and how you can ultimately maintain stonger bones…at any age.

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Calcium (coral calcium + vitamin D)
condroitin
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fish oil (*omega 3-9)
Hyaluronic acid

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What are some good ways to incorporate calcium into our diets? How would you advise someone with lactose intolerance?…. i.e., what foods could they eat to get the recommended amounts of calcium? What other nutrients are important in bone health?

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We know that our bodies require calcium and vitamin D in order to build and maintain powerful bones. According to his recent book entitled, “Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis,” by Dr. Alan Gaby, it takes more vitamins than we think to prevent brittle bones including Vitamins K and B; as well as minerals such as magnesium, phosphorus, fluorine, silica and boron.

The idea is to provide enough combined supplementation for our bodies to make an abundance of healthy collagen which is the connective tissue used to create cartilage and bones. Collagen also ‘binds’ our cells together and as a result, someone with good collagen has healthy looking skin whereas another will have thin and wrinkled skin.

A healthy bone cut in half looks similar to a sponge. The body deposits calcium, phosphorus and other minerals onto all of those connective fibers and you get healthy bones! The holes give the bone its flexibility, and you won’t have healthy bones if you don’t have plenty of collagen on which to deposit the minerals.

Collagen is primarily a protein which is made from amino acids. Our bodies can create some of our requirements but we also need additional amounts from our foods and supplements including lysine and praline. Vitamin C is also required to create collagen.

Now we know how bones can be made stronger, but how is this process affected by menopause? The loss of estrogen due to menopause or possibly surgical removal of the ovaries can accelerate bone loss for a period of up to 8 years. It is well established that replacing that estrogen helps protect against the risk of osteoporosis.

More often, women’s bones become fragile as we age and it’s not uncommon to break bones in the wrist, spine and hip due to osteoporosis. Unfortunately, a fracture such as in the hip, can even shorten our life span so it is important to pay attention to our bone health.

What should be done to prevent osteoporosis from happening after menopause?

First of all, eat the foods that are calcium-rich (about 1,000 mg per day) and can enhance bone growth including: sardines, salmon, seafood, and green leafy vegetables such as swiss chard, beet tops, kale, mustard greens, collards, spinach, dandelion greens, watercress, parsley, chicory, turnip greens, broccoli leaves, almonds, asparagus, blackstrap molasses, broccoli, cabbage, carob, figs, filberts, oats, prunes, sesame seeds, tofu and other soy products. Vitamin D-rich foods include fish oils such as found in salmon, mackerel, sardines), eggs (including the yolks), sweet potatoes, tuna, vegetable oils and cod liver oil. Getting 15-20 minutes of sunlight exposure daily can also boost production of vitamin D.

Exercise is crucial; in particular, you need weight-bearing exercise such as walking, Tai chi, dancing and weight training to reduce the chances of brittle bones at least two times a week. Include 15 to 60 minutes of aerobic activity two to three times a week. Avoid high-impact activities and include stretching exercises.

Finally, use high-quality supplements prescribed by your doctor or health-care provider, and oh yeah, don’t forget to have fun.

The information in this article is for educational purposes only, and is not intended as medical advice.



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