You Can Maintain and Have Healthy Bone Structure, Avoiding Osteoporosis

Using Two Key Anti-Aging Strategies, You Can Prevent Bone Loss and Osteoporosis

All humans are born with over 300 bones. As an individual ages, certain bones (such as those in the skull and lower spine) fuse or join together, thereby reducing the number.

By the time an individual reaches adulthood, the number of bones in the body totals about 206.

Structure of Bones

Bone is living tissue that's constantly being renewed throughout life. Three types of bone cells take part in this process: osteoblasts, osteocytes, and osteoclasts (osteon is the Greek word meaning "bone").

Osteoblasts are the principal bone-building cells:

• they produce hard calcium deposits and flexible collagen (a fibrous protein)
• together these form the bone matrix
• osteoblasts become trapped in the matrix and develop into osteocytes or mature bone cells
• osteocytes help maintain the hard bone tissue by removing and replacing the calcium compounds in the matrix
• finally, osteoclasts are also bone-destroying cells
• they break down bone matrix and release calcium and phosphate ions into the blood

Prevalence of Osteoporosis in the U. S.: 28 Million

Full blown osteoporosis: 8 million women and 2 million men

Low bone mass: an additional 18 million people

This is a potentially crippling disease. With falls and breaking bones it can be a direct cause of death. People are often in chronic pain because of a decaying bone structure and associated loss of muscular function. Osteoporosis is rarely the only condition that aging people suffer from as it's often tied together with multiple degenerative diseases: cardiovascular disease neuro-degenerative diseases such as alzheimers and parkinsons muscle loss multiple sclerosis diabetes chronic inflammation fatigue loss of physical function atherosclerosis

The Cause of Osteoporosis is Apparently Elusive -- Or Is It?

Research turns up some very interesting facts that the Medical Establishment seems wholly unaware of.

One of the key dietary causes of osteoporosis may be the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that the Establishment has pushed for the last 50 years.

High-carbohydrate diets lead to lots of glucose (blood sugar) released from digesting food. This glucose binds to tissue proteins, including bone collagen:

• the modifications in collagen are age-related
• they impair the mechanical properties of bone
• this process, called glycation, forms protein crosslinks which leads to osteoporosis
• this leads to a destruction of osteoclast activity
• the outcome is osteopenia or bone loss

So, the low-carb diet that medicine, the government, and health "experts" constantly trash, is the diet of choice for optimal health.

 

This diet, that Dr. H writes about, looks an awful lot like the one recommended by all the "experts," as depicted by the Agriculture Department's Food Pyramid.

Exercise Helps Prevent Osteoporosis, and Vibration Exercise Looks Like the Newest Exercise Tool to Prevent Bone Decay and Restore Joint Mobility

Recent research into the use of vibration exercise has turned-up some fascinating information. Vibration exercise: increases strength improves blood flow in muscles and skin vibration improves balance and posture provides a higher quality of life for older people vibration exercise is better than walking for reducing risk of bone fracture helps relieve long-standing low back pain because it strengthens muscles and restores joint mobility improves leg strength and speed of movement total non-drug approach to healthy aging increases nitric oxide release -- a powerful anti-inflammatory that's also very important to cardiovasular health vibration exercise helps improve posture, balance, and movement enhances bone development in adolescence prepares the body for exercise, helps tone the body down after exercise improves blood oxygenation and circulation bending and straightening your knees repeatedly while vibrating provides the same benefits as walking 20-minute miles (3 miles per hour)

Remember the theme of Anti-Aging Vibes:

The Benefits of Vibration Exercise and

The Hazards of Carbohydrates (because of glycation, the condition that you've never been told about.)

For more information on what you can do about osteoporosis, click here to read about a great form of exercise