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What's the evidence on Calcium and Vitamin D for bone density?
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I meant to say lacking in Estrogen. Sorry, my phone corrected the word and I didn’t know it.
All bisphosphates are bad. All medications saying they will improve bones won’t and will make it worse.
To have a successful bone builder, the medication has to not only build bone, but it needs to tear the old bone down at the same time. This is how God designed our bones to be strong.
All the medications now only “build” bone and then you get fractures because your are force building new bone on top of the old bone and the old bone can’t support it and you have fractures and breaks that are splintered worse than a normal bone that breaks.
Plus it causes havoc in your teeth.
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We're all concerned about pharmaceutical side effects but we each have to weigh the pros and cons and make appropriate choices for ourselves. Medications are sometimes necessary and thank goodness we have them. I ultimately went on Forteo after a two year trial of intense exercise and targeted nutrition utterly failed, causing me to lose a lot more of my spine density. I had no side effects at all and gratefully, gained back some of the bone I lost during that two year period. Had I gone on Forteo initially when my osteoporosis was diagnosed, it would have taken my Dexa numbers out of the osteo range. But I was determined and stubborn and convinced I could do it naturally on my own. I really regret that decision as I put myself at greater risk of fracture by delaying the medication I obviously needed. It's really important to look at all of our options and accept when it's time to use a pharmaceutical, making the best choice for our individual situations.
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@sandy0257 your info is correct for anti-resoprtives like bisphosphonates and Prolia, but not for the bone builders Forteo and Tymlos, which do build new quality bone. Evenity is both a bone builder and an anti-resorptive, though less anti-resorptive than bisphosphonates and Prolia. It primarily builds bones in the first months and becomes more of an anti-resorptive toward the end of treatment.