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Has anyone used the Marodyne device to stimulate bone growth?
You stand on it twice a day for 10 minutes. It gently vibrates and also helps with improving balance. The Marodyne is made in Germany and costs about $3,000. It has not been FDA approved but there are studies in progress.
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I don't know about marodyne?
YES! I have been using the Marodyne twice daily for about 16 months, and just got the results of my DEXA & TBS scan today!
My DEXA scan from 8/2022 showed a score of -3.0 or bone loss in the spine of 8.8% from the previous scan. My current spine scan now reads “NORMAL”!!!!! T score is now -0.3!
Improvement in all the other measures, too—Femoral Neck went from-2.2 to -1.6! Total hip increased from -2.0 to an average of -1.35 (Total Hip L was -1.2, and Total Hip R was -1.5).
To be fair, I have been doing MANY other things: Strength training - 5 sessions a week, HRT (lowest dose), many supplements (including K2 [MK4 & MK7], D3, Tocotrienols/geranylgeraniol, Milk Bone Protein, MCHA, strontium citrate, Osteoben, collagen, magnesium, trace minerals, etc.), prunes (5/day)…..but I believe the research shows Marodyne does seem to help the spine the most, especially in thin fine-boned women (me). So make of it what you will! But my rheumatologist now says no meds needed!!!! 😄
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6 ReactionsWhat a wonderful success story! Sounds that you've given your all and it paid off. What I will say is that it would be difficult to point in any one direction for your amazing success. There has been one very anticipated trial out of Australia, VIBMORE, that showed little to no improvement. As an adjunct, it surely can't hurt it's said to be quite safe. I say this only because the price is staggering and efficacy has not been proven to-date. There is much advertising abt NASA, and in OP circles, some recommend it, yet as a stand-alone result, it has just not been proven.
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3 ReactionsExcellent info! Thanks!
My sister and I refuse to take the meds for osteoporosis since we've seen first hand the side effects. We too use the Myradone ... but three times daily as well as the six prunes, collagen, HRT and the AlgaeCal regimen.
I do appreciate the info re milk bone protein, MCHA and Osteoben.
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2 ReactionsDid you tell the dexa tech that you were taking strontium? It can skew the dexa results
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2 ReactionsYes, I did…and watched her write it down in the note to the radiologist.
It is a wonderful success story! And a lot of hard work, TBH. But I felt it necessary to throw everything at this OP problem, & if it didn’t help, then, well….maybe reconsider the drug “solution.”
OK, because there were too many variables in play, maybe I can’t definitively cite the Marodyne as the ultimate reason for my reversing OP. But maybe, just maybe, it gave my protocol the edge needed to start the healing process!
I am going to continue exactly as I have been doing going forward….you can’t argue with success!
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1 ReactionThree times a day?! Respect!!!! 😉
@thisnthat That is an almost unbelievable improvement. I don't know how to say it without being a killjoy but I would be suspicious of that result. Hopefully your new DXA is correct and your spine is in great shape but I wonder at that much improvement. Possibly your previous DXA was wrong and the -3.0 reading was incorrect? Possibly the strontium citrate had the effect of making the DXA reading better that it is. There is no for sure way to adjust the DXA score for the "false" increase that strontium can bring about.
But hey you were really working at this and doing just about everything I ever heard of to build bones. So maybe it is just what it shows. And your hard work paid off in spades.
I'm sort of awkwardly responding in this way for two reasons
1. I did a year of the Marodyne and lost more bone than I usually do in that year.
2. I just got an amazing DXA improvement (after 10 months on Evenity) and it's so good I'm thinking of getting Lani Simpson to review it. I want to know I can trust that great improvement.
BTW, I hope your improvement is totally real and your bones are in great shape.
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4 ReactionsAwfultruth, I was somewhat skeptical, too, at first…..but I did take great pains to highlight the fact that I have been on the strontium citrate. Neither my rheumatologist nor the radiologist (both at a very well-known major teaching hospital) raised any questions, other than that the degenerative changes in my lumbar spine presented some technical challenges. But I am choosing to look at the glass as half full, not half empty!
The thought did occur to me, that perhaps one or more of the supplements I’ve been taking somehow contributed to the efficacy of the LIV platform? Was there something that facilitated the transformation of the mesenchymal cells into osteoblasts, or discouraged their morphing into fat cells? A plausible question.
ERRATUM: Milk BASIC Protein (MBP), not Milk Bone Protein. (We all have “bone” on our mind!)
Also, for those interested, I forgot to mention melatonin, creatine, and Vitamin C….
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