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Is there a supplement that really works?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 4 5:19pm | Replies (86)Comment receiving replies
Strontium is used as a prescription bone med in some countries-successfully. Two studies I've seen and followed their protocol showed less fractures.
Commercial fertilizers do not contain natural strontium found in the soil. More likely to get strontium in organic foods I would think.
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@karenjaninaz Hi there. My post from months ago was mainly talking about whether nutrition was shown to significantly improve bones that have already lost a lot of density. I think nutrition is important for many reasons but I do not think it can be expected to give significant increases in bone density. Maybe there are exceptions such as folks with exceedingly poor nutrition or digestive issues but in general I don't think nutrition will build lost bone or stop rapid bone loss.
As for my mention of strontium, the point I was trying to make is that the way it is being used by those that do recommend it - well, it is in such large "unnatural doses" that it should no longer be looked at as a nutritional approach but rather as a pharmaceutical treatment. If I remember correctly the doses would be 100-300 times the amount one might get from dietary sources.
But, is strontium in those doses a good approach. I don't know and I will refrain from plunging into that one.
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Be cautious with strontium. Here's a discussion from this forum:
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/strontium-citrate-algaecal-and-fractures/?pg=2