After a certain age and lack of natural hormones, your bones degenerate. Especially if it’s in your genetic make up for that to happen. Diet and exercise alone will only slow down the degeneration. If you want to counteract the degeneration, you’re gonna have to look to hormone supplements and bone medication’s. What I suggest is doing a lot of research (there is no shortcut to this) and finding a good team of doctors that you trust. All medications I repeat all medication’s pose some sort of risk, but if your doctor prescribes them, it’s usually to offset a risk you are experiencing through the degeneration. I eat optimally well I exercise I take bioidentical hormones and I take the bone medications. I had a bad side effect from the Reclast so my next class will be done with a slower infusion hydration before hand and Tylenol on board. I read the research. Only a small amount of people actually have side effects and then even more minuscule amount have them in the second go around. They can lower the dose as well. I have been on Tim Lowe’s for a year and I did not show enough of a change, but I think that was because I was injecting in my thighs and not my abdominal area. So this year, I’m injecting only in my abdominal wall after doing a lot of research and I expect a better response. I am 68 years old and I tend to fall a lot. I always have since I was a Kid. I do not want to risk fractures at this age. I know many women who fall at my age and fracture their bones my last fall was this summer over a gap in the sidewalk and I broke my two front teeth, but NO BONES!!! I’ll stay on the bone medication’s, the hormones, the exercise and the eating right.