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@junesiegel I agree that the appellation of "disease" is misleading. Disease connotes abnormality, but if one of every three postmenopausal women is being "diagnosed" with osteoporosis, the finding of low bone density would appear to be normal--or at minimum, a common condition vs a disease. The rationale for calling it a disease seems clearly linked to setting the stage for prescribing meds.

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I have never heard a doctor or my functional medicine provider call it a disease. Sometimes I wonder if patients who cannot accept that our bodies break down and at some time we die. There is such a strong denial of aging and death in this culture.

@otherside I have never heard it referred to as disease. It’s more a disorder caused often by our loss of estrogen.