Fortibone for Osteoporosis

@littledodge Sorry for the slow response - desk time has been bumped this last week. 🙁

Vitality Calcium Complete is the name.
https://www.melaleuca.com/productstore/supplements/calcium-complete
I shop at this wellness manufacturer (have for 34 years); their intense honesty is what has caused me to be so skeptical of supplements because their R&D has found and shared a lot of disappointing stuff:Mislabeled amounts, ingredients, effectiveness

They own the two patents on the "fix" for minerals crystalizing in the small intestines. Not remembering what I wrote and not taking time to look 🙁 - I have seen this company throw away millions of dollars worth of supplements after that discovery of a problem that ALL major supplement companies had at the time it was discovered. (short of a long story)

So my collagen is from them also - another trust issue. They manufacture a collagen that triggers the body to make its own. The lead product spokesman said they found that they found most collagens on the market were like "throwing spaghetti to a wall and hoping it sticks."

The best of my research is that fortibone is a marketing term for a developed collagen peptide - and I am trusting that my collagen peptide is doing its job. Same with verisol, which is formulated for skin, hair, etc - not bones.

I use the K2/D3 from this manufacturer as well.

I will watch better in case you have other questions. I am 79 and wish I my mother had had a DEXA. She had some hard falls in her 90s and never broke anything (one time breaking a train case!). I am a healthier cookie cooker version of her...so the DEXA motivated me to take better care than I was, but I'm also losing faith in its accuracy. I fell off a ladder in 2023 with a heavy box in my arms that I refused to let go of (antique inside) and did break my hip - but a clean cut that only needed pinning. If this DEXA is correct - my hip should have shattered. IMO

@joyboudreau My DEXA last summer claimed my spine was "unremarkable". Didn't even provide a number to go by. Many years ago, I was thrown from horseback and I herniated C-2 thru C-7 and fractured C-1 in my neck. I have nerve root compression, stenosis and some other things I cannot even spell...LOL. And yet my spine is unremarkable?? In 2012 I had a DEXA showing osteopenia, close to becoming osteoporosis in my spine and hips (hips now bi-laterally replaced), but once again, my spine is "unremarkable" per 2025 DEXA. It did show -3.3 in my forearm radius. The DEXA scan was performed at my endo's hospital. I place no faith in DEXA. A recent REMS scan reported -3.5 in my lumbar spine. Definitely not UNREMARKABLE!

@willowmena Oh, wow! That is crazy inconsistency. And that list of “I have…” is hard. I am so sorry. Truth is hard to find and with so many good people on both sides of whatever fence, finding a plan is a real challenge.

@joyboudreau Even more unfortunate is the fact I have been on Tymlos since September, 2025, taking supplements and doing the limited exercise I am still capable of doing, yet my REMS shows a downhill trend, while the P1NP suggests otherwise.