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How do you halt the progress of osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Dec 15, 2023 | Replies (148)Comment receiving replies
Hi @callalloo I have osteoporosis which caught me unaware. From what I've read, it's not advisable to treat osteopenia with osteoporosis drugs. You can look into supplementation, weight bearing, strength training exercises and possible use of a whole body vibration exercise machine to keep osteoporosis at bay. Carol Michaels andf Sara Meeks are good resources for that. . American Bone Health is another resource you may want to check out. Take heart. I think that by taking steps now, you can prevent further bone loss.
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Teri, thanks. I will check out the resources you mentioned as well as others. Watching friends' mothers and grandmother's increasingly debilitated by bone loss got my attention and I know too might about pharmaceutical industry (actually wrote myndissertation on it in grad school) to take meds without critical evaluation. Not to mention regretting that so many of them are made outside of the USA or having an estimated 80% of the ingredients outsourced from abroad. And a lot from countries with a poor record of FDA recalls. I kind of hate to air my skepticism as I don't want to cause anyone else to be concerned but we've all after-approval drugs yanked off the market by now and are also cautious.
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I have osteoporosis and like you, I want to curb if possible future loss. I'd like to know more about the whole body vibration exercise machine. Please advise. Thank you.