Treating Osteoporosis: What works for you?

Thanks, I'm going to look into it. My doctors are all at the local Cleveland Clinic, and, as with Mayo and other top institutions, it tends to stay with state-of-the-art equipment.

This is ditto-ing mentors and others in these threads who lobby for people to try to get affiliated with a medical facility, associated with a medical school or otherwise with a 'depth on the bench team and research-commitment.

It was by sheer accident that I needed to find a new PCP last September. Called CC on Friday, had an appointment the following Monday with a doctor three friends now go to as well. From the time of the first call to annual routine mammo to Uh-Ohh bad news, biopsy and lumpectomy was less than 5 weeks. That was the only thing that was a great relief. If I'd had to interview a surgeons, Radiologists, oncologists, etc., this would have been a much harder path.

I found a website about osteopenia interesting. The site was started by an academic who found herself dealing with bone density loss and approachef it like ant other research project. The site is free and she says that she and others have in fact slowed down or reversed bone loss. She suggests starting with the page addressing causes of loss of bone and work through the information on what seems to work to reverse or slow that down. As always, don't accept everything as a permanent truth since science is still working on how to do this, but it's a good overview. And she mentions some things that are frequently over looked like proton pump inhibitors which several studies link to bone loss. The website URL is below:

osteopenia3.com

Following that author for years now. Site is full of ideas and good advice.

Oh, good. I actually spoke with her yesterday and she dealt with both osteoporosis, which she swears she and others have revversed, and breast cancer. She's very nice and happy to share what worked for her and others.

@callalloo - is this the article you have read?
https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/osteoporosis-drugs-which-one-is-right-for-you

@artscaping - something that might interest you, too.
https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/osteoporosis-drugs-which-one-is-right-for-you

Is anyone taking this as a supplement? Is it comparable to the ingredient in Bio-Sil? I would also appreciate info on which, if any, form(s) of strontium people are finding useful in bone health or protection.

I spoke with a woman yesterday who has a non-commercial website on reversing bone loss without pharmaceuticals and insists she reversed hers. She's now 86 and doesn't have osteoporosis so the analytical part of my brain wants to see if I can stop at mild osteopenia.
Or even improve bone. Have any of you done this without drugs? Thanks in advance...

Orthosilicic Acid Accelerates Bone Formation in Human Osteoblast-Like Cells Through the PI3K-Akt-mTOR Pathway
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30421162/

Yep, it is. It has that comparison grid so people can quickly see how the drugs differ. I'm really hoping to never need any of them but am keeping an eye on the choices.

A friend of my parents had to have extensive spine and hip surgery some years back and was in her late 80s. I remember that she had to see several consultants before winning an appeal for insurance coverage for it. But the thing that I remember most is that the surgeons had to first assure themselves that she was still able to grow bone. She was, they dud the surgery, it was successful, and she was walking paim-free after being unable to walk much at all.

@callalloo - Awesome! Where does she live?

She's passed on but was living in Californis. Unless you're talking about the osteopenia website, in which the owner lives in New York State and is fun to talk with, pleased to get the phone call and knows a lot. Including what she used when she had breast cancer some years back and the surgeon found no cancer despite a positive biopsy. I hasten to add that there are such things as false positive biopsies, but she said the surgeon said that biopsy was valid. Who knows, right? Pathologists frequently find evidence of cancers that begun and seem to just die off before reaching some critical mass. My mom's professor in med school lectured about examples of what used to be spontaneous healing as an example of how strong the human body if given the right environment.