@fuzzy64 for my own info and others, I have a few questions about your post (and they may not be relevant to you)
1) Was the "significant deterioration" right after menopause? My doc and my experience told me that there is a sharp drop at menopause followed by a gentler rate of loss.
2) Was your osteoporosis diagnosed with a DEXA score close to -2.5? In other words, were you on the line?
3) I have kept a chart of my DEXA's since 2001 (!). I do not conclude that one value or more improved, going from one DEXA to another, because what I have seen is that the values jump all over the place. I therefore have to look for trends over the years. As an example, my score for left femur might be -3 then -3.3 then -2.9. I don't really come to any conclusions from that, except that my osteoporosis is not borderline and still a problem!

For those with values not too far from -2.5 (or osteopenic) , I think a natural approach is good to try and I used to read a lot about this (and met with Keith McCormick). But for those of us with serious scores and/or fractures, doing natural approaches without meds now feels dangerous to me. So I just wanted to note that while at the same time congratulating you if you have indeed improved.