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What helps improve osteoporosis without medication?
Osteoporosis & Bone Health | Last Active: Sep 27 3:10pm | Replies (372)Comment receiving replies
Good evening @melia7 and welcome to this always busy support group on the Connect forum. The subject matter is of interest to so many of us. And it is great to be able to share with others. We need to know as much as we can about our bodies and the many conditions that seem to present themselves to us.
I also want to compliment you for making your first post with an important question...the degree of risk for strontium? Let's open that door.
Just last month, my endocrinologist here at Mayo Clinic, gave the mentors an update on Osteopenia, Osteoporosis, and Bone Health. One of his cautions referred to reports that strontium can be responsible for cardiovascular disease.
I also looked up the "radioactive" element question. According to Wikipedia.....Natural strontium (isotope strontium-88) is stable. "Synthetic strontium-90 is radioactive and absorbed by the body like calcium. Natural strontium is not hazardous to health."
Now, this is a starter. Please continue to ask questions and validate answers. The more we know about our condition, the better chance we have of making the best choices.
Now, it's your turn. What brings you to Connect? Are you involved in finding strategies to hold back the osteoporosis that affects so many of us?
May you be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
Chris
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Hello Chris and thanks for your mail and information. As to me, indeed I was diagnosed recently with osteoporosis and prescribed alendronic acid with cholecalciferol. As soon as I read feedbacks from patients taking this medicine, I felt a need for a support. As many others in this forum, I have to make a difficult decision if I should take the medicine or not. For many years I lived in Norway, and I am sure that a lack of light and of vitamin D have contributed to my condition. Without vitamin D or with low level of it, calcium is not assimilated by our bodies. Most people in Norway take everyday fish oil, but it seems that it in reality cannot help everybody. I have anticipated that at some stage I can get osteoporosis, and now I am trying to move to southern Spain. However, osteoporosis is already shaping my life condition and style. I shall be happy to share my experience, and I started to read all messages of this forum gratefully.
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I’ve been using Algae Cal and Stronium Boost for the past 3 years. I actually had made gains in 2 my T scores after using it for a year and a half. Spine average went from -3,6 to -3.3. Femoral neck -1.5 to-1.1. Hip -1.1 to -1.2. I was pleased. However, this summer fractured L1 coming to stand off an unsupported couch as I was recovering from CoVID and had been experiencing back pain in that area when coughing. Anyway … saw endocrinologist in Dec and they are no fans of Stronium because it can artificially boost your scores. I already knew this and had read a bout it in a book the Algae Cal people put out- “Healthy Bones, Healthy You”. I figured out their percentage and thought , ok, and went on because it seemed Ok to me. Now just this past week I read that because Calcium and Stronium are near each other on the periodic scale that stronium can go to your bones and replace the calcium and thus you get a better T score reading however, it makes your bones hard and more brittle. The Stronium in the Stronium Boost I’ve been taking is listed as Stronium Citrate 680 mg daily, now wondering if that’s the “natural “ Stronium you referred to?? I also recently read that somewhere that 340 mg is the most one should take??
Sorry this was so long!! The more I learn the more conflicts or unsettled answers there seem to be.