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You’ve probably heard me say it before. Muscle and bone work as one single unit —when we build muscle, we build bone. When we lose muscle, we lose bone — and, more importantly, losing muscle and bone means a higher fracture risk. As we age, we naturally lose muscle, lots of it, right along with […]
Become a Patron! Remember jumping rope and playing hop scotch as a kid? Well, it’s time to think about those activities again, because hopping and jumping are great bone builders. Studies show the bone benefits of these simple forms of exercise. Ten to 15 minutes of heel drops, hopping, or jumping three days a week […]
In an earlier blog post, I told the story of Mary, a young woman who had shattered two bones in her leg in what should have been a fairly minor fall. I’d like to briefly revisit that story now, because Mary’s recovery illustrates points I made in my article on how to speed fracture healing. […]
Whenever I go to one of my son’s school events, or see a group of children in other places, my attention is drawn to the number of very thin, almost frail looking young girls. The anthropologist in me always asks, Why would nature select for such thin, small boned girls? The thin children, I muse, […]
It’s long been held that menopause is a time of rapid bone loss. This oft-cited generalization has now been carefully researched, and it appears that on average, women in the US and Canada lose about 8-9% of their bone mass in the few years just before and just after their last period. Some women, however, […]
Breaking a bone can stop us all in our tracks, no matter what age we are. But particularly for women in their 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, a fracture can come with a lot of fear and, worst of all, the feeling of helplessness. With 9 million osteoporotic fractures occurring every year, you should know that […]
Become a Patron! These days, it seems like the media is full of folks talking about aging bone loss in women. What they seem to often forget, however, is that just as we lose bone mass over time, so we also lose muscle mass — and most often, the two are linked. Let’s look at […]
At the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society for Bone Mineral Research, I had the opportunity to chat with an NOF health educator and was pleased to hear that this powerful organization is coming the recognize the importance of acid-alkaline balance for bone health. As you know, our research suggests that pH balance and […]
Much of the fear generated around osteoporosis stems from pictures of stooped, hump-backed, downward-looking elderly women. This vertebral deformity, often called a “dowager’s hump” and technically known as “kyphosis,” has come to be a dreaded tell-tale sign of the crippling potential of osteoporosis. New research, however, indicates that contrary to popular opinion, this feared spinal […]
Exercise builds muscle and bone, but the benefits are held to disappear upon exercise cessation — or so it appeared, anyway. A recent exercise study from the Mayo Clinic, however, documented powerful spinal fracture reduction eight years after cessation of a back strengthening exercise program. Eight years after stopping this two-year exercise program, past exercisers […]
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