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Mason County News
Texas
Margaret Durst
May 19, 2010
“Porous bones” is the literal meaning of the word osteoporosis. In the United States, over 25 million people are affected by osteoporosis. Eighty percent of these are women. As I mentioned in last week’s article, osteoporosis is not just a calcium deficiency problem, it occurs when bones are torn down faster than they are rebuilt for various reasons.
Osteoporosis Solution
A condition in which bones become thin and porous as a result of calcium loss, osteoporosis affects women eight times more than men. A bone scan can determine if one has this condition. Statistics say that one in two women over age fifty, or a woman in menopause, will suffer at least one lifetime fracture from osteoporosis. There is recent evidence that biomimetic rhythmic bioidentical hormone therapy can prevent osteoporosis.
ABC World News
Long-term Use of Popular Class of Osteoporosis Drugs May Have Opposite Effect for Some Women, Experts Say
By CHRISTINE ROMO and LARA SALAHI
March 8, 2010
Sandy Potter, 59, of Queens, N.Y., was jumping rope with neighborhood children when she felt her thigh bone snap.
“I went up in the air and I came straight down to the ground,” Potter said. “The pain was excruciating.”
Potter, who was diagnosed with osteoporosis at age 48, had been taking the popular osteoporosis drug Fosamax for eight years before breaking her femur.
Fosamax, one in a class of drugs called bisphosphonates, is supposed to make bones stronger, and for many women, it is safe and effective. But now there’s mounting evidence that, for some women, taking these medications for more than five years could cause spontaneous fractures.
Holistic Health Blog
A crippling disease that is preventable and reversible
By John R. Lee, M.D. and Virginia Hopkins
Although cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death among American women, osteoporosis is the disease they are most likely to develop as they age. Four out of ten white women in the U.S. will fracture a hip, spine, or forearm due to osteoporosis. As many as five out of ten will develop small fractures in their spine, causing great pain and a shrinking in height. This amounts to 15 to 20 million people affected by a crippling and painful disease that is almost entirely preventable and reversible.
Osteoporosis is a gradual decrease in bone mass and density that can begin as early as the teen years. Bone mass should be at its peak in our late 20s or early 30s, but thanks to a poor diet and lack of exercise, many women are already losing bone in their 20s. Bone loss occurs more rapidly in women than in men, especially right around the time of menopause, when an abrupt drop in estrogen and progesterone accelerates bone loss.
ABC News
Australia
Posted Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:16pm AEDT
New research from the Australian National University in Canberra shows women who experience early menopause do not have an increased risk of hip fractures later in life.
Scientists know there is a link between menopause and the loss of bone density, but until now it was not known if early menopause increased the risk of a broken bones.
Cleveland.com
by Angela Townsend/Plain Dealer Reporter
Tuesday August 04, 2009, 9:55 AM
…Real health risks, even without symptoms
Other aspects of menopause carry real health risks.
A change in hormone levels means the increased likelihood for a number of serious health conditions such as osteoporosis and diabetes. So even if a woman is lucky enough not to experience hot flashes, she still needs to talk to her doctor.
“A lot of women make the mistake that because they’re symptom free, or their symptoms have gone away, they’re not at risk for [other health issues], ” said Dr. Jeff Romig, a Northeast Ohio endocrinologist who specializes in bioidentical hormone therapy. (Such therapy uses hormones that are biologically identical to hormones naturally produced in the body.)
Environmental Health News
Boue, SM, S Tilghman, S Elliott, MC Zimmerman, KY Williams, F Payton-Stewart, AP Miraflor, MH Howell, BY Shih, CH Carter-Wientjes, C Segar, BS Beckman, TE Wiese, TE Cleveland, JA McLachlan and ME Burow. 2009. Identification of the potent phytoestrogen glycinol in elicited soybean (Glycine max). Endocrinology 150:2446-2453.
Synopsis by Heather Patisaul, Ph.D.
Another soy compound capable of mimicking estrogen is identified, showing there is still much to learn about what types of compounds soy contains.
Researchers have isolated a new estrogen-like compound in soy called glycinol. The authors report that glycinol appears to be as potent as other, similar compounds found in the legume and its many food products, such as tofu and soy milk.
Collectively, these compounds are called isoflavone phytoestrogens. When researchers identify which compounds in soy can mimic estrogen, they take an important step toward understanding how soy can postively or negatively affect health.
Synthetic hormones have been created and are used in this modern day. It is the popular thinking of this day and age that synthetics are used because a human body is incapable of using natural substances to create the hormones it needs – but look at how long mankind has survived with natural substances from mother earth compared to the problems that synthetics cause.
NaturalNews Tuesday, January 27, 2009 by: Melanie Banzer, citizen journalist As of now, the FDA has yet to approve of a safe option for birth control. The pill has been linked to higher breast cancer risk, the Depo Provera shot to infertility and osteoporosis, and the Mirena IUD to spontaneous abortions and even death. The Continue Reading …
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