Most of society has been bombarded with the idea of osteoporosis being an issue with calcium. Taking calcium to prevent or help osteoporosis is like going to a car lot and buying a tire. It is a small portion of a large picture. Society is also inundated with the vitamin D aspect as it pertains to calcium absorption and while it is true that vitamin D aids calcium absorption into you bloodstream, this has very little to do with osteoporosis.
Let me explain it this way, Osteomalacia is derived from Greek: osteo- which means “bone”, and malacia which means “softness”. If bones are soft they can’t break, they bend and become pliable. The major factor is an abnormally low vitamin D concentration in blood serum. Now, if a vitamin D deficiency causes your bones to become soft and pliable, how can it create osteoporosis and make your bones brittle? It can’t.
There are two major constituents of bone; minerals such as calcium, manganese, boron, etc. and protein.
Let’s say you take away the protein from bone, what do you have left over? Minerals. Basically a bunch of rocks. So, to really change your bone health, you need to look at not only protein intake, but also protein digestion and absorption. Liver function and kidney function are also important factors when dealing with protein metabolism. So you can see that osteoporosis is more complicated that what the establishment has made it out to be.
Also, on a nutritional note, overconsumption of calcium creates other mineral deficiencies and imbalances, which then increase your risk of heart disease, kidney stones, gallstones, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, obesity, and type 2 diabetes.
Avoid sugar and soda. These two problem makers can not only alter your mineral metabolism, but also your protein metabolism. A double whammy.
The FDA sent out a nationwide announcement about “the potential side effects of osteoporosis drugs like Fosamax.” The agency said in their announcement…”physicians need to watch for the possibility of possible risk of femur fractures. And this didn’t just apply to Fosamax, this applied to all four drugs that are in this group Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva, and Reclast.”
Fosamax and similar drugs poison your osteoclasts (the cells that resorb old bone tissue), permanently killing them—the normal bone repair process is halted. So, your bones will indeed get denser. However, denser bones are NOT stronger bones, which is the part they don’t tell you. In fact, eventually your bones become weaker and more prone to fracture. Why? Because bone is a dynamic structure that requires the removal of unhealthy bone and REPLACEMENT with new bone to stay strong. Fosamax does NOT build any new bone. It only kills the cells that break bone down, so your bone is not benefiting from its natural regenerative process. Essentially, you have a bunch of old brittle bone which is very easily fractured.
