OSTEOPOROSIS
Did you know that sufficient stomach acid is needed to digest and absorb minerals needed for a healthy skeletal system?
Do you know that the medical treatment for acid reflux is the use of medication that stops or absorbs the stomach acid needed for proper digestion? How can the antacids with calcium work when it eliminates the acid needed for calcium absorption. Calcium needs an acid environment to work.
The advertising and promotional experts within these two professions are really cashing in on the healthy women’s fears of osteoporosis generated by carefully planned and skillfully manipulated "information advertising." And does it work!
Bone sparing drugs bring in $1 billion in 1999 and over $2 billion by 2002-for drugs that are potent, even dangerous, and have minimal (and in some case( non-existent) bone sparing or anti-fracture evidence to justify their use.
Here is what you will never hear from your doctor or the medical or pharmaceutical industries about osteoporosis:
If you are convinced you will get osteoporosis, or already have it based on the bone density tests… and if you are convinced by the medical industry that dairy, calcium, hormone replacement therapy, and the drug Fosamax or one of its cousins are the best defenses against the dreaded disease.. you are probably wrong.
Thanks to the medical and pharmaceutical industries, osteoporosis is now at the very height of American awareness. The National Osteoporosis Foundation claims that one in two women will have an osteoporosis- related fracture! They claim that the epidemic is spreading to Asia, Africa, and South America- even though these women have the lowest incidence of osteoporosis fractures on earth.
These kinds of medical "facts" would show that the new "new disease" is more common than most all other diseases combined! But in truth these "facts" and statistics are based on an amazingly effective marketing scam.
The scary statistics are based on industry (medical, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical) opinions that are grossly exaggerated. Osteoporosis is a dreadful disease. Yet fractures from the fragile bones are rare in healthy women. Nonetheless, the frightening non-statistics trumpeted to women daily are making patients out of healthy women in their 50’s and 60’s.
In 1994 industry sponsored campaigns redefined osteoporosis so broadly that it would include half of all postmenopausal women! Now that is a market! Using dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), low bone density- a simple risk factor for osteoporosis- was turned into a disease. And this new technology measures and compares a woman’s bone density against that of healthy 20 to 35 year old young women. There are no standards for DEXA machines. That means you may be normal on one machine and severely osteoporotic on another. This in effect will make osteoporosis one of the most profitable diseases of all time- relegating healthy women to a lifetime of monitoring, screening, tests, drugs, and the resultant treatment of side effects from the drugs.
Remember the medical treatment of hormonal replacement therapy. The same marketing technique were used and the result - two of the most successful drug sales in history. And for what-- a non-disease and a treatment that has finally been proven to be of little use for anything, yet it caused tens of thousands of cases of cancer, deadly blood clots, colon problems, and more.
The parathyroid glands must be functioning normal to help with stabalization of osteoporosis. If not, resorption of bone will increase meaning loss of bone. To support the parathyroids we use a vitamin called Cal-Ma Plus. This is an extract of parathyroid gland with calcium.
When it comes to a calcium supplement I use Calcium Lactate. This caicium is a blend of calcium lactate and magnesium citrate which is slightly acidic which is necessary for proper absorbtion. The body normally breaks down and eliminates older, weaker bone material regularly. This allows sites for the formation of newer, stronger bone. The biophosphate drugs for osteoporosis inhibit this breakdown and removal of older bone, thus allowing the skeleton to retain more older, weaker bone material.
You can do more for yourself by including diet changes of eating more raw and whole foods. Thyroid function, stomach acid content and digestion can influence a strong skeletal system. Exercise regularly (including resistance exercises or weight lifting).
There are natural products to help normalize this condition consisting of raw bone including the marrow which are processed without heat into supplements.
These are facts that can help you make the proper decision in addressing the osteoporosis issue.
If you are concerned with this health issue and would like further information on nutritional treatment contact me at the address below.
Dwight D. Schaefer, D.C.
15610 N. 35th Ave
Phoenix, Az 85053
602-548-6100
e-mail [email protected]