Category: Osteoporosis

While age is a factor in osteoporosis, lifestyle habits and hormonal changes that happen in younger years also play a role. Poor nutrition, lack of exercise, hormonal deficiencies and other bad habits, including smoking and drinking, are major factors in bone disease. In fact, bone loss typically starts in a woman’s mid-30s, around the time estrogen…

The skeleton that supports your every move is always remodeling. When bones are sufficiently and properly stressed (as during weight-bearing and resistance exercise activities), bones become stronger and healthier. Osteopenia and osteoporosis are diseases that involve a breakdown in the normal healthy bone remodeling process. When bones don’t properly remodel, they can become less dense…

Osteoporosis is a disease affecting approximately 10 million men and women in America. It is the progressive loss of bone mineral density. With bone loss over time the bones become weak and brittle leading to the increased likelihood of fractures, and bone deformation. The cost to our nation’s economy can be as much as 13…