osteoporis

[Mary Kay]

LOL Arky,

My life's an open book if it will help someone!

I am currently 57 and have just begun menopause. Heavy metals is a new one to me as being something that can lower progesterone, but stress and being 57 are not!

I learned all about hormones in my early 40's after I had just gotten married and was trying to conceive. At the time, I was low/totally stressed etc. High cortisol blocks progesterone. It's nature's way. Pretty cool. If you're too stressed out in life, then you shouldn't have kids.

I'm stressd out now remodeling our house head-to-toe and living in a camper, homeschooling my kids etc.....

I will test again though --prob this summer.

There seems to be a lot of evidence, that says P4 can actually reverse bone loss....well, that combined with all the other stuff....

Mary Kay

[garden granny]

Still haven't heard from my doctor at all, so I went out and bought Nature's Way Alive! Calcium Bone Formula from Whole Foods. Looks like its all from natural food sources (greens, fruits, algae). I'm gonna order nettles and oatstraw and make herbal infusions (Susun Weed)........so getting started with what I feel can only help. Also, changing my attitude to a more positive one and reading the Word and all the healing verses.

[Mary Kay]

Sounds like a good attitude, Garden Granny.

If you don't mind sharing, what was your number? And did you have the x-ray -type thing, or the heel -thing? A year or two ago, I had the heel thing --don't know how accurate that is and it said I was a -1.2.

Mary Kay

[garden granny]

Sure Mary Kay, I had a DEXA bone density scan. T-score was -3.0. Is that pretty bad?

Sounds like a good attitude, Garden Granny.

If you don't mind sharing, what was your number? And did you have the x-ray -type thing, or the heel -thing? A year or two ago, I had the heel thing --don't know how accurate that is and it said I was a -1.2.

Mary Kay

[Mary Kay]

They say anything less than 2.5 is osteoporosis. so at -3, that's probably bad. I do believe it can be reversed though.

Mary Kay

[Arky]

...There seems to be a lot of evidence, that says P4 can actually reverse bone loss....well, that combined with all the other stuff....

Mary Kay

'P4' ? Not sure what you're referring to - can you elaborate, please?


As for the cortisol - you had kids and you consequently must accept your suffering! lol ;-)

[Arky]

BTW, going back to nutritional factors surrounding osteoporosis, my reply to someone in another thread, last night (relating to abdominal pain and probiotics) jogged my memory this morning, about zinc.

Zinc is also very relevant for the topic of osteoporosis because insufficient dietary intake of zinc may impact the endocrine system, and thus maintenance and synthesis of appropriate hormone levels in the body.

Also, since zinc is required by the parietal cells of the stomach, levels of stomach acidity may be sub-optimal in a zinc-deficient individual.

Insufficient stomach acidity may seriously impact proper digestion of minerals such as calcium.


A reasonable ready-reckoner for nutrient levels in the foods you regularly consume may be found here:

nutritiondata.self.com/


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[Mary Kay]

Arky,

P4 is the abbreviation for progesterone....Sorry, just automatic....


Also, re your previous post ---amazing how the body performs like an orchestra....or is it vica versa.....

Mary Kay

[Arky]

Arky,

P4 is the abbreviation for progesterone....Sorry, just automatic....


Also, re your previous post ---amazing how the body performs like an orchestra....or is it vica versa.....

Mary Kay

Ah, thanks for the clarification!


Re' the symphony of activity in the body, I totally agree. It is so vastly complex, and so awe-inspiring. A pity, then, that modern medicine's approach to handling the complexities of it's function is to compartmentalise the various organs into specialities which specialists and surgeons train to understand in great detail (a laudible aim), but with the ever-present risk of overlooking the fact that no organ operates in isolation from any other part of the body. I appreciate that that's rather an over-simplification, and of course doctors and surgeons do have training in whole physiology and anatomy before they go into a specialised area of practice, but after several years of focusing on one particular area of the body, I do feel that some of them lose perspective on the complexities of interaction between the various areas of the body. This perspective is an art which must be intentionally nurtured, and is something traditional naturopathic physicians, homeopaths, and herbalists (those trained properly, under apprenticeship to a master, for many years) were extremely mindful of. But I'm digressing... ;-)

[CINDY A]

BESIDES ALL THE INFO TRY ASPIRIN---ARTICLE BELOW--YOU CAN FIND THE FULL ARTICLE ON THE NET....
Benefits Of Aspirin For Treating Osteoporosis Uncovered

July 10, 2008 — Researchers at the University of Southern California, School of Dentistry have uncovered the health benefits of aspirin in the fight against osteoporosis. Forty-four million Americans, 68 percent of whom are women, suffer from the debilitating effects of osteoporosis according to the National Institute of Health. One out of every two women and one in four men over 50 will have an osteoporosis-related fracture in their lifetime.

This latest study identifies aspirin's medicinal role on two fronts. In mice, the drug appears to prevent both improper bone resorption and the death of bone-forming stem cells.
An aspirin regimen appears to help mice recover from osteoporosis in two useful ways, striking a balance between bone formation and resorption, according to Associate Professor Songtao Shi and Research Associate Takayoshi Yamaza of the USC School of Dentistry's Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology (CCMB).