Osteoporosis, when am i going to get it and what am i going to do about it?

This is something all of us women are going to have to deal with and face at some point in our lives.

Though in my professional opinion and from my years of treating women, the truth is that every woman will get some kind ofosteoporosis.

Though some women will get it worse than others. Most important is what a woman decides to do when she gets her results back from the bone scan.

And please if you have not gotten a bone scan and you are 45 years

or older, you are later than late, please go now.

So, what you do before you get osteoporosis and what you do

after you get your diagnosis is very important.

I am a huge component of taking action right away if not

already doing the proper things to prevent osteoporosis

and keeping it from getting worse.

Yes, I am a believer in taking calcium and eating more

foods full of calcium ( did you know that sesame seeds

are very high in calcium), and in certain cases, I think that

hormone replacement therapy is needed.

Though, ladies (and men), hands down, exercise is

the one proven time tested answer to osteoporosis,

before, during and after the inevitable diagnosis.

It is another one of G-d’s paradoxes; stress on the

bone makes it stronger.

Said another way, when we perform weight bearing

exercises using the differentbones of our body, those

bones get stronger and the bone density in that bone is greater.

Weight bearing consists of a number of different exercises.

Some are more effective than others.

Hands down again, lifting weights is the most effective

and most specific. Walking is weight bearing as well, though

as you can see less specific and more general.

If you have daughters or know young girls, this is the time

they might startexercising and performing some weight

bearing exercises, so they can play an active part

in a lesser degree or less serious diagnosis of osteoporosis.

This is the other way that one can directly affect the

direction of their health and well being.

osteoporosis

Please feel free to comment on this blog and for sure, email me to guide you in the best weight bearing program for you.

Dr Tova ……chirodivine@gmail.com……052 420 1201

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