Building Better Bones

Building Better Bones 'It is a bone-deep change that is going to be, my dear, "Grandmother Growth suggestions. "You have to open your heart of this transformation. The cells must remain intact. Have opened more than you ever dreamed of being able to open, more open than they are at birth or in passion. Open now the breath of mortality, and played the bone flute of your being. What can be done, but the dance unforgettable melody, develop a passion for an elegant posture and a long stride? "Ah, yes," Grandmother Growth smiles rather arbitrarily. "You would do well to develop a taste for the dark green paired with tart vinegar and garlic. These things build strong flexible bones to support you as you become Crone. " Did you know that bones are always changing? Every day of your life, some bone cells die and new bone cells are created. From birth until their first anni'30, you can do a lot of bone cells. Provided that your diet supplies the nutrients needed, not just to replace cells that die of bones, which have left over for extra stretch and strengthen bones. After 35 years of age, new bone cells are more difficult to do. Sometimes there is a shortfall: more bone cells die and be replaced. In the orthodox view, this is the beginning of osteoporosis, a disease of low bone mass. At the age of forty years, many women have begun to lose bone mass, with the age of fifty, the majority is that they should take hormones or drugs to prevent further loss and avoid osteoporosis, fractures, and death. Women who exercise regularly and eat calcium-rich foods enter their menopausal years better bone mass than women who do a lot of calcium and the consumption of food leaching (including soy milk, tofu, coffee, soda, alcohol, products of white flour, processed meats, nutritional yeast, and bran). But no matter how good your lifestyle, usually decreases bone mass during menopause years. For unknown reasons, menopausal bones slow the production of new cells and appears to ignore the presence of calcium. This "breaking of bones" are usually of short duration, that occur outside and in five to seven years. I realized that in scattered episodes of falling hair, nails breaking, and the same "growing pains" that I experienced during puberty. I have not seen in a bone scan, because it does not have one. The idea behind bone scans is a good one: find women who are at risk of broken bones, waing of danger, and help them to participate in preventive strategies. There's only one problem: the bone scans do not find women at risk of bone fractures, it is women who have low bone density. Let me help you put aside the idea that osteoporosis is important. In the Wise Woman Tradition, we focus on the patient, not the problem. In the wise woman tradition, there is no cure illness and disease. When we focus on a disease, like osteoporosis, we can not see the woman. The more we focus on a disease, including its prevention, the less likely to foster the integrity and health. Focusing on osteoporosis, defined as a disease, to fight drugs, we lose sight of the fact that postmenopausal bone mass is a better predictor of the risk of risk of cancer of the breast bone broken. Twenty-five percent of postmenopausal women with the highest bone mass are of two and a half to four times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer compared to those with the lowest bone mass. And that hormones which maintain bone mass also alter the risk of breast cancer. Women taking estrogen replacement (often to prevent osteoporosis), of which at least five years, increasing the risk of breast cancer by twenty percent, if you take HRT, the risk increases by forty percent. Focusing on bone mass, we lose sight of the fact that a strong correlation between bone density and bone breakage has not been established, according to Susan Brown, director of the Information Center of osteoporosis, and many others. We lose sight of the fact that women who faithfully take estrogen or hormone replacement still undergoing changes and bones of the spine crush fractures. Bone-pause passes and the reconstruction of the bones themselves, particularly when supported by nutritional herbs, which are exceptional sources of bone building minerals and better at preventing the breaking of bones supplements. The minerals in green plants seem to be ideal for maintaining healthy bones. Dr. Campbell, Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Coell University, has conducted extensive research in rural China, where the lowest known fracture rates of middle-aged and older women were found. He said: "The closest people to a diet based on plant foods and leafy vegetables, the lower rates of many diseases, including osteoporosis." Women who consume large quantities of plants rich in calcium and exercise moderately build strong flexible bones. Women who rely on hormones build bones that are massive, but rigid. Hormone replacement regimes do not increase the development of bone cells, which slowly (or eliminate) the killers of bone cells (osteoclasts). There is a rebound effect, bone loss jumps when the hormones are stopped. The women taking hormones for a period of five years or more are up to four times more likely to fracture a bone after a year and gives a woman the same age who never took hormones. Women building better green allies with the bones and to exercise the creative power cells, bone cells (osteoblasts). O of estrogen hormone replacement, as the beginning of menopause and continued for the rest of his life, he said that after a reduction in the rate of fracture of the menopause by 40-60 percent. Walking common (or even need to sweat) and a diet rich in calcium-rich green allies (at least 1500 mg daily) have been shown to reduce fractures after menopause by 50 percent. The first is expensive and dangerous. The second, low cost, and health promotion. It 'easy to understand why more than eighty percent of women just "say no to hormones. It is never too late to build better bones, and it is never too early. The best insurance for a fracture-free, strong-boned cronehood is to build better bones before menopause. Exercise and calcium-rich green allies in their youth, you have less to worry about how you age. "A woman has lost half of all the spongy bone (spine, wrist), has never lost with the age of 50 years, but not very dense (hip, hand, forearm) bone. Attention to bone formation, at all stages of life is fundamental, there is no time are too old to create healthy new bone. "- American MD CALCIO" Osteoporosis is far less common in countries that consume less calcium. This is an indisputable fact. "-T. C. Campbell, PhD. Nutritional Biochemistry Step 1: Gathering Information Calcium is, without doubt, the most important minerals in your body. In fact, football is more than half of the total mineral content of your body. Calcium is essential to adjust the beating of your heart, metabolism, the functioning of the muscles, the flow of impulses along the nerves, the regulation of their cell membranes, the strength of your bones, the health of your teeth and gums, and its vital mechanisms of blood clotting. Football is so important in your life that you have a gland (the parathyroid), which is little more than monitor blood levels of calcium and secrete hormones to ensure optimum levels of calcium at all times. When you consume more calcium that is used, there is a positive calcium balance: extra usable calcium is stored in bone gain and bone mass (insoluble or unusable calcium may be excreted or stored in soft tissue, or deposited joints). When you consume less calcium is used, you are in a negative calcium balance: the parathyroid produces a hormone that releases calcium from bone stores, and you lose bone mass. To ensure a positive calcium balance and create strong, flexible bones for your menopausal jouey, take care: Eat three or more calcium-rich foods daily. Avoid calcium antagonists. Use synergistic foods to magnify the effect of calcium. Avoid calcium supplements. Step 2: Activate the energy homeopathic tissue salt silica is said to improve bone health. What does this mean for you to stay? To be supported? To stand alone? To have a backbone of your life? Step 3: Train and Tonify What we need to do strong flexible bones? Like all tissues, bones need protein. Minerals they need (and not just calcium but also potassium, manganese, magnesium, silicon, iron, zinc, selenium, boron, phosphorus, sulfur, chromium, and dozens of others). And for the use of minerals, high-quality fats, including oil-soluble vitamin D. I meet many women in menopause Cree protein that is bad for the bones. Not so. Researchers at Utah State University, in search of the diet of 32,000 postmenopausal women found that women who ate less protein were more likely to fracture a hip, and eat more protein to speed the healing of hip fractures. Acids created by protein digestion are buffered by calcium. Traditional diets are combined with calcium and protein rich foods (eg seaweed with tofu, tortillas made from co ground on limestone with beans and melted cheese on a hamburger). Herbs such as seaweed, nettle, oatstraw, red clover, dandelion, and Comfrey leaves are rich in protein and too rich in calcium. Tahini as food, sardines, canned salmon, yogurt, cheese, oatmeal, and goats' offers us a milk protein, generous amounts of calcium, healthy fats and the need for our bones. If you need more protein during the menopause who want to undertake. CAUTION: Do not fermented soybeans (eg, tofu) is especially harmful for bone health being protein-rich, naturally deficient in calcium and a calcium channel blocker to boot. Bones need lots of minerals not just calcium, which is rigid and brittle. (Think of plaster, calcium carbonate, and how easily it breaks.) Avoid calcium supplements. Focusing on a large amount of calcium from food and herbs and will automatically receive the vast quantity of minerals you need the flexibility of the bones. Because minerals are bulky and not compact, we must consume generous amounts to make a difference in our health. Taking mineral-rich herbs in capsule or tincture not do much for your bones. (A cup of nettle tincture contains the same amount of calcium - 300 mg - like a cup of nettle infusion. Many women drink two or more cups of infusion a day, do not consume a cup of tincture a day!) Neither eats raw materials food. I have often the idea that through the kitchen devoid of food nutrition. Nothing could be further from the truth. Cooking maximizes the minerals available to the bones. Kale cooked for an hour of football provides slightly steamed cabbage. Minerals are similar to the rock, and extract from them, they need heat, time and generous amounts of plant material. Green sources of calcium are the best. Nutrient and garden weeds are far richer in minerals than ordinary greens, which are exceptional sources of nutrients. But sources of calcium from green is not enough. We need sources of calcium in white too. Add a liter of yogurt a week to your diet, if you really want to bone health. Because the milk is changed by Lactobacillus organisms, its calcium, other minerals, proteins and sugars (no lactose) are more easily digested. This leads to improved absorption of calcium and minerals from other foods, too. (I know many vegans who increased their very low bone density up to 6 percent in one year by eating yogurt). Organic raw milk cheeses are another excellent source of white. Horsetail grass (horsetail arvense) works like a charm for those premenopausal women who have periodontal bone loss or difficulty in healing of fractures. Regarded as the tea, once or twice a day, young spring-gathered horsetail dramatically strengthens bones and promotes rapid repair of the cracks. WARNING: Mature horsetail contains substances that can irritate the kidneys. Step 4: Promote / quell Waing calcium antagonists. Some foods interfere with the use of calcium. For better bones avoid consistent use of green full of oxalic acid, including the coasts (silver beet), beet greens, spinach, rhubarb. Products unfermented soy, including tofu, soy beverages, soy burgers. Phosphorus-rich foods, including soft drinks, white flour products, and many processed foods. (Teenagers who drink soft drinks instead of milk is four times more likely to break a bone.) Foods that produce acids requiring a calcium buffer when excreted in urine, such as coffee, white sugar, tobacco snuff, alcohol, nutritional yeast , salt. Fluoride in water or toothpaste. Fiber pills, bran alone, major companies such as laxatives. Steroid drugs, including corticosteroids such as prednisone and asthma inhalers. (Daily use reduces bone mass of the spine as ten percent per year.) Calorie-restricted diet. Women who weigh less have the highest loss of bone mass during menopause and "neither calcium supplements, vitamin D, estrogen, or" slow the loss. Among 236 premenopausal women, all similar, they consume amounts of calcium, which lost weight by reducing calories lost twice as much bone mass in women who maintained their weight. Although chocolate contains oxalic acid, the levels are so low as to have only a negligible effect on the metabolism of calcium. A chocolate binds 15-20 mg ounce/3000 mg of calcium, an ounce of cooked spinach, 100-125 mg of calcium. Bittersweet (dark), chocolate is a source of iron. A recent research has found that chocolate is very healthy heart. As each stimulus, the everyday is not advisable. Chocolate is an important and helpful ally for women. Guilt of eating and that is harmful to their health interferes with the ability to listen and respond to your body wisdom. If you want to eat chocolate - do, and better. But if you're doing every day - eat more weeds. Excess phosphorus accelerates bone loss and demineralization. Phosphorus compounds are second only to salt as food additives. They are found in carbonated drinks, soda, white flour products, especially if "enriched" (bagels, biscuits, cakes, donuts, pasta, bread), canned meat (bacon, ham, sausage, lunch meat and hot dog); supermarket breakfast cereals, canned fruit, processed products such as frozen fries and instant mashed potatoes, cheese, instant soups and puddings. To avoid phosphorus overload and improve calcium absorption: drink water and herbal infusions, avoid fizzy drinks and water. Eats only bread, pasta, biscuits and crackers. Buy only unpreserved meats, cheeses, potatoes. Avoid buying foods with ingredients are highly processed. Excess salt leaches calcium. Women eating 3900 mg of sodium per day to remove 30 percent more than 1600 mg of calcium from food. The main food sources of sodium in processed and canned foods. Seaweed is an excellent source of calcium, rich in salt. Sea salt may be used freely, as it contains traces of calcium. Salt is essential for health, not to delete from your diet. Increase the production of hydrochloric acid (stomach) and make better use of the calcium they consume. Low stomach (antacids, for example) and you will receive little benefit from the bones of the calcium they eat. Some ways to acidify: drink lemon juice in water with or after a meal. Take 10-25 drops of tincture of the roots of dandelion in a po 'of water before eating. The use of calcium-rich herbal vinegars in your salad dressing, putting on the greens and beans, too. Step 5: Use Supplements really wish I did not use calcium supplements. Be exposed to dangers and do not prevent fractures. A study in Australia that followed 10,000 white women over 65 for a six and a half years is "The use of calcium supplements was associated with an increased risk of vertebral fractures and the use of Tums antacid tablets was associated with an increased risk of fractures of the proximal humerus. " If you insist on supplements, go for calcium-fortified orange juice or crumbly tablets of calcium citrate. Chewable calcium gluconate, calcium lactate, calcium carbonate and sources are acceptable. Dolomite, bone meal, oyster shell and is best avoided, as often contain lead and other minerals. For better bones, take 500 mg magnesium (not citrate) with the football. Better yet, wash your calcium tablets with a glass of herbal infusion, which provide not only magnesium, but many others, the strengthening of bone minerals, too. Calcium supplements are more effective in divided doses. Two doses of 250 mg, taken moing and evening, in fact, more than a profit of 1000 mg of calcium. Step 5: The use of drugs, even if you take hormone therapy (ERT or HRT) you must have enough calcium to maintain bone mass, according to researchers at Columbia University. This is 1200-1500 mg per day (a simple cup of yogurt, two cups of nettle infusion, a splash of vinegar is rich in minerals, as well as three figs). How to increase the intake of calcium-rich foods / herbs, gradually reduce the dosage of hormones in your own if you wish. Step 6: Break and Enter of bone density tests are often used to force women to take hormones or drugs. If bone density is low, the use of resources in this section and another test program (at least six months later) before agreeing to these therapies. Susun Weed PO Box 64 Woodstock, NY 12498 Fax: 1-845-246-8081