2017Stay Healtyy

What is Bone Health? Bones are hard but they are not lifeless. They are growing tissue. Bones are comprised of three major components such as collagen, calcium phosphate mineral complexes as well as bone cells. These components help to keep them strong and flexible. Bone loss occurs as you age and it is necessary to take steps to protect it from getting damaged. Why bone health is important? Bones are an important part of the body and it complements our health. The important function of the bones is to provide structure to the body, protect various organs and also to store calcium in the body. At the young age the bones are formed rapidly after that as the age advances you lose more bone mass than you form. The higher your peak bone mass the more bone you have and this reduces your chance to develop osteoporosis as your age increases. What causes bone fracture? A partial or a complete breakage of bones is known as bone fracture. It isa medical condition that can be the result of higher...

We are seeing a huge rise in osteoporosis. Osteoporosis is said to affect at least half the population of women and two thirds the population of men. That's a huge number. The common advice we see when it comes to osteoporosis is consume more calcium and get more exercise. This is really quite poor advice because it doesn't take into account at all how the body works and individual needs.  If you have osteoporosis or you are moving towards osteoporosis your body is breaking down bone for a reason. It's breaking down bone because it's trying to get calcium into your body. We tell people that they need to exercise more and this creates strong bones but the problem with this is that if you exercise you increase lactic acid. Lactic acid is a toxic to the body and this causes you to increase estrogen levels. Estrogen activates prolactin and prolactin breaks down bone. This means that if you doing the wrong type of exercise or over exercising your actually making your proble...