Osteoporosis Prevention

A woman’s risk of hip fracture is equal to her combined risk of getting breast, uterine and ovarian cancer. 

A woman has a one-in-two chance of fracturing a bone due to osteoporosis in her lifetime – fractures that can lead to disability, disfigurement or even death!

My research and experience proves there are safe, effective, drug-free ways to help build strong, healthy bones and prevent osteoporosis and other chronic degenerative diseases:

• a diet that's right for your metabolic type

• proper rest

• resistance exercise

• stress reduction and handling stress

• personalized supplements and

• natural hormone balancing using saliva testing

You reach peak bone mass at around 30 to 35 years old, then lose one to one-and-a-half percent bone mass per year after that.  That’s if you are healthy.  You lose bone density even more rapidly when you have additional risk factors, and up to five percent per year for a few years after menopause.

If you were blessed with really good bones at 30, and don’t have any additional risk factors, then you may have enough bone density to last a lifetime.  And if you weren’t blessed with high bone density?

That’s why I offer a high quality bone density test and excellent interpretation of results.  My purpose is to educate and motivate you to take preventive action, or use natural treatment options.  And I’m advocating you get an accurate bone mineral density (BMD) screening, like the one I provide, by the time you turn 35.

After testing the Bone Mineral Density (BMD) of over 10,000 men and women, taking their histories and considering their risk factors, I concluded that the t-scale used by the medical community and World Health Organization (WHO) is flawed.  The reason can be found in my analysis of what determines “normal” according to this "t-score" system.

The t-score is a system that ranks the difference between your bone mineral density, and the median bone mineral density of a young, healthy, normal (YHN) population, aged 30-35.  This is the age bone mass is at it’s naturally highest level, or peak bone mass.  For greater accuracy, this median figure is ethnicity and gender matched so you are compared to YHN people more like yourself.  The narrower the population the better.  For instance, what 40 year old Asian female would want be compared to a median (population) that includes african-american women, who have naturally denser bones? 

The flaw in this system, becomes evident when you understand what “median” really means.  This is not necessarily a high BMD score, it simply represents where most people in the study group or population happen to score.  The median BMD is assigned the t-score of zero, and your own BMD is reported in Standard Deviations (SD) above or below that median. According to the WHO;

• t-scores above +1 SD are considered “High BMD”.

• t-scores between  +1SD and –1 SD are considered “Normal"

• t-scores between  –1SD and –2.5SD are considered “Osteopenic.”

• t-scores of  –2.5SD or less are considered “Osteoporotic.”

So if the population being studied has poor bone density, then the median (a t-score of zero) represents a poor quality bone.  According to the current scoring method, as long as you score within one standard deviation (SD) from that median (zero), you are called “normal”.  Again, I find this misleading because if a person scores a -0.9 SD or even a -1.0SD, he or she is told they have "normal" bones.  Meanwhile, they may actually be just months away from a condition called osteopenia.  And that’s a "normal" healthy person!

Here is another way to look at it. Another common median value is I.Q.  I.Q. is an intelligence quotient used to determine the relative intelligence of a person.  So it’s a measure of how intelligent you are compared to the median intelligence of a population.  The median IQ is 100.  I’m almost afraid to ask what segments of the population are included in the statistics, but anyway, an IQ of 100 does not make that person real smart does it?  Now, the further away from 100 you get, the more or less intelligence you have, and the fewer people there are at that level.  Just like there are not as many people with an I.Q. of 140, not many people have bones that are +4 SD above the median BMD.  I often joke with clients who have very high BMD, “if this were an I.Q. test, you’d be a genius…too bad it’s not!”

While people with bone density scores within one standard deviation (normal t-scores) are not now at increased risk for fracture, I suggest looking at the t-score along with expected loss curves for your particular ethnicity and gender group.  In this way we can predict approximately when you may reach a state of osteopenia or osteoporosis.  The highly predictive nature of an accurate BMD test, when plotted on the expected loss curve, is a valuable tool for motivating people to take preventative action.

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