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The All-Natural Clinically Proven Answer to Osteoporosis

In the past few years, articles in the popular press have hailed the FDA’s trials and subsequent approval of several new expensive, synthetic pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis. Unfortunately for the osteoporosis sufferer, these “wonder drugs” come with painful and even debilitating side effects that the media has downplayed. And while the large drug companies enjoy the media’s blind support and the FDA’s stamp of approval hailing the medicines as a long-awaited “milestone” in the battle against this dangerous and deadly chronic degenerative disease, they continue to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the mass marketing and popularization of their potentially dangerous product. This troubles us…and should concern you, too.

But there is good news for osteoporosis sufferers: For several years now, a relatively inexpensive, completely safe, clinically-proven, medically formulated therapy for osteoporosis has been in existence — it not only halts the loss of bone in victims of osteoporosis, but significantly increases bone mass, thereby reversing the progress of this dreadful disease.

And the best news is, this remarkable therapy is All- Natural, eliminating the host of undesirable side effects that accompany synthetic drugs. However, here in the United States, not one ounce of publicity has been given to this amazing and highly successful all-natural therapy that could help spare tens of millions of afflicted Americans from the agonizing debilitation and eventual death caused by this most pernicious disease. In this special report we’ll take a brief look at the true nature of osteoporosis…discuss some of the myths still being promulgated by the popular media with regard to this crippling disease…examine the pitfalls inherent in several pharmaceutical drugs…and discover why the real “good news” for osteoporosis sufferers has nothing to do with the advent of more pharmaceutical drugs, but instead, with the introduction of the little-known allnatural osteoporosis therapy mentioned above.

The “Brittle Bones” Scourge

Osteoporosis, the chronic loss of bone mass in the human body resulting in brittleness and fracture, is one of the least understood and most hotly debated chronic degenerative diseases in medical science today. Its actual cause is not fully known, although numerous theories abound. Osteoporosis and low bone mass are currently a major public health threat and an estimated 44 million Americans suffer from this “Silent Disease” and millions more currently have the debilitating disease, but are unaware as the symptoms are most times undetectable until a bone breaks. Some people will overlook the pain they are experiencing as arthritis, and will not find the truth until a fall, jolt, or even just a simple cough snaps the brittle bone within.

Every year the disease causes 1.5 million painful, often life-threatening fractures that can cost as much as $ 18 billion per year in medical costs. In fact, almost one in two women will experience osteopathic failure. The most commonly fractured bones are the spinal vertebrae [referred to as “spontaneously crushed vertebrae, “due to the fact that the vertebrae simply crumble-Ed.], the bones in the wrist, and the hipbones. Due to the brittleness of the bones involved, and difficulty in healing them, these fractures usually bring independent living to a screeching halt.

Researchers now estimate that the incidence of fractures requiring hospitalization doubles every five years after the age of fifty. In fact, women can lose up to 20% of total bone mass following menopause. Worse yet, up to one-third of those who endure hip fractures due to this dreaded disease could die within one year. Furthermore, over 50% of fracture victims remain in need of assistance for the remainder of their lives. The prognosis for this terrible disease is ominous.

According to osteoporosis researcher and author Betty Kamen, Ph.D., “More women die from osteoporosisrelated fractures than from breast cancer, cervix and uterus combined. Osteopathic fractures are the cause of over 200,000 deaths annually in the U.S., which is about one-tenth of all deaths. Additionally, health care costs in 2002 for osteoporatic fractures alone was $18 billion.

The health care system is becoming so overburdened with cases of osteoporosis, some experts believe this disease alone could bankrupt the Medicare system . The growth rate of the disease among elderly Americans of both sexes is now exponential. According to Professor William A. Peck, Dean of the Washington University College of Medicine. “The incidence of osteoporosis increases as the population ages. It is not a linear or geometric increase, but exponential, that is, potency times potency.”

One fallacy that continues to be pushed in the popular media is that osteoporosis is strictly a women’s disease. It’s true that the vast brunt of the bane of osteoporosis falls on women. However, according to bone density specialist Dr. Eric Orwall of the Oregon Health Sciences University, “Men get osteoporosis just like women do. It’s just that the frequency is greater with women.” How much greater? According to recent research figures, 80 percent of all victims are women, whereas 20 percent are male.

Osteoporosis is not only a condition afflicting older adults and women who are post-menopausal, but also affects middle-aged Americans by the thousands, driving medical care costs higher and higher and sending shock waves through the health insurance industry. At the current rate of increase, the best estimate for just fifty years from now is a staggering annual medical bill of $82 billion just from Osteoporosis claims alone.

Little wonder then that medical science is now searching frantically for a solution to this extremely painful and agonizing illness.

What Causes Osteoporosis?

Like skin, bone constantly regenerates itself. The process works like this: Cells known as osteoclasts eat away old bone, while cells known as osteoblasts lay down new bone at the site of the old bone. It is a constantly ongoing process, which keeps the human skeletal structure strong.

Unfortunately, after the age of 35 the work of the bone-building osteoblasts begins to slow, while the osteoclasts continue to eat away at old bone structure at virtually the same pace as before. The end result is that the osteoblasts are unable to replace old bone fast enough to keep up with the ever-efficient osteoclasts. In fact, women can lose up to 20% of their total bone mass following menopause.

This process appears to be an integral and orderly part of growing old. Like wrinkling skin, it generally proceeds very slowly in humans, corresponding with the normal aging process. Yet in a certain percentage of individuals the bone loss process seems to be accelerated, with some individuals losing as much as 1% or more bone density every year after reaching middle age. Scientists now estimate that for every 10% bone density loss, risk of fracture doubles. Eventually, the bone can become so weak and brittle it fractures upon impact at even a mild bump or fall.

In some cases, the weight of the body alone can cause the brittle, thinning bones to break. According to osteoporosis researcher Betty Kamen, Ph.D., “Sometimes the bone actually breaks first-before a fall-and the break is the cause of the fall.”

Is Calcium the Answer?

The popular media would have Americans believe that lack of dietary calcium is the chief reason for osteoporosis, and that calcium supplementation is the answer to the problem. But serious researchers now know that this is not completely true.

For example, many indigenous populations in nutritionally disadvantaged countries, such as Africa, exhibit little, if any, evidence of osteoporosis in spite of their low calcium intake. Conversely, indigenous populations in countries where calcium intake is higher than average rarely demonstrate any thicker bone densities than the surrounding populations where calcium intake is significantly lower.

Calcium alone is clearly not the problem. Here in the U.S., calcium literally abounds in foods such as milk, cheese, wheat and other whole grains, fish, eggs, chocolate, broccoli, leafy green vegetables, kidney beans, black beans, navy beans, ice cream and even the non- fat milk solids and whey used abundantly in processed baked goods. Yet the osteoporosis crisis grows exponentially greater, year after year – even as Americans strive to add more and more calcium to their diets.

The Worst Calcium Myth of All

Probably the very worst myth about calcium and osteoporosis is that the calcium found in certain brand name antacid tablets is perfect for helping build bones and preventing osteoporosis. This is held as gospel by the popular media, as well as by many doctors, who should know better. In truth, not a single medical test has ever been conducted anywhere that we know of to show that the form of calcium used in the antacids can be utilized by the human body to build bone or prevent this debilitating disease.

In fact, cutting edge work done by independent researchers has demonstrated conclusively that the form of calcium used in the antacid tablets is one of the least absorbable forms of calcium in existence. This is a classic case of the advertising strategy known as “positioning”. The strategy is obviously effective, but we have serious doubts about the supposed “bone building” effectiveness of the antacids themselves.

The KEY is Calcium Absorption and Metabolism!

The problem, as you’ll see later in this report, is that calcium absorption and metabolism for the purpose of building bone is virtually impossible without the correct form of calcium, plus proper balances of several other vital nutrients that work hand-in-hand with calcium to aid the osteoblasts in building bone.

We’ll discuss this issue in more depth in just a moment. We’ll also show you how to help halt, and even reverse osteoporosis, using very small amounts of a special highabsorption form of calcium from a unique sea algae, combined with an all natural hormonal form of Vitamin D 3, and several specific minerals. This unique formulation, which boasts a phenomenal 95% success rate in building bone mass, as documented in over 300 medical treatment studies, allows the calcium to be properly metabolized by the body for the purpose of increasing bone mass. But first, let’s take a look at several other problems associated with the conventional treatment of osteoporosis.

The Hidden Danger of Estrogen Therapy

Since most female osteoporosis sufferers become afflicted with the disease after going through menopause, orthodox medical researchers have long suspected that the natural decrease in the body’s estrogen levels at menopause may well be connected to osteoporosis. Some medical scientists believe that estrogen actually holds back the progress of osteoclasts (the cells that destroy old bone). So, the thinking goes, when estrogen levels dips significantly at menopause, the osteoclasts are no longer held back as effectively. At that point, they begin destroying bone faster than the osteoblasts can rebuild it.

None of this is conclusively proven, of course. Although estrogen therapy does appear to help halt bone loss, the exact triggering mechanism behind the onset of osteoporosis is still unknown. Recent studies show that estrogen may not be the culprit at all. For example, a 14-year study reported on in the Journal of the American Medical Association demonstrated there was no significant difference in the frequency of hip fractures between women who did use estrogen therapy, and those who did not.

As Dr. Susan E. Brown, Director of the Osteoporosis Education Project in Syracuse, New York states, “It is now abundantly clear that the natural lowering of estrogen levels at menopause is not the cause of osteoporosis, and that we have seriously misunderstood the menopause-osteoporosis link. Several dangerous implications, in fact, now flow from this faulty assumption.”

One of those “dangerous implications” is the increased cancer risk associated with long-term estrogen therapy. A recent study demonstrated that the benefit of estrogen therapy, with regard to halting bone loss, comes to a dramatic halt shortly after treatment stops. Normally, doctors start women on estrogen right at menopause or shortly afterward, and have them stop using estrogen before they reach their 60’s or 70’s. This is due, in part, to risk factors such as estrogen’s potential for causing uterine and breast cancers when used long-term. But since osteoporosis rarely becomes a serious problem for women until after age 60, estrogen therapy would have to continue uninterrupted, in spite of the greatly increased risk of cancer, if the halt in bone loss is to be maintained

In short, it now appears that women would have to continue taking estrogen for the remainder of their lives if it is being used to halt bone loss. But take one look at the “Contraindications” list for estrogen therapy printed on the drug packets and in the Physician’s Desk Reference, and you’ll wonder why anyone would want to continue to use this powerful hormone for even a day. That list includes side effects such as: endometrial cancer, phlebitis, weight gain, high blood pressure, jaundice, vaginal candidiasis, depression, skin rashes, hair loss, nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, cysts and more.

Furthermore, even though estrogen therapy does appear to halt bone loss, it does absolutely nothing to build bone mass. Many enlightened researchers now feel that this limiting factor, combined with the serious risk of cancer and other sideeffects from long-term estrogen use, makes estrogen one of the least appropriate therapies for treating osteoporosis.

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