Osteoporosis is the loss in bone mass. The bones become more porus and brittle. As a result, bones become weak and may break from a fall or, in serious case from a minor bumps. This can affect both male and female but most likely in female after menopause or hysterectomy due to sudden decrease in estrogen, the hormone that protects from osteoporosis. Certain medications increase the rate of bone loss including some antiseizure medications, chemotherapy and glucocorticosteroids.
Every woman who crosses 45 yrs of age having moderate to severe pain in long bones, hips, knees, spine should undergo a BMD test. If your report says that you are orthopenic, then its time to change your lifestyle and food habbits because you still have time to reverse it and escape from osteoporosis in future if you are just diagnosed with osteopenia or any kind of bone loss. One of the major reason is that the other health issues that are directly or indirectly related to the disease are seldom addressed or failed to address or left unresolved and continued to be on just calcium or synthetic vitamin suppliments. There are wonderful ayurvedic herbs and compounds that can significantly rectify the deranged bone metabolism. To add on with there are potential natural resources like sunlight, green suppliments, that are rich in chlorophyll and whole grains, seeds and nuts. No wonder-pill can recover you out of this generalised deficit by just poping up calcium or vit-D suppliments which can easily be eliminated by your body, but a collective approach can defenitly heal you from within.
