What Causes Osteoporosis? It’s Different Than You think!

I write this because the topic of osteoporosis is so personal for me, but also because it may prevent harm to you or a loved one in the future.

Since my husband and I had prolonged infertility (~15 years), we decided to do 3 GIFT procedures (different than IVF), and after almost 20 years of marriage (in my early 40s) I birthed our first child (of 3). One of the hard-hitting drugs I had to take (Lupron) did permanent damage to my bones. Now I know why my once healthy back ached continually afterwards, and 7 of my vertebrae literally started to collapse. On top of that, my bone marrow made (and still makes) less red blood cells leading to less oxygen carrying capacity and anemia.

Some of what you read here may astound and shock you (esp. #5 and 6). But it may also protect you once you understand it.

(Excerpt from A Midwestern Doctor writing “What We Aren’t Told About Osteoporosis”.)

“Since bone metabolism is linked to many other processes in the body, a variety of things can affect it. It’s quite challenging to establish which area matters most. That said, there are a few factors of particular importance.

1. Mobility —since bone growth depends upon the signals generated from loading weight on the body, a good case can be made that our increasingly sedentary lifestyles are responsible for the continual increase in osteoporosis occurring in America (e.g., one study found sedentary postmenopausal women lost 2.26% of their bone mass in a year, while those who did a weight training program instead had a 1.17% increase). Additionally, sunlight exposure has been shown to increase bone density (along with providing many other critical health benefits), which further illustrates how problematic being sedentary inside can be.

2. Hormones —in a previous article, I discussed the severe dangers of drugs like Lupron which work by disabling the body’s production of sex hormones. One of the most common side-effects observed from them is a significant weakening of the bones, which commonly leads those injured by the drugs to remark that they “have bones like an 80 year old” (e.g., you will hear reports of a 40-some-year-old leaning against a wall with their arm and that bone snapping or them learning they need to get dentures). Yet, in many cases these effects are often delayed, which again illustrates how a disruption of the remodeling of bone can ripple out far into the future.

Hormones play a vital role in bone health, and in turn, the hormonal medicine field frequently prescribes estrogen to older women to compensate for the loss of estrogen which accompanies menopause, partly under the belief that hormonal supplementation can hence prevent menopause.

However, while supplemental estrogen appears to help prevent bone loss, we DON’T focus on this approach because:

• Excessive and unbalanced estrogen frequently causes cancers. While this is a contentious topic in the hormonal medicine field (e.g., many doctors who prescribe hormones insist any link between estrogen and cancer is hogwash), we have personally seen numerous cases where a patient was started on estrogen and then developed a severe cancer—especially if they were given too high of a dose.

• The most important thing is not the bone’s density, but rather its elasticity and mobility. When healthy bones are subject to a loading stress, they bend to accommodate that stress and then spring back into their original shape, whereas if a bone is brittle, once it begins to bend, it will break.

The primary hormone which imparts elasticity to the bones is progesterone; it declines with age particularly after menopause. In turn, we find that appropriately supplementing progesterone (which unlike estrogen is almost never dangerous), is highly effective at preventing fractures within the body.

3. Inflammation —many of us doctors have observed that patients with chronic inflammatory diseases tend to be at a greater risk of osteoporosis. In turn, the mechanism to support these observations exists as the cytokines classically associated with those inflammatory disease states (e.g., TNF-α and IL-6) have been shown to activate key receptors (e.g., RANKL) which cause osteoclasts to dismantle bone until the underlying disease which is generating those cytokines is addressed.

Turmeric can handily address inflammation if taken with food or supplemented starting at 2,000mg/day.

4. Minerals —since bones are composed of minerals, this suggests bone strength is dependent upon the dietary intake of these specific minerals. Our own experience has been that supplementing with the correct minerals is often what restores bone health.

Since mineral deficiencies appear to be such a common issue, we’ve tried to identify the chief culprits responsible for this:

• Stomach acid deficiency (since stomach acid is often necessary to absorb dietary minerals). Two of the most common causes of this are 1. acid blocking medications (which have been repeatedly shown to cause osteoporosis) and 2. the tendency for stomach acid to decline with age (which may in turn explain why osteoporosis increases with age).

• The chronic depletion of essential micronutrients and minerals from the soil due to industrial agricultural practices (it’s a huge problem) and the removal of the mineral rich components of food when they are processed (e.g., when changing a whole grain into a refined grain).

• The tendency for the widely used herbicide Roundup to behave as a chelating agent which binds essential minerals in the soil (particularly the +2 cations like magnesium) and hence prevents them from entering the plants – or our bodies.

5. Pharmaceutical Drugs —In addition to the hormone blockers (e.g., Lupron) and the stomach acid blockers (e.g., Prilosec) other pharmaceuticals have also been shown to significantly increase the risk of osteoporosis, particularly steroids like prednisone. To illustrate—taking them doubles one’s risk of a fracture (and even more so for a vertebrae), at typical doses they cause a 5-15% loss of bone each year. In long term users, 37% experience vertebral fractures and in high dose steroid use the risk of vertebral fractures increases fivefold).
Note: Other drugs which have been show to weaken bones include the thiazondones (used for diabetes), SSRI antidepressants, anticonvulsants (which were initially developed to treat epilepsy), Depo-Provera, Opioids, and aromatase inhibitors.

6. Environmental Toxins— a variety of widely pervasive environmental toxins (e.g., organophosphates, Bisphenol A, aluminum, cadmium, lead, mercury, arsenic and lead in baby food and chocolates and in common spices, along with many other persistent organic pollutants) inhibit bone formation and are linked to osteoporosis.
Note: drinking soda has been shown to significantly increases one’s risk of osteoporosis and fractures.

[Many of us have found great benefit from daily low-level maintenance detoxing to keep the ever-increasing environmental toxicity (like chemtrailing, all the pharmaceuticals and MRIs, etc.) low and at a minimum. TRS is a 2-ingredient product made with ultra-pure clinoptilolite nano-zeolite and purified water. It is a simple spray into the mouth. Find the science here and the studies here. I prefer TRS to EDTA due to its safety. Here’s my personal product link]

One of the things very few people appreciate is that bone is very much a living tissue, and when you can directly hold it (e.g., when you feel a piece of it that has been cut in half during an orthopedic surgery) it behaves far differently from what all the dead bones we come in contact would otherwise lead us to believe. Unfortunately, since very few people experience that, we see bone as an inanimate structural object and nothing more.

Read Dr. Suzanne Humphries’ insights on calcium supplementation and Fosamax.

I’m immensely hopeful we have at last entered a political climate where our counterproductive medical practices will be re-examined and replaced with things that instead benefit our health.”

For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be broken.” ~Spoken of Jesus regarding his crucifixion and death in John 19:36

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