Osteoporosis- The lie about Calcium and what you really need.
- Sarah Kottmann
- May 26
- 2 min read
Updated: May 28
Osteoporosis is a medical condition that causes bones to become weak, brittle, and more likely to fracture. It literally means "porous bone."
What Happens in Osteoporosis?
In healthy bones, there’s a balance between bone breakdown and bone formation. With osteoporosis, the body loses too much bone, makes too little, or both. This leads to a decrease in bone density and strength, making bones fragile.
This condition is common in women of menopausal age due to the hormone no longer being a factor in supporting bones. Other risk factor include family history, Lack of exercise, steroid long term, smoking and low levels of Vitamin D.
Your vitamin D level should be 110 nmol/L and above do not go with reference range of a pathology test they are way to low.
Diagnosis:
Usually done through a bone density scan (DEXA or DXA scan), which measures bone mineral density.
Truth about Calcium
The big myth that when we have osteoporosis we have to pump our bodies with calcium often calcium supplement that are basically like chalk to the body and dont aborbs anyways. This is absolutely untrue it is extremely rare for one to have low calcium levels in all my years of looking at blood test never seen it and on an oligoscan very rare. You get more than enough calcium from your food if your eating a healthy diet with a varity of foods, ( dairy free including and recommended).
In a study that followed 100,000 plus people over 20 years showed those that had dairy had a higher intense of osteoporosis and fractures.
"High milk intake was associated with higher mortality in one cohort of women and in another cohort of men, and with higher fracture incidence in women."
However the dairy industry over many centuries has done some great advertising to make you believe otherwise.
What is most important is Vitamin D and with new advancements in supplements we now have activated vitamin D ( practitioner only) so that its much better absorbed, if your someone who has been give 5,000 plus IU of vitamin D with little change to your result it because you have a gene that doesn't convert the synthetic vitamin D. This is where Activated D comes in I normally see big improvement in blood test with 3 months.
Other factor that would improve Osteoporosis are
Lifestyle changes - quite smoking
Weight bearing exercise
Vitamin K often found in vitamin D supplements
Homeopathic's
Tissue salts
Digestive health
In more rescent years we have seen the increase in the study of microbiome and the importance of gut health to basically everything. A study of 249 post menopausal women in Sweden came out showing those who used certain stains of probiotic over 12 months had a 78% reduction in bone loss, assessed at lumber spine. compared to those who too the placebo.
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