Excerpts from http://www.drhotze.com/ blog of 8/5/10:
Hormonal imbalance can cause long term damage to the body including cognitive decline, cancer, heart disease and osteoporosis.
Eighty percent of osteoporosis cases involve women. The closer a woman gets to menopause the more at risk she becomes. Osteoporosis literally means 'porous bones' but, the good news is that your body has a process for rebuilding and rejuvenating bone. Cells called osteoclasts roam through your bone tissue looking for old bone cells. These osteoclasts dissolve the old bone and release the leftover calcium and minerals, leaving holes in the bone. Don’t worry, it’s all part of a great plan. Our second player comes on to the scene: osteoblasts. Osteoblasts fill these holes by using the leftover calcium and minerals to build new bone.
And viola! You’ve got new bone tissue!
Whether you have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia or would like to prevent osteoporosis, you have the ability to promote healthy bones now.
Hormonal balance is crucial to bone health. As estrogen levels decline, osteoclastic activity increases, removing nutrients and breaking down bone. On the other hand, progesterone enables bone-building osteoblasts to do their job. Osteoclasts are breaking down bone tissue faster than osteoblast can build it. When both estrogen and progesterone are deficient, the damage to bone is amplified at an alarming rate.
Progesterone falls 120 times faster than the rate of estrogen and can begin decreasing long before menopause. Therefore, bone loss can begin as early as your 30’s in the form of progesterone deficiency. You can see how progesterone deficiency over the years, combined with estrogen deficiency when you reach menopause can lead to osteopenia and eventually osteoporosis.
Estrogen and progesterone are not the only hormones that promote bone health. Testosterone and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), like progesterone, promote osteoblastic activity thus building new bone tissue.
In addition to correcting hormonal imbalance, adding a few supplements to your vitamin regimen can promote bone health. Supplementing magnesium, calcium citrate and strontium, along with optimizing your vitamin D levels are all good steps to ensuring healthy bones.
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