Osteoporosis is a silent disease that affects the integrity of your bone’s internal structure. The term osteoporosis means “porous bone.” When viewed under a microscope, healthy bone looks like a tightly formed honeycomb. When osteoporosis occurs, those holes and spaces have become much more extensive, indicating a loss of density that makes them both more fragile and susceptible to injury.
Most people don’t realize that bones are not solid rigid structures. Instead, each of our bones is part of a complex skeletal framework of living tissue undergoing a process of continual change called remodeling. We develop a strong skeletal system through the daily removal or resorption of bone mineral along with an equal deposit of new mineral. When this delicate balance of bone remodeling is disrupted, it can have an enormous impact on bone health and increase the risk of developing osteoporosis.
According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, some of the factors associated with developing osteoporosis include:
After the age of about 30 years old, the average person naturally begins to lose bone density when bones lose the ability to rebuild at the same rate it breaks down. Women, in particular, face a higher risk of losing bone density as they age and enter menopause when hormone changes accelerate the loss of bone density.
Yes. Men are absolutely at risk of being diagnosed with osteoporosis. It is vitally important for them to communicate with their doctors about their skeletal health. While it is true, men don’t experience hormone-related bone mass at the same rate as women experiencing menopause; bone loss accelerates as men age.
By around the age of 60, men begin to lose bone mass at the same rate as women. Once over 60, both men and women also experience a decrease in their ability to absorb calcium, an essential nutrient for bone health.
According to the National Institutes for Health, there are several risk factors for men, including:
The most common test used to measure bone mass density, according to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, is a DXA scan or dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The test is painless and much like an x-ray, but without the same level of exposure to radiation. It can measure small incremental changes in bone density throughout your body but is most often used to measure BMD in the hip and spine.
At age 30, virtually everyone starts to lose muscle strength. In fact, if eating right and working out could hold off this natural course of aging, we would see professional athletes continuing their careers well beyond their 30’s.
One of the symptoms of declining musculoskeletal strength is a loss of balance. Because you engage your central nervous system and entire musculoskeletal system in a brief but very unique way at OsteoStrong, one of the benefits is an almost instant improvement in balance and agility. In fact, it’s one of the first things that people notice.
To the right is an internal case report we conducted with over 50 members to help illustrate this great benefit. A regular protocol at OsteoStrong centers is to track balance improvements before each session.
OsteoStrong technology has been shown to trigger bone density growth, but why does this matter to an athlete? Other than protection from fractures, skeletal strengthening in many cases eliminates limitations to plateaus and muscle growth.
The central nervous system has a self-protecting process called neural inhibition. This process keeps muscles from engaging if a voluntary action is causing pain or discomfort. Under the high-impact activities, the central nervous system limits muscular power to protect the skeletal system and joints. The best way to illustrate this is by clenching one’s fist or flexing the muscles to their maximum potential. Under no circumstances can an individual break their own bones. Neural inhibition will not permit it.
As many have seen with OsteoStrong, bone density can be brought to levels more than two standard deviations above what is considered to be normal. This means your body has a more powerful frame, will allow more muscular engagement and thereby more muscular strength and power.
There are multiple, well-proven and safe approaches to treating type II diabetes and metabolic dysfunction. Fortunately, these different approaches can be used individually, or in conjunction with one another. When viewed as single therapies however, it is OsteoStrong that performs the best compared to the other standards of care in the reduction of HbA1c (long term blood glucose measures).
Type II diabetes (T2D) and pre-diabetes, also known as metabolic disease, affects nearly 100 million Americans (1 in 3 people). †
Treatment costs exceed $322 billion per year.
20% of all healthcare dollars are spent on metabolic disease.
Dramatic improvements can happen quickly at all ages with regular OsteoStrong sessions. Both members below experienced the results shown here in less than 8 sessions (2-months). Many others see similar results because of the unique yet simple way that OsteoStrong sessions engage the entire musculoskeletal chain.
• There are 206 bones in your body.
• It takes an average of 12 weeks to heal a broken bone.
• 52 million – the number of Americans affected by osteoporosis and low bone density.
WHAT MAKES BONES GROW
As long as growth plates (at the end of long bones in your arms and legs) stay open, you grow. The plates close in the late teens for boys and within 2 years of starting periods for girls.
LONGEST
The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest bone of the human skeleton.
SMALLEST
The stapes, in the middle ear, is the smallest and lightest bone of the human skeleton.
