Healthy to the Bone - OSAplex CF - I.V. Ozone

Testing and treating osteoporosis. The current "gold standard" test for diagnosing osteoporosis in patients without an osteoporosis fracture is the dual energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Risk factors for osteoporosis fractures may include but are not limited too long-term use of certain medications, especially glucocorticoids, anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, aromatase inhibitors, cancer chemotherapeutic drugs, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists. Although these fractures can be present in any bone they occur most often in the hip, spine, and wrist.

The American College of Physicians recommends that clinicians offer pharmacologic treatment with alendronate, risedronate, zoledronic acid, or denosumab to reduce the risk for hip and vertebral fractures in women who have known osteoporosis. The also urge against using menopause estrogen therapy or menopausal estrogen plus progestogen therapy or or raloxifene for the treatment of osteoporosis in women. According to evidence cited in guidelines from the ACP published in Annals of Internal Medicine, “zoledronic acid is associated with hypocalcemia” and influenza-like symptoms, and “bisphosphonates are associated with mild upper gastrointestinal symptoms” but “[e]vidence is insufficient to associate bisphosphonates with increased cancer risk, because studies report conflicting results.”

You need to take calcium/magnesium supplements to protect your bone health. I recommend Xymogen's MinRex. You can get high quality absorbable calcium through your diet with plant and nut milks. Everyone needs Vitamin D and some K for bone health. Xymogen makes a great combo in OsaPlex, OSAplex CF the newest one without calcium made from Olive extract which delivers all of the benefits of a calcium-free nutraceutical and OsaPlex MK-7. This is the one I recommend for post-menopausal women. 

Second Nature patients with osteoporosis remove inflammatory foods that cause bone demineralization. Of course, Second Nature patients take GOOD GUT products to recolonize, repair and restore gut function because you need healthy microbial diversity in your intestines to produce healthy bone tissue. We also offer full bone health testing and treatment.   Vitamin D and Vitamin K play a role in bone preservation.  These levels are tested as part of diagnostics.  Better to know your baseline levels and make corrections then to experience a terrifying breathing event or create unnecessary fractures.  

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For complete information, see:

Qaseem A, Forciea MA, McLean RM, Denberg TD, for the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians. Treatment of low bone density or osteoporosis to prevent fractures in men and women: a clinical practice guideline update from the American College of Physicians. [Published online ahead of print May 9, 2017]. Ann Intern Med. Accessed May 9, 2017.