Osteoporosis Treatment Villa Rica GA By Victoria L. Freeman, PhD
If you’re one of the 44 million Americans with porous bones, you
may already know osteoporosis as a silent disease occasionally
punctuated by muscle or bone pain or inexplicable fractures.
What you may not realize is how bones become brittle in the
first place. Your body breaks down and rebuilds bone through an
intricate dance between osteoclasts (bone breaker cells) and
osteoblasts (bone makers) to ensure that your body has enough
calcium to function properly. If you take in enough calcium,
your bones will store the excess and make new bone out of it. If
you don’t, the kidneys will hold on to their reserves, and the
osteoclasts will break down (resorb) the bone and release the
calcium into the bloodstream. Up until your 30s, your body
builds more bone than it breaks down; after that, you lose more
bone than your body can make. If you’ve taken good care of
yourself all along—through diet, exercise, and lifestyle
choices—you’ll have a storehouse