What is Osteoporosis?

What Is Osteoporosis?

We come into this world as tiny, toothless babies, wearing diapers for the first few years of our lives and we may leave this world in exactly the same way. From Pampers to Depends! From Crest to Polident! Have you ever felt that as we grow from infants to children to adults, this process is reversed as we enter the senior years, including our size? I have discovered the people I know, especially older women, are shrinking! Is this normal? Does bone loss and osteoporosis have to be part of aging? Beyond perimenopause and menopause, here are my findings about natural progesterone and natural solutions to your thinning bones.

Osteoporosis is a condition characterized by a decline in your bone density and thinning of bone tissue, resulting in weak bones prone to fractures. Normally our bodies continually replace old bone tissue with new. When we are children, more tissue is added than removed as bones grow and lengthen. After about age 35, we start to lose the bone replacement war. Gradually, bone mass decreases for both men and women. This is a natural part of aging.

Osteoporosis is an exaggerated version of this age-related bone downslide. Women are especially vulnerable to osteoporosis because hormones decline with middle-age. Both estrogen and progesterone diminish as women enter menopause. Falling estrogen levels tip the bone recycling machine in favor of bone breakdown. During the first five years following menopause, women can lose two to eight percent of their vertebral bone. Your body can lose bone mass at a rate of one to three percent per year for the five to ten years following menopause.

Please note that there can be other causes. This is for education only. It is not intended to treat, prevent or cure a medical disease. If you have a medical condition, please consult a health care professional