Osteoporosis is a condition that makes bones weak and more likely to break. While doctors sometimes recommend medicine to help with osteoporosis, there are natural ways to prevent or even reverse it.
1. Weight-Bearing Exercise
Weight-bearing exercises are activities where you use your body weight or other weights to help your bones stay strong. Examples include walking, running, dancing, and lifting weights. When you do these activities, your bones work harder, which helps them get stronger. Studies show that regular exercise can help prevent bone loss, especially for older people, and it can also help prevent falls and broken bones.
2. Get Enough Vitamin D
Vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium, which is important for strong bones. If you don’t have enough vitamin D, your bones can become weaker. You can get vitamin D from sunlight, foods like fish, liver, eggs, mushrooms, or from a vitamin D supplement. (Be sure to choose plant based vitamins from a reputable company, not the cheap, synthetic ones commonly found in stores and at your local pharmacy.) Having enough vitamin D helps keep your bones healthy and can slow down bone loss.
3. Eat Healthy Foods
Eating healthy foods helps your bones grow and stay strong. Calcium is very important for bone health: you can find it in foods like milk, cheese, yogurt, and leafy green vegetables. Magnesium, found in nuts, seeds, and whole grains, helps your body use calcium properly. Eating a balanced diet with enough protein also helps keep bones strong and healthy.
4. Phototherapy
Red-light therapy is a newer treatment where special red lights are used to help cells in the body heal. Some research shows that red-light therapy can help bones grow stronger by encouraging bone-building cells to work better. This therapy has also been shown to help reduce swelling and pain in people with osteoporosis. However, in-office treatments average around $50 to $150 per session; at-home devices can cost between $50 and $500 depending on the brand and features. There is a better, more economical way to get the benefits of phototherapy. Read about it HERE then text me to get yours today.
Thinking About Medicine
Doctors often recommend medicine like pills or hormones to treat osteoporosis. But many of the studies that say these medicines work are paid for by companies that make the medicine. This could make the results not fully accurate. Also, the long list of side effects and warnings in most medications is alarming to anyone who takes the time to notice.
Instead of relying on medicine alone, it’s a good idea to try natural ways, like exercise, healthy eating, and red-light therapy, to keep bones strong.
