Exercises to Prevent Osteoporosis: How to Get Started

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Thu, February 22, 2007

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Exercise is vital to improving overall health and helps you look and feel good. It’s also a powerful weapon against osteoporosis, a silent disease with very few detectable signs. With osteoporosis, low bone mass and weakening of bone tissue leads to bone fragility and an increased susceptibility ...

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jason

3/ 1/07 11:50am

I have a question:

I have heard that once you lose some bone density that you can not gain it back. So how does exercise prevent osteoporosis.

and congrats on this site.

Rose Chon

3/ 9/07 2:44am

Hi Jason,

Unfortunately, once bones have thinned, it is difficult to regain bone density. That is why exercise is a good strategy to prevent osteoporosis and greater bone loss.

Thanks for reading!

Curious

8/ 9/10 6:14pm

Hi Rose,

I am current taking the synthetic estrogen due to a total hysterectomy at 31. I recently discovered that I fall in the osteopenia category. Many people are suggesting that my high dose of estrodiol may be promoting bone loss. Is this the case?

Curious

Laura

8/ 9/10 7:08pm

Dear Curious,

I'm not an expert, but I lost my whole reproductive system at age 17 in 1979 and have been on HRT for 30 years and my bone density is ok. There was a time that the docs thought it was bad, but I had a very sophisticated bone density test done and it was normal. Ask to have that test done. Also have your D vitamin level checked. I have to during the winter take rx 50,000 units of D to keep it normal along with calcium. Exercise and lower body weight is also vital, since my diagnosis I went from 225 to 125 and kept it off going on 20 years. Hope this is of help. Laura

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