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Pam Flores

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Heart Disease and Osteoporosis Have Common Link!

February is National Heart Awareness Month, so we'd like to tell you about the connection between heart disease and bone loss. If you have heart disease you've probably had many chest x-rays to monitor your heart, and sometimes during these tests compression fractures of the spine are found. New studies show that there is a... Read more Chevron

posted 02/14/2012, comments (2)|

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Former Harvard physicist, now living in India as author.

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Terrible News About Vitamin D

Dear Friends, At the risk of sounding alarmist I am posting this piece of research done by Duke University which states very categorically that Vitamin D is responsible for brain lesions in the elderly. This is due to its immunosuppresive actions, while the bacteria that cause the brain inflammations run rampant.... Read more Chevron

posted 01/03/2010, comments (4)|

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Reclasp Infusion

My name is Viva and I'm 60 years old. I have osteoporosis . I received reclasp infusion on Tues. I was told to drink water 2 days before the day of and 2 days after to help flush out the kidneys. I felt like more than the flu. I had awful taste in my mouth after the infusion and chills. The following morning I was... Read more Chevron

posted 11/28/2009, comments (5)|

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I am a wellness coach with a background in chiropractic

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Clinical Study: Ribonuclease-enriched lactoferrin induces positive effects on bone turnover markers

For those wanting to examine a recent clinical study that focuses on bone health restoration, click on R-ELF study. There are no side effects, it reduced bone resorption markers by 20%, and increased bone formation rate up to 40% within a 3 month period.

posted 10/30/2009, comment (1)|

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Retired occupational therapist, musician, gardener, grammy, plus

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Forteo side-effects

I am a 67-year-old woman living with osteoporosis. I have been using Forteo since Oct. of 2008. My rheumy whom I knew from working together at a hospital and whom I trust said Forteo was the only med that would work. My thoracic vertebrae were already starting to collapse. It was a shock because I had been on Fosamax for... Read more Chevron

posted 05/23/2009, comments (16)|

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