Natural Way To Cure Osteoporosis
You don’t want to wake up in your fifty and suddenly you realize that you have osteoporosis, that is why you need to stack your calcium supply since young. Osteoporosis is a serious matter. When you have osteoporosis you would have trouble walking, and your bone can easily break under small pressure like falling down from bed.
So is there a natural cure for osteoporosis? First of all we need to know how bad is your osteoporosis. If you are in your late forty and you have very low calcium then it would probably too late to find natural cure for you, you should take a medication for it (seriously). If you are still young or your bone density has not gone too brittle then here are some tips to cure osteoporosis.
Exercise
Exercise has to do with osteoporosis? Exercise can build and maintain the thickness of your bone. People that has osteoporosis should get a regular exercise. Wait, isn’t people that has osteoporosis has more risk for broken bone when exercising? Well, contrary to many believe this is not true. A well planned exercise can help people reduce that risk significantly.
So what kind of exercise that help with osteoporosis? You can do hiking, dancing, getting up and down stairs, jogging, tennis, yoga, power walking, swimming, and regular stretches.
Healthy and High Calcium Food
Yea so I just need to drink milk right? Not exactly. Even though it is true that milk has many calcium, but what people doesn’t know is that most of the calcium in it your body can’t absorb it. So the majority of calcium in milk would go wasted and excreted out. Milk also has high phosphorus which inhibit calcium absorption and bone metabolism.
If milk is ruled out for our calcium needs what else do we have? You should get your calcium need from soybeans, tofu, or soy milk. It would have less calcium than ordinary milk, but your body would absorb most of its calcium.
What else affect osteoporosis?
- Coffee. Even though there are many benefits that coffee can offer, but its caffeine can absorb calcium.
- Smoking. Affect bone metabolism which resulting in less dense bone.
- Vitamin D and K. Vitamin D help the process of calcium absorption while vitamin K help bind the calcium to the bone.
posted: 11 December 23
under: Healthy life