Welcome to Osteoporosis Treatments

People who have heard the word osteoporosis often wonder exactly what it is. It was often called porous bone. With osteoporosis your bone mass is low and often suffers from structural deterioration with the bone tissue. This makes it easier to break your bones, especially in places like your hips, your spine, as well as your wrist. This disease can effect men and women alike.

In order to understand a little more about osteoporosis you must first know a little about your bones. Your bone is a tissue that lives and grows. As you grow older some of your bone dies, and your body removes it, while new making new bones to replace it. Up until your twenties, your new bone is created faster than your old bone dies and is removed, so your bone becomes denser. When you reach about thirty, your bone replaces itself slower. This means that your dead bone is removed, which is called resorption, faster than you replace it.

Bone is made from two main things. One of them is called collagen. This is the protein that provides the soft framework. The other is called calcium phosphate. This is a mineral that hardens and provides your framework with strength. This combination allows your bones to withstand more stress. Unfortunately, when your body suffers from osteoporosis it doesn’t withstand the stress that you would normally be able to.

The risk to suffer from osteoporosis is much greater with several things; some can be changed while others can’t.

Your gender plays a big factor in osteoporosis. If you are female you are more likely to suffer from osteoporosis. Women generally have less bone tissue to begin. They also lose bone tissue faster after going through menopause because of the numerous changes they are going through.

Unfortunately for everybody, age also plays a big part in osteoporosis. As you age you continue to lose bone mass. As you lose more bone mass, you are at an increased risk for osteoporosis. Also your body size, ethnicity, and family history also effect your osteoporosis chances.

Factors that you can change, with some help, are sex hormones, anorexia nervosa, your calcium and vitamin D intake, your use of medication, your lifestyle, whether or not you smoke cigarettes, and your alcohol intake. These are only a few of the things that can increase your chances for osteoporosis.