Bone Up

As women reach menopause they are told to begin treatment with medications that will prevent osteoporosis, with good reason. As they reach the magical age when they begin the transformation back from the brink of monthly emotional insanity, the are made acutely aware of the next big thing that can take them down...literally, brittle bones and hip fractures. So, they go to the doctor and he or she tells them they need to be on some sort of drug that prevents bone decay. Drugs like Fosamax, Boniva, and others are Biphosphanate drugs the work on very specific areas of bone.

The powers that be have taught us that post-menopausal bones need to be thick in order to prevent fractures as we age, that the medications will do that for us, and that we nust take them religiously...It's all smoke and mirrors. Firstly, there are many disease processes that produce thick bones. Bone thickness has never been a quality of bone strength, in fact, most thicker bones fracture more easily !!

Here's the deception...Biphosphanates work on the bone tissue cells called Osteoclasts. They are the bone cells whose job it is to destroy old and diseased bone...the bone that is already weak, and they are driven be the hormone ESTROGEN. Like every cell type in our bodies, bone cells have a life span and when it is reached, the cell dies and needs to be removed in order to make room for the new bone that will replace it. So, preventing older bone from being removed from the system gives the bone the appearance of nice thicker bones on X-rays, but it is weaker bone...dead bone. Another bone cell type is called an Osteoblast, these are the cells that make new bone. During menopause, Osteoblasts works less hard because they are primarily driven by the hormone PROGESTERONE.. Are you getting it yet ??

As both hormones drop during menopause both cell types activities drop, but Progesterone drops a bit more that Estrogen. Because of this imbalance Osteoclasts are more active than Osteoblasts...more bone is lost than bone is built. Amazing huh...What is needed more than meds, is an increase in BioIdentical Progesterone, a regular exercise routine that stresses the bones and Calcium and Vitamine D supplements. Simple....and no deception

Rose Colored Glasses

It has been some time since my last post, 5 months actually. Not that I have had few thoughts since then or that any of them have not been worthy of web life but more that life has taken to moving too fast and taken time with it...But I'm back.

This blog was started for the purpose of informing you about what REALLY happens in the medical/health world and how it affects us all. How misinformation messes us all up...and how to REALLY take responsibility for your own health...cause no one else can.

While listening to a news story about the shortage of oil in the world, I found myself falling for the spin that oil is in short supply, and that the monolith of BIG oil is just too big for the world to change its need for it...All of this is a bunch of dinosaur crap...Do you really believe that all the worlds oil came from a limited amout of decaying dino mass??? BP was drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, in more than 5 miles depth of water, then another mile below the sea floor. Are you really going to buy the notion that some dinosaur was buried that deep eons ago...

What you need to know is that there is plenty of oil...all over the world. That doesn't mean we should mess up our environment in burning it for fuel, but lets face it, too many things we use in our daily lives require oil for their manufacture...Like plastics. Plastics come from OIL and I'll bet you didn't know that plastics can be reverse engineered to get back the oil that made them in the first place, and it's not very hard at all. WE can get gas, kerosine, diesel fuel and lamp oil from de-processing plastic.

We could kill 2 birds with one huge stone, clean up out environment of non-decaying plastic and reducing our need for more and more oil. There is a man from Japan that actually made a machine that turns plastic into oil...his machine separates the resultant liquids into gasoline, kerosine, diesel, and oil....COOL HUH.

The purpose of all this is to get you to see that things are rarely as they seem and hardly ever as we are told they are...Even more so in the area of your health... more later.