High calcium causing heart attacks? Vitamin K to the rescue!
You’ve likely heard the media furor around a recent finding that use of calcium supplements is associated with a ...
Bone health pearls from Jerilynn C. Prior, M.D
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Jerilynn Prior, a renowned endocrinologist and bone health ...
Can vitamin D compete with bone drugs?
At the Center for Better Bones, we are constantly thinking about fracture reduction and looking for data to help ...
Mysteries of bone breakdown revealed: the RANK, RANK-L and OPG system
Each minute, within the skeleton, more than a million sites of old worn-out bone are being eaten away by ...
Increased fracture risk with heartburn drugs
Over the years I have written about the many studies documenting an increase risk of fracture among those using ...
How Mary healed her broken leg fast
In an earlier blog post, I told the story of Mary, a young woman who had shattered two bones in her leg in what ...
Down to the bone injustice — not just for women
The “osteoporosis scare” is no longer just for women. Here at the Center for Better Bones, we are seeing an ...
Yes, you can be too thin
Whenever I go to one of my son’s school events, or see a group of children in other places, my attention is drawn ...
Bones, not Botox
I was amused by a story presented on NPR about how plastic surgeons were just discovering that part of the reason ...
Why should you hang on to your medical records?
Let me tell you about Janet. Janet is a thin, energetic 57-year-old woman now seven years into menopause who came ...
Mary’s broken leg – Part 1
I often say it’s never too late to build strong, healthy bones, but I could just as easily say it’s never too ...
Nothing comes from nothing—rethinking “primary osteoporosis”
When osteoporosis is diagnosed in men, a great effort is made to uncover the causes of the excessive bone loss. In ...
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