Medication use and osteoporotic fracture
Are you taking medications that could increase your risk of osteoporotic fracture? Many people are – even after they’ve suffered a fracture – according to a recent article about osteoporotic...
Your social networks and your health
Table of Contents Toggle Social Networks and Health Researchers also learned these things about happy people The happiness bottom line Social Networks and Health Scientists have noticed that we tend...
Is it osteoporosis — or something else?
Here is the scenario. A woman seeks my services, concerned and even fearful after having been told she has osteoporosis and should take a bone drug. We sit down and...
Fall superfood for bones: Ginger
I’m naming ginger one of my fall superfoods. While I highly recommend hot ginger tea as my choice for a cold weather drink, there are so many other ways ginger...
6 fall tips for better digestion
As the days get shorter and colder, I load my wood stove to keep myself warm. And I stoke my “other stove” as well — my digestion. It’s the...
Diabetes and osteoporosis
With World Diabetes Day on November 14, this is an ideal time to take a look at what osteoporosis and diabetes have in common. It’s a lot more than you...
Onions — a fall favorite and bone superfood
When I was a kid, my family had a root cellar that was loaded up each fall with apples, squashes, potatoes and onions to draw upon all winter long. While...
Pumpkin and pumpkin seeds: fall bone superstars
You know autumn is here when everyone start offering “pumpkin spice” products. Pumpkin spice coffee, pumpkin spice doughnuts, pumpkin spice beer. (Someone, sooner or later, is going to start selling...
5 tips to protect bone from toxic metal damage
No matter how we may try to eat “clean,” our food, water and environment bring us a serious load of toxic metals — lead, arsenic, mercury and cadmium. Lead and...
3 trace minerals you didn’t know your bones needed
What do you think of when someone says “bone-building minerals?” If you’re like most people, calcium jumps to mind immediately. Maybe you also think of phosphorus, magnesium and even zinc....
Go nuts to reduce inflammation
Recently, I spotted a study that suggested nuts had anti-inflammatory action. Now, this isn’t the first time researchers have found nuts to be beneficial for health, but this particular study...
Bone health risks of too much TV watching
I often hear people talking about “binge-watching” TV series like Orange Is the New Black or The Walking Dead. They spend 3 or 4 hours, sometimes even a whole weekend,...
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