What your wrist fracture may be telling you
How many of you have fallen and thrown out your hands to catch yourself? It’s probably happened to most us, and may be one reason that in the U.S., 1...
The straight poop on fecal transplants
It’s so easy to think that our high-tech, modern culture means we understand the laws of nature and know more than our ancestors. When it comes to maintaining health, however,...
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
Social Networks and Health Scientists have noticed that we tend to reflect the people we’re closest to — if our friends are optimists, it makes us more cheery, and if...
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....
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