[{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/bone-nutrition\/bone-research-in-the-amazon\/#Article","mainEntityOfPage":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/bone-nutrition\/bone-research-in-the-amazon\/","headline":"Bone Research in the Brazilian Amazon!","name":"Bone Research in the Brazilian Amazon!","description":"Print PDF eBook Facebook Twitter Gmail LinkedIn Pinterest As many of you know, I am an anthropologist as well as a nutritionist, and I have worked in several Central and South American countries. In fact, some of my most memorable field work was among the Bari (Motilone) Indians of Colombia pictured below. At the American […]","datePublished":"2011-04-26","dateModified":"2026-04-22","author":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/author\/brownbetterbonesgmail-com\/#Person","name":"Dr. Susan E. Brown, PhD","url":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/author\/brownbetterbonesgmail-com\/","identifier":72,"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e08d87bd45250c6616e1752933a6576aba077f335d97ee337a0cde5e435cbd3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8e08d87bd45250c6616e1752933a6576aba077f335d97ee337a0cde5e435cbd3?s=96&d=mm&r=g","height":96,"width":96}},"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Center for Better Bones","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Better-Bones-AMP.png","url":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Better-Bones-AMP.png","width":150,"height":60}},"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","@id":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/osteoporosis-blog.jpg","url":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/osteoporosis-blog.jpg","height":512,"width":1024},"url":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/bone-nutrition\/bone-research-in-the-amazon\/","about":["Bone Nutrition"],"wordCount":328,"keywords":["bone health research"],"articleBody":" Print PDF eBook\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFacebook\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTwitter\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGmail\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLinkedIn\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPinterest\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAs many of you know, I am an anthropologist as well as a nutritionist, and I have worked in several Central and South American countries. In fact, some of my most memorable field work was among the Bari (Motilone) Indians of Colombia pictured below. At the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research meeting of bone researchers in March of this year, I had the opportunity to meet a wonderful Brazilian endocrinologist, Dr. Marise Lazaretti Castro. She was at the meeting presenting her research findings on vitamin D deficiency in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Lazaretti and I took an immediate liking to one another, and right away, we began musing about what might be the \u201cnatural\u201d human vitamin D level.\u00a0We soon realized the perfect place to find out would be in the Brazilian Amazon.As it turns out, Dr. Lazaretti might well have contacts who could facilitate access to such an indigenous population, so that we could hopefully be able to carry out this project one day. If so, I would like to look at a few more variables in addition to vitamin D. For example, I would like to assess the bone breakdown rates at different life stages and compare them with our rates of bone loss. I would also like to look at menopausal symptoms in such an indigenous group (such symptoms are often absent entirely), as well as changes in muscle strength and bone mineral density over time.\u00a0What great fun even thinking about this. Here\u2019s crossing my fingers it can become a reality!\u00a0We only have so much time for this sort of research before all the indigenous people of the few remote, unaltered regions of the world become modernized and homogenized.\u00a0 Learn about all the key nutrients in our comprehensive resource on essential nutrients for strong bones.Compare all the options in our comprehensive resource on which supplements actually help bone density."},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Bone Nutrition","item":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/bone-nutrition\/#breadcrumbitem"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bone Research in the Brazilian Amazon!","item":"https:\/\/betterbones.com\/bone-nutrition\/bone-research-in-the-amazon\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]