What Every Woman Should Know About Menopause And Osteoporosis by Kathryn Whittak

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Maintaining a positive attitude towards menopause will help a woman cope

with many menopausal symptoms, but it takes more than a positive

attitude to protect her from developing osteoporosis.

 

Osteoporosis is a condition that affects the bones, causing them to

become weak and brittle. This weakness makes the bones more susceptible

to fractures, and can also result in height decrease and/or a humped

back.

 

Osteoporosis is directly linked to menopause. It is estimated that more

than 50 million American woman aged 45 and older are at risk of

developing osteoporosis. Furthermore, research suggests that almost half

of all women 60 and over will experience at least one fracture related

to the disease. In addition, the average postmenopausal woman will lose

approximately 10% of her bone mass within the first five years following

menopause.

 

Why does osteoporosis typically occur in menopausal women? Estrogen is

vital for aiding cells in building and maintaining strong, healthy

bones. Thus, during menopause, the decrease in estrogen levels causes

cell building bones to become less active. The result is in an increase

in bone loss, because the bones are deteriorating faster than they can

be rebuilt.

 

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I would also include the fact that women no longer

produce progesterone...which is needed to slough off

the dead cells so the estrogen, which we still

manufacture using our fat stores, can rebuild the new

cells. It's not just estrogen that is the issue...it

is more lack of progesterone.

 

Jenny Kernan

--- boonkiatchua <boonkiatchua wrote:

 

>

> Maintaining a positive attitude towards menopause

> will help a woman cope

> with many menopausal symptoms, but it takes more

> than a positive

> attitude to protect her from developing

> osteoporosis.

>

> Osteoporosis is a condition that affects the bones,

> causing them to

> become weak and brittle. This weakness makes the

> bones more susceptible

> to fractures, and can also result in height decrease

> and/or a humped

> back.

>

> Osteoporosis is directly linked to menopause. It is

> estimated that more

> than 50 million American woman aged 45 and older are

> at risk of

> developing osteoporosis. Furthermore, research

> suggests that almost half

> of all women 60 and over will experience at least

> one fracture related

> to the disease. In addition, the average

> postmenopausal woman will lose

> approximately 10% of her bone mass within the first

> five years following

> menopause.

>

> Why does osteoporosis typically occur in menopausal

> women? Estrogen is

> vital for aiding cells in building and maintaining

> strong, healthy

> bones. Thus, during menopause, the decrease in

> estrogen levels causes

> cell building bones to become less active. The

> result is in an increase

> in bone loss, because the bones are deteriorating

> faster than they can

> be rebuilt.

>

> Read the full post at:

>

http://informationalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-every-woman-should\

> -know-about.html

>

<http://informationalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-every-woman-shoul\

> d-know-about.html>

>

>

>

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> removed]

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>

 

 

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Jenny, thanks for enlightening us.

 

BK

 

PS: for people who wants to understand more about Progesterone, you can visit

this Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progesterone

 

Jenny Kernan <rainysnana wrote:

I would also include the fact that women no longer

produce progesterone...which is needed to slough off

the dead cells so the estrogen, which we still

manufacture using our fat stores, can rebuild the new

cells. It's not just estrogen that is the issue...it

is more lack of progesterone.

 

Jenny Kernan

--- boonkiatchua <boonkiatchua wrote:

 

>

> Maintaining a positive attitude towards menopause

> will help a woman cope

> with many menopausal symptoms, but it takes more

> than a positive

> attitude to protect her from developing

> osteoporosis.

>

> Osteoporosis is a condition that affects the bones,

> causing them to

> become weak and brittle. This weakness makes the

> bones more susceptible

> to fractures, and can also result in height decrease

> and/or a humped

> back.

>

> Osteoporosis is directly linked to menopause. It is

> estimated that more

> than 50 million American woman aged 45 and older are

> at risk of

> developing osteoporosis. Furthermore, research

> suggests that almost half

> of all women 60 and over will experience at least

> one fracture related

> to the disease. In addition, the average

> postmenopausal woman will lose

> approximately 10% of her bone mass within the first

> five years following

> menopause.

>

> Why does osteoporosis typically occur in menopausal

> women? Estrogen is

> vital for aiding cells in building and maintaining

> strong, healthy

> bones. Thus, during menopause, the decrease in

> estrogen levels causes

> cell building bones to become less active. The

> result is in an increase

> in bone loss, because the bones are deteriorating

> faster than they can

> be rebuilt.

>

> Read the full post at:

>

http://informationalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-every-woman-should\

> -know-about.html

>

<http://informationalnetwork.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-every-woman-shoul\

> d-know-about.html>

>

>

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

 

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[Guest guest]

While that blog entry had some good info to raise awareness, it missed many

important things:

 

 

Bone loss can start as early as age 30, when women start producing less

progesterone. Each time we have an anovulatory cycle, there is no corpus

luteum to manufacture progesterone.

 

According to Dr. John Lee, the fact that a female's bone loss starts in her

mid thirties when estrogen levels are high indicates that estrogen does not

totally prevent bone loss. Estrogen will slow the rate of bone loss by

slightly poisoning the 'osteoclasts' thereby slowing down resorption, but it

DOES NOT reverse it.

 

It's interesting that osteoporosis begins to set in 10 to 15 years before

menopause, around the time a woman begins to experience a deficiency in

progesterone. The most important factor in osteoporosis is the lack of

progesterone, which causes a decrease in new bone formation.

 

Artificial progestins used in conventional HRT are not identical to the

progesterone made by a woman's ovary, and therefore do not do the same work

in bone building. In fact, artificial progestins may prevent any real

progesterone that may be circulating in the body from occupying

bone-building receptors, negating any bone-building benefits as both compete

for the same receptor site.

 

Dr. John Lee has found that the use of a topical progesterone cream leads to

a 10% increase in bone density within 6-to-12 months, followed by an annual

increase of 3% to 5% until the bone density of his post-menopausal patients

stabilizes at the levels of healthy 35-year-old women. Progesterone is the

ONLY thing that has been shown to INCREASE bone mass.

 

Also contrary to popular belief, magnesium rather than calcium is a much

bigger player and far more important in maintaining bone integrity. Up to 70

percent of women are magnesium-deficient. It's a fact, osteoporosis occurs

in people who eat plenty of calcium just as in people who don't eat much at

all. Women taking calcium to ward off osteoporosis should be sure to get

enough magnesium, too. The body aims to keep the two minerials in balance.

 

Vitamin E may also help reverse osteoporosis.

 

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