osteoporosis Archives

Osteoporosis and your Skeleton – use it or lose it

2024-07-30T13:25:04+00:00By Dr Frances le Roux|Improving Health|

The word osteoporosis (from the Greek for ‘bone’ and ‘pore’) tells us that the affected bones have holes in their structure. Osteoporosis has been called the ‘silent disease’, progressing without any outward sign, sometimes for decades, until a fracture occurs. Today, regular bone mineral density (BMD) tests have broken this silence – the disease is now in the open, a challenge to be overcome with specific nutrition, supplements, medicine and exercise.

Women’s Diseases – Men Can Get These Too!

2023-03-13T12:06:01+00:00By Dr David Nye|Family Health|

Men often think that their bodies should work like a well-oiled machine, and thus find it difficult to cope when they malfunction - even more so when they discover they are suffering from a ‘women’s disease’.

The Udder Truth about Cow’s Milk

2022-10-19T18:31:01+00:00By Jacqueline Wildish|Natural Nutrition|

We have an enormous love affair with cow’s milk in all its forms – cheese, butter, yoghurt, cream, ice-cream, condensed milk and more. It is a food woven into the fabric, and into official dietary guidelines, of Western society. Cow’s milk was once the traditional symbol of purity and nutrition, but most milk today is not the same wholesome product our grandparents knew. Today benefits of drinking cow’s milk seem to be outweighed by the potential health risks associated with poor-quality, processed and contaminated milk, and by the debilitating symptoms resulting from cow’s milk allergy.

Magnesium – the understated mineral

2024-10-04T09:47:48+00:00By Lela Rabie|Natural Remedies|

Magnesium is thought to combat fatigue because it helps release energy in the body. It also plays a role in the production of melatonin, which helps to regulate sleep; this production is disturbed when levels of magnesium are insufficient. As well as being helpful in treating fatigue and insomnia, magnesium plays a role in preventing and treating a host of other common ailments from the premenstrual syndrome (PMS) to heart problems.

Spotlight on Bone Health and Supplementation

2024-07-30T13:31:04+00:00By Robert Heaney|Experts|

Calcium is the principal mineral in bone, and if you don’t get enough calcium you either can’t make enough bone during growth or you tear down your bone as an adult in order to make up for what your diet doesn’t provide. Now vitamin D comes into the story, because vitamin D is necessary to help the body regulate calcium absorption so that you use your food calcium with maximum efficiency.

Does Exercise Age Us ?

2021-05-22T23:19:10+00:00By Ian Craig|Fitness Focus|

A certain amount of oxidative stress is needed for adaptation to the exercise and adaptation to life. BUT, if this oxidative stress is excessive for a prolonged period, it becomes damaging to the body and potentially impacts the ageing process.

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