Osteoporosis
- Sojin
- Dec 25, 2022
- 2 min read
1. About Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is a disease that weakens bones. It is due to a reduction in the number of bones and thinner bones than before. It usually represents spine, femur neck and wrist but it can affect everywhere in your body. After age 50, people have more percentages which can have osteoporosis.
2. Effects of osteoporosis
There are two effects of osteoporosis. Osteoporosis increases the risk of broken bones and affects the spine bones.
First, osteoporosis increases the risk of broken bones. While the density of bones decreased, the bones can be broken to something more easily than higher density of bones.
And the second one is it also affects the spine bone, so it leads to loss of height. It means that the spine is no longer able to support your body. Not only loss of height, it also causes compression fraction. Compression fraction leads to broken bones when someone pushes you lightly. When this fraction gets worse, a person can not stand up easily and has pain when he/she coughs.
IMG Credit: VERITAS health
3. Solutions and Reasons
The major reasons for osteoporosis are food problems, lifestyle problems and physical problems.
Food problems: Osteoporosis also happens because of a lack of calcium and vitamin D. Calcium is contained in milk products such as milk, cheese and yogurt, and there is a lot of calcium in vegetables and anchovies. Vitamin D is contained in egg yolks, fish that have many fats, and shiitake mushrooms.
Lifestyle problems: Alcohol and drugs affect osteoporosis. Excessive drinking disturbs the absorption of calcium and reduces the forming of bones. For evidence, from one experiment in 2006, long-term administration of alcohol to rats reduced bone formation and bone density. Moreover, the person who drinks alcohol is related to high femoral BMD.
Physical problems: For women, menopause can be the reason for osteoporosis. It is because estrogen keeps our bone density, but it is not created when women menopause.
For men, a sudden drop in testosterone levels can lead to osteoporosis. Testosterone contributes to osteoporosis because it inhibits bone resorption and is important for maintaining bone formation.
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