The TRUTH About Osteoporosis and Osteopenia

0:00now there's no way you can

0:02build up your bones okay if you have

0:05osteoporosis with calcium

0:07it's not going to happen what's going to

0:09happen if you attempt to do that is

0:10you're going to get calcification of

0:13your arteries so in this video I'm going

0:16to show you

0:18some insights on osteoporosis as well as

0:22osteopenia what is osteoporosis

0:24osteoporosis is a loss of bone density

0:27and bone mass and so the problem with

0:30that is you're at risk for a fracture

0:33now the purpose of bone is to give you

0:35structure

0:37to have a place where ligaments can

0:39attach and it's also a reserve for

0:42minerals so if you need more calcium or

0:46phosphorus bone is that Reserve and so

0:50many people just focus on the calcium

0:52aspect of bone but phosphorus like 85

0:56percent of phosphorus is stored in your

0:58bone yet we ignore phosphorus and the

1:00thing you need to know about phosphorus

1:02is that you can have problems with your

1:04bone if you have uh too little

1:06phosphorus or too much because if you

1:08have too much phosphorus as in if you

1:10drink a lot of sodas or things with

1:13phosphoric acid or junk foods that can

1:15cause bone loss as well but just so you

1:18know phosphorus is in a lot of foods

1:19it's in Meats fish eggs it's even in

1:23Dairy it's in vegetables so most people

1:26have enough phosphorus unless they're

1:27doing things to deplete phosphorus like

1:29I said consuming junk Foods or drinking

1:32the sodas or they have a kidney problem

1:34or they're taking certain medications

1:36that are interfering with phosphorus

1:38osteoporosis is severe bone loss putting

1:42you at risk for fractures osteopenia is

1:45kind of a subclinical or a stage that

1:48comes before Osteo porosis and what's

1:51interesting about osteopenia is over 50

1:53percent of women over the age of 50 have

1:56some degree of osteopenia and a

1:59significant amount of men have it as

2:00well but osteopenio doesn't really put

2:02you at risk for fractures it's just a

2:04good indicator that you know you're

2:06going down a road that you could end up

2:08with osteoporosis but typically a lot of

2:10people are totally on here take these

2:12medications exercise maybe you should

2:15start chewing those chocolate calcium

2:18bone building things which are just a

2:21joke but there's a paradox involved with

2:24calcification what they found with this

2:26Paradox is that uh people that have

2:29osteoporosis have a much higher degree

2:32of calcification in the arteries and the

2:34adjoints so that's kind of weird that

2:36you're having all this excess calcium

2:38but it's not going in the right place

2:39the other point I want to bring up about

2:42bone is that in the bone marrow you have

2:44an entire Factory that is making blood

2:46red blood cells white blood cells and

2:50platelets so bone is composed of

2:54not just calcium a lot of minerals also

2:5735 percent of bone is protein mostly in

3:01the form of collagen so let's go through

3:04the key nutrients that are needed to

3:07either reverse osteopenia and

3:10osteoporosis and even another thing

3:12called osteomalacia let me just tell you

3:14what that is osteomalacia is kind of

3:16soft bones in adults and that is

3:19primarily from a vitamin D deficiency

3:22when this occurs in children we call

3:24that rickets when we're dealing with

3:26osteoporosis or osteopenia we're not

3:28just looking at a loss of calcium we're

3:30looking at a vitamin K2 deficiency a

3:34vitamin D3 deficiency usually which

3:37works with K2 together so let's just

3:40start out with vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is

3:43a fairly recently discovered

3:46vitamin it's a fat soluble vitamin comes

3:49from fatty foods

3:50it also can come from fermented foods in

3:54Asia they have something called NATO

3:56which is fermented soybeans and that is

3:58very high in vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is

4:01also in raw sauerkraut but mainly it's

4:04in like a fatty sausage it's in fatty

4:07cheese it's even an egg yolks it's in

4:11liver and so what you need to know about

4:13that is that if you're on a low fat diet

4:15or you're taking certain medications

4:17that block vitamin K2 like statins if

4:21you're on a blood thinner or even

4:23antidepressants antacids certain

4:25medications for high blood pressure or

4:27even medications for erectile

4:29dysfunction you're not going to get

4:31enough of vitamin K2 so vitamin K2 is

4:34really really important if not the most

4:36important

4:37vitamin for making your bones really

4:40really solid and hard but you also need

4:42Vitamin D3 with it and vitamin D3 helps

4:45the absorption of calcium by a factor of

4:4820x in the small intestine and so

4:50vitamin D helps absorb calcium into the

4:52blood from the digestive system and then

4:55vitamin K2 takes it from that blood and

4:57drives it into the bone so it's really

4:59important to understand what K2 does and

5:02to make sure either you get it in your

5:03diet or you're taking it as a supplement

5:05if you're taking it as a supplement I

5:07recommend the form that's called MK 7

5:11okay versus other forms like MK4 mk7 is

5:16a natural form and it lasts about 48

5:20times longer in your body versus the

5:22half-life of MK4 with about 20 000 IUS

5:27of vitamin D3 now another key vitamin

5:29for bone is vitamin A vitamin A and I'm

5:32not talking about the precursor

5:33beta-carotene retinol which is the

5:36bioavailable true form of vitamin A is

5:40really high in egg yolks this is why

5:42eggs are just so important in many

5:44different ways in your diet but

5:45especially to get enough vitamin A

5:48vitamin A is not just going to help you

5:49build bone but it's also going to

5:51prevent some of the toxicities that

5:54potentially could occur from vitamin D

5:56even though those would be very rare I

5:58don't recommend getting your vitamin A

5:59from a supplement just get it from your

6:01food egg yolks liver or other organ

6:04Meats vitamin A is in cheese also in

6:07butter and cod liver oil as well and so

6:10vitamin D3 K2 and a are all fat soluble

6:14vitamins so another thing to look out

6:16for or or understand is that you need a

6:19good gallbladder and a good liver to

6:22produce the bile to absorb these

6:24nutrients so if you had your gallbladder

6:27out or you have some type of problem

6:29with your liver as in you know fatty

6:32liver these reasons could be why you're

6:34not getting these nutrients in which

6:36case you should probably just take some

6:37bile salts to help with the absorption

6:39so we have to make sure that we're

6:41getting these nutrients from the diet we

6:44have to make sure that nothing's

6:45countering those vitamins we have to

6:48make sure we absorb them with the right

6:49things like the bile salts but we also

6:52have other things that help build your

6:53bone like minerals yes I would be taking

6:56some form of calcium if I had

6:58osteoporosis or osteopenia but not as a

7:01standalone I would make sure we take all

7:04these other things as well but I would

7:05not take the form of calcium that is not

7:08very bioavailable and that's calcium

7:10carbonate and so many people are taking

7:13this type basically it's like Limestone

7:15you'd be better off chewing on the

7:17cement outside your house because that's

7:20really what it is it's just the the form

7:22of calcium that's has to go through like

7:2412 different biochemical steps before it

7:27gets absorbed in your body and if you're

7:30getting older you may find that you

7:33don't have enough stomach acid to absorb

7:35this calcium so that's another barrier

7:38if you don't have the acid in the

7:40stomach okay you're not going to be able

7:41to absorb the calcium magnesium

7:43phosphorus and the trace minerals that

7:45I'm going to talk about next and so the

7:47way you would know that you wouldn't

7:48have enough stomach acid is usually you

7:50have indigestion bloating or acid reflux

7:54so the type of calcium I would take is

7:56like a calcium magnesium supplement but

7:58try to get your calcium mostly from food

8:01Dairy sardines

8:04uh deep leafy green vegetables all have

8:08a good amount of calcium and magnesium

8:11and magnesium helps activate vitamin D

8:15also potassium is really important too

8:17so you can get your magnesium and

8:19potassium from leafy greens like large

8:22salads now as far as the trace minerals

8:25zinc copper and Boron are the top trace

8:30minerals but there's other ones too so

8:31if you were to take like a a trace

8:34mineral complex that would be the best

8:36thing with emphasis with the zinc Boron

8:40and the copper

8:42these can activate certain proteins in

8:46bone so those are really really

8:48important as well

8:49and Boron helps you balance out the

8:53calcium and magnesium it just helps you

8:55absorb those two minerals as well as the

8:57activators of the proteins that help you

8:59form bones since 35 percent of bone is

9:01protein and of course when we talk about

9:03protein make sure you have the best

9:05biovaluable type of protein and that

9:07would be animal proteins eggs are the

9:10top protein and then you have fish

9:13shellfish would be really really

9:15important oysters clams shrimp are

9:19really good because that will not only

9:20give you high quality protein but the

9:23trace minerals as well but you might be

9:25saying what about all the cholesterol

9:27well guess what bile salts are made out

9:29of cholesterol and you need cholesterol

9:32to make bile cells to help you absorb

9:33these fat soluble nutrients and you also

9:36need cholesterol to help build

9:39hormones sex hormones specifically

9:42estrogen it's not very surprising that

9:46many women after menopause end up with

9:48their bones becoming osteoporotic and

9:52that has to do with this sudden drop or

9:54shift in this estrogen dropping down so

9:57how do you build that back up well make

9:59sure you have all the precursors to

10:01making these hormones and that would be

10:03like cholesterol so as you approach

10:05menopause you want to increase more

10:07cholesterol okay and cholesterol does

10:10not come from plant Foods it comes from

10:12animal Foods eggs butter Meats things

10:17like that and if you complement those

10:19foods with a large salad or vegetables

10:23each day it can really help you regulate

10:25and moderate the amount of cholesterol

10:27going through the body not that you're

10:30concerned with that or not but I think

10:32the balance of both of those type of

10:34foods plant-based and animal based are

10:37really important exercise would be an

10:39important thing to add into this program

10:42to stimulate the bone growth which will

10:46also indirectly reduce stress because

10:49cortisol is very destructive on your

10:52bones so if you're going through chronic

10:54stress that could be another reason

10:57on top of the menopause situation where

10:59the adrenals have to back up your

11:01ovaries that could be a big trigger for

11:04osteopenia than osteoporosis the other

11:07thing you need to know about

11:08osteoporosis is that that's a pretty

11:09severe situation and it's going to take

11:11a good amount of time to

11:14fix this problem and it could take

11:16actually up to six years of healthy

11:18eating but I wanted to give you this

11:20background information so you have all

11:21the different pieces to this puzzle

11:23what's very interesting too about

11:25medication for osteoporosis is that some

11:28of these medications real popular

11:29medications increase the risk for

11:32fractures which we're trying to avoid

11:35now since we emphasize probably the most

11:37important uh piece of this puzzle which

11:40is K2 there's some additional

11:42information that you should know about

11:43that and I put that video up right here

11:46check it out