Comments on: Calcium and Osteoporosis

By: Lil Leopold

Lil Leopold — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:22:47 +0000

So glad that I found your article on the Internet
I certainly have learned a lot and I’m not taking Boniva anymore.
Too bad Sally Fields is doing the convincing
advertisement for Boniva on TV. Lil

By: pat martyn

pat martyn — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:10:02 +0000

I have severe osteoporpsis i was told over a year ago that i could step off a step and break a bone i was scare to go up and down steps for over a year Iwas talk into takeing foreto had 4shots and had a bad reaction to it then i was talk into reclast after i did the reclast i found out it can cause heart trouble i am on nothing now I fell tuesday and broke nothing Idid the forteo and reclsat out of fear and fear is something God do not want us to have fear has runie my life i still worry that i will get cancer from these med Iknow what ever happen God will handle it but please do not do anything out of fear sit down and talk to your heavenly father and when you know his answer then do what needs to be done donot mess up like i did my prays is for all you ladies may god bless

By: wendy saini

wendy saini — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:24:23 +0000

I do have osteoporosis speeded up by alot of cortisone I was on last year, because of ulcerative colitis. I’m off it now and hopefully will never have to have it again. I have had 5 thoracic fractures since and a cracked sternum, alot of pain. Having ulcerative colitis is a double whammer because I’m not absorbing food like other people. I’m trying to do it naturally, with exercise, supplements, etc. Any advice because the pain of fracturing is horrible. Anything else I can do? Open to answers!!

By: cheryl

cheryl — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:40:41 +0000

Hey I did the reclamp not 4 sure if it helps yet.Will know in Jan stay with a pos attitude and if u can try 2 walk.I suffer every day and take calcium 3 x a day.Think pos and stay foucus God Bless

By: sari

sari — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:54:48 +0000

Hi Vivian,
I was diagnosed with osteoporosis 4 years ago. it seems that every women in my family has osteo in our hips. i went on medication for 4 years and my bone density tests have only showed a decline in bone. starting in sept of this year, i have been on an 80-20 diet per your insttuctions from your book. So far so good, i started taking a little calcium and the vitamins you suggested. My next bone density test will be in Sept of 2010. Time will tell, but I am adaptly quite nicely to this diet.
thank you very much for all of your suggestions.
Sincerely,
Sari

By: betty

betty — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:51:57 +0000

i take evista and boy did the hot flashes start. i can’t take fosamax or any of the others. please someone out there help me know waht i should do. i quit evista 2 weeks ago and i feel better already

By: Cathie

Cathie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:22:42 +0000

Vivien, I have stopped taking the Fosomax, and have been trying to eat the way you have stated in your book. I feel much better, but I cannot take Calium supplements. I got so constipated I could harldy stand it. I too them with magnesium, and all the other things you suggest, and it just isn’t possible for me to do. There is something that my body cannot tolerate in calcium. What can I do in foods that will give me the calcium that I need? Thanks for your help.

By: Maria

Maria — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:21:40 +0000

ho boy,I just order my book today,in my late yrs I been reading a lot about nutrition,for I am a cancer surviver,being diagnosted with: neuropaty, fibromialgya,hight blood pressure,colesterol,and last week they tell me I have also osteopedia,I got pain in my feet,my arm,legs,shoulders,neck,arms, well mostly everywhere,I walk 4 miles everyday,eat healthy,right now I am not taken anything,because I am confuse of what to take,my Dr told me to take 4500 mlgs of calcium and vit D,I think is too much,so I been in the computer a lot and I found this page, so i order the book,wait and take it from there, it is very hard but any thing is posible with GOD

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sat, 23 May 2009 14:07:17 +0000

I meant to say, I also take coQ10 without soybean oil or soy lecithin. It can be found. And I’ve read that Asians, who don’t have the same bone density as we do, they have smaller bones and have less problems with them. The thought is: they drink a lot of green tea during the day. I do too. Not the teabags we have on our shelves, but I brew organic green sencha using wonderful dark green leaves. They sell it in Whole Foods stores or on-line. Good luck to us.

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:54:29 +0000

I too have researched osteoporosis. I take a drug that’s terrible on the bones. I’ll soon be off it. Meanwhile, my Dr. gave me a script for Actonel which I took, and suffered the worst stomach problems. Heartburn, gerd, awful. I stopped the Actonel and after a time the stomach problems went away. Thankfully.

I’m waiting for the book to arrive. There is a way to take calcium citrate and magnesium citrate and D3 for better absorption. We can only absorb 500 mgs of calcium at a time. Thus calcium has to be taken in divided doses 5 hours apart.

First, take magnesium citrate, 500 mgs. Wait two hours then start the calcium and D3 together, no magnesium with them. After 5 hours have elapsed, take another dose of calcium and D3. We aren’t getting enough D3. It’s best to get your blood tested to see where you stand on D. Some people are out in the sun and still don’t absorb D. Get the test, find out where you stand on D. Its very important to know.

Any vitamin or mineral pills, packaged foods which has added soybean oil, or soy lecithin should be avoided. They process soybeans to get the oil or the lecithin with hexane (a derivative of petroleum oil). Also, all the pesticides used while growing the soy will be in the oil and soy lecithin. It is not organic by any means.

Other vitamins to have during the day, is foods rich in K1 and K2, vegetables and fermented cheeses are a good source. Vitamin C helps with absorption of calcium and having enough phosphorus in your diet. Vitamin C also needs to be taken in divided doses because its water soluable and goes through us quickly.

While I wait for the book to arrive the above measures that I’m doing is keeping me without fractures or weak. It’s so annoying to have to time taking pills, but so far, very worth it. I look forward to reading Vivian’s book, if there is more to do, I’m willing to do it.