However, this study was conducted on 107 women at West Point. As a rule, these women are going to be very healthy, and physically fit. And these are young women, so it’s clear that the bone density isn’t the result of aging. However, it does mention irregular periods, and that might be hereditary, thought I don’t know.
Yeah, I have been of the opinion (I’m a guy, what do I know) that ingesting hormones or whatever has got to be rough on the body. Didn’t expect it to reveal itself in bone density, though. Interesting, to say the least.
Women with irregular cycles are the ones most likely to go on the pill.
It could be that it’s not the pill that’s causing it but that they’re working with a group already prone to it because of health history.
Osteoporosis certainly is hereditary. Problem is, because so little screening is done at an early age and the whole osteoporosis issue has just come to the limelight recently, in the last few decades, nobody really knows what the incidence of osteopenia or osteoporosis in young women is.
Insurance companies don’t like to pay for scans in people who don’t fit the classic risk factor category. That means young people and men.
Also considering that women these days don’t drink the milk that our parents did nor get the sunshine like they used to, it could be that that is an implicating factor.
Osteoporosis is far more complicated than just estrogen.
It is a health care shame that osteoporosis is only thought of post-menopause (I can't stand the touchy, feely, lady with the cartoons around her or Sally Field telling us she one life and one body...duh...but I digress). Woman should be alerted early on (but not currently marketed to) that a cheap calcium suppliment could do much to prevent future damage. Only TUMS mentions it...and then barely. I guess there is much more $$$ to be made with Boniva...