Posted on 02/15/2006 6:52:24 PM PST by Pharmboy
Gotta lift weights. Increasing muscle strengthens bone. Ok, so I'm a personal trainer and I'm trying to drum up business....but it's true! ;o)
That's EXACTLY what I meant in post 1...perhaps I wasn't clear enough. Keep up the good work, friend!
Years ago, we were told that load-bearing exercises—such as weight training, walking, and jogging—would build bones and prevent osteoporosis. Is that still the conventional wisdom?
I got a Personal trainer in December, I weighed 218 then. Now I weigh 230 (I am 5'-11 1/2")
I once read a study that suggested that calcium supplements cause your blood calcium to rise, and so your body says "uh-oh too much calcium!", and then proceeds to remove it... mainly by removing it from your bones, thus having the exact opposite effect that you wanted.
Not sure what you're saying with your post. Do you mean you've put on 12 lbs. of muscle? Has your body fat % gone down?
I hope it's muscle. My body fat % was up there. People say I don't look like I weigh that much
You don't have to play football to break a bone. Getting off the couch and walking to the fridge could do it if your bones are brittle. (so, keep a small fridge near the couch.) ;o)
She had me doing a lot of core trainning. I had her for 12 sessions. She didn't do any follow up measurements.
I think I've got too much calcium.
My mother never had a cavity until she was pregnant with me; her first trimester, she got four.
I got my first calcium kidney stone at 12 and have suffered through four since that one. YOW.
A prior doctor told me not to take multivitamins, unless I could find one without calcium in it, which is almost impossible.
She didn't!? Tsk, tsk.
Drink milk and consider taking Fosamax once a week if your doctor recommends it.
...or Boniva once a month...or Zometa IV once/year when that gets FDA approval.
I'm not giving up my calcium. I went on a high-protein/no dairy diet. As soon as I put dairy back in my lower back pain went away and I started losing weight. Yeah, I've got the stuffy nose in the morning, but I was in agony without the calcium intake.
Bump for later read
i was checked and had osteoporosis at age 43. a couple of years of Fosamax increased my bone density, and i haven't taken it since.
bone density last year was okay, but i've been thinking i'd like to take fosamax again for prevention and to try to build some more bone. I have read you need magnesium for calcium absorption, hard to find.
Nah...calcium absorption from the gut is closely controlled and it is VERY difficult to poison yourself with too much dietary calcium.
I don't doubt what you are saying, but there is no data to support rapid results in pain as you describe.
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