Do We Have Osteoporosis All Wrong?
From eNewsletter 10/24/2022
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Most Have Osteoporosis All Wrong
Steve: One of the most common conditions in which we must re-educate clients is osteopenia/osteoporosis because allopathic medicine is so myopic and one-size-fits-all. Most clients are not aware that:
Osteopenia/osteoporosis is a chronic inflammatory condition.
Most fracture patients have fallen, but do not actually have osteoporosis. A high likelihood of falling, in turn, is attributable to a decline in physical functioning and general frailty from loss of skeletal muscle mass as much as anything else.
Currently available fracture risk prediction strategies are unable to identify a large proportion of patients who will sustain a fracture, whereas many of those with a high fracture risk score will not sustain a fracture. Moreover, current screening tools do not take into account frame size (especially small boned persons).
The evidence for the viability of bone-targeted pharmacotherapy in preventing hip fracture and other clinical fragility fractures is mainly limited to women aged 65-80 years with osteoporosis, whereas the proof of hip fracture-preventing efficacy in women over 80 years of age and in men at all ages is meagre or absent.
Many drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis have been associated with increased risks of serious adverse events, especially when compared with the meager efficacy in preventing fractures with this treatment.
New data shows that after menopause, women do not lose bone density as much as once believed (only 10% over 25 years versus 25% over 25 years). Thus, screening should only occur every 5 years or longer instead of every 2 which is the current recommendation.
The reality is that fracture risk should include not only current screening protocols, but chronic inflammation assessment and reduction, assessing skeletal muscle mass and build it up if necessary, evaluate bone marrow integrity, and finally, measure fat mass and reduce it if necessary.