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Re: Osteoperosis
Osteoporosis is more common among women than men. Obviously because most women bare children which takes a toll on their calcium/magnesium supply and many do not work to replace it. A pregnant woman may even find her teeth hurting as calcium is taken from them. In malnutrioned 3rd world countries many women loose most of their teeth after several babies.
Calcium/magnesium is also pulled from the bones to balance the body's blood pH. It would seem that a macrobiotic diet would greatly help in preventing bone loss as this is a diet predominantly alkaline.
Yet, our modern world is very stressful which again, stress will lower the pH meaning we need even more cal/mag.
Diet isn't the only thing. Most live a very sedentary lifestyle. When we do weight bearing exercise, the stress on our bones will also pull available cal/mag from the blood and increase bone density. Tests on elderly women with osteoporosis using rebounders were able to build up bone density considerably.
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