| I would like to start out by saying I am not a doctor | | | | fact, not the cause. Truly strong bones must begin |
| and I do not make medical claims, I am a concerned | | | | in childhood with proper nourishment. |
| citizen who has a passion for researching smart | | | | So how can we maintain strong bones at any age? |
| alternatives for our health and sharing them with | | | | *Your LIVER needs to be in proper working health, |
| others who are taking an initiative to do their | | | | to supply the needs for the rest of the body, this |
| research and make their own educated decisions. | | | | includes, Water, Oxygen and Calcium. |
| There continues to be greater and greater concern | | | | *Calcium, your body needs the right types of Calcium |
| about the public healthy issues surrounding what | | | | in the daily diet, moving through the intestinal tract, in |
| medical science has names osteoporosis. | | | | order for all organs and tissues of the body, through |
| Osteoporosis is where the (BMD) bone mineral | | | | the liver, to be perfectly supplied with enough mineral |
| density is reduced to the point where bone | | | | energy from the food. Calcium deficiency in the |
| microarchitecture is disrupted, and the amount and | | | | digestive tract, means poor mineral energy production |
| variety of non-collagenous protein in the bone is | | | | and delivery. |
| altered, the bone has become porous like a | | | | *Food, should be our primary source for minerals. |
| "honeycomb." | | | | However, with the endemically mineral deficient foods |
| In 2001, national attention was focused on the | | | | available today, the diet must be supplemented only |
| ever-increasing concerns regarding bone diseases | | | | with the correct Calcium types and associated |
| when both the House and Senate jointly | | | | minerals and vitamins necessary for each individuals |
| commissioned the Surgeon General to issue a | | | | needs. |
| first-ever Report to the Nation on the status of | | | | *Vitamin C and D, are needed for healthy bones and |
| research and education on osteoporosis and related | | | | any organ. |
| bone disease. Furthermore, to set forth a plan of | | | | *Vitamin K |
| action to comprehensively address the urgent need | | | | *Magnesium |
| to reverse the increasing toll of the disease. | | | | *Chemical Colloids, the prime source for Chemical |
| In 2004 the Surgeon General's "Report on Bone | | | | Colloids, comes from either high quality, (high Brix), |
| Health and Osteoporosis" was released. In | | | | (Brix is the unit of measure from a refractometer |
| summary, the Report calls osteoporosis a "silent" | | | | that can directly interpret the sugar content, the |
| condition because many Americans are unaware that | | | | higher the Brix reading the greater the nutritional |
| their bone health is in jeopardy. In fact, four times | | | | value), foods grown incorporating soft rock colloidal |
| as many men and nearly three times as many | | | | phosphate. Chemical Colloids can levitate in air or |
| women have osteoporosis than those that report | | | | water and go with the flow of either. The harder |
| the condition. Plus, osteoporosis affects men and | | | | the substance, the more chemical colloid must be |
| women of all races, and while bone weakness | | | | available to supply the needs of the cells as they are |
| manifests primarily in older Americans, the Report | | | | replaced, rebuilt and restored. |
| made a point of emphasizing that strong bones really | | | | *The ultimate determinate of how strongly bone is |
| begin in childhood. | | | | built or how quickly bone is restored when minerally |
| One recommendation that came from the Report | | | | depleted. Chemical Colloids act as friction reducers |
| was focusing on the value and impact of proper | | | | to the movement of mineral molecules into the cell, |
| nutrition. Especially foods that contained significant | | | | all mineral (except nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and |
| sources of Calcium, Phosphorus and Vitamin D. This | | | | carbon) can only be carried into the cells attached to |
| Report also calls upon Health Care Professionals to | | | | phosphate. Chemical Colloids are a significant source |
| help Americans maintain healthy bones "by evaluating | | | | of this vital nontoxic phosphate that moves mineral |
| risks for patients of all ages.." that may indicate | | | | into cells. |
| someone is at risk. | | | | *The prime construction of material of bone is |
| With this information said, here are my comments. | | | | Calcium Phosphate, including chemical colloids. |
| For Health Care Professionals to be able to help their | | | | *Bones are the main Mineral Reservoir and anytime |
| patients determine if they are at risk for having or | | | | the body is unable to get enough mineral, especially |
| developing bone disease, they must be able to | | | | Calcium, from the diet, it will take from the bones. |
| establish if there is an ongoing mineral deficiency in | | | | This is generally the start of osteopena. |
| progress before their patients' bones ever begin to | | | | This can be a start to determining where to start |
| get close to osteopenia, which is "bone poverty," the | | | | and how you can ultimately maintain stonger |
| next step is osteoporosis. Common bone density | | | | bones...at any age. |
| tests are looking at the ongoing effect after the | | | | |