Health for a Lifetime

Octeoporosis

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Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), John Clark

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00:49 Hello, and welcome to Health For A Lifetime
00:51 and I'm your host Don Mackintosh.
00:53 We're glad you're with us today and we're also glad
00:55 that we have a special guest,
00:57 Dr. John Clark is an orthopedist surgeon
01:00 practicing in Maine, at the present time.
01:03 He's been an orthopedist surgeon
01:04 for the last five years.
01:06 We're glad you're with us, doctor.
01:07 Thank you, Don.
01:09 Now you deal with the bones, day in and day out.
01:12 That is right.
01:13 One of the things that we hear about bones is,
01:15 the subject today of our program, Osteoporosis.
01:18 And I'm sure that many people come and say,
01:21 "You know, I, I guess I must have this or
01:23 I'm getting this because I don't have enough calcium."
01:26 Oh, that's true and often times, I see a person
01:28 for the first time with a broken bone,
01:31 and they discover at that time
01:33 that they have Osteoporosis.
01:35 Right, when they see you and they never knew it before.
01:37 They never knew it before.
01:39 Okay, so what's the prevalence then of this.
01:41 Oh, it's quite common actually.
01:43 And there's a couple of different
01:45 divisions of Osteoporosis, we like to talk about.
01:48 There's Osteoporosis and then there's Osteopenia.
01:51 The difference is how thin the bones are.
01:55 So, if we were looking at the population about
01:58 10 million Americans have Osteoporosis
02:02 and 34 million Americans have Osteopenia.
02:07 Okay, Osteopenia versus porosis,
02:09 one is thin and one is porous.
02:12 One is thin and one is thinner.
02:14 Okay, so one is thin, the one that's thin is what?
02:17 One that's thin is the Osteopenia.
02:21 If you get thinner yet, then you have Osteoporosis.
02:25 Okay. And you said something about woman versus,
02:29 is it the woman that have the Osteopenia?
02:31 No, everybody gets the Osteopenia
02:34 and the Osteoporosis, but it's the women
02:37 that get more of the Osteoporosis just because
02:40 of their lower estrogen in the later years of life.
02:44 Of those ten million Americans
02:46 that have Osteoporosis, 80% of those are women.
02:52 Okay, so eight million out of the ten. Eight million.
02:55 Well, when you see people and they come
02:58 with Osteoporosis, what are the bones
03:00 that they most commonly have broken?
03:03 Osteoporosis tends to effect what we call the spongy bone
03:09 or the bone at the end of the long bones.
03:12 And so this is -- in more technical terms,
03:14 the trabecular bone, the trabecular bone
03:17 is most affected is in the wrist.
03:19 So wrist. The hip and the vertebras.
03:23 Okay. Those bones are the spongy bones.
03:25 So again these are the spongy bones,
03:26 does that mean they're not like kind of not --
03:30 totally solidified or something.
03:32 Well, it's the way they're made up,
03:34 to compare the bone that's in your arm
03:37 is what we call a cortical bone.
03:39 It's kind of like a pipe,
03:40 it's got a real hard surface.
03:42 And it's thick, when you get down to the end
03:45 it's like a sponge, oh, it's real hard sponge.
03:48 And it's structural.
03:50 And so this is where you usually have the problems.
03:53 Why is that, what causes this problem of Osteoporosis?
03:57 Well, there is a number of causes of Osteoporosis.
04:00 First of all, sugar actually is quite a cause
04:05 of Osteoporosis, especially
04:07 if it's mixed with chocolate.
04:09 Is that right? That's right.
04:10 And then, of course, the women have low estrogen.
04:13 So low estrogen is a cause of Osteoporosis.
04:18 If you just sit down and do nothing, your bones say,
04:21 "Well, if you're not gonna do anything,
04:22 I'm just gonna get up and leave."
04:24 And that's the way it is, that's why our astronauts
04:26 worry about Osteoporosis too,
04:29 because they have no weight bearing up in space.
04:32 Okay, that's why they had those special treadmills
04:34 and stuff to try and get weight bearing up there?
04:35 That's right. And then there's different things
04:39 like beer, alcohol, it tends to
04:42 create the environment for Osteoporosis.
04:45 High sulphates and phosphates, like you find in
04:48 different drinks that people drink, colas and so forth.
04:53 And then there's a problem of Vitamin D.
04:56 Everybody knows, they should take vitamin D.
04:58 It seems, we add Vitamin D to thanks,
05:00 Vitamin K, also important.
05:04 And then there's too much salt intake.
05:06 Salt is like a positive ion and so as calcium
05:10 and they kind of fight with one and other.
05:12 I see, so if we have high salt
05:13 and it kicks out the calcium.
05:14 Yeah, exactly. And then smoking?
05:18 Smoking will about double your risk of Osteoporosis.
05:22 Why, how does that work?
05:23 Well, the smoking does
05:24 a number of things to the body.
05:26 It tends to decrease your oxygen and it decreases
05:30 the amount of blood getting to the bone cells,
05:34 and then it increase carbon monoxide
05:36 in the system and bone cells don't like that.
05:40 But there is a lot of toxic things in smoke
05:42 that we don't necessarily know why they cause
05:46 Osteoporosis, but epidemiologically
05:48 we know that people who smoke
05:50 have twice the risk of Osteoporosis.
05:54 And is it -- what about second hand smoke,
05:56 if you're allowing people that smoke?
05:58 That's not good either
05:59 but I don't know any statistic on that.
06:02 Back to the thing on sugar, I mean --
06:04 you know, I heard all the women saying,
06:06 "Wait a minute, we get Osteoporosis."
06:07 And they -- a lot of them like the chocolate,
06:09 maybe a few men too.
06:11 How is it that the sugar, what's the way
06:13 the mechanism that the sugar causes Osteoporosis?
06:16 That's a good question.
06:18 One of the things that sugars do when you eat them
06:21 is they raise your blood sugar and when your
06:25 blood sugar goes up, it acts like glue,
06:28 this is the problem that diabetics have.
06:30 Anyway the cells all get stuck together.
06:33 I see. And when they get stuck together
06:35 they don't make their way down the capillaries
06:37 to where the bone cells are.
06:39 I see, so it's, it's kind of the same thing
06:42 that you talked about with smoking because
06:44 that takes also monoxide, carbon dioxide
06:48 gets hooked on the things and they have get
06:49 where they need to go as well.
06:51 Interesting, what about caffeine?
06:53 Caffeine is also a problem for person
06:57 who wants to keep their bones.
06:58 A person, who drinks one and a half cups of coffee a day,
07:04 has about a 30% higher chance of Osteoporosis,
07:09 but who stops with one and a half cups.
07:12 Is that right? So someone --
07:14 and they have seen this in studies?
07:16 Yes, this is in studies.
07:18 So, cutting out the caffeine,
07:20 you get anything else that is a cause?
07:22 Another area that we think about is stress.
07:26 The more stress in someone's life,
07:28 the higher the cortisol levels
07:30 and the thinner the bones.
07:32 And the cortisol causes that?
07:33 Cortisol affects the bones
07:35 in that fashion, that's right.
07:37 There's other things that cause it, and one of those
07:40 is eating too much animal protein and also depression.
07:45 So tell me how does the protein work,
07:48 how does it make the bones weak?
07:50 Animal protein has the problem of being very high
07:54 in acid forming amino acids such as methionine
08:00 with more sulfates and there's some amino acids
08:02 with more sulfates and phosphates,
08:05 it ends up raising the amount of
08:08 organic acids in the system.
08:10 And your system wasn't made to become aesthetic,
08:13 but calcium is a buffer, and so the calcium
08:16 is taken from the bones to buffer these organic acids.
08:20 I see, so the animal proteins, I mean,
08:22 largely from animals of course--
08:25 That's right. Animals products.
08:26 That the calcium tries to fight against that and then
08:29 what about the depression -- well,
08:30 how could depression cause Osteoporosis?
08:32 This is another epidemiological study.
08:35 And the epidemiological study again took and studied
08:40 a bunch of depressed people and non-depressed people
08:42 and compared their bones and found that people
08:45 who are depressed had thinner bones.
08:51 Now, earlier you said that the most common bones
08:55 that we break are in the wrist,
08:56 in the hip and in, where was the other one?
08:58 In the spine. In the spine, like in the vertebra.
09:02 What kind of affect does this have
09:05 on people's quality of life?
09:07 Well, you know, there's never a good time to have
09:11 a fracture, I tell people when they come in to see me.
09:14 But for the spine, on a scale that they've studied
09:20 to see what quality of life people have.
09:23 They say that a spine fracture reduces
09:25 the quality of life by 20%.
09:28 But a hip fracture reduces it by 50% and this is
09:32 in the first year after having a fracture.
09:35 Hip fractures are devastating,
09:37 I mean they're bad. When you get a hip fracture
09:40 you can't walk, but it's usually an index
09:43 as to how the health is in the rest of the body.
09:47 Because once a person has a hip fracture
09:50 about 20% or 1/5th, actually pass away,
09:55 they die, another fifth end up permanently
09:58 in a nursing home, and then 2/3rds never return
10:03 to the same level of activity,
10:05 that's before they had their hip fracture.
10:07 And so there's a lot of things that happen
10:10 in a person's life, they start fearing that
10:12 they're gonna have another fracture.
10:14 Or that they might have to stay inside,
10:18 not go out with family and friends.
10:19 And they end up depressed, alone,
10:22 lonely and looking at the end of their life.
10:26 So, yeah, wow, the best thing to,
10:28 is to prevent this or avoid it completely if you can.
10:31 That's right. Back to depression then.
10:34 Depression, you said, you know,
10:37 there's a relationship between people who depressed
10:40 and I can kind of understand it now
10:42 based on what you said.
10:43 Anything else you want to tell us about depression
10:45 as it relates to Osteoporosis.
10:47 Well, it's interesting that there's a Bible text
10:50 that kind of talks about that.
10:52 And we know about "A Merry heart doeth
10:55 good like a medicine," but the rest of that is that
10:58 "A broken spirit dries the bones."
11:01 And I wonder if Solomon was somewhat of an Orthopedist.
11:06 So, "A Merry heart doeth good like a medicine:
11:09 but a broken spirit actually dries the bones,"
11:11 and that's just clinically true.
11:13 That's clinically true.
11:16 Now, I thought, you know, people say,
11:18 "Well, if you got weak bones,
11:20 you should drink milk, is that true?
11:23 Well, in countries where they drink more milk,
11:27 they have more Osteoporosis.
11:30 So it hasn't really panned out that
11:32 drinking more milk has been helpful.
11:35 And a lot of people wonder why that is?
11:38 And I don't know that we have a direct link there
11:41 but some of the different theories are that milk
11:45 while is high in calcium is also high in some of things
11:50 that create organic acids in the system.
11:53 Sulfates and phosphates.
11:56 What's more the high protein in milk makes us,
11:58 so it only about 30% of the calcium in the milk
12:03 gets absorbed, and then once it's absorbed
12:06 there's enough acid formed by the sulfates
12:09 and phosphates in the protein amino acids
12:12 that it tends to wash out the calcium.
12:15 Wow, so it's got calcium in it, but it kind of
12:20 does itself in by the other stuff that brings
12:22 to the table as you're saying.
12:23 And the balance that actually does away
12:26 with the positive affect it gives plus a little more.
12:28 And this is a theory. That's right. It's exactly right.
12:32 So I assume and I hope that later we'll come back
12:34 and maybe look at some other sources
12:36 that can strengthen our bones.
12:39 You mentioned sugar, you know,
12:40 I hate to keep coming back to this but --
12:43 does this mean that someone is watching
12:44 shouldn't eat any sugar?
12:47 Well, that be kind of hard in our society,
12:49 I don't know if too many foods
12:51 that they haven't put sugar in.
12:52 But decreasing sugar consumption would definitely
12:56 be the right step toward affecting stronger bones.
13:00 We're talking with Dr. John Clark.
13:02 He is an orthopedist surgeon in Maine,
13:05 serves at the Parkview Adventist Hospital
13:08 there currently, and he's done
13:09 lot of study about Osteoporosis.
13:11 Many times people come to him, the first thing
13:13 that he sees them concerning might be a fractured hip.
13:17 He's going to talk about maybe some things
13:19 we can do to avoid Osteoporosis
13:22 and give us some hope when we come back.
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14:26 Welcome back, we're talking with Dr. John Clark.
14:28 He's an orthopedist surgeon and he sees people
14:31 usually when they -- you've broke,
14:33 they broken bones isn't that right? I mean--
14:35 That's right. You don't see them before saying,
14:37 "Hey, look I just want to know
14:38 what to do so my bones don't break."
14:40 No, that doesn't happen very often.
14:42 Which should might be good if it did. Yeah.
14:44 You know, one of the things that we hear about is
14:49 activity and you know, I may consider myself
14:52 quite an active person, but is activity
14:55 related to Osteoporosis and if so what kind of activity,
14:58 what kind of exercise, if someone do that,
15:02 wants to avoid Osteoporosis
15:04 or maybe that has Osteoporosis?
15:06 Well, Don, let's talk about women because
15:08 they are the ones that largely get osteoporosis.
15:11 They took a bunch of women who were all
15:14 in their postmenopausal years.
15:17 And they put them in two groups.
15:18 One group that just sat around and didn't do much
15:22 in the way of activity, that is weight bearing activity.
15:26 And then a bunch of women that they put on
15:28 a 30 minute a day program of weight bearing
15:31 and keeping their bones active.
15:34 Well, now normally postmenopausal women
15:38 lose bone at a rate of 3% per year.
15:41 If that continues for 10 years,
15:43 they could lose 30% of their bone.
15:45 Well, they compared these two groups,
15:47 those that sat around went ahead and lost,
15:50 they're 3% per year, but of those that exercised
15:54 regularly 30 minutes a day, they actually
15:58 gained in bone mass, albeit a little bit
16:01 but they still gained, which is a big improvement
16:04 of a losing 30% of your bone over 10 years.
16:08 And do they gain every year during the 10 years or--?
16:12 The study only went for two years but they did gain
16:15 at 0.4% per year for those two years.
16:19 So fascinating, you could go from losing 30%
16:22 on the ones that just sitting around,
16:23 to actually gaining 0.8% if you, you know,
16:27 if you add those two years up-- That's right.
16:29 So what kind of weight bearing were they doing?
16:31 Were they lifting weights,
16:32 were they in the gym, what did they do?
16:33 They were largely doing aerobics,
16:36 step exercises, and walking and running.
16:39 So just, I mean, this is not something
16:42 really what out of the ordinary.
16:43 It was like that to hang upside down or something--
16:45 No. They were, they were walking,
16:46 and doing exercise is a different thing.
16:48 Now what if you already have osteoporosis
16:50 and your, your, you know, postmenopausal,
16:53 you know, after the change as they call it
16:55 and you're five years into it, and you just heard
16:57 this lecture today, you're going, oh man,
16:59 I mean that 3% per year or 3% over this,
17:02 this time up to 30% I'm, I'm 15% into it.
17:06 What do I do now, same kind of stuff?
17:08 Well, you know, a lot of people when they get
17:10 in that position, they decide I'm gonna
17:12 run to the store and I'm gonna buy calcium.
17:15 And they start eating calcium
17:16 like it's going out of style.
17:18 And so there's been a lot of interesting studies
17:22 on calcium, and one of the studies that I've read,
17:26 they fed everybody 1400 milligrams of calcium
17:30 per day, which is actually quite a, a lot of calcium.
17:34 You think how many tons you'd have to eat
17:35 to get that much calcium.
17:37 Well, then they put them on
17:38 different levels of animal protein.
17:40 One group was on about 50 grams of animal protein
17:45 per day, and the other group about double of that,
17:48 and another group triple that.
17:49 The group that was on the 50 grams of protein,
17:53 which we considered a fairly low
17:55 amount of protein for our society.
17:57 They actually gained the positive calcium balance.
18:01 But those that were on higher levels of protein,
18:04 the calcium balance went into the negative.
18:07 They were losing calcium from their bones,
18:10 their bones were getting thinner.
18:11 And the people that ate three times
18:13 as much protein lost a lot of calcium.
18:16 The message is, you can't eat enough calcium
18:20 to offset the bad lifestyle choices you make.
18:24 So in treating osteoporosis, the first thing is to stop
18:29 where the water is flowing out, so that you don't lose
18:32 anymore where the calcium's flowing out.
18:34 And then treatments would include,
18:38 just taking calcium is good and take the recommended
18:41 about it's usually around a 1000 milligrams a day.
18:44 And make sure you get plenty of Vitamin D.
18:47 Vitamin D is something
18:50 that a lot of Americans are short in,
18:52 that's why they started adding it to things.
18:54 Vitamin K is also important for bones.
18:58 But those two vitamins and some people suggested
19:02 as much as 800 milligrams of Vitamin D,
19:06 twice a day, if you have osteoporosis.
19:11 So Vitamin D, Vitamin K, where do we get Vitamin K?
19:14 Vitamin K is in green leafy vegetables.
19:17 Actually iceberg lettuce has a lot.
19:20 So iceberg lettuce that's the one remedying thing
19:23 in iceberg lettuce, or there maybe
19:25 some other good things there,
19:26 but there's a lot of Vitamin K in that.
19:28 That's right. And then, any sources of Vitamin D?
19:33 Vitamin D is a little harder to find
19:35 unless you go out in the Sun and--
19:38 Okay, does that mean you lay out in the Sun for a while,
19:41 how long we've to be in the Sun, and what kind of Sun?
19:44 Well, I live up in Maine, the Sun isn't very effective
19:49 from about November to April.
19:51 In fact, they did a study on people in Maine
19:53 and they took and they checked their bones
19:56 in the summer and they checked them in the winter.
19:58 And their bone mass actually changed,
20:01 cycled by about 3% per year and made that
20:05 much difference, but if you're out in the Sun
20:08 about 15 minutes per day, then you can get
20:12 enough Sun to build up your Vitamin D stores.
20:15 That 15 minutes doesn't necessarily have to be
20:18 totally naked out in front of the Sun,
20:20 just make sure your arms and your face get the sun.
20:23 And that you don't have too much,
20:25 if you put on too much sun block lotion,
20:27 you can actually cut off the vitamin D affect too.
20:31 But then if you don't have it on,
20:33 you could get skin cancer, so you're kind of caught.
20:36 You kind of caught there.
20:37 Well, you don't want to spend too much
20:38 time out in the Sun, and most of skin cancer
20:41 comes about from people who got too much Sun
20:44 or Sun burn before the age of say, 6 or 12.
20:48 Okay, so it's not use, use moderation
20:51 but don't stay out of the Sun,
20:54 because you need the Vitamin D.
20:55 You talked about, you know,
20:56 so if I got in my boat I'm fishing, you know,
20:58 over the weekend and different things.
21:00 My arms are all red, they look pretty good,
21:03 the rest of me is kind of still white
21:05 and what not I've got enough Vitamin D then?
21:06 You sure did, you sure do.
21:08 Great, what about caffeinated beverages?
21:12 You talked about that little bit,
21:13 but I want to come back to that,
21:15 you know, maybe some people are dozing
21:16 in the program now, they're reaching
21:18 for their caffeinated drink.
21:21 Why shouldn't they reach for that again?
21:23 Caffeine in these drinks is often also
21:27 associated with phosphoric acid.
21:30 Read your label on your cola,
21:32 it often has phosphoric acid in there.
21:34 Phosphoric acid is a strong acid that needs to be
21:40 buffered in order to be taken out of your system.
21:44 The buffer is calcium. Phosphorus and calcium
21:49 bind together to go out of the system.
21:52 So calcium, when you take it.
21:55 You take it alone, it's just raw calcium in a pill form
21:58 or is there anything else that has to be with it,
22:01 so it sticks in your body?
22:03 Lot of the calcium preparations are formulated
22:06 with Vitamin D and that is good.
22:08 Vitamin D helps with the absorption of the calcium.
22:12 But the Vitamin D also is important for getting
22:16 the calcium into the bones.
22:17 Now formulated, there are different preparations.
22:21 And most the time your body's pretty selective
22:26 about how much calcium it takes in and how much it,
22:29 it doesn't take in, I've heard some people say,
22:31 their formulation would, would absorb 99%.
22:36 But if you could be guaranteed
22:38 that the formulation you took absorbed 99%,
22:42 you could probably overdose yourself on calcium.
22:47 And that could be a problem because what does that do?
22:50 Too much calcium in a system you end up with things like
22:54 calcium in your cartilage where it shouldn't be.
22:57 It makes your cartilage into like sandpaper
23:00 or you get calcium in your tendons,
23:02 we call it calcific tendonitis.
23:05 And then there's calcium that just builds up
23:07 in places to mix like what we call joint mice,
23:10 a lump of calcium that floats around.
23:12 Yes, so you don't want to do that.
23:14 So the high protein diet's probably not something
23:17 good for someone that's got osteoporosis.
23:20 That's right. And we might put up our graphic now.
23:23 Okay. We have a graphic showing where
23:25 they compared different countries across the world.
23:29 And the countries across the bottom,
23:31 we have how much animal protein in grams
23:34 that people took in, and up the side of the graph
23:39 is the numbers of people with hip fractures.
23:43 And basically as the number of people with hip fracture
23:47 goes up so does the number of people
23:49 eating high amounts of protein.
23:51 Look at the United States on that graph.
23:53 We're way at the top, we eat lot of the animal protein
23:56 and we pay for it in hip fractures.
23:59 So I guess the message is
24:00 you want hip fracture eat animal protein.
24:04 Denmark, of course, all those Scandinavian countries
24:06 have a lot of animal protein in.
24:09 If we've been over there,
24:10 they have the big sandwiches,
24:11 they have the cheeses and stuff in top
24:12 of those and that's, just a lot of animal protein.
24:15 That's right. So decrease the protein,
24:18 increase the activity, what about weight bearing?
24:21 Weight bearing, that's right.
24:23 You know, as, as people get older,
24:27 they tend to become less active.
24:29 If you look at a graph,
24:31 showing hip fractures and age.
24:34 You notice that at age 65 hip fractures
24:37 go up precipitously.
24:39 That's because when people retire,
24:41 they quit standing, they quit walking,
24:43 and they quit doing things on their feet.
24:46 In fact, if you walk for exercise,
24:50 you decrease your osteoporosis
24:52 and risk of hip fracture by 30%.
24:55 And if you're on your feet four hours per day,
24:59 you'll decrease it too by 40%.
25:03 I've got an idea, you know,
25:05 as a preacher, maybe not a good idea
25:06 but maybe I should just preach longer,
25:08 because I'm standing that put out the osteoporosis.
25:10 Well, your audience might have a bone
25:13 to pick with you about that.
25:16 Someone comes into your office doctor, and they are,
25:19 they're wanting to know what they can do
25:21 lifestyle wise to prevent or, you know,
25:24 retard or maybe even reverse.
25:27 We've heard there's a good news,
25:28 you could even reverse it, if you do the right things.
25:30 What is that, your summary, we've got two minutes left.
25:33 What you're gonna say, the summary statement is and.
25:35 In terms of what they, people can do
25:37 a lifestyle wise with osteoporosis?
25:39 First thing, I mention to them,
25:42 is that they need to be on a good diet.
25:44 For me that is the diet originally
25:47 suggested in Genesis by God.
25:49 Being on a total vegetarian diet,
25:52 fruits, grains, nuts, vegetables.
25:55 And then if they want some added things to help,
25:58 I suggest they take Vitamin D,
26:00 as much as 800 milligrams twice a day.
26:04 And then the weight bearing,
26:06 make sure that they do a lot of weight bearing.
26:09 If they're having trouble walking,
26:11 I've put them on what I call the movement cure.
26:14 That is they're suppose to figure out
26:16 how far they can walk in one setting.
26:19 And then walk half that distance away
26:22 from their home and come back.
26:24 And then every two hours increase that distance
26:27 until they can walk a couple of miles a day,
26:30 and it's not impossible.
26:32 So the person that comes in and I'm sure,
26:34 you've seen this because you're an orthopedic surgeon
26:36 that so bilateral amputee or something
26:39 what do you do for them with osteoporosis?
26:41 Well, they have some difficult problems there,
26:44 don't they, and it's kind of hard to come up
26:47 with a good weight bearing exercise for somebody
26:49 that has lost both their legs.
26:51 But if they can get prosthesis and so that
26:55 they can walk, that's the best way.
26:57 Otherwise it is kind of difficult.
26:59 What about their arms?
27:00 Can they do anything with their arms
27:02 that puts that off or--?
27:04 Arm exercises haven't proven to be real helpful
27:08 because when you lift yourself up with your arms,
27:10 you actually unload your spine.
27:12 Okay, so the diet, the weight bearing,
27:16 and then Vitamin D, out there in the sunlight,
27:20 these different things you've talked about.
27:22 And then any spiritual aspects you bring into this.
27:25 I know, you've talked about,
27:26 "A Merry heart doeth good like a medicine
27:28 and doesn't dries out the bones," anything else.
27:30 You know, we are originally created
27:32 to work in the garden.
27:33 I think it's in being out in nature
27:36 that we deal best with our stress.
27:38 Especially when we realize that this nature was
27:41 all put together for us by our God.
27:44 And if we can reduce the stress in our life,
27:47 we can take away that effect of stress
27:49 that has to do with thinning our bones.
27:52 You've been watching Health For A Lifetime.
27:54 Thank you, Doctor, for being with us.
27:56 Thank you for being with us.
27:57 We hope you have health that lasts for a lifetime.


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