Participants: Don Mackintosh (Host), John Clark
Series Code: HFAL
Program Code: HFAL000195
00:01 The following program presents principles
00:03 designed to promote good health 00:04 and is not intended to take the place of 00:07 personalized professional care. 00:09 The opinions and ideas expressed 00:11 are those of the speaker. 00:12 Viewers are encouraged to draw their own conclusions 00:15 about the information presented. 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. 13:26 Are you confused about the endless stream of 13:29 new and often contradictory health information 13:32 with companies trying to sell new drugs 13:34 and special interest groups paying for studies 13:36 that spin the fact, when can you find 13:39 a common sense approach to health. 13:41 One way is to ask for your free copy of Dr. Arnott's 13:44 24 realistic ways to improve your health. 13:47 Dr. Timothy Arnott and the Lifestyle Center of America 13:50 produced this helpful booklet of 24 short, 13:52 practical health tips based on scientific research 13:55 and the Bible, that will help you live longer, 13:58 happier and healthier. 13:59 For example, did you know that women who drink 14:02 more water lower the risk of heart attack. 14:04 Or that 7 to 8 hours of sleep a night can minimize 14:07 your risk of ever developing diabetes. 14:10 Find out how to lower 14:11 your blood pressure and much more. 14:13 If you're looking for help not hike, 14:14 then this booklet is for you. 14:16 Just log on to 3abn.org and click on free offers 14:20 or call us during regular business hours, 14:22 you'll be glad you did. 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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