Osteoporosis Treatment Alternatives To Bisphosphonates

Big Pharma employs a lot of very serious spin-doctors. I’ll give you a good example. Bisphosphonates For Osteoporosis? A new study just came out on bisphosphonate drugs. These are the most commonly prescribed drugs for osteoporosis. They’re worth about $8.5 billion per year to the drug companies. But this new study says that one-third of the women taking these drugs are still at high risk for fractures.  Now here’s what you have to understand. The study was done by a subsidiary of Merck & Co. They make Fosamax, one of the biggest bone drugs. So instead of saying the drugs don’t work for more than 30% of women, they said the women who didn’t get good results were at fault.  The researchers suggested the women were probably taking other drugs… smoking… not exercising… not using their canes or walkers… or not taking their calcium (which doesn’t build stronger bones anyway).  Women At Fault For Broken Bones In other words, they blamed the victims for their broken bones.   What Are Bisphosphonate Drugs And The Side Effects? And they never mentioned these drugs have horrible side effects. Drugs like Fosamax, Boniva, Actonel and Reclast are the perfect way to create brittle, crumbling bones. Taking them poisons your bones. How Do Bisphosphonates Work? Your bones have cells called osteoclasts. Their job is to remove old bone tissue. This makes room for other cells called osteoblasts to build new bone. Wi...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Health Source Type: news