| Osteoporosis is when your bones become thin | | | | osteoporosis-related hip fractures and other |
| and porous as a result of calcium loss. It affects | | | | fractures in postmenopausal women. When we |
| women eight times more than men. A bone | | | | run out of estrogen and progesterone hormones, |
| mineral density scan can determine if one has this | | | | our bones begin to die very quickly. Bones have |
| condition. according to studies, one in two women | | | | their own life cycle or metabolism, a rhythm of |
| over age fifty will suffer at least one lifetime | | | | growth and death governed by estrogen and |
| fracture from osteoporosis. Recent evidence says | | | | progesterone. The fall off of estrogen during |
| that rhythmic bioidentical hormone therapy can | | | | perimenopause means no peak of estrogen |
| help prevent bone loss or osteoporosis. | | | | activity to make progesterone receptors which |
| Research studies have also shown that hormone | | | | would build bone. This is the beginning of |
| replacement therapy (HRT) lowers the risk of | | | | osteoporosis. |