WHAT CAUSES BONE LOSS

Bone Loss: Your body needs the minerals calcium and phosphate to make and keep healthy bones. During your life, your body continues to both reabsorb old bone and create new bone. Your entire skeleton is replaced about every 10 years. If your body has a good balance of new and old bone, your bones stay healthy and strong. Bone loss occurs when more old bone is reabsorbed than new bone is created.

THE NATURE CALCIUM 1000

Bone Loss: Sometimes bone loss occurs without any known cause. Other times, bone loss and thin bones run in families and the disease is inherited. In general, white, older women are the most likely to have bone loss. This increases their risk of breaking a bone. Brittle, fragile bones can be caused by anything that makes your body destroy too much bone or keeps your body from making enough bone. Weak bones can break easily, even without an obvious injury.

THE NATURE CALCIUM 1000

Bone Loss: As you age, your body may reabsorb calcium and phosphate from your bones instead of keeping these minerals in your bones. This makes your bones weaker. When this process reaches a certain stage, it is called osteoporosis. Many times, a person will fracture a bone before they even know they have bone loss. By the time a fracture occurs, the bone loss is serious.

THE NATURE CALCIUM 1000

Bone Loss: Our body needs calcium and vitamin D and enough exercise to build and keep strong bones. Your body may not make enough new bone if: You do not eat enough high-calcium foods, your body does not absorb enough calcium from the foods you eat, and your body removes more calcium than normal in the urine. Any treatment or condition that causes calcium or vitamin D to be poorly absorbed can also lead to weak bones