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now there’s no way you can

build up your bones okay if you have

osteoporosis with calcium

it’s not going to happen what’s going to

happen if you attempt to do that is

you’re going to get calcification of

your arteries so in this video I’m going

to show you

some insights on osteoporosis as well as

osteopenia what is osteoporosis

osteoporosis is a loss of bone density

and bone mass and so the problem with

that is you’re at risk for a fracture

now the purpose of bone is to give you

structure

to have a place where ligaments can

attach and it’s also a reserve for

minerals so if you need more calcium or

phosphorus bone is that Reserve and so

many people just focus on the calcium

aspect of bone but phosphorus like 85

percent of phosphorus is stored in your

bone yet we ignore phosphorus and the

thing you need to know about phosphorus

is that you can have problems with your

bone if you have uh too little

phosphorus or too much because if you

have too much phosphorus as in if you

drink a lot of sodas or things with

phosphoric acid or junk foods that can

cause bone loss as well but just so you

know phosphorus is in a lot of foods

it’s in Meats fish eggs it’s even in

Dairy it’s in vegetables so most people

have enough phosphorus unless they’re

doing things to deplete phosphorus like

I said consuming junk Foods or drinking

the sodas or they have a kidney problem

or they’re taking certain medications

that are interfering with phosphorus

osteoporosis is severe bone loss putting

you at risk for fractures osteopenia is

kind of a subclinical or a stage that

comes before Osteo porosis and what’s

interesting about osteopenia is over 50

percent of women over the age of 50 have

some degree of osteopenia and a

significant amount of men have it as

well but osteopenio doesn’t really put

you at risk for fractures it’s just a

good indicator that you know you’re

going down a road that you could end up

with osteoporosis but typically a lot of

people are totally on here take these

medications exercise maybe you should

start chewing those chocolate calcium

bone building things which are just a

joke but there’s a paradox involved with

calcification what they found with this

Paradox is that uh people that have

osteoporosis have a much higher degree

of calcification in the arteries and the

adjoints so that’s kind of weird that

you’re having all this excess calcium

but it’s not going in the right place

the other point I want to bring up about

bone is that in the bone marrow you have

an entire Factory that is making blood

red blood cells white blood cells and

platelets so bone is composed of

not just calcium a lot of minerals also

35 percent of bone is protein mostly in

the form of collagen so let’s go through

the key nutrients that are needed to

either reverse osteopenia and

osteoporosis and even another thing

called osteomalacia let me just tell you

what that is osteomalacia is kind of

soft bones in adults and that is

primarily from a vitamin D deficiency

when this occurs in children we call

that rickets when we’re dealing with

osteoporosis or osteopenia we’re not

just looking at a loss of calcium we’re

looking at a vitamin K2 deficiency a

vitamin D3 deficiency usually which

works with K2 together so let’s just

start out with vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is

a fairly recently discovered

vitamin it’s a fat soluble vitamin comes

from fatty foods

it also can come from fermented foods in

Asia they have something called NATO

which is fermented soybeans and that is

very high in vitamin K2 vitamin K2 is

also in raw sauerkraut but mainly it’s

in like a fatty sausage it’s in fatty

cheese it’s even an egg yolks it’s in

liver and so what you need to know about

that is that if you’re on a low fat diet

or you’re taking certain medications

that block vitamin K2 like statins if

you’re on a blood thinner or even

antidepressants antacids certain

medications for high blood pressure or

even medications for erectile

dysfunction you’re not going to get

enough of vitamin K2 so vitamin K2 is

really really important if not the most

important

vitamin for making your bones really

really solid and hard but you also need

Vitamin D3 with it and vitamin D3 helps

the absorption of calcium by a factor of

20x in the small intestine and so

vitamin D helps absorb calcium into the

blood from the digestive system and then

vitamin K2 takes it from that blood and

drives it into the bone so it’s really

important to understand what K2 does and

to make sure either you get it in your

diet or you’re taking it as a supplement

if you’re taking it as a supplement I

recommend the form that’s called MK 7

okay versus other forms like MK4 mk7 is

a natural form and it lasts about 48

times longer in your body versus the

half-life of MK4 with about 20 000 IUS

of vitamin D3 now another key vitamin

for bone is vitamin A vitamin A and I’m

not talking about the precursor

beta-carotene retinol which is the

bioavailable true form of vitamin A is

really high in egg yolks this is why

eggs are just so important in many

different ways in your diet but

especially to get enough vitamin A

vitamin A is not just going to help you

build bone but it’s also going to

prevent some of the toxicities that

potentially could occur from vitamin D

even though those would be very rare I

don’t recommend getting your vitamin A

from a supplement just get it from your

food egg yolks liver or other organ

Meats vitamin A is in cheese also in

butter and cod liver oil as well and so

vitamin D3 K2 and a are all fat soluble

vitamins so another thing to look out

for or or understand is that you need a

good gallbladder and a good liver to

produce the bile to absorb these

nutrients so if you had your gallbladder

out or you have some type of problem

with your liver as in you know fatty

liver these reasons could be why you’re

not getting these nutrients in which

case you should probably just take some

bile salts to help with the absorption

so we have to make sure that we’re

getting these nutrients from the diet we

have to make sure that nothing’s

countering those vitamins we have to

make sure we absorb them with the right

things like the bile salts but we also

have other things that help build your

bone like minerals yes I would be taking

some form of calcium if I had

osteoporosis or osteopenia but not as a

standalone I would make sure we take all

these other things as well but I would

not take the form of calcium that is not

very bioavailable and that’s calcium

carbonate and so many people are taking

this type basically it’s like Limestone

you’d be better off chewing on the

cement outside your house because that’s

really what it is it’s just the the form

of calcium that’s has to go through like

12 different biochemical steps before it

gets absorbed in your body and if you’re

getting older you may find that you

don’t have enough stomach acid to absorb

this calcium so that’s another barrier

if you don’t have the acid in the

stomach okay you’re not going to be able

to absorb the calcium magnesium

phosphorus and the trace minerals that

I’m going to talk about next and so the

way you would know that you wouldn’t

have enough stomach acid is usually you

have indigestion bloating or acid reflux

so the type of calcium I would take is

like a calcium magnesium supplement but

try to get your calcium mostly from food

Dairy sardines

uh deep leafy green vegetables all have

a good amount of calcium and magnesium

and magnesium helps activate vitamin D

also potassium is really important too

so you can get your magnesium and

potassium from leafy greens like large

salads now as far as the trace minerals

zinc copper and Boron are the top trace

minerals but there’s other ones too so

if you were to take like a a trace

mineral complex that would be the best

thing with emphasis with the zinc Boron

and the copper

these can activate certain proteins in

bone so those are really really

important as well

and Boron helps you balance out the

calcium and magnesium it just helps you

absorb those two minerals as well as the

activators of the proteins that help you

form bones since 35 percent of bone is

protein and of course when we talk about

protein make sure you have the best

biovaluable type of protein and that

would be animal proteins eggs are the

top protein and then you have fish

shellfish would be really really

important oysters clams shrimp are

really good because that will not only

give you high quality protein but the

trace minerals as well but you might be

saying what about all the cholesterol

well guess what bile salts are made out

of cholesterol and you need cholesterol

to make bile cells to help you absorb

these fat soluble nutrients and you also

need cholesterol to help build

hormones sex hormones specifically

estrogen it’s not very surprising that

many women after menopause end up with

their bones becoming osteoporotic and

that has to do with this sudden drop or

shift in this estrogen dropping down so

how do you build that back up well make

sure you have all the precursors to

making these hormones and that would be

like cholesterol so as you approach

menopause you want to increase more

cholesterol okay and cholesterol does

not come from plant Foods it comes from

animal Foods eggs butter Meats things

like that and if you complement those

foods with a large salad or vegetables

each day it can really help you regulate

and moderate the amount of cholesterol

going through the body not that you’re

concerned with that or not but I think

the balance of both of those type of

foods plant-based and animal based are

really important exercise would be an

important thing to add into this program

to stimulate the bone growth which will

also indirectly reduce stress because

cortisol is very destructive on your

bones so if you’re going through chronic

stress that could be another reason

on top of the menopause situation where

the adrenals have to back up your

ovaries that could be a big trigger for

osteopenia than osteoporosis the other

thing you need to know about

osteoporosis is that that’s a pretty

severe situation and it’s going to take

a good amount of time to

fix this problem and it could take

actually up to six years of healthy

eating but I wanted to give you this

background information so you have all

the different pieces to this puzzle

what’s very interesting too about

medication for osteoporosis is that some

of these medications real popular

medications increase the risk for

fractures which we’re trying to avoid

now since we emphasize probably the most

important uh piece of this puzzle which

is K2 there’s some additional

information that you should know about

that and I put that video up right here

check it out