Causes and symptoms of bone health deterioration

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Causes and Symptoms of bone health deterioration

What causes bone health deterioration?

The human body requires a regular intake of mineral, calcium and phosphate to make and keep your bones healthy.

During your lifespan, our bone continues to both reabsorb mature bone and create new bones. The human skeleton is replaced about every 10 years. Providing, your body has a good balance of old & new bone, your bone remain strong and healthy. Usually, a bone loss appears when more old bones are reabsorbed than a new bone is created.

At times, a bone loss takes place without any known cause. On the other hand, bone loss and thin bone disorder are within families and inherited. In most cases, white, older women are more prone to have bone loss problem. Such disorders, increases their risk of breaking a bone. Weak or unhealthy bones break easily, without even an evident injury. A Brittle or fragile bones can be caused due to anything that destroys your bone, or restrains your body from making enough bone.

Here are the 3 common causes of bone loss; Aging As the person grows old, our body reabsorbs calcium and phosphate from our bone, rather than keeping these minerals in your bones. This makes your bone weaker, and develops Osteoporosis.

An individual suffering with osteoporosis will fracture a bone, before they even know they have a bone loss. This may even lead to serious bone loss condition. It is a commonly observed condition in women over age 50 and men over the age 70, than younger men and women. In women, a drop in estrogen hormone is the main cause of bone loss. On the other hand, in men a drop of testosterone hormone is the cause for bone loss.

Lifestyle choices Our body requires calcium and vitamin D and regular exercise to build and keep-up strong


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