Show 1043: How to Strengthen Bones and Fix Your Body with Yoga

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Do you think of yoga as exercise? Many people don’t. Yoga doesn’t seem like exercise that can combat osteoporosis. Yet physiatrist Loren Fishman, MD, has shown that certain yoga poses can improve bone mineral density and reduce fractures. People do need to practice these poses conscientiously. When they do, they experience virtually no side effects-except they stand […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.5	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.4	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.2	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:30.1	At least 10 million Americans have osteoporosis and millions more are at risk of this condition
0:36.8	that increases the chance of a fracture.
0:39.7	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:47.9	Each year, there are more than a million fractures due to osteoporosis.
0:54.7	Recovering from a hip or spine fracture is challenging.
0:58.0	While there are medications for osteoporosis, they can have unpleasant side effects.
1:02.7	Are there other options for osteoporosis prevention?
1:06.0	One surprisingly effective approach is yoga.
1:09.6	Research shows that conscientious practice of certain traditional yoga poses can increase
1:15.3	bone density.
1:16.6	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, find out about yoga for osteoporosis and other bone-in-joint
1:22.7	problems.
1:25.0	First, this news.
1:30.0	In the People's pharmacy health headlines, advanced prostate cancer seems to be on the rise.
1:36.8	A new study found a 72% increase in metastatic disease between 2004 and 2011.
1:54.0	Men between 55 and 69 years of age experienced a 92% increase in new cases of advanced prostate cancer over the last decade. Low-risk prostate cancer cases were down, 37%.
1:58.0	The researchers reviewed the medical records of over 760,000 men with prostate cancer.
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