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 a 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% 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 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

osteoporosis. And what's interesting about osteopenia is over 50% of women over the age of 50

have some degree of osteopenia. And a significant amount of men have it as well. But osteopenia

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 told, you know, here take these medications, exercise, maybe you should start chewing those

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