Oct 3, 2023 | Awareness, Living with Osteoporosis
During October the world focuses on Breast Cancer Awareness Month and on the 20th of October we celebrate World Osteoporosis Day. Osteoporosis in tandem with any other disease is distressing enough, but when combined with breast cancer, conditions present a unique set...
Aug 21, 2023 | Awareness, Living with Osteoporosis
HIV and bones should both be priority topics at any time. But possibly in the modern context, people are more concerned with HIV. However, the effect on your bones of this insidious disease should not be neglected. While HIV is primarily associated with effects on the...
Jul 18, 2023 | Awareness, Living with Osteoporosis, Uncategorised
We often think of bones in individual areas: we have a bad back, a painful shoulder, a creaky knee, an uncomfortable hip, and we rarely consider the muscle networks across our back and stomach which are designed to hold everything essentially together. Strong bones...
Jun 20, 2023 | Awareness, Living with Osteoporosis
As we age, many of us are subject to various medications for a host of chronic ailments. And osteoporosis is possibly not least of these. But while medicine is important, and in many cases vital to our wellbeing, there is often the glaring issue of side effects. So...
May 21, 2023 | Nutrition, Awareness
While going vegan can give one a great deal of satisfaction, especially with regard to a greener footprint on the planet, there are some factors which, if left out of the diet, can cause deficiencies that need to be addressed. The hard truth is that a vegan diet,...
Apr 20, 2023 | Awareness, General, Uncategorised
There are certain factors that affect our bones that we have no real control over – factors which are the very basis and kernel of who we are; our gender and our ethnicity. These deep genetic blueprint elements play an important role in determining the strength and...
