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Health Rising just posted that a lady with treatment resistant osteoporosis was using low dose naltrexone and Rapamycin and had a significant increase in bone density. She was doing other things so can’t be sure that was it, but found it interesting.

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#2

Excellent! Thank you for sharing.

I started LDN within the last couple of months and had a dexa in the fall. I’ll share if I should see something interesting when I get my next one. I did start taking calcium, so it might be hard to know what to attribute any gains to?

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I’m on my third week of rapa as of tomorrow and I am also using ldn, specifically because of that case report. I had a Dexa right before starting, so I will try to get another in a year or two.

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#4

Beth and Nio do hope you’ll check back in!

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#5

In one year after taking AlgaeCal Plus plus wearing a 12 pound weighted vest while running/walking, my bone density scores (on the same machine) improved as follows:

  • Lumbar Spine (L1-L4): +8.0%
  • Left Femoral Neck: +6.4%
  • Left Total Hip: +6.1%
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#6

Wow that’s great! Definitely best if can do without drugs. Did you add any resistance training? Health issues keep me from doing much but do take algae cals collagen and another algae product but not their brand.

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Beth do you know about needing K’s with your calcium so it doesn’t settle in your arteries?

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#8

I do some push ups and planks but not a ton.

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#9

I do, but I appreciate you making sure!!! Thank you!!!

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#10

In two years I have reversed my osteoporosis (7.6% increase in bone density in neck of femur) using only MHT (oestrogen, progesterone, testosterone), OsteoStrong once a week, Kieser 2-3 times a week, increased calcium intake via fortified plant milks. No bone drugs. My doctor said it couldn’t be done without bone drugs!

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#11

That’s great Lynn! I looked up Kieser and seems to be in Australia? However there’s an Osteostrong not far from me. My problem is health issues and significant fatigue so can’t really commit to that kind of thing. Do need to get in gear and do what I can when I can here at home though. The HRT I’m almost certain is what kept my bones stable from age 60-67, but haven’t checked since and now 71. Just wish the doctors had been more educated years ago and put women on HRT in perimenopause, course even now a lot of doctors won’t do it. Just read today in Ronald Hoffman’s newsletter (doc in NYC) that the osteoporosis drugs if taken too long can have a rebound effect and make bones more brittle. This interested me because my mom, who lived to 92, had several nasty falls and never broke a bone but her cousin took fosomax and fell several times, always breaking a bone.

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#12

Just chiming in with a few thoughts:

  1. Love your success. I can’t stand when docs say ‘it can’t be done’, because there’s so much resilience in the human body and so many unknowns to medicine.

  2. For the person who is too fatigued to do bone strength exercises, consider getting a vibration plate with hand rails. There’s some evidence that it can strengthen bones and one only need to turn it on and stand there.

  3. There’s a case report that shows Rapamycin with ldn had a good effect on a 53 yr old woman with osteopenia. It’s been discussed recently on this forum.

Keep these anecdotes coming! They are inspirational to many of us.

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Hi Nio, I can’t use a vibration plate because I have a condition called Superior Canal Dehiscense, basically a hole in the ears. Had a craniotomy for one in 2010 and trying to keep the other at bay. I did use one once and had vertigo for a week. There’s the Marodyne that a Clinton Rubin invented that’s very low frequency but recently it’s come out that his claims aren’t true, and that one does need something like a power plate. I’m really not even supposed to lift more than 10 pounds but suppose that’s all I’m capable of anyway for most exercises. Asked the doc about this and he said main thing is remember to correctly breathe while doing the exercises, if I would go over 10.

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#14

Long with borderline osteoporosis in hips and wrists, I have improved much since jumping down from a 40 cm structure landing on one heel at a time varying between different directions, respectively arresting falls against a wall with the back of my hand.

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