A common query from women patients is their rising concerns for bone density issues, even from younger women. One woman, just 18 years of age, even though endeavouring to eat healthy found her bone density test was lower than expected.
Osteoporosis is a multi-factorial skeletal disorder of progressive bone loss with deminerialisation loss and in some cases a background of bone fractures, which accelerates menopause conditions.
Menopause is an age group that can suffer from bone density issues. Mature bone matrix is a complex highly mineralised structural framework, composed primarily of collagen and containing a small number of non-collegenous proteins and glycoproteins. The bone loss during the first decade following menopause is predominantly at the expense of the trabecular bone, often with a 50% loss whereas 5 per cent of the cortical bone is lost. So how can you improve and most of all prevent the condition from occurring? Suggestions in the main article.