Has your doctor told you that you should take bone drugs for your osteoporosis or osteopenia? You may have felt very helpless in this situation if you don't want to take bone drugs but just don't know what else to do. In this video, Dr. Brown gives you 3 actionable steps you can take if your doctor suggests you go on bone drugs.
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Transcript:
So your doctor has told you that you
Should take a bone drug
Well here’s the first three things you
Should do when you hear those words
Number one you yourself should assess
Your real risk of fracture
You can do this most simply by using the
Fracture risk assessment that i
Developed on betterbones.com
Of course one important factor is if
You’ve already fractured then we know
There’s something going on you should
Take this seriously
If you have a family history if you’re
Using medications
That increase the risk of fracture like
steroids and antidepressants and
Anti-acids and many other medications
First assess your real risk of fracture
And we’ve written a lot about this
You’ll find the fracture risk assessment
On betterbones.com
Second ask your doctor to do a medical
Workup looking for the causes of bone
Loss
Looking at things like vitamin d loss of
Calcium in the urine
Parathyroid hormone cortisol level dhea
And most importantly bone breakdown
Level
You see there are many tests that the
Doctors do if they think a person is
Having excessive bone loss
So i always say tell your doctor gee doc
If you think it’s that important that i
Should take bone drugs then it’s
Certainly important enough to find out
If there’s any hidden causes of the bone
Loss
So get my medical osteoporosis risk
My medical osteoporosis work up we’ll
Give you the link to that it’s right on
Betterbones.com
You take that document print it out and
Take it to your doc and say doc i’d like
Have i
Have i had all these tests if not i’d
Like all these tests
To see if there isn’t any hidden cause
Of bone loss before we start talking
About bone drugs
I can’t tell you the number of clients
Who come in have not been tested for
Anything and are told to take
Bone drugs and then later you found out
They were losing calcium in the urine or
They even had a parathyroid problem or
Their vitamin d was extremely low
Find out if there’s any medical causes
For you bone loss if you really have
Excessive bone loss
And number three of course you should
Take charge and do a complete
Better bones better body program get all
The nutrients like we outline
Develop an alkaline diet really look
Into the exercise remembering that when
You build muscle you build bone
Remember that stress really damages bone
And this is some of the most interesting
New research
Out of columbia university showing how
You sacrifice
Osteocalcin a very important bone
Protein
When you get fearful there are many
Aspects to building bone we have six
Steps to our program
Be sure to do each of those six steps
Simple that’s what you do those three
Things when your doctor says
You should take an osteoporosis drug be
Well we’ll talk later