Dr. Oz Praises Vit D and links deficiency to Osteoporosis - Osteoporosis Message Board

osteoblast · 11-06-2007, 12:21 PM

Yesterday on Oprah , Dr Oz praised vit d extensively and said that a deficiency may be implicated in certain cancers, and other diseases including OSTEOPOROSIS as well as autoimmune disorders. This is not really new to readers of this board. We often talk about vit d. But it is just another reinforcement and reminder to be sure we stay at a good level on this vitamin. I feel that long term vit d deficiency has had a huge impact on me both with my osteoporosis and autoimmune hashimoto's thyroidititis.I have found alot of great info on this at the Vitamin D Council. Also, I have had mds who were way off , telling me a vit d level of 30 was ok, or do not in any case exceed 2000IU vit d a day. From what I have read that advice is very old school. And, if you are on forteo, be aware that forteo uses vit d at a higher than normal rate. Look at the forteo insert and it talks about significant decline in vit d levels while people are on forteo.So everybody, be sure to get your vit d levels to a good level and supplement adequately esp. those in the northern regions as we go into winter.

Turquoise · 11-07-2007, 04:27 AM

I saw Dr. Oz on Oprah and I noticed he didn't mentioned any of the bisphosphates for treatment which may mean he forgot or he is not a fan. He recomended weight training and sunlight for vitamin D. But he didn't go into it enough. Sunlight is great but you if you use sunscreen you won't get the benefits. Also, you can't sit in the sun with just your hands and face exposed. You need a certain percentage of your body exposed.He also said the audience was tested and those with osteopenia would probably get osteoporosis which isn't true. Some bone loss is normal in aging. The drug companies coined the word osteopenia to scare the heck out of us so we go on the bisphosphates.

I wish Gillian Sansone or one of the other medical professionals who aren't beholding to the drug compaines would come on Oprah and really debunk some of the myths surrounding osteoporosis and let the masses know what's really going on.

Turquoise

phylwill1152 · 11-07-2007, 04:55 AM

BRAVO TOURQUISE

...I thought the same thing when i saw it. I can see it now...women sitting outside on a sunny winter day sunny their hands and face thinking they are doing the right thing and maybe nothing else to help themselves. I'd love to see and hear what Gillian Sansone and others have to say, but its mostly the ones recommending meds that get the time to talk. I think Dr. Oz missed an opportunity to give helpful info and said too little. Haven't seen you here for a while...how ya been? take care...phyllis

Turquoise · 11-07-2007, 05:14 AM

Haven't seen you here for a while...how ya been?

phylwil:
I check the board almost daily but have been busy with aging moms (one with alz) and grandkids. I am trying not to dwell on my osteoporosis and am lucky I don't have any symptoms that tell me I have it. I have an endo appt. this month and I'm going to bring in my Strontium to see what she has to say about it. She hasn't helped my situation at all and this may be my last appt.
She thinks I should keep taking the Fosamax which didn't help and gave me horrible neck and shoulder pain.

For those of us that the conventional meds do not help... it's up to us to find something that does. My readings were stable this year which may be because I'm past menopause or my exercise and diet routine. Who knows. Certainly not the medical community.

Hope all is well with you.
Turquoise

starfish81 · 11-07-2007, 05:50 PM

Hey Turquoise-great to hear from you again

-wondered where you were. You wrote a wonderful post to reply to my initial one way back in....July I think? Anyway, I agree-Gillian Sanson ought to be on national TV instead of these fear-mongering medical professionals. We don't have TV (by choice) but a close friend saw the Oprah segment you're probably referring to and she said that Dr Oz took a "normal" spine and one with osteoporosis and showed how the osteoporosis spine was basically moth-eaten looking and it crumbled readily.

I know my friend didn't mean to upset me by telling me that, but I am upset. And I can feel the fear creeping back. Why, oh why, was it not mentioned that there are other factors besides BMD that determine fracture risk? ****-as much as I've benefitted from these boards, sometimes I get "too much" info here too. Someone recently said that, because of a -3.4 lumbar reading, her doctor told her not to bend over at the waist. Well, that's my reading too, and I not only bend over at the waist, but I do back exercises with weights, lumbar stretches, and I've taken some pretty spectacular falls downhill sking. And I don't intend to stop any of it.

I have been consumed by this "diagnosis" for 7 precious years of my life. I'm now undergoing painful prolotherapy treatments for both knees, which have damaged ligaments and cartilage by overdoing it with exercise-all in the name of paranoia about BMD. Hey, maybe some of us should go public with what is possibly the biggest scam against women since HRT

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