Osteoporosis

Natural alternative treatment, healing and cure for osteoporosis

The information in this page about osteoporosis, natural medicine, treatment and cure is NOT a sales pitch for any drug, supplement, herbal formula or even an alleged magic potion from an exotic faraway land. Food is always best medicine No chemical drugs or expensive and dangerous hip or joint replacement surgeries, not even herbal concoctions. Just the right diet for treating and curing osteoporosis. Learn how.

Osteoporosis is a gradual decalcifying of bones. Diet has been closely linked to this illness, especially modern diet such as sodas when combined with animal-protein-and-fat-rich foods. In other words, the combination of sugar and animal protein are the culprits. A good example of this is ice cream. Ice cream is rich in sugar, protein from dairy products and fat and cholesterol. A recipe for osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis is traditionally treated with calcium supplements, chemical drugs and plenty of dairy products. And when osteoporosis deteriorates to an uncomfortable or dangerous level in the knee joints or hip, doctors recommend a very expensive and dangerous knee or hip replacement operation. Available Osteoporosis treatments can be classified as medicine of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current Osteoporosis medications and operations are expensive, not offering a cure, dangerous and have harmful side effects.

Doctors usually tell osteoporosis patients to eat plenty of dairy products and take calcium supplements. Their reason for making this recommendation is that dairy products are rich in calcium which is greatly needed by osteoporosis patient. It is true that dairy products are rich in calcium, but is it good for osteoporosis patients? Dairy products are rich also in animal protein, fat and cholesterol which can actually make osteoporosis worse. Please read the book Don't drink your milk by Frank A. Oski MD. It is better for osteoporosis patients to include in their diet calcium rich-vegetables. These calcium-rich vegetables are naturally cholesterol-free and fat-free. In fact osteoporosis is rarely found among vegetarians!

The bones are the most YANG (hard) of all components. Extreme YIN foods, such as sugar and ice cream, antagonize and eventually corrode YANG elements such as the bones. The most destructive of foods to the bones are sugar and acid-forming foods namely animal protein.  Read more about the relation between Osteoporosis and YIN and YANG in the seven laws of the universe.

Food is best medicine. With the right diet, osteoporosis is reversible. The bones will actually gradually increase in density after following the right diet for a few weeks and months. This has been proven with bone x-rays of osteoporosis patients. This means not only an improvement in joint function for an osteoporosis patient, but it also means doing away with dangerous and expensive knee or hip replacement operations.

Most people have come to believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. To cure osteoporosis you do not have to eat Japanese foods, but if you like Japanese food why not? You have to first understand the principles of natural balance explained in macrobiotics in order to understand what eating and living habits led you to develop osteoporosis. And then macrobiotics will help you determine which foods you will have to eat in order to cure osteoporosis. Read If macrobiotics means eating locally grown foods, why are we eating Japanese foods? If you are an osteoporosis patient and tried macrobiotics (particularly the #7 diet) but found it did not work for you, then the foods you have selected are not appropriate for your condition. Please read: The standard macrobiotic diet does not work for some people. Why?

It is true that food is best medicine for osteoporosis. But some foods help cure osteoporosis and some make the condition worse. The food pyramid is only a general guideline and does not provide any specific information in the natural treatment of osteoporosis.

Food is best medicine. With a carefully designed diet plan for osteoporosis there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some vitamin and mineral supplements can have severe adverse side effects on an osteoporosis patient when taken randomly or in large doses. Some mineral supplements can actually cause kidney stones. And beware of alleged miracle cures in far away lands.

Are you skeptical of this treatment and cure for osteoporosis? This is natural, but please read: back to the roots.

This is not a sales pitch for an expensive herbal concoction or an exotic supplement

Principles explained above are the laws of nature, and illness is simply the cumulative result of violating these laws. Hippocrates said: Thy food shall be thy remedy. From the Chinese book of internal medicine Nei Ching: What can not be cured with medicine, can only be cured with food. Food is your best medicine if the illness is Osteoporosis or almost anything else.

If you decide to treat Osteoporosis with the right diet, you can order a consultation with us from the top of this page. We can help by providing an appropriate diet plan, and you would not be alone traveling this road! Read about what many famous western doctors said about Food is Best Medicine. And keep in mind that we offer seminars worldwide about nutrition, the art of health and macrobiotics. When you are following a diet for a specific illness especially for osteoporosis read about the healing crisis. You can also find more answers about osteoporosis and other illnesses and food as medicine in Frequently Asked Questions.

In addition to changing your eating habits, take some time to relax, meditate or re-charge the batteries, and read what others have long discovered about this wondrous world around us.

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