Building Bone: The Novel Role of Tocotrienols

Here is an interesting and informative interview with Professor Ima-Nirwana Soelaiman, an expert in the role of tocotrienols in the process of maintaining bone bone strength and healthy ageing (in case you are wondering, I do have tocotrienols available but not for over the counter sales).

Dr Ima-Nirwana Soelaiman

Building Bone: The Novel Role of Tocotrienols

Please contact me if you are interested in learning more about tocotrienols and whether this may be beneficial for you.  If you have a health condition and on medication then you must arrange a consultation before making any changes or adding a supplement such as these:
http://www.garymoller.com/Consultation/Private-Consultation.aspx

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You'd have to be nuts to take this drug after watching this video!

Prolia is one of the bisphosphonate class of drugs that work by killing off one of the cells that remodel old bone (osteoblasts).  The result is the buildup of old bone.  While it gives the impression that bones are stronger, this is completely untrue with an increase in fractures a few years later.

Below is a promotional video intended to get mostly older women to enthusiastically get onto these drugs.  I want you to watch this and take careful note of the long list of horrific side effects:

Would you take this drug after seeing the long list of side effects?  Osteonecrosis of the jaw?

Osteonecrosis of the jaw

In the USA the drugs companies are being sued left, right and center by patients who have been harmed by these drugs; yet they still continue to actively sell these because their profits dwarf what all the lawsuits may end up costing.  The listing of the horrific side effects is the only concession that they have to make.  They can go on selling these drugs so long as they spell out the dangers.

Remember that less than 10% of all drugs adverse reactions are ever reported.  Some cynics believe the figure is closer to 1%, so a lot of people are being harmed.  When you are reading the side effects such as heart damage and loss of one's jaw (Just how horrific is that!), bear in mind that these are listed because an unspecified number of poor souls suffered these horrible things.  I'd rather be dead than to have no jaw.  A broken bone is a preferable health problem in my opinion.

Here in New Zealand, there is no need to properly inform you of these horrific side effects: your doctor has his/her arse well protected by ACC and the Health and Disability Commissioner, neither of whom are genuinely interested in your health and welfare.  If you try to complain, let alone sue your doctor in New Zealand, I say "Good luck to you!"

If you have been told you have low bone density then it surely makes better sense to identify and treat the root causes, rather than treat the symptoms with a highly toxic poison?

If your doctor tells you that you need to take one of the bisphosphonate drugs, my advice is turn your back and get out of that office as fast as your legs will take you.  Go find a health practitioner who is genuinely interested in your health and get your bone strong and supple once more by nurturing them and not poisoning them.

By the way, did you know that the average contact time between patient and doctor in the United States is a mere nine minutes?  For a Naturopath it is over an hour per consultation.  Who would you put your faith in?  Things are not much better in New Zealand.  Sadly, we have adopted the failing US health model.

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The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation. Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.

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Why do many women have osteopaenia or osteoporosis?

Modern eternal war is the perfect
business model.
The other "Eternal War" is the one
to enslave the bodies
of womanhood

One of the most frequent inquiries coming my way is from women mostly over 40 who have been told by their doctor that they have weak bones.

It is needless terrorism

Some arrive on my doorstep in tears after being told they have either osteopaenia or osteoporosis.  This is a very serious thing to drop on an otherwise healthy woman; especially when the only solutions offered condemn them to a life time of drugs, mega-doses of harmful synthetic vitamins and minerals (vitamin D and calcium) and constant worry that they may trip and break a bone.

In many cases this is irresponsible, alarmist rubbish!

If there is an osteoporosis epidemic, then where are the hospital wards full of women with broken bones?  There aren't.  Yes, there is osteoporosis and some women do unfortunately fall and break a hip; but there is not an epidemic of fractures.  If a woman has low bone density, as many may, this is actually a poor predictor of fracture risk (There are articles linked later in this article which explain this).  Being on heart medication is a better predictor of fracture risk than a Dexa Scan.  

Did you know that "bone sparing" medication actually increases fracture risk after two years use!  Did you know that there are now more than 2,000 law suits pending in the New Jersey courts alone for osteonecrosis and hip fracture, allegedly caused by the use of Fosamax?  (Fosamax is just one of many kinds of "bone-sparing" drug of the bisphoshonate class).

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=fosamax+law+suits&aq=f&oq=fosamax+law+suits&aqs=chrome.0.57j62.15154j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Hardly any woman over the age of 50 will not be declared anything less than being osteopaenic following a scan.  This is simply the way it works: It is a test that is based on dodgy science using a scaling system that almost guarantees a diagnosis of low bone density.

The motivation is purely for commercial gain: In my opinion:

• The Dexa Scan is a high value service for the clinic that is quick and easy to operate.
• It gives the "evidence" for justifying a woman sacrificing her body for the cause: The war on osteoporosis which includes subjecting oneself annually to yet another source of cancer-causing radiation consuming expensive patented vitamins and minerals which will actually accelerate bone loss, arthritis and fatigue!
• And has them enroll in the clinic's profitable "bone strengthening" programme (A waste of money and effort if not combined with a proper drugs-free nutritional balancing programme).
• It has them coming back for an annual screen (A captured population and ongoing profitability).
• When this does not work, as it surely won't, then the clinic can put them on an even higher value "bone-sparing" drug like Fosamax which is guaranteed to destroy a woman's health, thus requiring even more high value drugs and medical procedures.

Screening programmes like these are a form of costly medical entrapment that has nothing to do with health.  In my informed opinion. Where's the published peer reviewed evidence of long term benefits such as improved life expectancy and improved quality of life?  I haven't found it yet.  

Incidentally, the Dexa Scan is now being extended to measure body fat: Yet even more cancer-causing radiation.  As if there wasn't too much already! This is totally contradictory in terms of  good health practice.

Real health has been hijacked and distorted 

for the purposes of commercial profit

A parallel health issue with equally dodgy motives and lack of credible evidence is the cholesterol lowering industry: http://blog.garymoller.com/2013/05/can-statin-cholesterol-lowering-drugs.html.  A further outrageous example of the hijacking of health for profit is the highly successful seasonal flu vaccine: http://blog.garymoller.com/2013/04/is-seasonal-flu-vaccine-actually.html and here: http://blog.garymoller.com/2013/02/the-flu-shot-dr-oz-is-getting-his-are.html

The osteoporosis industry reminds me of the Halliburton model for the "Business of War".  The next obvious move in the war on osteoporosis is to target men, similar to what the cosmetics industry has done after exhausting its supply of women for business growth.

Sex sells: Terror sells even better!

Here are a series of articles that you will find relevant to this discussion:

• Does calcium prevent osteoporosis? http://blog.garymoller.com/2012/01/inconvenient-truth-about-osteoporosis.html
• Calcium and heart disease: http://blog.garymoller.com/2010/08/study-finds-link-between-calcium.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2010/04/i-am-60-year-old-woman-diagnosed-with.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2009/09/how-much-calcium-do-we-need-in-our.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2008/08/i-am-29-year-old-female-very-active.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2007/06/spontaneous-fractures-and-fossy-jaw.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2012/09/anti-osteoporosis-drugs-evidence-mounts.html
• http://blog.garymoller.com/2010/05/would-rebounding-be-counter-indicated.html
• Vit D articles https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=gary+moller+vitamin+d&aq=f&oq=gary+moller+vitamin+d&aqs=chrome.0.57j62l3.10025j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
• Fosamax etc https://www.google.co.nz/search?newwindow=1&q=gary+moller+bisphosphonates&oq=gary+moller+bisp&gs_l=serp.1.0.0i22i30.139412.141861.0.144294.4.3.0.1.1.0.255.694.2-3.3.0...0.0...1c.1.11.serp.7UwUBSByEao
• Gillian Sanson http://blog.garymoller.com/2012/09/the-myth-of-osteoporosis-revised.html  and http://gilliansanson.wordpress.com/ (Highly recommended!).

Cochrane Reviews on osteoporosis:

http://www.thecochranelibrary.com/details/browseReviews/577511/Osteoporosis.html?page=1

Sadly, I can't find convincing evidence of benefit from these drugs in terms of life expectancy or morbidity when adjusted for "all causes".

You will realise there is good cause to be cautious about any health matters in which Big Business has a controlling hand . You may also appreciate why I decided to separate myself from the "system" some years ago. 

I am not winning any popularity contests for calling out aloud that the Emperor has no clothes but it is difficult to remain silent following the tearful visit from a healthy woman who has just been told she has a terrible disease that, in her case, may actually be an unsubstantiated  concoction of myth for commercial profit and she is given little in the way of treatment choice other than spending the rest of her life on harmful drugs.

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The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation. Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.

The myth of osteoporosis exposed

About 15 years ago, when I was running a small rehabilitation clinic, a sales man tried to sell me a Dexa Scan machine which measures bone density.  His presentation was not about health promotion; but about the wonderful business model surrounding this highly expensive diagnostic machine.  It is a machine that strikes terror into the hearts of women.  It was guaranteed a money-printer according to the sales pitch!  Health was barely mentioned.

In my opinion, the osteoporosis business is deeply flawed.  It always has been.  I know what osteoporosis is.  Where is the epidemic?  Where are all the women snapping bone,s left right and center, due to weak bones?  Sure there are women out there with osteoporosis but there is nothing like the widespread epidemic being broadcast from on high. Is it real or is it a myth, manufactured by big business to terrorise women into undertaking highly expensive and therapies that actually destroy health?

I get very angry when a woman comes to me, in tears, after being told she has osteopaenia or osteoporosis.  In most cases, the diagnosis is wrong. It terrifies unnecessarily.  In my opinion.

Bilateral hip fracture associated with "bone-sparing"
medication use.

The xray-based bone density test that drives the osteoporosis industry is deeply and irreparably flawed.  It is irrelevant for the majority of women.  It is a poor predictor of fracture risk.  Better predictors are balance eyesight and the number of medications being taken.  Anti osteoporosis drugs increase fracture, heart failure, dementia and cancer risks - how about that for a kind of madness!  High bone density increases your breast cancer risk several fold!  This is no BS - this is based on published peer reviewed research.







"What is more concerning to women: breaking a bone (from which one can heal), or developing breast cancer? If it is the latter, a low BMD reading could be considered cause for celebration and not depression, fear and the continued ingestion of inappropriate medications or supplements, which is usually the case following a diagnosis of osteopenia or osteoporosis."
Sayer Ji

"How can you make such outrageous statements?  Where's your evidence, Moller?"

Here is the link to an excellent, carefully referenced, article that summarises the issues very nicely.  Please enjoy the read and make up your own mind:
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/osteoporosis-myth-dangers-high-bone-mineral-density?utm_source=GreenMedInfo+Weekly&utm_campaign=f099fe5b3e-Greenmedinfo&utm_medium=email

And here is the link to the dozens of articles I have written previously on the subject of osteoporosis and "bone-sparing" drugs:
http://blog.garymoller.com/search/label/bisphosphonates

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The advice in these articles is given freely without promise or obligation.  Its all about giving you and your family the tools and information to take control of your health and fitness.

Would rebounding be counter-indicated for someone with an auto-immune disease?

First of all, congratulations and thanks for a very informative web site.
I am a 63 year old female who has been diagnosed with osteopenia (verging on osteoporosis).
I was prescribed Fosamax, and have been on it for 6 ½ years. Recently, I’ve read several articles about the possible side effects of that kind of drug, and the unknown long term effects of taking the drug. I decided to go off the Fosamax, and to try to maintain my bone health with exercise and good nutrition. I read about the benefits (for bones and general health) of doing rebounding exercises, and bought myself a high quality rebounder. I started rebounding (gradually) last October, and got hooked; I just love it!
My concern is this: I may (?) have an auto-immune disease. My RA factor is negative, but my doctor feels that some of the problems I’ve been having with my hands and feet might be auto-immune related. I have recently developed bunions on my feet, and they sometimes get red and inflamed. This started around the same time that I started rebounding. I have not changed my footwear…I always wear good shoes with custom made orthotics.