A fundamental truth about the state of modern people's bone health was clearly revealed as early as 1850. That's when Chief Seattle pointed out that,
"Whatever we do to the web of life, we do to ourselves."
We can see the truth of that statement in the number of us who now are at risk for or already have osteoporosis, which is approaching 45 million (80% are women, 20 % men). In 60 years that number is expected to reach 145 million. At the current rate, that means that one of every 2 people will be osteoporotic in 60 years.
If that weren't bad enough news, public health experts are currently lobbying the World Health Organization to have osteoporosis declared a pediatric onset disease!
To think there might be a link between our porous bones and politics could at first glance seem farfetched. But governmental policies do indeed impact the web of life and therefore our bone health.
Here's how politics - expressed through governmental policies - directly links to porous bones.
In 1912, the Pure Food and Drug Administration was formed in the United States (it later became the F.D.A., or Food and Drug Administration. Its first chief, Dr. Harvey Wiley proclaimed that he would see to it that America had:
• clean drinking water,
• clean air,
• rich, fertile soils and
• healthy fruits and vegetables for all.
He filed suits against companies to keep artificial products off the market.
He also fought adulteration and misbranding.
He was summarily forced from office.
Since then, soil quality, water quality and air quality, the three primary ingredients in our web of life, have declined at an alarming rate, such that even wholesome foods can no longer sustain us. For example, one cup of spinach in 1930 would provide over 90 grams of iron; today that same cup contains 4 grams!
Contained in our soil, water and air, and therefore our food, are the products of chemical companies that rob, embezzle and leach the mineral treasure from our very bones. The net effect is that our bones are in big trouble, and the companies that manufacture the chemicals dumped into the web of life see to it that governmental policies allow them to thrive.
To deal with this situation, we are told that we need more chemicals - in the form of prescription drugs - made by a different arm of the same conglomerate chemical companies.
The current medical approach for bones is a good example of how these separate corporate arms of the same chemical conglomerates share their productions back and forth between their industrial chemical and pharmaceutical subdivisions: We are told that our bones require bisphosphonate drugs such as Fosamex and Alendronate. This class of chemicals - bisphosphonates - is used in scouring powder because they dissolve skin cells. That's why they're so effective in dispelling the ring of skin cells around the bath tub. In the human body, they are both toxic and difficult to eliminate (they have a half-life of 15 years, meaning it takes 15 years for the body to eliminate half of them.)
Because the body can't eliminate them, yet they are so toxic, the body puts them in deep storage where they can't harm the organs that keep us alive. Where is that deep storage? You got it - bones!
When they get to bones, they kill of the cells that repair sick or weak bone (the osteoclasts). This results in an appearance of greater bone density on bone scans. But since the bones can't repair themselves, their overall health and strength declines. After about five years, bones that store bisphosphones crumble and die. This usually is first noticed by dentists who discover jaw necrosis (jaw bone death) in people taking these drugs.
But our bones were never thinning due to a Fosamex deficiency!
A second line of 'treatment' for bones is hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, most commonly estrogen. What is estrogen's role in bone health? Estrogen signals the bone remodelling cells to do their job and repair bones.
By now you may be saying, wait a minute, didn't they just kill those bone repair cells with Fosamax,? If the bone repair cells are dead - killed off by Fosamax - then how can they be signaled by estrogen replacement to repair bones? Isn't that like beating a dead horse? Yup.
Like most other circumstances that sound 'crazy', it pays to follow the money to discover what's really going on. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the profit margin on selling bisphosphonates and synthetic estrogens. And then since synthetic estrogens increase stroke risk, selling the class of chemical 'stroke prevention' drugs such as the statins.
That's why it pays to be an informed consumer, and take as much responsibility for your own health as possible - healthy organic foods in proper amounts, good exercise, enough sleep and working with health practitioners who know how to cleanse the body of chemical contaminants using whole organic herbs, whole foods concentrated to clinical potency and homeopathy, for example.
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