Doctors Health Press Reports on Study: Calcium Alone Not Enough to Prevent Osteoporosis

Boston, MA, United States - October 7, 2013 /MarketersMEDIA/ —

Doctors Health Press (doctorshealthpress.com), a division of Lombardi Publishing Corporation and publisher of various natural health newsletters, books, and reports, including the popular online Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin, is reporting on a new study that reveals that calcium alone is not enough to prevent osteoporosis. Rather, the combination of vitamin D and calcium is the most effective treatment for strengthening bone health.

As Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin (http://www.doctorshealthpress.com/general-health-2/health-news/the-scary-fear-about-superbugs) notes, researchers evaluated 159 postmenopausal women over a six-month period and randomly assigned them to one of four groups: double placebo treatment pills; calcium plus placebo, vitamin D plus placebo, and calcium and vitamin D. At the beginning of the study and again at three and six months in, the study participants provided urine and blood samples after a calcium load to measure the rate of bone turnover.

As the article “The Scary Fear About Superbugs” reports, according to the author of the study, Dr. J.F. Aloia, vitamin D and calcium interact to suppress bone turnover by decreasing parathyroid hormone levels: “This can be beneficial in women who are vitamin D deficient,” Dr. Aloia explains in his findings. “In women who already are receiving the recommended daily allowance of vitamin D, however, the study found there was no advantage to adding a vitamin D supplement.”

Doctors Health Press e-Bulletin concludes by noting that although vitamin D does decrease parathyroid hormonal levels, which decreases bone reabsorption, it also allows an adequate amount of elemental calcium to be absorbed into the gut and prevents the excretion of calcium in the kidney. Vitamin D increases blood levels of calcium, and this is the mechanism by which calcium slows down bone turnover through its influence upon parathyroid secretion. Therefore, it is the combination of both vitamin D and calcium that helps support bone strength.

(SOURCE: Barclay, L., “Vitamin D Alone Ineffective for Postmenopausal Osteoporosis,” Medscape web site, Sept. 24, 2013; http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/811548; Aloia, J., et al., “Calcium and Vitamin D Supplementation in Postmenopausal Women,” The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. September 24, 2013.)

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