Natural Ways to Keep Your Bones

Healthy & Strong

 

by Dr. Carolyn Berghuis, MS, ND, CTN 

Wellness Director: Joy of Raphael

While osteoporosis can be a debilitating and frightening disease, many women (and men) suffer needlessly.  By incorporating natural measures into our lifestyle we can strengthen our bones for a life time.

Dr. Weston A. Price, often hailed as the "Charles Darwin of nutritional research" traveled the globe (on his own dime) studying native peoples and their diet.  Where ever he found isolated groups of primitive people, he found them in vibrant health and with "bones like rock and teeth like pearls." 

Dr. Price found that these groups ate a primitive diet, rich in essential food factors.  These people uniformly ate animal foods such as fish eggs, shellfish, organ meats, game, and butter from cows that grazed on green grass.  Dr. Price proved that cavities, deformed dental arches, crooked and crowded teeth, and weak bones resulted from nutritional deficiencies.  Once these peoples were exposed to the Standard American Diet (SAD) their teeth began expressing dental carries and their bones began showing signs of osteoporosis.

Dr. Carolyn's Anti-Osteoporosis Protocol

While we come with our own unique nutritional blueprint and what one individual needs is not the same as her best friend, sister or mother, there are a few basic tenants that apply to most of us that I would like to share with you. 

• Take a high quality Cod Liver Oil supplement daily.
• Include Calcifood Wafers by Standard Process:  This particular calcium product contains unique bone building support, well beyond any over-the-counter calcium product.
• Include Cataplex C daily.  Vitamin C (not just ascorbic acid) is critical to bone health.  Bones cannot be rebuilt when a vitamin C deficiency is present.
• Include deep yellow organic butter in your diet.
• Include organic calcium rich foods.  Here is a brief list of calcium rich foods and the mg of calcium per serving.

                        Sardines                      506 mg

                        Figs (4)                        500 mg

                        Quiche, cheese            367 mg

                        Omelet, cheese            344 mg

                        Parmesan cheese         308 mg

                        Whole Milk, 8 oz           236 mg