Weight bearing exercise includes weight training but it also includes brisk walking, running, and jogging. Steroids for arthritis and some thyroid medications and some seizure medications, diuretics and antidepressants for a number of years, may make you more at risk for osteoporosis. Don't just rely on your diet. 6-Consider hormone replacement therapy, talk to your doctor. Especially if you have menopausal symptoms and especially if you had surgically induced menopause at a younger than normal, menopausal age, due to a hysterectomy.
Hormone replacement can thicken the bone.
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