The perfect balance between the latest research and age-old wisdom. Michael T. Murray, N.D. is widely regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on natural medicine. He is a graduate, faculty member, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. When most people think of bones, what comes to mind are the lifeless, dead bones of skeletons. But, bone is actually a dynamic, living tissue.
Healthy bones are dependent on an intricate interplay of many nutritional and hormonal factors.
In the human body, there is a constant process of breaking down and remaking of bones. Osteoporosis affects more than twenty million people in the United States including one out of four postmenopausal women.