Millions of women have been seduced into thinking that all they need to do is take calcium, usually calcium carbonate, to maintain their bone structure. What everyone really needs is the mineral ascorbates. The Wellness Letter of the University of California observed a few years ago that there appears to be too much emphasis on high calcium intake, that manganese is needed, also, for good bone structure. And surely the best form is manganese ascorbate. I have been taking 10 to 12 grams daily for some 25 years of Timed Release mineral ascorbates of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, maganese, molybdenum, zinc, and chromium.
Osteoporosis is highly prevalent.
Often in degrees not at all obvious to either patient or physician. Athletes, especially, have this problem, due to the extraordinary stresses they impose on their bodies. You may first know about it, when, suddenly, as you get up to answer the door bell, a hip joint breaks under you. With women especially, it is an advancing problem. This condition is believed largely due, with advancing age, to reduce estrogen production, which is substantially halted after the menopause.