We know that osteoporosis is a highly multifactorial condition. There are probably over a hundred different factors that have been identified as possible contributing factors in osteoporosis. Osteoporosis and scoliosis frequently occur together. If you consider the possibility that scoliosis, like osteoporosis, is a multifactorial disorder and that two of the major causative factors are likely to be nutrition and estrogen levels, then there are highly logical answers to all of the questions and associations noted above. If scoliosis researchers had more training in nutrition, logic and data analysis, there could easily be great strides into the causes of scoliosis.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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