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How to prevent Osteoporosis
Shannatay Bergeron sits down with Rebecca Adochio, board-certified endocrinologist at Colorado Mountain Medical, to discuss how you can take actions today to prevent osteoporosis, or, if you have a family history of osteoporosis, how you can lessen your risk of it later in life.
hi i'm shannon t bergeron with colorado mountain medical and today i have with me dr rebecca adochio board certified endocrinologist with us dr dochio we want to talk a little bit about osteoporosis that's a common condition that you see in your practice tell a little bit about the prevalence in our community that we see sure thank you for having me today so osteoporosis is quite prevalent in our community and around the country and the world we actually see about 40 million patients within our country have osteoporosis that's over 40 percent of the population primarily in older adults and so we see it here in our community even though we are quite active and healthy it affects older individuals more likely and we have a pretty high retiree population and so we definitely see a lot of osteoporosis within our clinic is there a way to prevent osteoporosis i know you said it kind of is relevant to age but for me or a younger individual in our community how can we start taking measures to prevent the onset of this condition good yeah it's a great question so there are things we can do to prevent it but even with good practice it can still happen and we'll talk about that as well but measures to prevent osteoporosis and keep your skeleton healthy include a very nutritious diet of course and we do want to make sure we're getting adequate amounts of calcium and vitamin d is very important as well when we're younger we can get that primarily from sun exposure as we age it's a little harder to do that so sometimes we need to supplement with vitamin d staying active is really important the more you use your skeleton the more you stress it the stronger it is our skeleton is constantly turning over we're getting rid of old bone and we're building new bone and so that turnover is very important to keep it healthy so the stronger you are the more active you are the healthier your diet the more you can prevent osteoporosis there are some other things we can do as well so you want to protect yourself from things that can injure your bone or make it weaker and that includes things like excessive alcohol intake and smoking which are quite bad for your bone health as well earlier you commented on there are some there's a time where maybe you can't prevent it is there a hereditary piece to this there definitely is so we always ask about family history when we're seeing a patient with osteoporosis if your parents either one of them had osteoporosis your risk is much greater we also look at that in the context of having a risk of a fragility fracture or in particular what we would refer to as a hip fracture that is more likely to occur in someone who has a parent that suffered a hip fracture and that has to do with the genetics around how their bones form and the shape of their bone all very useful information what i hear eat your vegetables drink your milk get some vitamin d and talk to your doctor as you age to make sure that you're doing the the right measures to prevent potential onset of osteoporosis thank you
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