What other forces are at play here? Here’s a list of 9 Nutrients To Support Healthy Bone Development that you can look at too.
The adult human body’s skeleton comprises 206 bones. They support our frame and our structure. We need them to stand up and walk. We need them to move about. Sometimes, after a long, tiring day, we may collapse like a sack of potatoes on our couch and feel like we don’t have any bones left… But they’re always there.
These bones are essential for our daily activities, but yet we don’t give that much thought to them because they’re hidden from plain sight — underneath multiple layers of skin cells and muscles.
But yet, things can happen to them as we age. We can be involved in accidents where we fracture our bones. We can’t see it, but we can sure feel it. The pain, the cast, the inability to do certain things… It sure feels annoying!
The more insidious killer is osteoporosis. The bone structure remains intact externally, but internally, the support structure is being eroded. The density of the bone cells inside the bone is gradually being reduced, and that results in a weaker, more porous (hence “porosis”) bone structure.
The weakening of this bone structure does not bode well for older people, especially if they fall and fracture major bones in their hip or pelvic region. Because much of the arterial blood flow through to our legs goes through the hip and pelvic regions, hence a fracture in that area can disrupt blood circulation and spell trouble for blood transport down to our lower limbs.
But how does the bone structure become porous, you may ask?
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