What are the real causes of osteoporosis?
Many people say that osteoporosis is due to calcium deficiency, so calcium supplementation is accepted and recognized by everyone, and people who suffer from osteoporosis or have a tendency to do so will be recommended calcium supplementation. This is true, but it is not entirely true. Why? Because ---osteoporosis is a disease in which the body extracts calcium from bones! Although the loss of bone tissue reflects the lack of calcium, focusing on the amount of calcium alone has entered into scientific reductionism. Why is calcium lost? That's the problem and the crux of it.
Studies have shown that where more animal foods are eaten, bones are more "fragile". Like developed countries, he eats a lot of animal food and calcium, but unfortunately, osteoporosis is more common. Let's look at the Yale School of Medicine study--- 34 independent investigations of osteoporosis conducted in 16 countries, which found that 70% of fractures were related to animal food consumption." We see a lot of phenomena like this in our lives, and many elderly people in foreign countries are in wheelchairs.
What about areas that eat poorly, that is, eat less animal foods and eat more plant foods? On the contrary, the bones are stronger. We see a lot of old grandfathers and grandmothers in rural China, who are still working in the fields at the age of seventy or eighty. Why do our so-called animal proteins eat less, and there is no calcium supplementation, and their bones are still so good? When we think about it seriously, we will find that the quality of --- bone cannot be measured simply from the quality of what he eats, but from the type of food he eats.
There is a research report in the 1981 clinical medicine textbook that the normal urine of the human body is weakly acidic, the urine of vegetarians can be neutral or weakly alkaline, the urine after eating animal food is often acidic, and the urine of a person in acidosis or illness and fever can be strongly acidic.
What does this mean? Clause.
1. If our human body eats animal protein (even 50g of beef) and urinates a few hours later, the urine will be acidic. Clause.
2. The body at this time is similar to the urine of the body when you are acidosis or sick. Clause.
Third, it was also found that there are many concentrations of calcium in the urine. As I just mentioned--- osteoporosis is a disease in which the body extracts calcium from the bones. This calcium is actually precipitated from the bones in the body, and is "removed" by the animal protein eaten and drained from the urine. You see, eating animal protein really doesn't pay off! It has to exchange the calcium in its bones! Therefore, many osteoporotic diseases (calcium deficiency) are becoming more and more frequent and younger.
Why? Because the human body is weakly alkaline, animal proteins produce acidic metabolites during digestion. To make it clear, animal food is acid-producing food, and the body does not like acidic environment, and it needs to be neutralized as soon as possible, for which the body consumes calcium in the blood, and if the amount of calcium in the blood is insufficient, it will be extracted from the bones. The human body is a very delicate instrument, when the "body environment" is a little acidic, it will automatically adjust, to decompose a lot of calcium ions to neutralize our physique. When it breaks down these calcium ions, calcium is lost from the bones in the body.
This mechanism has been widely known in the medical community as early as 1880: animal protein can cause excessive metabolic acid, while plant protein does not cause this acidification in the body, so Dr. Campbell said---For us, instead of worrying about calcium supplementation, it is better to keep us away from animal protein, because animal protein will actually create conditions for calcium loss!"
After seeing these scientific research reports, we understand that calcium is not about how much you eat, but about --- keep the original calcium while constantly supplementing calcium! And how do we retain calcium? Let's take a look at the table below
No one told us not to drink coffee because it could drain calcium. So how much calcium do we lose when we drink a cup of coffee? Tell everyone that drinking a cup of coffee will make you lose 2-3 calcium, and no one tells us that eating a burger will lose 28 calcium, and unexpectedly, eating less than 50g of animal food will lose 200-260 mg of calcium! That's a small plate of meat! No one has ever told us that much calcium has ever been lost! Even too much salt can have the same result, and we don't seem to have heard of this.
We used to have a plausible notion that the more milk you drink, the better your bones are. However, if you look at the research reports of scientific research institutions in about a dozen countries and regions around the world, you will find that the more countries that drink --- milk, the less healthy the hip bone may be. If you don't believe it, women over the age of 50 in the United States have one of the highest hip fracture rates in the world. Other countries with high rates of fractures include Europe, Australia and New Zealand, all of which have high milk consumption. These are traceable, and we don't need to say more. Knowing this fact, we had to change our original perceptions.