Bone Clinic

$70.00 –

Our bone density starts developing in the womb and continues throughout childhood. Essentially, a better nutritional start in life means our bones develop nicely. Throughout life, weight bearing exercise and movement stimulates our bone to form harder and stronger tissue. As we age, and especially as our hormones change, our hormones can seem to pull away the wool – so to speak and although our bones are constantly forming and reforming the hormones are just not pushing them to do it any more! So we lose some bone mass as we age. This means we need to pay special attention to our diet and lifestyle as we age as looking after our bone mass is very important. Its not too late to add to your bone mass but it will take a bit of work.

If we don’t look after our bone health we place ourselves at a higher risk for fractures. Just ask surgeons who repair bones and they will tell you that the difference between a brittle bone and a strong bone is very n...