West Des Moines Osteoporosis & Fracture Prevention with Calcium and Vitamin D
Fractures are no fun. Fractures are painful. Fractures keep you from doing what you want to do. Fractures are pricey in not only in terms of money but also time and suffering. How can osteoporotic fractures be averted? Calcium and vitamin D supplementation for those who have osteoporosis. Executive Chiropractic of Iowa sees many West Des Moines osteoporotic patients and recommends preventive measures like nutritional taking supplements to deter osteoporotic fractures and keep our West Des Moines chiropractic patients strong and fit.
SUPPLEMENTATION SAVES SUFFERING AND MONEY FOR FRACTURES
Your West Des Moines chiropractor is quite aware that supplementing with calcium and vitamin D feeds the bones and helps them be strong. This feeding and strengthening preferably should begin in the teen years, but supplementing at any age is of value. A recent study of osteoporosis patients in the European Union and the United States shares a some startling pieces of data:
(A) more than 500,000 fractures a year in the European Union and 300,000 in the US could be prevented if every adult with osteoporosis in the EU and US used calcium and vitamin D and
(B) €5.7 billion in the EU and $3.3 billion in the US could be saved. (1)
Those are some big numbers! Executive Chiropractic of Iowa certainly encourages support of this effort to save money and, more significantly, suffering by supplementing with calcium and vitamin D3.
THE PROPER TYPE OF SUPPLEMENT IS KEY
Executive Chiropractic of Iowa is very confident that if you are making the effort to supplement with calcium and vitamin D, you want it to work. You want the nutrients to be absorbed as much as possible. That is where the type of vitamin D you choose is important. Attaining and keeping proper levels of vitamin D is also key for bone and general health. This is a problem for people around the world. Why? Absorption. Absorption may be delayed in conditions like obesity in which nutrients get stuck in the adipose tissue, in diseases that are known for decreased intestinal absorption, and with some neurological diseases that require special drugs that prompt the person’s system to not synthesize the calcifediol effectively. The recommendation in this recent research paper is to use oral calcifediol (vitamin D3) as it is three to five times more powerful and has a greater rate of intestinal absorption. (2) Executive Chiropractic of Iowa recognizes the importance of good absorption.
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Chiropractors incorporate spinal manipulation, exercise, nutrition, and more into a treatment plan. Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Jeremy Heidt on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson who shares his plan of care for a patient’s neck pain and migraine as it is an example of West Des Moines chiropractic care that incorporates nutrition, lifestyle pointers, exercise, and spinal manipulation using gentle Cox® Technic to manage spine-related pain.
Schedule a West Des Moines chiropractic appointment with Executive Chiropractic of Iowa today. Why? It helps prevent osteoporotic fractures and saves quite a bit of money! Just recall the response to this question: “How might osteoporotic fractures be avoided?” Calcium and vitamin D supplementation.
