I wrote earlier and said that my bone density was fine when I had it tested
last year.  I never have been thyrotoxic so despite 10 years of using
prednisone, my bones are still at a heavier density than the averarage woman
my age.

A great deal of this is genetics and early nutritian.  My mother and father
were both medium to large boned mesomorphs.  I have been lifting heavy
weights since I could walk.   Unlike most girls I did not stop drinking milk
when I went through puberty.  I drank even more.  Unlike most girls, I was
fairly thin and usually drank two quarts of milk until age 21.   Even past
that, I have eaten cheese and used other dairy products.

My bone baseline is high.  If you dieted severely in your adolescent, you
probably drank diet soda or black coffee not milk.  This plus being a small
boned, ectomortph of Northern European descent (Nordic,  or Slavid
especially) can give you a head start toward osteoporosis.

Any periods of thyrotoxicity would acerbate the condition.

Did you know that many women marathoners and athletes keep themselves at such
a low body fat level they cease menstruation.  This is caused by a
significant drop in estrogen.   If the female body is below a certain percent
of body fat, the pituitary will decide that the body is too thin to gestate a
child and make the woman infertile by telling the ovaries to cutt back or
even cease making fertility hormones.

These women often are at the highest rate of osteoporosis.  During their bone
buillding years they do not have enough estrogen to combine with what ever
calcium they consume to build their bone base.

Gail K




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