No Bones About It

Have you been diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis? Has your doctor recommended medication to increase your bone density? Did your doctor tell you that those medications can increase your risk of esophageal cancer, osteosarcoma, osteonecrosis of the jaw, atypical femoral fracture, cardiovascular death, heart attack, and stroke?

Since she was a young woman of 25, Jayne Wesler recognized that she was at risk for contracting osteoporosis when she got older. How did she know? She had several risk factors: she was female; she had a small bone structure; she was Caucasian; and she was a lightweight.

For those reasons, for all of Ms. Wesler's adult life, she engaged in many activities specifically designed to maintain her bone density. Yet, when she was 54 years old, her doctor told her that her bones were "thinning at an alarming rate."

Thus began a year-long journey to find out:

• Why her bones were "thinning at an alarming rate," according to her primary doctor;

• Why he intended to let this continue for another 18 months with no additional intervention;

• What was causing her alarming bone loss; and

• What she could do about it.

At the end of that year, Ms. Wesler had stabilized the overall bone density in her hips and had increased the bone density in her left hip by a whopping 11.3%. Without medication. Ms. Wesler would like to help you, too, learn how to increase your bone density without medication. Open this book to find out more!