Re: Re: What is the role of copper in osteoporosis?

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> My grandmother was just given Fosamax.

My reading has been mostly on the issue of vitamins A and D so would

be skewed that way. Just browsing through the treatment chapter of

_Bone and Mineral Disorders_ (Coe and Favus eds., 2002), it lists

sections on lifestyle (avoiding skeletal insults, weight maintenance,

exercise, general diet) calcium, vitamin D, HRT, selective estrogen

receptor modulators, bisphosphonates, thiazades, calcitonin, fluoride

(which it says increases bone matrix production but leads to crappy

matrix so doesn't reduce fractures), vitamin D metabolites, anabolic

steroids, and then a small section on " future treatments " (which might

be current now.

What's Fosamax? Does it fall under one of those categories?

Chris

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