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I was sent this by an other member Hennieits a warning about bisphosphonates

when I had bone cancer my doctor was recommending them but I dont know why  Ray

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Al Sears, MD

11903 Southern Blvd., Ste. 208

Royal Palm Beach, FL 33411 January 25, 2011

 

Would you use a drug thatgives you the problem it's supposed to prevent?

Well, that's exactly whatâ€'s going on with the new osteoporosis drugs.

Fosomax, Boniva, Reclast, Actonel... these medications are supposed to help stop

you from getting bone fractures as you get older. But we now have evidence that

they cause bone breaks.

Researchers studied women taking these medications ' called bisphosphonates who

experienced some sort of fracture. Over 65 percent had the same rare

fracture in the same area of their thigh bones. And these were the women who had

been on the drugs for the longest periods.1

Plus they've also found that if you're on the drugs for a long time and you do

get a bone break, you'll heal very slowly. Sometimes it can take two years!

It's another example of how modern medicine doesn't learn from its mistakes.

They refuse to take a whole-body approach to healing. Instead they opt to treat

individual symptoms with drugs designed only for those symptoms.

And bone density drugs are a perfect example of this. I'll tell you how they

work in a moment, but first I want to tell you a little bit about how your body

makes bone…

Your bones have cells called osteoclasts. Their job is to remove old bone

tissue. This allows the bone to grow strong because other cells called

osteoblasts then rebuild the bone.

With osteoporosis and other bone diseases, there is an imbalance of¦ either your

osteoblasts aren't making new cells fast enough, or osteoclasts are removing too

much tissue.

So drug companies came up with a way to stop osteoclasts from removing the old

tissue, which also artificially increases your bone density: bisphosphonate

drugs.

There are two problems with this.

1. By keeping your old bone tissue, you increase bone mass but make bones act

older.

2. The drugs do the job by poisoning your osteoclast cells.

What happens is that you take the medicine, the osteoclasts absorb it, and it

poisons the osteoclast cells by cutting off their blood supply. The cells then

either work very slowly or die.

Because they don't take away the old tissue, your bones become denser. But

they're dense with old tissue. And the osteoblasts can't make new tissue if the

old tissue is still there.

After a while, the old-bone tissue becomes brittle and fragile, like glass,

because it's not as strong as the newer bone that would have formed without the

drugs.

You end up with technically “dense†but weak bones that can fracture.

The other thing that can happen that most people don't know about is

osteonecrosis. This is what happens when your bones are too dense with old

tissue. Theres not enough space in the inner bone for your bone marrow, which

keeps your bones alive. Your bones then start to die. This often happens in the

jaw.

Look, poisoning your body is hardly ever a good idea. This is why in my

practice, I never use these drugs. "