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Largo Osteoporosis and the Gut-Bone Axis

The gut-BONE connection? Yes! The gut is tied to a wide variety of body functions with the term “gut-brain” connection likely being the one you’ve heard of more. The gut-bone connection – “gut-bone axis” as one article refers to it - is getting attention. Hollstrom & Associates Inc treats Largo chiropractic patients with bone issues like osteoporosis, so this topic is quite important.

HOW ARE THE BONE AND GUT CONNECTED?

This issue of gut-bone connection has intensified such that Osteoporosis and Bone Research Academy of the Royal Osteoporosis Society met in October 2020. This assembly conversed about past, present, and future studies about the interplay of diet, medication-use, immune development, health and lifestyle and the function of the human gut microbiota as they affect bone development in youth and bone maintenance and decline in more mature folks. The helpful use of oral probiotics to possibly slow bone turnover and avert bone loss was pointed out, too. (1) 

HOW IS THE GUT-BONE CONNECTION RELATED TO OSTEOPOROSIS?

As the most frequent metabolic skeletal disease, osteoporosis affects many people, men and women, due to its wearing down of the skeletal structure giving rise to bone loss. Any distress of the gut microbiota can trigger the bone remodeling balance and influence bone metabolism. (2) Hollstrom & Associates Inc aims to help our Largo chiropractic patients avert and/or treat osteoporosis.

TREATING OSTEOPOROSIS

The rate of postmenopausal osteoporosis has increased recently along with the rapidly aging worldwide population. Addressing the “gut-bone axis” was explained as a balance of hormones, immunity, nutrient metabolism, gut microbiota metabolites, and intestinal permeability. (3) The use of traditional Chinese medicine’s Qing’e Pills was shown to regulate intestinal flora to enhance postmenopausal osteoporosis by increasing bone mineral density, altering gut microbiota, and positively affecting inflammatory factors. (4) A polyphenols-rich vinegar extract was noted to be beneficial in controlling blood glucose and lipidemia in diabetic rats as well as decreaing inflammation, boosting short chain fatty acid content, and reestablishing gut microbiota. (5) Ask Hollstrom & Associates Inc about the positive effect of treating the vagal nerve origin in the gut to influence the gut. A sizable topic for another post, the vagus nerve - being the longest cranial nerve in the body that regulates gut function as well as assists in the control of cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, and immune systems – responds to treatment. (6) Interesting and effective! The choices for attending to the “gut-bone axis” and potentially preventing osteoporosis grow! Bone nutrition is important. 

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Schedule your Largo chiropractic appointment now. Are they connected? Yes! The more researchers look into it, the more real the “gut-bone axis” becomes and the more ways to address its influence grow. Gut problems? Osteoporosis? Back pain? Bring them to Hollstrom & Associates Inc!

 
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