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hey this is dr. Barry let's chat for a few minutes about osteoporosis and osteopenia now this is a very important health issue that millions of people suffer from for many people osteoporosis can be a very silent thing that they don't know they have until it's too late and so you can help me to reach these people by sharing this video you can share it on your Facebook page on your Twitter on your Instagram you can even send a private message with a link to help people who might be at risk for osteoporosis to reverse it before it gets out of hand and ends their life so let's get into this I'm gonna try to dive a little bit deeper into osteoporosis and explain what it is a little bit to you and then also what you can do to prevent it from ever occurring or if you already have it you can slow down the progression or even reverse it okay it's very important makes perfect sense common sense and research wise and so let's get into this so first of all let's talk about bones a lot of us think about bones like a rock they're just really hard and they're just they're right and if you look at a bone it doesn't look like it's actively changing and remodeling but at a microscopic level it actually is bones are not just brittle and strong they're also very flexible and that's that's part of their strength is their flexibility often when you fall a bone will Bend and not break that happens much more frequently when you're younger but it happens much less frequently as you get older but if you follow these steps that I'm gonna give you you can actually keep your bones not only strong but also flexible and that's what I call meaningful bone density and we'll get into that more in a little bit so your bones are not like stones and they're not even like trees bones are constantly being remodeled up to ten percent of your bone in any given moment is actively being broken down and rebuilt all the time every bone in your body especially the weight-bearing bones and that's that's the whole important concept to get with bones once you get that then everything else I'm about to say makes sense your bones are not a solid static thing they are a living tissue that is constantly being remodeled broken down rebuilt constantly okay as you get older or if you're not eating or drinking the right things or if you're eating drinking or smoking the wrong things that remodeling slows down and you can wind up with brittle bones osteoporosis is the condition of having brittle bones osteopenia means you're moving that direction towards osteoporosis and you absolutely want to stop that before it reaches that point so let's talk about this remodeling it's a very delicate dance that's that's taking place in...