Osteoporosis is a disease that causes problems in the skeletal system, it is usually in the lower back bones. Some causes of osteoporosis are being a woman with a small frame, having it passed to you genetically, and women who have menopause way before they are supposed to. Statistics show that it’s more common for Caucasian and Asian women to get osteoporosis.
Some risk factors include the way you diet, like if you have a lot of calcium, phosphorus, vitamin D and exercise. If you keep your weight higher than at least 5 pounds above 125 it slims down the chances of you getting osteoporosis by 10 percent. Women who …show more content…
They give out oral medicine, infusions in to your body, or give you your own stick to infuse yourself when you need to if you are at high risk. For women they will try to find a way to put more estrogen back into your body and give you therapy to get your hormones back running like they should be.
Osteoporosis is usually in older people, they have weak bones and osteoporosis makes them lose bone tissue, the calcium in the bones decreases so they bones thin out and sometimes just disappear which means the skeletal system is losing bone after bone. In your bone you have 2 different bone structures which are cortical bones and spongy bones, you also have cells in your bone and the cells are called osteoclasts. When osteoclasts are put in motion they are the substance that absorbs the calcium from your bones which makes them tin out.
The falling and the minerals being sucked out of the bone makes the bone weak, when the bone gets weak they start to fade, when they start to fade the will start to rip, you have to try to get the quickest treatment options and get calcium to your bones or the will start to just decay and you will no longer have that