Boron Osteoporosis and Osteopenia.

Boron Osteoporosis and Osteopenia - an essential trace mineral. It can help you develop stronger bones.

Some calcium supplements only contain calcium. Period. Others contain Vitamin D, vitamin K and other minerals. Most of the books about Osteoporosis state that we need these additional vitamins and mineral.....including boron.

Boron Osteoporosis: Health professionals say that boron is necessary for improving bone density. But I never really understood its role in building strong bones. Recently did some research on the topic . This page explains why this trace mineral is so important for those of us who are trying to improve our bone density. And you will find that it has a role in arthritis prevention and treatment ...as well as a direct influence on cognitive performance.

I was amazed when I read the studies. Do read on....

Researchers have concluded that boron mineral has a place in prevention and the treatment of arthritis. Sincethose with arthritis are more likely to have significant bone loss, let's look at this aspect of the mineral first. Could it be that a lack of this trace mineral underlies both arthritis and Osteopenia? If so, this information is really important. carefully.

Published studies go back to 1963.

Research:Boron Osteoporosis, Osteopenia and arthritis

• Arthritis In 1963 researchers in North Yorkshire, England found that this mineral is a safe and effectivetreatment for some forms of arthritis. They also found that boron supplementation not only alleviated arthritic pain and the discomfort of arthritis but that there was lower boron concentrations in "femur, heads, bones and synovial fluid "of people with arthritis than from those who did not have arthritis.

  These researchers also found that those who used boron supplements had much harder bones than those who did not use such supplements!

  When they did comparative geographic studies they found that in those areas where boron intake in the daily diet is low (1.0 mg or less,) the incidence of arthritis ranges between 20 t0 70% but in those areas where dietary intake is 3 to 10 mg per day, the incidence of arthritis is 0 to 10%.

  The researchers did not extend this last study to the incidence of clinical bone density in the geographic areas but there arenow other studies on the topic of born Osteoporosis and Osteopenia.

• In 1993 the British Journal of Nutrition published a study " The influence of a low-boron diet and boron supplementation on bone, major mineral and sex steroid metabolism in post menopausal women.".

  This study states that an "increase in dietary intake of B from 0.25 to 3.25 mg/d has been reported to increase plasma oestradiol and testosterone and decrease urinary Calcium excretion in post menopausal women." One of the things that is of particular interest to us is that they found that low boron was associated with elevated urinary calcium excretion.

  If you recall one of the reasons why we are advised to avoid or seriously cut back our caffeine consumption is because caffeine increases the excretion of calcium in the urine. I had not known that low boron intake could do the same thing.

• Another study was published in 2001 in the Journal of Animal Science and this examined the "effects of dietary boron on growth performance, bone mechanical properties, and calcium and phosphorus metabolism in pigs. It concluded that boron supplements increased "growth and bone strength".
• And how does it work? The U.S. Department of agriculture conducted an experiment in which post menopausal women took 3 mg of boron a day. The results showed that boron can reduce excretion of calcium in the urine by 44%and it activates estrogen and vitamin D.
• Cognitive function. Here is information from a 1994 article:

  To investigate ... the functional role of boron, brain electrophysiology and cognitive performance were assessed in response to dietary manipulation of boron (approximately 0.25 versus approximately 3.25 mg boron/2000 kcal/day) in three studies with healthy older men and women. . .

  Performance (e.g., response time) on various cognitive and psychomotor tasks also showed an effect of dietary boron. When contrasted with the high boron intake, low dietary boron resulted in significantly poorer performance (p < 0.05) on tasks emphasizing manual dexterity (studies II and III); eye-hand coordination (study II); attention (all studies); perception (study III); encoding and short-term memory (all studies); and long-term memory (study I). Collectively, the data from these three studies indicate that boron may play a role in human brain function and cognitive performance, and provide additional evidence that boron is an essential nutrient for humans.

There are probably other studies about Boron Osteoporosis, Osteopenia and arthritis but these give you an indication of why boron is important for those wanting to build strong ones.....and those who want help for their arthritis.

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Nutritional sources of boron.

Special note: I found one comment noting that boron might increase estrogen activity and so women who have had breast cancer or are at high risk for breast cancer, should be especially certain to consult their health care provider about taking boron. I have found no studies about this risk...but I always want to alert you to any thing at all that I have seen. As you know I can not and will not give medical advice on any aspect of health.

Supplements:Boron Osteoporosis, Osteopenia

Advacal is lactose free. At first I had some concern about the use of Oyster shell but I called the manufacturer and they said that tests show the there are no discernible contaminants.

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Another Calcium Supplement that is lactose free and has appropriate Boron Osteoporosis, Osteopenia amounts is AlgaeCal. (AlgaeCal is made by a Canadian company from a special South American algae) and can be found at Algae Cal Supplement

There are also supplements that contain only boron on the market Some people who are using Boron Osteoporosis or Arthritis supplements prefer these.

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