It is precisely because of this that many female friends choose to take appropriate calcium supplementation measures at the age of 50 or 60 to prevent or alleviate the symptoms of osteoporosis. Aunt Wang is no exception. Since she learned about the threat of osteoporosis, she has been actively drinking bone soup to supplement calcium every day. After 3 months, what changes have taken place in her body?
The woman drank bone soup for three months to treat osteoporosis. What happened?
Three months ago, in a routine physical examination, Aunt Wang found that the bone mass was between-1.0~-2.5, so she was diagnosed with mild osteoporosis. The doctor reminded Aunt Wang: "Although the degree of osteoporosis is not high at this stage, it is necessary to pay attention to calcium supplementation and exercise in life to achieve the best conservative treatment effect."
After listening to the doctor's words, Aunt Wang began her mighty career of supplementing calcium, because the older generation began to follow the concept of "supplementing what you eat" and thought that drinking more bone soup could supplement calcium. Therefore, Aunt Wang also began to prevent and treat her symptoms of osteoporosis by drinking bone soup.
After drinking for three months, Aunt Wang thought that her calcium supplement was very smooth, so she came to the hospital for a general examination again, but the result surprised her. Except that her bone mass was still at-1.0~-2.5, her blood lipid actually improved. If she continued, she would not rule out the risk of getting hyperlipidemia.
This makes Aunt Wang wonder:
"After drinking bone soup for 3 months, why didn't osteoporosis improve at all?"
In fact, this has always been a misunderstanding:
That is, drinking bone soup has no calcium supplement effect at all.
Why do you say that? The structure of calcium is relatively stable, and it is basically difficult to dissolve calcium in animal bones by boiling soup.
Some relevant research institutions have done experiments. In a bowl of standard pork bone soup, the calcium content even accounts for less than 2% of all the ingredients in the soup. Even if you drink bone soup for three months in a row, like Aunt Wang, you basically don't get any "calcium", so naturally you won't get any calcium supplement effect.
Not only that, most of the calcium in animal bones exists in the form of bound calcium, even that small 2% is difficult to be absorbed by the human body. It is really "stretched" to rely on drinking bone soup to supplement calcium.
Although drinking bone soup does not supplement calcium, why did Aunt Wang, who has been drinking for 3 months, raise her blood lipid?
Although the calcium content in bone soup is not high, there are many other substances, and fat is one of them.
Many people mistakenly think that the white layer of bone soup is calcium, but it is actually fat particles floating on the soup surface with protein as the carrier.
Therefore, drinking bone soup often means that Aunt Wang, who consumes a lot of fat every day and drinks it for three months in a row, has excessive fat intake, which will affect the blood lipid value and even increase the risk of hyperlipidemia.
It can be seen that bone soup is not an effective way to supplement calcium, but it has always been a misunderstanding. There are many osteoporosis people like Aunt Wang. Only by finding the right way to supplement calcium can we have the best prevention and treatment effect.
Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis, how to supplement calcium is the most effective?
1) Exercise more to improve the calcium absorption efficiency of the body.
The efficiency of calcium absorption in human body is relatively low, and improving metabolism can accelerate the absorption of calcium by bones, and can also play a role in supplementing calcium to a certain extent.
Exercise is naturally one of the effective ways to improve metabolism, but for patients with osteoporosis, "resistance training" such as running and dumbbells is more helpful to compress the bone gap and alleviate the phenomenon of osteoporosis. It is recommended to choose.
2) calcium supplementation and vitamin d supplementation.
Because of the low absorption efficiency of calcium in human body, simply supplementing calcium can't play a significant role, and vitamin D, as a carrier of calcium, supplements calcium in coordination with vitamin D, which accelerates the absorption efficiency of calcium and naturally has a better effect.
For example, animal liver, marine fish and egg yolk are all very good sources of vitamin D, so try more.
3) Choose high-quality calcium sources.
For example, calcium in animal bones or meat mostly belongs to bound calcium that is not easily absorbed by human body. Supplementing calcium through similar channels can not only effectively increase the intake of calcium in the body, but also may cause bound calcium deposition, which will affect the original bone health.
Therefore, it is very important to choose high-quality calcium sources, such as milk and special calcium supplements, which are all very good choices. Under normal circumstances, it is suggested that the daily intake of calcium in patients with osteoporosis should be about 1000 to 15000mg, and the intake of vitamin D should be about 8000 to 1200 units. Only with active exercise and regular work and rest can the best nursing effect be achieved.