Thank you, I have osteoporosis and am 86 years old;. I continue twith 2 glasses of milk 8 ounces each glass0 6 prunes each day and meat 3 times a day, I did break my hip a year ago and have a hip replacement and doing very well because I exercised 3times a week before that, The recovery was amazing within. 6 weeks and walking well after almost one year.
Thank you for sharing your story as it gives me hope, rather than doom and gloom. I’m 59, workout with heavy weights, eat high animal protein, take HRT and was a runner for 30 years. I’ve just found that I have osteopenia which worries me as my mother had osteoporosis and dementia- died following infection after hip fracture ‘repair’. I don’t want that to be my story and you’ve shown that it can be different. Thank you
I come from a line of women who had osteoporosis and am taking meds that put me at risk. I’m trying to get off of supplements by eating healthy and exercising. I have a cup of homemade whole milk kefir every day in my smoothie. The low lactose and high probiotics help with gut health. I try for a diversity of plants (30+ per week) and will start adding some prunes to my diet. I have at least one meal a day with meat protein. So far the Dexa scans have been good. Fingers crossed that a healthy diet will continue the good results.
I’m a70 year old woman with osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. I eat whole milk cottage cheese, yogurt and cheese. I’m also a vegetarian. I do eat eggs though I do t love them. I take a Prolia injection every 6 months. I would love to stop taking 2 calcium supplements a day plus double vitamin d3. I just feel nauseous after these. I have a call in to my doctor to see if I can stop these. I do have pain in my lower back, so I’m trying to walk more and do exercises to help.
I use the A2 whole milk to make my Kefir. I have low sodium so I add salt to everything. I also use pea protein isolate when making my smoothie. The mis contains about 20 grammar of protein per serving. Stay salty. No sugar.
I am part Asian. In my late thirties I had a low-grade fever for about a year and my eyesight was deteriorating. Doctors could not find out the cause. Thanks to an ophthalmologist who sent me to a uveitis clinic, It turned out that my condition was caused by dairy consumption. People of African and Asian descent don't tolerate milk products well.
I have a lactose digesting gene yet any dairy will make my joints tender and inflamed. Possibly an immune reaction to the milk protein casein. So likewise no dairy for me
61 (F) Osteoporosis diagnosis 2 years ago. Went to 2 “specialists” whom both agreed that bone growth is impossible for my age and recommended meds. I decided to give it 2 years. I pouted for a year and then went carnivore. DEXA results today = 10% improvement in spine and 3.5% improvement in FNeck left. Looking forward to pulling more levers through supplements, weight training, etc. thanks Dr for ALL you are doing. You give us hope.
This is amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing your motivating success story, we love to see this and hear how you worked towards this improvement. I look forward to hearing more about your bone health journey!
Congrats on the improvements! Do you mean you gave meds two years and then pouted for a year? And then went carnivore? How long ago was that? I got a little confused but am very interested!!
@@goodgardenofpeas The drs recommended meds and I refused. They both said due to my age that it was not possible to improve bone health using diet and exercise. I wanted to prove them wrong. I started tracking my protein intake and then just went full carnivore a year ago. I exercise every day. I walk with a weighted vest and ankle weights in addition to jumping rope. I’m interested in HRT and supplements but need to do my research.
I had such a huge dairy portion to my diet and ate red meat, I am a hunter. Prunes? I ate plums in the summer when the fruit was picked. I exercised, weight bearing exercise. Never smoked. I am a fair skinned redhead that sunbathed and loved outdoor activities, lots of Vitamin D. But my Mom had severe osteoporosis and my sister and I do as well. I now take Calcium as well as my high dairy and salmon diet. I take vitamin D, 2000 mg in the summer and 3000 mg in the winter when there is less sun exposure. My sister and I took Alendronate Sodium (Fosamax) when we were Osteopenia. Now we are osteoporosis. My 5' 2" is now 4' 11". My sister that was 5' 4" is now 4' 10 ". Much of the time it is your genes not what you eat or how you live.
My favorite lunch is kefir with blueberries, chia seeds and prunes, along with a high quality meat stick. This is my usual after strength training. I’ve just started hopping. I hop 50 reps on each leg. I have osteopenia and I’m so hoping for no more bone loss!!
I am (almost) dairy free because besides osteoporosis I have Hashimotos. I eat every other day sheep yogurt with blueberries for breakfast, I am grain free and sugar free, I eat protein everyday with my meaIs, eat grass fed and grass finish meats, pasture raise chicken and eggs, wild salmon and fish buy everything organic as much as I can. I am 65 years wise 106 pounds and lift weights 4 times a week just for 20 minutes because I have to take care of our 26 years old quadriplegic cerebral palsy son who needs 24 hour care. I am supposed to have a bone density test done this month but I am nervous about the results because I am not taking any medication for osteoporosis, I tried reclast once but I decided not to continue I guess I have to bite the bullet and have my test done. I think I am doing the right thing with my diet I don't know what else to do.😢
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Hello! I felt obligated to write so if you are interested to see why I'm writing this to you, you could read my long story that I just posted on here in the last hour) 😁 But I would like to comment about Dexa Scans. For this "gold standard" of bone scans, the range "norm" is based on the bones of THIRTY YEAR OLD WOMEN!!! I'm turning 63 this month and even though I think I'm still young, nothing on my body is as good as it was when I was 30!! 🤣🤣🤣 Also, if you read my story, while I was researching everything I was dealing with, I watched a TH-cam video called "Selling Sickness". (I didn't write about the documentary in my previous post), but this yt video is a French documentary about the pharmaceutical industry. There was a whole section about bone density drugs (why I was interested in watching it) and specifically an entire story about the drug Fosamax and a 59 year old woman who went and had a bone density scan and was advised to take the drug Fosamax. I highly recommend watching that video if you have enough interest to... I believe the section of the documentary regarding that woman's particular story was in the second half but you can skip forward to find it. (It's a sad but important story to know IMHO) All that just say that when it was recommended to me to take a bone density drug and I did some research on that drug, I realized that the SIDE EFFECTS are WORSE THAN THE HELP that the drug gives anyone in the first place! I could go on more, but often times the bones end up weaker than they were in the first place. Our bodies have osteoclasts and osteoblasts that renew our bones ongoing....every 10 years our ENTIRE skeleton is renewed because those two functions are continually doing their job! The osteoclasts remove OLD bone and the osteoblasts put down NEW bone. I believe in God and I believe this is a God thing, and it's amazing of course! (just my opinion haha) The drug that was recommended to me slapped down new bone, but NOT necessarily in the correct place! That drug function didn't make sure that the old bone was removed! So that would be like having a crumbling brick foundation and then slap down a bunch of cement on it and say.... oh look it's stronger and more dense now! No. That would not be a strong foundation. Lastly, even though it wasn't on the brochure, some of the bad side effects of the drug that I was recommended to take (by the bone doctor that I only went to once) were ⬇️ pneumonia shingles and osteosarcoma Osteosarcoma in plain English is BONE CANCER! So the very drug that they would recommend to help my bones be stronger and more dense could potentially cause me to have bone cancer! Lastly, everyone should know that when doctors are in medical school currently, they only spend 4 hours learning about nutrition to help their patients have better health but they spend weeks and weeks and weeks on what pharmaceutical products they should prescribe for any and all problems. 🙄 All the best to you 😊 I think knowledge is POWER! From Cynthia in Minneapolis
I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 7 and was put on anticonvulsants that depleted my electrolyte levels, including calcium. I found out I had osteoporosis two years ago, and I had just turned 27. It has since improved, but I have a while to go. Thank you for your content!!
I’m watching from a different perspective. I was diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma. I’m not on treatment but recently suffered two spine fractures. I am trying to strengthen my bones without going on the drugs they want me to. The bones seem to be the one thing I need to focus on right now and would like to do it naturally, if possible. Thank you for your content.
Have you considered a bone marrow transplant for your condition? Is that an option for you? I'm concerned because I watched my father deteriorate from multiple myeloma before some of these new treatments were available. I'm not a medical professional, but I'm in this doctor's online Healthspan where we learn about many ways to treat osteoporosis and stay healthy in general. If I were in your position I would look at all options, not just dietary, for something as serious as multiple myeloma. Good luck to you in your health journey.
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You have presented some great information and valid arguments for these three foods as they relate to bone health, i wished that you would have displayed charts, as you spoke, to illustrate your points. Your valuable information would be understood and retained by more people with the use of visual as well as auditory information.
Gastroenterologist Doctor told me I am lactose intolerant almost 10 years ago. I love prunes, eat them alot. I do eat chicken, Turkey, but rarely red meat, especially pork or steak. Will occasionally have beef stew, with vegetables like Brussel sprouts, Broccoli , Love veggies over all.
Wow, I am really in need of a way to build bone. However, I am lactose intolerant. I have been drinking & eating lactose free for years. But about a year ago I developed a horrific cough that caused me non stop coughing with mucus. I had to add a nebulizer & more medications. After much research I learned that dairy & many meats caused mucus to form. Some fish as well. So I have almost completely eliminated these products. My cough is finally under control. If I eat one small lactose free ice cream scoop, within a few hours I am full of mucus & coughing for the next 24 hours.
Hi, thank you for sharing this. You may find this video on my channel interesting, "Does Dairy Actually CAUSE Fractures?? | Dairy & Osteoporosis FACT vs FICTION"
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Always consult your own doctot. Hello, bones are mainly composed of two parts: 1) protein (90% collagenous protein, for example collagen and 10% other proteins, for example "osteocalcin, osteonectin, osteopontin, fibronectin and bone sialoprotein II, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and growth factors"), and 2) minerals (mainly calcium and phosphorus, but also "significant amounts of bicarbonate, sodium, potassium, citrate, magnesium, carbonate, fluorite, zinc, barium, and strontium"). So, to summarize, mainly you need protein, and calcium, phosphorous (less than calcium), potassium, magnesium, zinc, barium, strontium). You can find protein and minerals in short grain brown rice (commercial long grain brown rice is too polished, don't use it); oats, wheat kernels and other grains, plus a variety of dried beans, plus orange/yellow veggies, green leafy veggies, plus a small amount of fermented foods, plus seaweed. Seaweed is chock full of minerals. Some seaweed contains more calcium than milk. Delicious recipes to be found on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese TH-cam channels. Please do your research. Stressing bone, (by exercising for example), increases its volume. You may, of course, add some animal protein and fermented milk such as kefir, as tolerated. Fermenting decreases the lactose. So, all is not lost. Take heart. The most important: whole grains, veggies, SEAWEED (a big factor, but you only need a little bit), a few seeds and nuts, animal protein and fermented milk, as tolerated, fermented veggies and beans. And fruit, of course. Source for the writing inside the quotation marks is an article from the National Library of Medicine, NIH, entitled: "Biology of Bone Tissue: Structure, Function, and Factors That Influence Bone Cells", by Florencio-Silva R. et al (and others). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515490/
My one question is… who funded the dairy studies, in the past several were by the dairy industry which makes me suspect . Would appreciate any references to the studies so I can review. Thanks
I appreciate your comment. I wrote the following to someone else, and although it doesn't address your question, you might want to have a look. You might already know a lot of this. If so, discard it. Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Always consult your own doctot. Hello, bones are mainly composed of two parts: 1) protein (90% collagenous protein, for example collagen and 10% other proteins, for example "osteocalcin, osteonectin, osteopontin, fibronectin and bone sialoprotein II, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and growth factors"), and 2) minerals (mainly calcium and phosphorus, but also "significant amounts of bicarbonate, sodium, potassium, citrate, magnesium, carbonate, fluorite, zinc, barium, and strontium). So, to summarize, mainly you need protein, and calcium, phosphorous (less than calcium), potassium, magnesium, zinc, barium, strontium). You can find protein and minerals in short grain brown rice (commercial long grain brown rice is too polished, don't use it); oats, wheat kernels and other grains, plus a variety of dried beans, plus orange/yellow veggies, green leafy veggies, plus a small amount of fermented foods, plus seaweed. Seaweed is chock full of minerals. Some seaweed contains more calcium than milk. Delicious recipes to be found on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese TH-cam channels. Please do your research. Stressing bone (by exercising for example, increases its volume. You may, of course, add some animal protein and fermented milk such as kefir, as tolerated. Fermenting decreases the lactose. So, all is not lost. Take heart. The most important: whole grains, veggies, SEAWEED (a big factor, but you only need a little bit), a few seeds and nuts, animal protein and fermented milk, as tolerated, fermented veggies and beans. And fruit, of course. Source for the writing inside the quotation marks is an article from the National Library of Medicine, NIH, entitled: "Biology of Bone Tissue: Structure, Function, and Factors That Influence Bone Cells", by Florencio-Silva R. et al (and others). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515490/
So many contradictions nowadays about what to eat and what not. I'm 81 and have been drinking milk since childhood. So far no sign of osteoporosis as far as I know. I eat most things and certainly ate too much sugar when younger.
One of the best deterrents (and often reversible) to osteoporosis is weight bearing exercises. Diet is not the only way to change dexa results. Many of us (me included) cannot eat dairy and choose to not eat animal products. I have had osteoporosis for several years and switched to a plant based diet 3 years ago. My diet change did not increase my osteoporosis, nor did it improve it. However, including heavy weight bearing exercises has been shown to reverse osteopenia/osteoporosis. I'm scheduled for my dexa later this year and hoping my numbers have improved. Perhaps this is a topic you can discuss in another video.
Hi! Yes, thank you for sharing. You may enjoy this other video on my channel called "The 4 Exercises that Build Bone | NEW STUDY High-Intensity vs Low-Intensity"
This is long, so I apologize, but my story is testament that dairy, prunes and meat protein ARE crucial to bone health. I'm going to be 63 at the end of this month (July 2024). I've been a dancer/dance teacher my entire life... So, fairly strong. But I've had an ACL replacement in 1995) and I've had both hips replaced (2006/2016)... NOT from genetics but from an unfortunate incident allowing someone to push on my straddle stretch (which was already crazy amazing)... But it caused an unbeknownst-to-me small tear in my labrum. 3 or 4 years later that became a problem and it morphed into some arthritis and the hip replacement. The other hip replacement eventually was the cause of walking not properly during all of the above. So that said, slowly over time I was not doing as much activity as I would prefer... but in December of 2022 while on a trip to New York city, I did go ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza and I took a tap dance class with my 22 year old son (who took dance from me for 14 years) and was an excellent tap dancer himself. Then after eating out at a restaurant in Manhattan, while leaving down two sets of dark steps (and wet!), I slipped and ended up breaking my FEMUR. I now know that when my foot went under me and all my weight slammed onto my foot as I went down the stairs, it was because my ACL knee had too much scar tissue that wouldn't allow the knee to bend enough so the femur was what gave. This occurred on a Friday at 6pm. I thought I had torn out my ACL so we ubered to a hospital in Brooklyn near where we were staying (thinking that it was not that big of a deal... Torn ligament, bummer, but deal with it kind of thing) The first hospital had no orthopedic doctor so they sent me 4 hours later to the next hospital nearby. There weren't even any rooms available and the ER hallway was lined with beds on either side where people were camped out instead of being in a hospital room. Obviously, breaking your femur IS a big deal but the soonest I could have surgery was going to be Monday. Logistically hanging out in the hallway for 2+ days at a hospital in a city I don't live in was not a good option, so at 5am, I left the hospital to go back to our Air BNB. Because of Compartment Syndrome was a concern to fly, I ended up renting a car that next day, having to go along myself since my son wasn't old enough to rent a car. Then we went to the wedding that we were there for and finally on Sunday morning, I rode home for 20 hours to Minneapolis and had my surgery in Minneapolis on Monday. (Yes, WITH the broken leg in a brace and crutches, putting no weight on it of course) Yes. It was painful and due to crazy cyber attacks, paper prescriptions, and unfortunate timing, I didn't even get any strong medicine until Sunday around noon when we left Brooklyn. (Except for whatever they gave me on Friday at 7pm) So the point of my story was that my femur was shattered in more than 17 little fragments and I had trauma surgery but when my leg healed it was literally ONE INCH SHORTER than the other. So! 5'8"exactly on my right leg.... 5'7"exactly on my left! More than one doctor (including a leg-lengthening specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN ) told me to SHORTEN MY OTHER LEG!!! (Because my left leg had too many complications with the screws from the ACL and the hip implant blah blah blah) Ummm NO. Hell to the NO!!! But amazingly my hair stylist knew a leg lengthening surgeon because years before her son had been a Gopher football player needing a surgery like that. I reached out to the doctor and even though he was practicing at a CHILDREN'S hospital, he agreed to see me. This is the point of my entire story; because I HAD that leg lengthening surgery in January of this year. (They cut your bone, insert a MOTORIZED rod to slowly lengthen by communicating with a machine) They took out my original rod and plate and screws. Anyway! Despite a bone doctor TELLING ME TO TAKE BONE drugs, I researched that intensively and knew that it would be WORSE to take a drug. I told my leg lengthening surgeon that I would create HEALTHY NEW BONE BY HOW AND WHAT FOODS I WAS AND WOULD BE EATING. I researched everything regarding the growing of new bone, my age etc etc. Of course, we all know about vitamin D for our bones, but I learned that vitamin K was ALSO important . So I looked up all the sources for these things and this was what I did: I was eating organic prunes every day. I was eating skyr yogurt (Icelandic) which is an extremely good source of calcium. Whole organic milk in my lattes. Pasture-raised organic eggs daily. Gouda cheese (because it has vitamin K), grass-fed steak or grass-fed beef and some of my favorite vegetables. My surgeon has done 1000 of these surgeries and he's been instrumental in development of procedures that they are now currently using. Even at my last appointment in May there was a doctor from Australia and a doctor from Finland and even my own trauma surgeon (who originally also told me NOT to do this surgery) was AT MY APPT because they had come to learn how to do these procedures from my leg-lengthening surgeon! It turns out that I am only one of the THREE OLDEST PATIENTS that he has ever had. And he told me that he didn't HAVE to do my surgery but he believed that he COULD do it and help me, but also, he said he knew that I had it within me to do everything he said and what was needed to do. I was on crutches for 3 months... I used the leg lengthening machine several times daily for almost all of that (⅛ a MM extending that motorized rod at a time) and here is the most AMAZING part.... ⬇️ near the end of that process (as it was successfully working), my doctor told me that my femur bone was GROWING LIKE THE BONES OF A KID!!!!! I attribute that to how I was eating! And I was eating these VERY THREE THINGS! *HEALTHY DAIRY *ORGANIC PRUNES *PROTEIN FROM MEAT So! If you read all this, thank you and I hope that I help someone. 😊 But I will just say that this video is SO TRUE and what we eat is crucial to not just the health of our bones, but also to the health of our ENTIRE body! Cynthia from Minneapolis
Wow thank you so much for sharing this!! It’s incredible to see the dedication and hard work you've put into improving your bone health. Stories like yours are a great reminder of the power of consuming the right food for your health.
@@Dr_DougLucas Thank you for reading my novel haha. Your video just made me so excited because I researched everything and came to the conclusion on my own and then your video confirmed my layman's conclusion! Lastly, this is a crazy sidenote... While I was in the process, there were a couple times where my doctor was out of town (I was going weekly). And I mentioned how I was making sure to get Vitamin K for my bone and the orthopedic (also a leg -lengthening doctor) actually said to me..."vitamin K...? I thought it was Vitamin D") WOW. How crazy is it that I knew more about it than he did!?? LOL... Knowledge is POWER! 😁
Wow! You give me tremendous hope! I am client of OBH with Dr Lucas gang and so far no dairy due to GI problems. I fractured my femur and still hurts and unable to use weights 9 months later. But I WILL persevere. Have to be consistent. Thank you 😊
70 yrs old. Discovered, I must use H.C.L.And digestive enzymes with every meal ( now 1 yr in). 2 yrs on Fortibone, collagen peptides, increased meat and dairy proteins, lots of jumping, power walking 8 miles a week, exercising, all supplements discussed. No increase in femoral neck, slight loss in lumbar. Bloodwork according to doc is good but a little high on cholesterol. I'm discouraged but have decided to get on algaecal. I can't afford anything more.
So pleased I can tolerate every food. Goibg back to my old diet. The diet my family gave me growing up. Thankyou, i feel like you have given back sound eating reasons why. Too much emo around food. Off to buy a grass fed steak, and prunes, i was looking for boron, K2 naturally. I feel empowered to reverse or maintain bone health. Bravo. We really don't get enough info like this online in Oz. Huge thankyou.
Total thyroidectomy 2010 he took my parathyroid glands. Some grew back but is so low they put on calcitriol and 1,200 mg calcium. All these yrs until last yr when diagnosed with osteoporosis l started searching natural help refusing fosamax. During this search l found ld been taking the wrong calcium all along just floating in my blood stream😖😖 so ditched the pill and increased dairy, and calcium foods . Don't like prunes so doing boron 125 ml daily and starting your exercises . Thank you Will see if l decide to do another dx scan
Interesting this video pops up just as I wondered if my dairy intake is too much for osteopenia. If I consume nonorganic dairy, then I get congestion. However, I drink full fat organic grass fed dairy and eat full fat Greek yogurt, no congestion. Never heard of prunes helping bones... I'm on it!
Hi I stopped using dairy as I am post breastcancer and dont want any metastisese start growing fast. Could you please do a talk on plantbased foods against osteoporosis?
Carbohydrate and carbohydrate , fruit is different. Don’t forget it’s fructose no glucose It’s not showing in blood glucose strips, it’s processed in the liver first,, nevertheless it’s sugar 😊❤
Great video. Especially since I love prunes but gave them up as my glucose levels are a bit high. But this doctor says they are OK for glucose levels. Will eat them with yoghurt.
Curious why you recommend full fat yogurt? I eat organic nonfat plain greek yogurt every morning topped generously with raw nuts/seeds. The yogurt has 3g sugars (zero added sugars), 18g protein, 7g carbs. What benefit does the full fat yogurt provide?
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Regarding prunes - do you get the same benefit from just eating the plums? Is there a nutrient change once dried other than density? Also, most commercial dried fruit is high in sulfur due to preservatives (I am extremely allergic) but natural sulfur is an important building block, would the higher sulfur content contribute to the positive effects of prunes, if so would you get the same positive effects from organic plums dehydrated at home?
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Can't tolerate milk....gives me joint pain. Immunologist says it's an allergy ,( not lactose intolerance) No protein casien...also throws off gut balance....lighter fluid on inflammation. It's often overlooked or misdiagnosed
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Don't think I am going to start eating prunes and drinking milk, but I do love some aged Cheddar and real Parmesan. I have heard that breast cancer patients shouldn't consume dairy and soya products at all...is it true?
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Hey Dr. Doug! If one is getting all the essential amino acids from a vegan/vegetarian diet, how does it differ from an animal protein diet? Are the phytochemicals, etc which contribute to bone strength in meat?
You recently advocated for the AlgeaCal supplements. If you take that, should you still add dairy and prunes to your daily diet? Is there such a thing as too much calcium and boron?
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I went full out on milk and milk products to increase bone density after my osteoporosis diagnosis and 2 years later my cholesterol is very high. How do I do this now that I need to lower my cholesterol?
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I tried dairy, it just gave me horrible hot flashes and that ag1 dairy gave me horrible headaches and prunes gave me hot flashes because prunes have too much sugar raising blood sugars which raises body temperature
Interesting. I have completely changed my diet since my osteoporosis diagnosis last year. I now consume a lot of Kefir, greek yogurt, take all sorts of supplements and strength train. However, my bone density has deteriorated by 5% according to my recent DEXA scan (same machine, not been calibrated since). I am confused!
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We just recently Made a friend who is giving us raw milk every week. I make Yogurt in my insta Yogurt yogurt in my instant pot From it. There are times When it doesn't firm up really Good and separates. I put The Straining and I get Loads of whey which we use And yogurt cheese which is absolutely delicious
Instead of prunes, could we just take a boron supplement. Also, would whey protein powder be a good substitute for eating animals since I am a vegetarian. Regarding protein, I have heard others say that too much protein acidifies the body causing the body to leach bone to reduce the acidity increasing fracture risk. Is there any basis to this?
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I had hyper parathyroid for 10 years. It destroyed my body. I couldn't take fosamax because of bone pain. I EXCERSISE 3 to 4 times a week 1 to 2 hours each session. Plus more at home and yoga.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! I respect everyones right to eat however they please but have created this channel to deliver evidence to our audience on topics related to women’s health, bone health and hormone health specifically. The evidence reviewed clearly demonstrates to me that a vegan diet does not benefit these conditions for most people
Also, checkout the youtube video on my channel called "FULL EPISODE: Netflix You Are What You Eat: Twins Study on The Dr. Doug Show" We go into that a little bit.
My gynecologist sd my parathyroid was high and it was causing calcium not to get to bones.she sent me to a specialist who wanted me to take drugs.i refused. im 69.im taking garden of life bone building vitamins.will get dexa in sept after 2 yrs
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I understand that it can be confusing when different doctors give conflicting advice. My focus in this video is specifically on delivering evidence to our audience on topics related to women’s health, bone health and hormone health specifically. Our clinical experience echoes the research on meat for bone health!
When you say "animal" protein, does that include chicken? Or does chicken go in with fish? And where are eggs, are they with meat? I don't eat my fellow mammals, but I will eat poultry and fish, and of course vegetable proteins.
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This is where I get confused. There's a history of Alzheimers in my family, and so much research seems to support a plant based diet to slow cognitive decline. But then for bone health it's best to eat animal protein. So do I just have to decide what's more important, to prevent fractures or keep out of a memory care unit????
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All of the information about a plant based diet for Alzheimer’s prevention is coming out of the 7th day adventist community. Their “science” should not be trusted. Do a search for Dr. Shawn Baker + Hal (can’t remember his last name. ) He runs memory care facilities in Arizona and has reversed some of his residents Alzheimer’s to the point that they could return home and take care of themselves - with diet!
Hormone replacement therapy will decrease both more than anything else. Please check Dr. Mary Claire Havers channel. She has amazing studies to prove there is no correlation between breast cancer and estrogen. In fact, they used to use estrogen to kill tumors. It has protective benefits as well :*)
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Hi Dr. Doug - Have you heard of the latest Gigantic Discovery called C15 ? Since we're globally deficient in it, could this C15 also help with bone density?
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I love dairy in the form of cheese and cottage cheese I do eat yogurt though I find it disgusting, I love love love prunes I also love raisins figs apricots dates, I eat animal proteins but I absolutely hate meat! I've cut back on red meat for health reasons but I do eat fish chicken and eggs not every day though, these days I've been eating more plant proteins because it's better for my overall health I feel better and to bring my liver enzymes down But of course my main focus is increasing my bone density as well as building muscle
@MariaBrinks25 You may want to try whole milk Kefir in smoothies with some fruit etc much more rich in nutrients probiotics and calcium than yogurt :))
1- Dairy (Milk, yogurt, keifer, cottage cheese) hip & spine
2- Prunes 5 a day
3- Animal Protein
Thank you for sharing!
@@Dr_DougLucas l see one chart saying 40 grams of protein. Will that be to much for stage 3 renal disease?
Thank you
so much for being a vegan
That was helpful, but people should definitely watch the whole video. It's really interesting and I learned a lot.
thank you
Thank you, I have osteoporosis and am 86 years old;. I continue twith 2 glasses of milk 8 ounces each glass0 6 prunes each day and meat 3 times a day, I did break my hip a year ago and have a hip replacement and doing very well because I exercised 3times a week before that, The recovery was amazing within. 6 weeks and walking well after almost one year.
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this story. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for sharing your story as it gives me hope, rather than doom and gloom. I’m 59, workout with heavy weights, eat high animal protein, take HRT and was a runner for 30 years. I’ve just found that I have osteopenia which worries me as my mother had osteoporosis and dementia- died following infection after hip fracture ‘repair’. I don’t want that to be my story and you’ve shown that it can be different. Thank you
Thank you! You give me hope in working to take care of my bone health going forward as I have osteoporosis and am 60.
Is almond milk the same
@@CarrieWood-gr9dw read the label. Good Calcium in it and D but we need d3
I come from a line of women who had osteoporosis and am taking meds that put me at risk. I’m trying to get off of supplements by eating healthy and exercising. I have a cup of homemade whole milk kefir every day in my smoothie. The low lactose and high probiotics help with gut health. I try for a diversity of plants (30+ per week) and will start adding some prunes to my diet. I have at least one meal a day with meat protein. So far the Dexa scans have been good. Fingers crossed that a healthy diet will continue the good results.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
I’m a70 year old woman with osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. I eat whole milk cottage cheese, yogurt and cheese. I’m also a vegetarian. I do eat eggs though I do t love them. I take a Prolia injection every 6 months. I would love to stop taking 2 calcium supplements a day plus double vitamin d3. I just feel nauseous after these. I have a call in to my doctor to see if I can stop these. I do have pain in my lower back, so I’m trying to walk more and do exercises to help.
I use the A2 whole milk to make my Kefir. I have low sodium so I add salt to everything. I also use pea protein isolate when making my smoothie. The mis contains about 20 grammar of protein per serving. Stay salty. No sugar.
@@jeanphilpot350do you do any resistance (weights) training?
@@ilotefft2526 Yes, but I know I’m not consistent with it. I need to do better. Thank you for responding
I am part Asian. In my late thirties I had a low-grade fever for about a year and my eyesight was deteriorating. Doctors could not find out the cause. Thanks to an ophthalmologist who sent me to a uveitis clinic, It turned out that my condition was caused by dairy consumption. People of African and Asian descent don't tolerate milk products well.
I have a lactose digesting gene yet any dairy will make my joints tender and inflamed. Possibly an immune reaction to the milk protein casein. So likewise no dairy for me
Very interesting, thanks for sharing
Thank you for sharing this story!
I too am Asian, I generally don’t drink milk. Simply don’t like it much. I eat cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt instead, and of course, ice cream.
More folks have casein sensitivity/intolerance than a lactose sensitivity/intolerance. @@Janana_
61 (F) Osteoporosis diagnosis 2 years ago. Went to 2 “specialists” whom both agreed that bone growth is impossible for my age and recommended meds. I decided to give it 2 years. I pouted for a year and then went carnivore. DEXA results today = 10% improvement in spine and 3.5% improvement in FNeck left. Looking forward to pulling more levers through supplements, weight training, etc. thanks Dr for ALL you are doing. You give us hope.
I am 78 and just had my dexa scan which showed improvement.
@@carolynfettes1785 Amazing!
This is amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing your motivating success story, we love to see this and hear how you worked towards this improvement. I look forward to hearing more about your bone health journey!
Congrats on the improvements! Do you mean you gave meds two years and then pouted for a year? And then went carnivore? How long ago was that? I got a little confused but am very interested!!
@@goodgardenofpeas The drs recommended meds and I refused. They both said due to my age that it was not possible to improve bone health using diet and exercise. I wanted to prove them wrong. I started tracking my protein intake and then just went full carnivore a year ago. I exercise every day. I walk with a weighted vest and ankle weights in addition to jumping rope. I’m interested in HRT and supplements but need to do my research.
I had such a huge dairy portion to my diet and ate red meat, I am a hunter. Prunes? I ate plums in the summer when the fruit was picked. I exercised, weight bearing exercise. Never smoked. I am a fair skinned redhead that sunbathed and loved outdoor activities, lots of Vitamin D.
But my Mom had severe osteoporosis and my sister and I do as well. I now take Calcium as well as my high dairy and salmon diet. I take vitamin D, 2000 mg in the summer and 3000 mg in the winter when there is less sun exposure. My sister and I took Alendronate Sodium (Fosamax) when we were Osteopenia. Now we are osteoporosis. My 5' 2" is now 4' 11". My sister that was 5' 4" is now 4' 10 ". Much of the time it is your genes not what you eat or how you live.
My favorite lunch is kefir with blueberries, chia seeds and prunes, along with a high quality meat stick. This is my usual after strength training. I’ve just started hopping. I hop 50 reps on each leg. I have osteopenia and I’m so hoping for no more bone loss!!
Prunes and chia are high in oxalates, which bums me out.
What kind of kifir you consume?
@@MrJugThumper I don’t think I have a problem with either as I get plenty of calcium to bind up the oxalates.
@@debbiesc.5957 milk kefir.
Maybe i should eat them separately from my calcium foods.@@hmmm..2733
From NASA-Astronauts who lose bone density in outer space are given 5 prunes a day to restore bone health
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing this
Oh wow! Really? Interesting!
8:33
NASA also recommends rebounders for their astronauts.
I wondered about a rebounder if you have a lot of spinal bone loss??
I am (almost) dairy free because besides osteoporosis I have Hashimotos. I eat every other day sheep yogurt with blueberries for breakfast, I am grain free and sugar free, I eat protein everyday with my meaIs, eat grass fed and grass finish meats, pasture raise chicken and eggs, wild salmon and fish buy everything organic as much as I can. I am 65 years wise 106 pounds and lift weights 4 times a week just for 20 minutes because I have to take care of our 26 years old quadriplegic cerebral palsy son who needs 24 hour care. I am supposed to have a bone density test done this month but I am nervous about the results because I am not taking any medication for osteoporosis, I tried reclast once but I decided not to continue I guess I have to bite the bullet and have my test done. I think I am doing the right thing with my diet I don't know what else to do.😢
Thank you so much for sharing all of this. It sounds like you could benefit from the next free Bone Foundations Masterclass we have coming up if you have not attended one before. You can find more information here --> www.optimalhumanhealth.com/build-bone
@@Dr_DougLucas Thank you.
Where do you get sheep yogurt? @@laly6980
Hello! I felt obligated to write so if you are interested to see why I'm writing this to you, you could read my long story that I just posted on here in the last hour) 😁
But I would like to comment about Dexa Scans.
For this "gold standard" of bone scans, the range "norm" is based on the bones of THIRTY YEAR OLD WOMEN!!!
I'm turning 63 this month and even though I think I'm still young, nothing on my body is as good as it was when I was 30!! 🤣🤣🤣
Also, if you read my story, while I was researching everything I was dealing with, I watched a TH-cam video called "Selling Sickness". (I didn't write about the documentary in my previous post), but this yt video is a French documentary about the pharmaceutical industry.
There was a whole section about bone density drugs (why I was interested in watching it) and specifically an entire story about the drug Fosamax and a 59 year old woman who went and had a bone density scan and was advised to take the drug Fosamax.
I highly recommend watching that video if you have enough interest to... I believe the section of the documentary regarding that woman's particular story was in the second half but you can skip forward to find it. (It's a sad but important story to know IMHO)
All that just say that when it was recommended to me to take a bone density drug and I did some research on that drug, I realized that the SIDE EFFECTS are WORSE THAN THE HELP that the drug gives anyone in the first place!
I could go on more, but often times the bones end up weaker than they were in the first place.
Our bodies have osteoclasts and osteoblasts that renew our bones ongoing....every 10 years our ENTIRE skeleton is renewed because those two functions are continually doing their job!
The osteoclasts remove OLD bone and the osteoblasts put down NEW bone.
I believe in God and I believe this is a God thing, and it's amazing of course! (just my opinion haha)
The drug that was recommended to me slapped down new bone, but NOT necessarily in the correct place! That drug function didn't make sure that the old bone was removed!
So that would be like having a crumbling brick foundation and then slap down a bunch of cement on it and say....
oh look it's stronger and more dense now!
No. That would not be a strong foundation.
Lastly, even though it wasn't on the brochure, some of the bad side effects of the drug that I was recommended to take (by the bone doctor that I only went to once) were ⬇️
pneumonia
shingles
and osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma in plain English is BONE CANCER!
So the very drug that they would recommend to help my bones be stronger and more dense could potentially cause me to have bone cancer!
Lastly, everyone should know that when doctors are in medical school currently, they only spend 4 hours learning about nutrition to help their patients have better health but they spend weeks and weeks and weeks on what pharmaceutical products they should prescribe for any and all problems. 🙄
All the best to you 😊 I think knowledge is POWER!
From Cynthia in Minneapolis
@@danceteachermom yup 💯 ty for posting this, Cynthia!
I do great on dairy. Always have. Do not do well without. Genetics makes a difference.
Thank you for sharing!
Same.
I was diagnosed with epilepsy at 7 and was put on anticonvulsants that depleted my electrolyte levels, including calcium. I found out I had osteoporosis two years ago, and I had just turned 27. It has since improved, but I have a while to go. Thank you for your content!!
Thank you for sharing this!
Great information! Thank you for your hard work and for taking your time to help us! 🥰
Happy to help! Thank you for watching!
Great Video. I love prunes,have 6 every day with my diary breakfast. Pluss meat for lunch and Dinner!!Thank you gor your time in all this ❤
Thank you for watching!
I am so glad that I found you on TH-cam. Thank you Dr. Lucas for taking your time to make these valuable videos. I am so appreciative of you.
Thank you for watching! I greatly appreciate your support!
I’m watching from a different perspective. I was diagnosed with smoldering multiple myeloma. I’m not on treatment but recently suffered two spine fractures. I am trying to strengthen my bones without going on the drugs they want me to. The bones seem to be the one thing I need to focus on right now and would like to do it naturally, if possible. Thank you for your content.
Have you considered a bone marrow transplant for your condition? Is that an option for you? I'm concerned because I watched my father deteriorate from multiple myeloma before some of these new treatments were available. I'm not a medical professional, but I'm in this doctor's online Healthspan where we learn about many ways to treat osteoporosis and stay healthy in general. If I were in your position I would look at all options, not just dietary, for something as serious as multiple myeloma. Good luck to you in your health journey.
Thank you so much for sharing all of this. It sounds like you could benefit from the next free Bone Foundations Masterclass we have coming up if you have not attended one before. You can find more information here -->www.optimalhumanhealth.com/build-bone
God Bless you
You have presented some great information and valid arguments for these three foods as they relate to bone health, i wished that you would have displayed charts, as you spoke, to illustrate your points. Your valuable information would be understood and retained by more people with the use of visual as well as auditory information.
Thank you for your feedback, we will be sure to keep this in mind!
Could you focus on fish please? Cod, salmon, halibut, haddock…as part of a beef, lamb, pork protein diet.
Gastroenterologist Doctor told me I am lactose intolerant almost 10 years ago. I love prunes, eat them alot. I do eat chicken, Turkey, but rarely red meat, especially pork or steak. Will occasionally have beef stew, with vegetables like Brussel sprouts, Broccoli , Love veggies over all.
Thank you for sharing this!
Wow, I am really in need of a way to build bone. However, I am lactose intolerant. I have been drinking & eating lactose free for years. But about a year ago I developed a horrific cough that caused me non stop coughing with mucus. I had to add a nebulizer & more medications. After much research I learned that dairy & many meats caused mucus to form. Some fish as well. So I have almost completely eliminated these products. My cough is finally under control. If I eat one small lactose free ice cream scoop, within a few hours I am full of mucus & coughing for the next 24 hours.
Hi, thank you for sharing this. You may find this video on my channel interesting, "Does Dairy Actually CAUSE Fractures?? | Dairy & Osteoporosis FACT vs FICTION"
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Always consult your own doctot.
Hello, bones are mainly composed of two parts: 1) protein (90% collagenous protein, for example collagen and 10% other proteins, for example "osteocalcin, osteonectin, osteopontin, fibronectin and bone sialoprotein II, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and growth factors"), and 2) minerals (mainly calcium and phosphorus, but also "significant amounts of bicarbonate, sodium, potassium, citrate, magnesium, carbonate, fluorite, zinc, barium, and strontium").
So, to summarize, mainly you need protein, and calcium, phosphorous (less than calcium), potassium, magnesium, zinc, barium, strontium). You can find protein and minerals in short grain brown rice (commercial long grain brown rice is too polished, don't use it); oats, wheat kernels and other grains, plus a variety of dried beans, plus orange/yellow veggies, green leafy veggies, plus a small amount of fermented foods, plus seaweed. Seaweed is chock full of minerals. Some seaweed contains more calcium than milk. Delicious recipes to be found on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese TH-cam channels. Please do your research. Stressing bone, (by exercising for example), increases its volume. You may, of course, add some animal protein and fermented milk such as kefir, as tolerated. Fermenting decreases the lactose.
So, all is not lost. Take heart. The most important: whole grains, veggies, SEAWEED (a big factor, but you only need a little bit), a few seeds and nuts, animal protein and fermented milk, as tolerated, fermented veggies and beans. And fruit, of course.
Source for the writing inside the quotation marks is an article from the National Library of Medicine, NIH, entitled: "Biology of Bone Tissue: Structure, Function, and Factors That Influence Bone Cells", by Florencio-Silva R. et al (and others). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515490/
Very helpful and the science is appreciated 😊
Glad it was helpful!
My one question is… who funded the dairy studies, in the past several were by the dairy industry which makes me suspect . Would appreciate any references to the studies so I can review. Thanks
Hi! We put all of the study links in the description box
I appreciate your comment. I wrote the following to someone else, and although it doesn't address your question, you might want to have a look. You might already know a lot of this. If so, discard it.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor. Always consult your own doctot.
Hello, bones are mainly composed of two parts: 1) protein (90% collagenous protein, for example collagen and 10% other proteins, for example "osteocalcin, osteonectin, osteopontin, fibronectin and bone sialoprotein II, bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), and growth factors"), and 2) minerals (mainly calcium and phosphorus, but also "significant amounts of bicarbonate, sodium, potassium, citrate, magnesium, carbonate, fluorite, zinc, barium, and strontium).
So, to summarize, mainly you need protein, and calcium, phosphorous (less than calcium), potassium, magnesium, zinc, barium, strontium). You can find protein and minerals in short grain brown rice (commercial long grain brown rice is too polished, don't use it); oats, wheat kernels and other grains, plus a variety of dried beans, plus orange/yellow veggies, green leafy veggies, plus a small amount of fermented foods, plus seaweed. Seaweed is chock full of minerals. Some seaweed contains more calcium than milk. Delicious recipes to be found on Japanese, Korean, and Chinese TH-cam channels. Please do your research. Stressing bone (by exercising for example, increases its volume. You may, of course, add some animal protein and fermented milk such as kefir, as tolerated. Fermenting decreases the lactose.
So, all is not lost. Take heart. The most important: whole grains, veggies, SEAWEED (a big factor, but you only need a little bit), a few seeds and nuts, animal protein and fermented milk, as tolerated, fermented veggies and beans. And fruit, of course.
Source for the writing inside the quotation marks is an article from the National Library of Medicine, NIH, entitled: "Biology of Bone Tissue: Structure, Function, and Factors That Influence Bone Cells", by Florencio-Silva R. et al (and others). www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4515490/
Thank you for your clear and science informed information.
Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful! Thank you, Dr. Doug.
Thank you for watching!
So many contradictions nowadays about what to eat and what not. I'm 81 and have been drinking milk since childhood. So far no sign of osteoporosis as far as I know. I eat most things and certainly ate too much sugar when younger.
Thank you for sharing this!
@@Dr_DougLucas😊
Really appreciate your knowledge and help
Thank you for the kind words, glad you enjoyed this video!
Thank you for your post. I found it so informative and helpful for my newly diagnosed osteoporosis.
Glad you enjoyed this!
One of the best deterrents (and often reversible) to osteoporosis is weight bearing exercises. Diet is not the only way to change dexa results. Many of us (me included) cannot eat dairy and choose to not eat animal products. I have had osteoporosis for several years and switched to a plant based diet 3 years ago. My diet change did not increase my osteoporosis, nor did it improve it. However, including heavy weight bearing exercises has been shown to reverse osteopenia/osteoporosis. I'm scheduled for my dexa later this year and hoping my numbers have improved. Perhaps this is a topic you can discuss in another video.
Hi! Yes, thank you for sharing. You may enjoy this other video on my channel called "The 4 Exercises that Build Bone | NEW STUDY High-Intensity vs Low-Intensity"
This is long, so I apologize, but my story is testament that dairy, prunes and meat protein ARE crucial to bone health.
I'm going to be 63 at the end of this month (July 2024).
I've been a dancer/dance teacher my entire life... So, fairly strong.
But I've had an ACL replacement in 1995) and I've had both hips replaced (2006/2016)... NOT from genetics but from an unfortunate incident allowing someone to push on my straddle stretch (which was already crazy amazing)... But it caused an unbeknownst-to-me small tear in my labrum. 3 or 4 years later that became a problem and it morphed into some arthritis and the hip replacement. The other hip replacement eventually was the cause of walking not properly during all of the above.
So that said, slowly over time I was not doing as much activity as I would prefer... but in December of 2022 while on a trip to New York city, I did go ice skating at Rockefeller Plaza and I took a tap dance class with my 22 year old son (who took dance from me for 14 years) and was an excellent tap dancer himself.
Then after eating out at a restaurant in Manhattan, while leaving down two sets of dark steps (and wet!), I slipped and ended up breaking my FEMUR.
I now know that when my foot went under me and all my weight slammed onto my foot as I went down the stairs, it was because my ACL knee had too much scar tissue that wouldn't allow the knee to bend enough so the femur was what gave.
This occurred on a Friday at 6pm. I thought I had torn out my ACL so we ubered to a hospital in Brooklyn near where we were staying (thinking that it was not that big of a deal... Torn ligament, bummer, but deal with it kind of thing) The first hospital had no orthopedic doctor so they sent me 4 hours later to the next hospital nearby. There weren't even any rooms available and the ER hallway was lined with beds on either side where people were camped out instead of being in a hospital room.
Obviously, breaking your femur IS a big deal but the soonest I could have surgery was going to be Monday. Logistically hanging out in the hallway for 2+ days at a hospital in a city I don't live in was not a good option, so at 5am, I left the hospital to go back to our Air BNB.
Because of Compartment Syndrome was a concern to fly, I ended up renting a car that next day, having to go along myself since my son wasn't old enough to rent a car. Then we went to the wedding that we were there for and finally on Sunday morning, I rode home for 20 hours to Minneapolis and had my surgery in Minneapolis on Monday. (Yes, WITH the broken leg in a brace and crutches, putting no weight on it of course) Yes. It was painful and due to crazy cyber attacks, paper prescriptions, and unfortunate timing, I didn't even get any strong medicine until Sunday around noon when we left Brooklyn. (Except for whatever they gave me on Friday at 7pm)
So the point of my story was that my femur was shattered in more than 17 little fragments and I had trauma surgery but when my leg healed it was literally ONE INCH SHORTER than the other. So! 5'8"exactly on my right leg....
5'7"exactly on my left!
More than one doctor (including a leg-lengthening specialist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN ) told me to SHORTEN MY OTHER LEG!!! (Because my left leg had too many complications with the screws from the ACL and the hip implant blah blah blah)
Ummm NO. Hell to the NO!!!
But amazingly my hair stylist knew a leg lengthening surgeon because years before her son had been a Gopher football player needing a surgery like that. I reached out to the doctor and even though he was practicing at a CHILDREN'S hospital, he agreed to see me.
This is the point of my entire story; because I HAD that leg lengthening surgery in January of this year. (They cut your bone, insert a MOTORIZED rod to slowly lengthen by communicating with a machine) They took out my original rod and plate and screws.
Anyway! Despite a bone doctor TELLING ME TO TAKE BONE drugs, I researched that intensively and knew that it would be WORSE to take a drug.
I told my leg lengthening surgeon that I would create HEALTHY NEW BONE BY HOW AND WHAT FOODS I WAS AND WOULD BE EATING.
I researched everything regarding the growing of new bone, my age etc etc.
Of course, we all know about vitamin D for our bones, but I learned that vitamin K was ALSO important .
So I looked up all the sources for these things and this was what I did:
I was eating organic prunes every day. I was eating skyr yogurt (Icelandic) which is an extremely good source of calcium. Whole organic milk in my lattes. Pasture-raised organic eggs daily. Gouda cheese (because it has vitamin K), grass-fed steak or grass-fed beef and some of my favorite vegetables.
My surgeon has done 1000 of these surgeries and he's been instrumental in development of procedures that they are now currently using. Even at my last appointment in May there was a doctor from Australia and a doctor from Finland and even my own trauma surgeon (who originally also told me NOT to do this surgery) was AT MY APPT because they had come to learn how to do these procedures from my leg-lengthening surgeon!
It turns out that I am only one of the THREE OLDEST PATIENTS that he has ever had.
And he told me that he didn't HAVE to do my surgery but he believed that he COULD do it and help me, but also, he said he knew that I had it within me to do everything he said and what was needed to do.
I was on crutches for 3 months... I used the leg lengthening machine several times daily for almost all of that (⅛ a MM extending that motorized rod at a time) and here is the most AMAZING part.... ⬇️ near the end of that process (as it was successfully working), my doctor told me that my femur bone was GROWING LIKE THE BONES OF A KID!!!!!
I attribute that to how I was eating! And I was eating these VERY THREE THINGS!
*HEALTHY DAIRY
*ORGANIC PRUNES
*PROTEIN FROM MEAT
So! If you read all this, thank you and I hope that I help someone. 😊 But I will just say that this video is SO TRUE and what we eat is crucial to not just the health of our bones, but also to the health of our ENTIRE body!
Cynthia from Minneapolis
Wow thank you so much for sharing this!! It’s incredible to see the dedication and hard work you've put into improving your bone health. Stories like yours are a great reminder of the power of consuming the right food for your health.
@@Dr_DougLucas Thank you for reading my novel haha.
Your video just made me so excited because I researched everything and came to the conclusion on my own and then your video confirmed my layman's conclusion!
Lastly, this is a crazy sidenote... While I was in the process, there were a couple times where my doctor was out of town (I was going weekly). And I mentioned how I was making sure to get Vitamin K for my bone and the orthopedic (also a leg -lengthening doctor) actually said to me..."vitamin K...? I thought it was Vitamin D") WOW.
How crazy is it that I knew more about it than he did!??
LOL... Knowledge is POWER! 😁
Thank you for taking the time to share this information. Very helpful. ❤
Wow! You give me tremendous hope! I am client of OBH with Dr Lucas gang and so far no dairy due to GI problems. I fractured my femur and still hurts and unable to use weights 9 months later. But I WILL persevere. Have to be consistent. Thank you 😊
70 yrs old. Discovered, I must use H.C.L.And digestive enzymes with every meal ( now 1 yr in).
2 yrs on Fortibone, collagen peptides, increased meat and dairy proteins, lots of jumping, power walking 8 miles a week, exercising, all supplements discussed. No increase in femoral neck, slight loss in lumbar. Bloodwork according to doc is good but a little high on cholesterol.
I'm discouraged but have decided to get on algaecal. I can't afford anything more.
Thank you for sharing this!
So pleased I can tolerate every food. Goibg back to my old diet. The diet my family gave me growing up. Thankyou, i feel like you have given back sound eating reasons why. Too much emo around food. Off to buy a grass fed steak, and prunes, i was looking for boron, K2 naturally.
I feel empowered to reverse or maintain bone health. Bravo. We really don't get enough info like this online in Oz. Huge thankyou.
Hi! Thank you so much for sharing this, I agree. I am very glad to hear you enjoyed this video!
Thank you very much for this. I agree with you all the way!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed this video
Thank you for the dairy clarification.
Thank you for watching!
Total thyroidectomy 2010 he took my parathyroid glands. Some grew back but is so low they put on calcitriol and 1,200 mg calcium. All these yrs until last yr when diagnosed with osteoporosis l started searching natural help refusing fosamax. During this search l found ld been taking the wrong calcium all along just floating in my blood stream😖😖 so ditched the pill and increased dairy, and calcium foods . Don't like prunes so doing boron 125 ml daily and starting your exercises .
Thank you
Will see if l decide to do another dx scan
Thank you so much for sharing this!
What calcium is best for you? Which one was the wrong one? Wishing you ease and health.
@@jorykevinberger7047
Calcium pills stay in the blood stream hardening arteries. Get Calcium from different foods and dairy getting your zinc and D3k2
Interesting this video pops up just as I wondered if my dairy intake is too much for osteopenia. If I consume nonorganic dairy, then I get congestion. However, I drink full fat organic grass fed dairy and eat full fat Greek yogurt, no congestion.
Never heard of prunes helping bones... I'm on it!
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Hi I stopped using dairy as I am post breastcancer and dont want any metastisese start growing fast. Could you please do a talk on plantbased foods against osteoporosis?
Almond milk. 3x amount of calcium
Unnatural plant hormones cause the most damage. And most plants are full of them.
Thank you for this recommendation!
Carbohydrate and carbohydrate , fruit is different. Don’t forget it’s fructose no glucose
It’s not showing in blood glucose strips, it’s processed in the liver first,, nevertheless it’s sugar 😊❤
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Yeah for Grass Fed Burgers from Costco ❣️👏🏻
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Costco also carries 100% organic 100% grass fed ground beef
Please add roasted sesame and chia seeds, especially roasted black sesame, the best calcium enforcer; also dried fig fruit another great one 🌞🌞🌞🙏🙏🙏🌞🌞🌞
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Excellent Presentation, Great Advice!
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Great video.
Especially since I love prunes but gave them up as my glucose levels are a bit high. But this doctor says they are OK for glucose levels. Will eat them with yoghurt.
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My mom drank milk all her life. She lived 97 years with no osteoporosis problems.
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Curious why you recommend full fat yogurt? I eat organic nonfat plain greek yogurt every morning topped generously with raw nuts/seeds. The yogurt has 3g sugars (zero added sugars), 18g protein, 7g carbs. What benefit does the full fat yogurt provide?
The full fat dairy products are rich in vitamin k2 mk4.
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Full-fat animal products (over non-fat or reduced-fat) support brain health, as well as offering support for bone health.
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Regarding prunes - do you get the same benefit from just eating the plums? Is there a nutrient change once dried other than density? Also, most commercial dried fruit is high in sulfur due to preservatives (I am extremely allergic) but natural sulfur is an important building block, would the higher sulfur content contribute to the positive effects of prunes, if so would you get the same positive effects from organic plums dehydrated at home?
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Can't tolerate milk....gives me joint pain. Immunologist says it's an allergy ,( not lactose intolerance) No protein casien...also throws off gut balance....lighter fluid on inflammation. It's often overlooked or misdiagnosed
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Beef has a critical amino acid
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I purchase the organic prunes baby food jars. 1/2 jar a day is what my bowels will tolerate.
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Plum baby food makes great plum cake.
Thank you. That’s a great idea!
Thank you for making easy to follow 🙏
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The milk & meat! I do plenty of but will hafta buy the prunes.
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Bravo. Thanks so much
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great. thanks!!!
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Great info. Thanks.
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Why do you prefer full-fat dairy?
Does fish like perhaps salmon fit into the meat base protein?
I’m curious with this
Yes.
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I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and osteoporosis.. I am at a loss when it comes to animal protein.
@@Dr_DougLucas$25 a month is steep. I too wanted to know about seafood…
Thank you for this info packed video.
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Don't think I am going to start eating prunes and drinking milk, but I do love some aged Cheddar and real Parmesan. I have heard that breast cancer patients shouldn't consume dairy and soya products at all...is it true?
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Hey Dr. Doug! If one is getting all the essential amino acids from a vegan/vegetarian diet, how does it differ from an animal protein diet? Are the phytochemicals, etc which contribute to bone strength in meat?
Hi! Checkout the video on my channel called "Will Increasing Protein for Bone Health Cause other Health Problems? The Untold Benefits of Meat"
You recently advocated for the AlgeaCal supplements. If you take that, should you still add dairy and prunes to your daily diet? Is there such a thing as too much calcium and boron?
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I went full out on milk and milk products to increase bone density after my osteoporosis diagnosis and 2 years later my cholesterol is very high. How do I do this now that I need to lower my cholesterol?
Check out Dr. Westman on TH-cam for cholesterol.
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Did you have your bone density re-checked and did it go up?
@@organicladyhi, it went down, meaning worse, by 0.2%
@@darleneminchak-young597 oooh, that’s good to know. Thanks for the info.
I tried dairy, it just gave me horrible hot flashes and that ag1 dairy gave me horrible headaches and prunes gave me hot flashes because prunes have too much sugar raising blood sugars which raises body temperature
Thank you for sharing your experience
I am lactose intolerance, no dairy for me. I drink almond milk, coconut milk, soya milk.
Take lactose free dairy 🧈 milk.Noy fake milks.Just know so am I
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Thanks helpful info❤❤❤
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Why do the countries with the highest dairy intake have the highest osteoporosis rates?
Prunes are high in oxolates 😢
They may not be for everyone!
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Is prune juice helpful/ acceptable at least some of the time?
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Interesting. I have completely changed my diet since my osteoporosis diagnosis last year. I now consume a lot of Kefir, greek yogurt, take all sorts of supplements and strength train. However, my bone density has deteriorated by 5% according to my recent DEXA scan (same machine, not been calibrated since). I am confused!
Have you added animal protein?
@@jeannieevans4780 yes, in so far as dairy, eggs and fish are animal protein. I have trouble eating meat tho.
What about vitamins D3 and K2?
The dexa scan is misleading.
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Thankyou, yes... encouraging and helpful. I am on the right track, and shall continue! 🙂👍🤸♀️
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We just recently Made a friend who is giving us raw milk every week. I make Yogurt in my insta Yogurt yogurt in my instant pot From it. There are times When it doesn't firm up really Good and separates. I put The Straining and I get Loads of whey which we use And yogurt cheese which is absolutely delicious
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Please do some research on nettles infusions. High in most vitamins and minerals.
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Instead of prunes, could we just take a boron supplement. Also, would whey protein powder be a good substitute for eating animals since I am a vegetarian. Regarding protein, I have heard others say that too much protein acidifies the body causing the body to leach bone to reduce the acidity increasing fracture risk. Is there any basis to this?
Maybe you should listen to Dr. Ken Berry
No. It will not acidify your body. That`s a myth.
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My question too, since prunes are high in oxalates.
Good question
I'd love to take prunes but if I eat some, they give me diarrhoea after a while. I like them but it's a bit of a drag.
Me too, I wondered if the sulphates caused me issues too
Hi, thank you for sharing this.
Does collagen which is animal protein work if one supplements with it?
Onion?
What about dental health when it comes to eating prunes?
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What about people with CKD eating all this protein? Advice from neurologists and renal dietitians is to lower the protein content in your diet.
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DAIRY is my most important food group.
I had hyper parathyroid for 10 years. It destroyed my body. I couldn't take fosamax because of bone pain. I EXCERSISE 3 to 4 times a week 1 to 2 hours each session. Plus more at home and yoga.
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I feel alot stronger since eating more animal protein.
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Have read that Jarlsberg cheese increases P1NP. Interesting and eating lots now😋
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Challenging balancing increased CVD risk with bone health. Thinking of blue zones that eat very little meat...... as well
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! I respect everyones right to eat however they please but have created this channel to deliver evidence to our audience on topics related to women’s health, bone health and hormone health specifically. The evidence reviewed clearly demonstrates to me that a vegan diet does not benefit these conditions for most people
Also, checkout the youtube video on my channel called "FULL EPISODE: Netflix You Are What You Eat: Twins Study on The Dr. Doug Show" We go into that a little bit.
My gynecologist sd my parathyroid was high and it was causing calcium not to get to bones.she sent me to a specialist who wanted me to take drugs.i refused. im 69.im taking garden of life bone building vitamins.will get dexa in sept after 2 yrs
Are you taking Vit. K2MK7 which is vital to keeping calcium going where it needs to...your bones.
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Take k2 as trans mk-7. Life extension Super K has the right formula.
Love milk and everything dairy!
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Dig in love ❤️ it you got my attention
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Ground beef keeps my fingernails needing trimmed.
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Then other drs say that meat is the worst food for osteoporosis or health in general. It’s just so confusing…
I understand that it can be confusing when different doctors give conflicting advice. My focus in this video is specifically on delivering evidence to our audience on topics related to women’s health, bone health and hormone health specifically. Our clinical experience echoes the research on meat for bone health!
When you say "animal" protein, does that include chicken? Or does chicken go in with fish? And where are eggs, are they with meat? I don't eat my fellow mammals, but I will eat poultry and fish, and of course vegetable proteins.
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Sardines (with bones and skin) and eggs and whole dairy products are good sources of bone nutrients.
Well, that's a new one on me---prunes!?!?!?!😊 Thought that was for laxative 😮.
Haha, yes, prunes are often known for their laxative effect! 😊 But they’re also packed with nutrients!
How do you explain countries who eat and drink the most dairy having the highest rates of osteoporosis?
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This is where I get confused. There's a history of Alzheimers in my family, and so much research seems to support a plant based diet to slow cognitive decline. But then for bone health it's best to eat animal protein. So do I just have to decide what's more important, to prevent fractures or keep out of a memory care unit????
@@jclark645 carnivore to slow cognitive decline so do not worry about eating red meat 💯
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All of the information about a plant based diet for Alzheimer’s prevention is coming out of the 7th day adventist community. Their “science” should not be trusted. Do a search for Dr. Shawn Baker + Hal (can’t remember his last name. ) He runs memory care facilities in Arizona and has reversed some of his residents Alzheimer’s to the point that they could return home and take care of themselves - with diet!
Hormone replacement therapy will decrease both more than anything else. Please check Dr. Mary Claire Havers channel. She has amazing studies to prove there is no correlation between breast cancer and estrogen. In fact, they used to use estrogen to kill tumors. It has protective benefits as well :*)
I can only tolerate half and half and a small amount of whole mama so is half and half a good source of dairy
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A2 chocolate milk-Yowza!!
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Do you recommend all three categories together or one food group by itself work?
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Hi Dr. Doug - Have you heard of the latest Gigantic Discovery called C15 ?
Since we're globally deficient in it, could this C15 also help with bone density?
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I love dairy in the form of cheese and cottage cheese I do eat yogurt though I find it disgusting, I love love love prunes I also love raisins figs apricots dates, I eat animal proteins but I absolutely hate meat! I've cut back on red meat for health reasons but I do eat fish chicken and eggs not every day though, these days I've been eating more plant proteins because it's better for my overall health I feel better and to bring my liver enzymes down
But of course my main focus is increasing my bone density as well as building muscle
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@MariaBrinks25 You may want to try whole milk Kefir in smoothies with some fruit etc much more rich in nutrients probiotics and calcium than yogurt :))
Be careful with dried foods. Way too much sugar . In my opinion
The meds for osteoporosis - ask any DDS if they will extract a tooth??? They will not
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What about Canadian Cheddar Cheese?