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The Bone Density Myth: Understanding DEXA Scan Misconceptions · Revealing Wholeness with Dr.Troy

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Revealing Wholeness podcast dedicated to revealing the profound
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  Speaker 1: connections between body, mind, and spirit, where we believe that
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  Speaker 1: true wellness arises from addressing the root causes of our
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  Speaker 1: Now Here is doctor Troy.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome. I'm doctor Troy. There is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fear and concern around medical testing as it goes,
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  Speaker 2: but I had one of my patients call up today
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  Speaker 2: that was a bit more concerned than normal about her
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  Speaker 2: DEXA scan and very concerned about her osteoporosis or osteopenia
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  Speaker 2: and what it meant and all the issues that she
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  Speaker 2: was possibly going to have and all of the things
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  Speaker 2: that the scan and her doctor put in her mind.
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  Speaker 2: And while I suppose we should have some caution around
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  Speaker 2: bone health, what is more disturbing is this particular individual
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  Speaker 2: is a very slight build. She is under five feet tall,
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  Speaker 2: and so her DEXA scan, do we think that her
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  Speaker 2: bone density is going to look the same as somebody
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  Speaker 2: who is five to nine. No, not even close, and
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  Speaker 2: yet she was super concerned. And when we take a
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  Speaker 2: DEXA scan of somebody with a very slight build, we
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  Speaker 2: have to increase or rather add to the DEXA scan numbers,
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  Speaker 2: the T score and whatnot, at least one, if not
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  Speaker 2: sometimes one and a half. Even two may not be
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  Speaker 2: necessarily such a bad idea. And so when you have
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  Speaker 2: a woman of slight build and they're very concerned about
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  Speaker 2: osteoporosis and you add a legitimate one to their score
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  Speaker 2: and they're like, well, that's not so bad. Well indeed,
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  Speaker 2: but let's just for a moment talk about it, because
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  Speaker 2: the questions I asked her, I said, I said, what
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  Speaker 2: are you doing? And she goes, well, I'm working out,
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  Speaker 2: And they said working out and taking calcium should help,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, well it will. What were your last scans, Well,
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  Speaker 2: they're almost the same. I said, that's actually impressive that
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  Speaker 2: you've maintained bone density even in your sixties and working
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  Speaker 2: out and doing what you're doing. I think that's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I said, but when we add one to one point
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  Speaker 2: five year score, your numbers are near normal. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: they might be very slightly osteopenic but let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: as we grow older, we lose bone mass. Now density
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  Speaker 2: maybe not, but bone mass will affect density, and so
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  Speaker 2: just because our bones get a little thinner as we
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  Speaker 2: grow older doesn't mean that they get less strong. So
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  Speaker 2: it's why we want to at least discuss the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of resiliency as opposed to old brittle bone. So bone
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  Speaker 2: density in and of itself isn't the end all be
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  Speaker 2: all you can have of good density and very brittle bones.
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  Speaker 2: And they've shown that with the drugs that they give
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  Speaker 2: for osteoporosis, it tends to slow down the bone remodeling.
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  Speaker 2: So now they have density, but they have so many
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  Speaker 2: cracks that they end up breaking things even in a
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  Speaker 2: worse way. So let me explain. In our bones, we
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  Speaker 2: have these things called perilynks p y r i l
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  Speaker 2: i n ks perilynks. These perilynks, they tend to be
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  Speaker 2: the cross members that strengthen bone, kind of almost like scaffolding,
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  Speaker 2: if you will. Or like, oh, let's say that we
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  Speaker 2: have a building and we have these these studs, but
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  Speaker 2: within the studs we now put kind of like dividers,
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  Speaker 2: almost like a piece of two by four from one
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  Speaker 2: stud to another and then hammer them in or nail
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  Speaker 2: them in. That begins to give side strength as well
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  Speaker 2: as long way strength, if you will, or that the
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  Speaker 2: wall has strength all directions. And so these perilinks are
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  Speaker 2: three dimensional, walls are two dimensions. And so the peri
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  Speaker 2: links actually make the bone quite strong. And what builds
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  Speaker 2: these peri links is compression type exercises. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say compression like you mean like lifting heavy weights. Well, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean compression like shocking, like shock compression, like jumping,
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  Speaker 2: like jump rope. The opposite would be swimming. Oh I
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  Speaker 2: swim all the time to help my bone strength. Well,
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  Speaker 2: good luck with that. That is if you've got lots
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  Speaker 2: of resistance and you're pushing water and really pushing hard. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of like lifting weights, and that will be helpful,
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  Speaker 2: but it isn't the shock of the test of the
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  Speaker 2: brittleness of a bone. By making it respond to jumping,
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  Speaker 2: shock compressions, and so in doing that, you actually have
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  Speaker 2: bones that are more resilient, even though they may not
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  Speaker 2: increase density. So as you move forward in your life,
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  Speaker 2: if you're out there thinking, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: osteoporotic or osteopenic. I want to have good thick bones. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 2: make sure you're doing something that is compressive type exercises,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's climbing up and down mountains, which would be excellent,
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  Speaker 2: a stair climber, or just simply climbing stairs. Jump rope
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  Speaker 2: is by far some of the best, and it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: take much. Every time we do anything, whether it's hop
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  Speaker 2: off a step or oh, sit down kind of hard
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  Speaker 2: in a chair, or simply just pound the pavement or
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  Speaker 2: run or jog or what have you, we're creating little
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  Speaker 2: microfractures in the bone. Well, microfractures. That's not good. Well,
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  Speaker 2: yes and no. Those microfractures actually stimulate the bone to
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  Speaker 2: become stronger, but they also get repaired as we remodel bone,
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  Speaker 2: and if the bone is under undue stress, it actually
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  Speaker 2: tries to pull in more calcium and help strengthen it.
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't get that micro those microfractures as much,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still going to have microfractures. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: I'm standing here doing this podcast, I'm probably getting some
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  Speaker 2: microfractures on my bone. Well how many cells in our
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  Speaker 2: bone I don't know, but it's probably a lot. If
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  Speaker 2: there's seventy trillion cells in the body, and the bone
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  Speaker 2: makes up a fair percentage of how many cells are
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  Speaker 2: in the body, then we could expect let's say each
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  Speaker 2: bone to have a half a million cells. Well, let's
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  Speaker 2: say that you have oh ten microfractures a day, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 2: in a year, that's three thousand microfractures amongst five hundred
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  Speaker 2: million cells. Well, if the bone remodels every day, it's remodeling,
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  Speaker 2: and every seven years you have a brand new skeleton,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're going to be okay here. But the
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  Speaker 2: more microfractures you have, and the harder you are on
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  Speaker 2: your bone, the more calcium it's going to know that
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  Speaker 2: it needs, and the stronger going to want to be,
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  Speaker 2: the more resilient it's going to be in the more
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  Speaker 2: perilinks it's good to form. So with that, just know
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  Speaker 2: that as you age, yes, your bones do get thinner,
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  Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean that they're any weaker. They get
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  Speaker 2: just as stronger. They're just as really resilient to the
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  Speaker 2: pressure that you're putting on them. Now, could we help
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  Speaker 2: by doing some bone formulas that are natural, that are
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  Speaker 2: not heated and destroyed and actually help the bone do
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  Speaker 2: its job. Yes, we could do that. Could we do
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  Speaker 2: vitamin K two to increase bone density via hormone stimulation
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  Speaker 2: and help keep our bone strong. Yes, the research is
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  Speaker 2: out and proves it. Could we do vitamin D and
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  Speaker 2: calcium as well to try to pull calcium through the
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  Speaker 2: gut wall make sure that we have plenty in our
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  Speaker 2: blood and so that we can make our bones more healthy.
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  Speaker 2: Yes we could. Could we do trace minerals that would
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  Speaker 2: indeed help our bones, Yes we could. Could we do
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  Speaker 2: protein and work on our digestion, which would at least
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  Speaker 2: have available the amino acids that the bone needs to
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  Speaker 2: repair because bones have a lot of protein, Yes we could.
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  Speaker 2: Could we make our own bone broth? Absolutely we could.
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  Speaker 2: Could we buy it? I'm not so sure buying it's
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  Speaker 2: such a great idea. Stay tuned because I plan on
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  Speaker 2: at least talking a bit more and more about bone
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  Speaker 2: broth and the possibility that there may be hormones and
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  Speaker 2: most commercial bone broth that you may not want to
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  Speaker 2: put in your body, But making your own is quite
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  Speaker 2: acceptable because you'll know what you put in it, and
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  Speaker 2: you'll know the bones that you use. So until next time,
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  Speaker 2: I hope that was helpful. I hope it kind of
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  Speaker 2: alleviates some stress. I hope you added one to your
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  Speaker 2: Dexis scan. If you're slight of build, and if you're
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  Speaker 2: of normal build, let's say the average five seven to
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  Speaker 2: five nine woman, and you are, you know, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty hundred and seventy hundred and eighty pounds, and
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  Speaker 2: you've bend that way for a while, and your Dexis
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  Speaker 2: scan doesn't look so good. You may be wanting to
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  Speaker 2: do some more with your bones that is a bit better.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're looking for guidance, I would love to
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  Speaker 2: help you do that. Until next time, I'm doctor Troy,
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  Speaker 2: and remember there is way more right with you than
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  Speaker 2: there is wrong with you.
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  Speaker 1: The information on this podcast from doctor Troy Munson is
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  Speaker 1: meant to educate the listener on a variety of health issues.
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  Speaker 1: It is not meant to diagnose or treat any conditions.