bone balance

[Lion321]

has anyone heard of bonebalance and have any feedback on this product?

I’ve just started using it for bone health. It’s in powder form and you add it to drinks yogurts etc.

it would good to know if it’s helped anyone with their bone health. I’ve developed osteopenia due to ADT.

[Poowater]

I would ask your oncologist for Xgeva (known as Denusomab). It will help to overcome osteopenia. What is your ALP blood test results? If high it will come down to normal.

[Lion321 in reply to Poowater]

All blood results were normal. Didn’t pick it up untill I had a back b problem went for a Dexa scan and I had fractured my spine.

[Grandpa4 in reply to Lion321]

if you had a fracture then we call it osteoporosis not osteopenia. You should start therapy with either a bisphosphonate or Denosamab. The latter is better at increasing bone density over time and apparently is better and inhibiting bone metastases from prostate cancer. Things light calcium or bone powders have very small effects if any.

[Tall_Allen]

Be careful about overloading on calcium.

[HikerWife in reply to Tall_Allen]

Hi - my husband was recommended to take 1200md calcium with vitamin D3 when he started ADT. (There is a study showing benefit to bones with this supplementation: urotoday.com/journal/everyd.... My question is whether 'overloading on calcium' would show up on routine bloodwork? Thanks for your help.

[Tall_Allen in reply to HikerWife]

When Vitamin D and Calcium supplementation were tried in several large randomized clinical trials, they both failed to increase bone mineral density (BMD). In fact, excess Vitamin D has been found to pull calcium out of bone, causing osteopenia. See the section titled "No Effect or Negative Effect on Bone Mineral Density" in the article below:

prostatecancer.news/2018/07...

Excess calcium is unsafe. Aside from the fact that it doesn't improve BMD, it has been implicated in PCa progression:

aacrjournals.org/cebp/artic...

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

Excess calcium has also been found to adversely affect cardiovascular and kidney health.

[HikerWife in reply to Tall_Allen]

Thanks. Reading to do. Much appreciated.

[tango65]

What was the T value in the vertebral bodies, the femur in the dexa scan?

If you have spontaneous vertebral fractures, you may have osteoporosis and you need treatment with zoledronic acid or denosumab.

If you have osteoporosis forget about supplements, except for small amount of calcium and vitamin D to maintain normal calcium and vitamin D blood levels.

[London441]

How much do you exercise and what kind?

[NecessarilySo]

I recently reversed my osteoprosis dexascan rating to osteopenia rating with Prolia injections every 6 months and 5k/day D3.