New German Medicine and osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, is a seemingly perplexing condition, it is higher in western cultures that has a higher calcium intake than many other cultures that have lower incidents of osteoporosis. Why? We now have the answer and its very simple.
Case history: male 80 years old fell out of a tree, broke his hip, femur, ankle, and wrist. X-rays showed general osteoporosis. Years before, the patient had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and he had suffered a terrible shock with the bad news. He attempted to commit suicide. The cancer "spread" to his lungs.
In addition to the shock, he suffered a very profound sense of self-devaluation. He thought he was not worth anything anymore, he felt that he was just a burden to his family. This self devaluation is the cause of osteoporosis.
In many cultures the elderly are valued for their help and wisdom they can provide. They often help raise the grandchildren, help out around the house, and keep a garden, they feel needed and useful.
I worked with the patient, his lung cancer went into remission, his prostate had already been removed and his bones began to ache ( this occurs in the healing stage). X-rays showed recalcification and the MD thought he was getting multiple osteosarcomas. I reassured the patient that the MD probably has never seen osteoporosis heal, and that the "osteosarcomas" may be a misdiagnosis since the sarcomas had grown with-in the bone and was not growing beyond the normal structure of the bone. The MD was observing callus and mistaking it for the beginning of a sarcoma.
4 years later the callus still shows on the x-rays, it has not spread and the patient says he feels better that when he was 60. His bone density is normal.