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Dried Plums – A Natural Way to Reverse Bone Loss and Osteoporosis

August 24, 2011 by Dr. Henley 1 Comment

two plums

dried plums may reverse bone loss

Are you looking for natural ways to boost your body’s bone-building capacity?

The answer may be inside a dried, wrinkled fruit…

Natural treatments for osteoporosis

Bone loss accelerates after menopause, which puts millions of American women at risk for hip, spine, and wrist fractures.

More women are looking for ways to modify their lifestyle and diet to prevent bone loss. Drug treatment can have side effects and be very expensive over the long term.

A new study on prune therapy for bone loss

Researchers at Florida State University recently conducted a study which found that patients who ate prunes had a higher bone density than other patients in the study.

The study was conducted by Dr. Arjmandi, a faculty member of the department of nutrition, food and exercise sciences. His previous research demonstrated bone-boosting effects of dried plums in a rat model.

Arjmandi’s goal is to isolate the compounds responsible for the bone building effect and create a supplemental solution for the treatment of osteoporosis.

How dried plums work to reverse bone loss

In multiple studies, the researchers found that dried plums result in the following effects:

  • increased bone density
  • decreased bone turnover (natural variation of bone density)
  • restoration of strong bone structure
  • reversal of bone loss that occurs during bedrest
  • increased blood markers of bone formation

In the recently performed clinical study on postmenopausal women, patients ate 9 or 10 prunes per day, supplemented with vitamin D and calcium.

For more information on this research

These links contain more information on prune research and osteoporosis (bone loss).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21736808

http://fsu.edu/news/2007/01/11/osteoporosis.study/

Filed Under: bone health

Comments

  1. DOUG CONNORS says

    January 11, 2012 at 10:53 AM

    THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION,I HAVE NOT HAD MY BONE DENSITY TESTED YET BUT HAVE BONE PAIN IN MY LEFT ARM THAT I BELIEVE IS FROM TAKING EFFEXOR XR FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS ( I ALSO HAVE OTHER ASSOCIATED SIDE EFFECTS ).I AM SEVENTY YEARS OLD THE BONE PAIN STARTED WHEN I SAWED SEVEN CORDS OF 8FT. LENGTHS OF FIREWOOD (WITH A POWER SAW )ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO . IT TOOK ME FIVE DAYS BUT THERE WAS HEAVY LIFTING . I AM IN THE PROCESS OF STOPPING THE EFFEXOR XR (75mg) . IT IS HOPED THAT YOUR INFORMATION WILL HELP CORRECT AT LEAST ONE OF THE EFFEXOR XR CURSES .YOUR FRIEND DOUG CONNORS

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