About half of all osteoporosis-related fractures occur in the vertebrae. The initial treatment is usually a back brace and pain medication. If a patient is still in pain after several weeks, there are procedures to stabilize a damaged vertebra.
In your article on blood sugar control, you kept talking about hemoglobin A1c. I measure my blood sugar all the time, but my meter doesn’t have a setting for a percentage reading. Is there a simple connection between blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c?
Lower levels of testosterone may correlate with a higher risk of heart disease, but taking a testosterone supplement may also increase the risk of prostate cancer and reduce beneficial HDL cholesterol.
Boosting HDL cholesterol is more beneficial to the body than lowering LDL. Lifestyle changes such as exercising and eating more carefully are harder to accomplish than taking a statin, but produce better results with regard to raising HDL.