Prevention and treatment of osteoporosis: a missing factor for full efficacy in restoring the skeleton and eliminating the risk of fragility fractures

Anthony Sebastian, Lynda Frassetto

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This article reviews an hypothesis we put forward in 2005,1, 2 and refined in 2007,3 2015,4 and 2016.5 We hypothesized that to fully restore osteoporotic bone to its pre-osteopenic state, and eliminate the risk of osteoporotic fragility fractures, requires replenishing the base (alkali) reservoir of the skeleton by providing a net base load to the body, preferably by having the patients consume a net base-producing, subclinical metabolic alkalosis-producing, protein-rich diet.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18103/imr.v3i6.464

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