The Ultimate 3-Step Approach to Reversing Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis is one of the most prevalent “diseases” of recent years, heavily exploited by the food industry and Big Pharma to profit at the expense of people.
Let’s create a quick and easy-to-understand “Vademecum” to serve as a guide in case you, a relative, or a friend experience such issues.
Osteoporosis is simply the demineralization of bones, making them fragile, prone to fractures, and leading to a host of other problems.
In reality, osteoporosis is not a “disease” at all, but rather the natural consequence of straying from the Paleo lifestyle and diet, for which our DNA is designed.
Let’s explore the three pillars for reversing osteoporosis and regaining strong bones and teeth (even in old age), akin to our ancestors or current hunter-gatherer tribes.
- Acid-Base Balance
Unlike our ancestral diet, the modern Neolithic diet is completely acidic.
While the acidity from meat in the Paleo diet is naturally balanced by generous servings of vegetables, fruits, and alkaline water (refer to Claudio Tozzi’s enlightening articles on this topic), the Neolithic diet consists entirely of acidic foods:
- Breakfast: cappuccino and croissant
- Lunch: pasta with sauce
- Dinner: a slice of meat, bread, and cheese
- Various snacks made of refined sugars, fried chips, etc.
You’ll often encounter so-called “experts” (both among “doctors” and nutritionists) who are against alkaline supplementation, claiming that “the body can naturally buffer and manage acidity.”
While, in theory, this might be true, these enthusiasts of “natural remedies” forget a fundamental point: the body is indeed designed to buffer occasional excess acidity due to diet, but only the excesses that come from a Paleo diet, which is what the body expects.
To put it simply, the bicarbonates in Grok’s blood can absolutely handle a meal of antelope and the rare roots every now and then, no problem.
What they are not programmed to do, especially after the age of 40 when those bicarbonates in the blood start to diminish rapidly, is to continuously buffer the extreme acidity that comes with every single meal in a Neolithic diet.
To make a parallel even the most brainless “anti-alkaline supplementation” advocate can understand, the acid-base balance for our body is absolutely manageable, much like the issue with insulin.
Our body can certainly handle a one-time insulin spike triggered by an excess of carbs and sugars.
If, once in a while, we overindulge in pasta with sardines and finish the meal with a large slice of tiramisu, our body copes, gives itself a little shake, and soon it’s good as new.
The problem arises when we live our whole life, 24/7, immersed in a sugar bath (making insulin management impossible) and/or in an acidic bath (making pH balance equally unmanageable).
You don’t need to be a genius to understand this.
If after 40-50 years of a Neolithic diet, your body, from constantly managing insulin excess, ends up with metabolic syndrome, leaving you obese, with pills for your heart, blood pressure, diabetes, and close to a heart attack, similarly, after decades of reckless eating, you simultaneously end up in chronic acidosis.
Entering this state of excessive acidosis, especially as you age, your body no longer has the necessary bicarbonates in the blood to buffer the acidity.
So, to avoid succumbing, besides “encasing” the excess acid with fat and water (giving you that lovely flabby, bloated look, similar to a liquid-covered elementary school pencil case, with common side effects including water retention and especially the dreaded “cellulite”), your body starts recruiting “bicarbonates” from elsewhere.
And guess where it gets them from? The only available source: by demineralizing (dissolving) your bones, teeth, hair, and nails.
So, your body, in an attempt to avoid succumbing to acidity, adapts as best it can by cannibalizing your bones in the hope that maybe you’ll come to your senses and stop eating junk food.
Unfortunately for your body, your brain often doesn’t get the message, and the average person keeps consuming acidic foods until their bones turn into a sieve, breaking from all the “holes” created.
Summary: Eating Paleo provides all the “calcium” you need. However, it is essential to ensure you maintain acid-base balance with generous amounts of fruits, vegetables, and especially alkaline water.
Only fruits and vegetables often aren’t enough for two fundamental reasons:
- Our ancestors drank from alkaline lakes. We are designed to drink alkaline water in addition to consuming alkaline foods.
- Modern society is a constant source of stress, unlike the distant past, which triggers acidosis. Therefore, an additional alkaline profile is now more necessary than ever.
IMPORTANT: Milk and dairy products are NOT sources of calcium. Their highly acidic profile actually worsens bone health after consumption because they cause your body to “dissolve” bones to counteract the acidity they create.
Moreover, recent research shows that the calcium in milk and dairy products is not bioavailable to humans. Period.
- Vitamin D Deficiency
The health of our bones largely depends on the correct amount of Vitamin D, which activates the proteins and enzymes responsible for depositing calcium in the bones.
The problem is that Grok, our ancestor, was designed to live shirtless in the tropical-equatorial savanna, not wrapped in clothes and indoors in countries where several months of the year are unbearably cold if we were naked.
An hour of full sun produces about 10,000 IU of Vitamin D, and a Florida lifeguard has a serum level of around 120. The European average is 9.
Therefore, we are in a situation of massive Vitamin D deficiency, which must be compensated for with oral supplementation.
- Vitamin K2 Deficiency
The “twin” of Vitamin D is the somewhat lesser-known Vitamin K2.
When you take Vitamin D, your body rapidly creates a large number of proteins that depend on Vitamin K2. These proteins are the ones that “move” calcium around, depositing it in bones, teeth, and so on.
These proteins have an enormous potential for health benefits, but the issue is that if sufficient Vitamin K2 isn’t available to “activate” them, they simply remain “silent” and don’t perform their intended functions.
So, if you’re taking Vitamin D, you’re creating a strong demand in your body for its “twin,” K2.
Vitamin D and K2 work TOGETHER for two essential functions:
- Improving heart health
- Strengthening skeletal health
IMPORTANT: Many doctors and nutritionists recommend “milk and dairy products” for calcium. Let’s leave that aside.
However, there are also those who recommend calcium supplements and/or Vitamin D.
Research shows that this type of supplementation can lead (in individuals who are already sick, weakened, and predisposed) to cases of heart attack and kidney problems.
This raises the question of whether Vitamin D is toxic due to these “calcification” effects in the body, but the question itself is wrong.
Vitamin D is not toxic in virtually any quantity, but for the reasons explained earlier, it creates a significant need for its twin, K2. If this need isn’t met, calcium remains “in circulation” and risks depositing in the arteries, causing heart attacks, and in the kidneys, leading to kidney stones, kidney blockage, and so on.
The most severe issue arises when Vitamin D and calcium are taken together without the crucial K2, which exacerbates the above effects.
K2 is responsible for activating those proteins and enzymes that “put calcium in its place.”
K2 cannot “activate” without D, and D cannot complete its task without K2. They are “twins” and must work together. Clear?
IMPORTANT: Now, of course, the usual clueless folks will say, “But Grok didn’t have K2 supplements!”
Well done, genius. Exactly, Grok didn’t need them because K2 is abundantly found in grass-fed meat (and yes, vegetarians and vegans, sorry, but you’re completely missing the mark here. You’ve been sold nonsense about putrescine and cadaverine, and you continue in your ignorance).
However, if you can’t eat grass-fed meat, then oral supplementation becomes necessary.
SUMMARY: To reverse osteoporosis, you need to meticulously recreate three conditions:
- Acid-base balance
- Vitamin D intake to maintain a serum level between 80 and 120
- K2 intake at a ratio of 100mcg for every 1000 IU of Vitamin D taken
QUESTION: “If Paleo is so good, why do I need all these supplements?”
ANSWER: In reality, you don’t need to supplement if you’re truly following the Paleo lifestyle. But “doing Paleo” means living near an alkaline lake to drink from, being shirtless under the blazing sun every day without sunscreen, not stressing about work, bills, the bank, or an annoying partner, and hunting your own antelope, rich in that coveted K2.
If you can’t meet these requirements, then you need supplements to “simulate” those conditions as closely as possible.
Obviously, and I say this for those who might not get it, this kind of supplementation is EVEN MORE NECESSARY for those on the “Mediterranean” diet of cappuccino and brioche & pasta with sauce, or for those following a vegetarian or vegan regimen, and so on.
So, what’s the takeaway here? Use your food wisely.
Your body is a reflection of what you consume, and making the right choices can mean the difference between thriving and merely surviving. Remember, the power to heal and maintain your health lies in your hands—or rather, on your plate.
Let food heal you, or medicine will feed you.