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Guestbooks - An exciting addition to Inspire

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted May 20, 2009
  • Journal · 22 recommendations
  • Hello everyone, We're writing to let you know about a great new feature we'll be adding to Inspire in the very near future: guestbooks. This is a feature that many of you have requested, and we're very ...

Inspire members featured

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
  • Journal · 9 recommendations
  • Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...

Vitamin D 50,000 iu Daily

LRFL
  • By LRFL · Posted August 15, 2009
  • Discussion in Vitamins and supplements · 5 recommendations
  • I just found my D levels are very low (23) My doctor prescribed 50,000 iu of Vitamin D daily for 3 months and then I will be tested again. I questioned her to make sure she said daily, every where I looked ...

New study on immune system and osteo

SantaFe
  • By SantaFe · Posted September 7, 2009
  • Discussion in Osteoporosis/Osteopenia treatment · 4 recommendations
  • This is an interesting new study---I posted the whole thing because the link wouldn't work. It correlates high LDL with RANKL which has a sole purpose to destroy bone. Also, the immune system plays a ...

More on Bisphosphonates

millie123
  • By millie123 · Posted October 22, 2009
  • Journal · 2 recommendations
  • This is actually an older article, published in the McDougall Newsletter in April of 2008. You can find the complete references by going to the link: http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2008nl/a pr/osteo.htm ...

Too much Acidity of the body being one of the problems?

LindaSS
  • By LindaSS · Posted October 16, 2009
  • Discussion in Vitamins and supplements · 1 recommendation
  • I've seen other posts in this site about acidity being possibly one of the contributors to osteoporisis. I'm new, I'm trying to get as much info from experienced people here as I can. I read the following ...

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