Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel + 30-Minute Health Coaching

Minimizing Loss of Bone Density and Preventing Fractures from Osteoporosis

Functional Lab Test to be Done at Home

Bone turnover is a process that takes place throughout our lifetimes. It is a delicate balance between bone formation and breakdown.

The Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel offers an objective way to monitor the efficacy of bone loss treatment strategies, including correction of hormonal abnormalities, vitamin and mineral supplementation, dietary and lifestyle changes, and/or pharmacologic interventions.

Why is it Important to Test Your Bone Health?

Osteoporosis can affect you and your loved ones in several ways:

1. One in three women and one in five men over 50 will experience an osteoporotic fracture worldwide.
2. People suffering from a hip fracture have a 20% or greater risk of dying the following year.
3. One in three adults who lived independently before a hip fracture remains in a nursing home for at least a year after injury

Bone aging leads to osteoporosis, which results in bone thinning and, more importantly, bone fragility. However, more people have mild bone loss in the osteopenia stage. If you start to work on your bones at this stage, you may slow down the arrival of osteoporosis.

Risk for Osteopenia or Osteoporosis?

How Does Bone Loss Affect Your Health?

Osteoporosis can affect you in several ways:

• Around the onset of menopause, bone turnover tilts in favor of bone breakdown.
• Middle-aged and elderly people lose a few inches of their height due to osteoporosis.
• Many older people are prone to hip fractures secondary to osteoporosis.
• There are over 1.5 million bone fractures at various body sites due to brittle bones.

The biomarkers assessed by the Bone Health Panel provide valuable data for people who may be at risk for osteopenia or osteoporosis.

What is Bone Aging?

Bone turnover is a process that takes place throughout our lifetimes. It is a delicate balance between bone formation and breakdown.

In childhood and early adulthood, the process strongly favors bone formation, which continues up to the age of 20 to 30 years. From then on, there is a gradual thinning and loss of bone with age.

Around the onset of menopause, bone turnover tilts in favor of bone breakdown. This is due to the persistent imbalance or decline in estrogen, progesterone, and other hormones.

Bone aging leads to osteoporosis, which results in bone thinning and, more importantly, bone fragility.

How Does it Affect Your Health?

How is an Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel Used?

Key bone biomarkers in urine to assess the health of your bones.

The biomarkers assessed by the Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel provide valuable data for patients who may be at risk for osteopenia or osteoporosis. It can detect decreases in bone density early, allowing intervention before acute symptoms appear.

Monitor Your Bone Loss

The Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel offers an objective way to monitor the efficacy of bone loss treatment strategies, including correction of hormonal abnormalities, vitamin and mineral supplementation, dietary and lifestyle changes, and/or pharmacologic interventions.

It can detect decreases in bone density early, allowing intervention before acute symptoms appear. This contrasts with traditional screening, which involves X-ray radiation or blood draws and is only done every 18 months.

Why Use a Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel?

• In saliva, the active (free) form of each hormone is measured
• Pyrilinks-D is a bone metabolism marker found in urine
• Saliva and urine samples can be conveniently collected in your home
• The collection is painless and noninvasive

Measures 7 Different Hormones through Saliva and Urine

Key bone biomarkers in urine are used to assess the health of your bones, thus minimizing loss of density and preventing fractures.

How can Dr. Brown’s Bone Health Panel be of use to you?

• Screen for osteoporosis in conjunction with bone densitometry.
• As a follow-up test to monitor the bone response in hormone replacement therapy and/or osteoporosis treatment Naturopathic treatment protocols.

Review the Bone Health Panel Brochure here.

How To Order Today?

Order a test from our Store with a 30-Minute Consultation, and we’ll email the results from Diagnostic Tech Labs. You can also order just the test.

Contact me for a comprehensive naturopathic consultation and determine what Functional Medicine tests might be right for you at 719-423-0306.

*All facts and statistics are based on research studies cited by the International Osteoporosis Foundation www.iofbonehealth.org/facts-statistics 

Osteoporosis Bone Health Panel