Osteoporosis is a marked difference with decreasing bone mass in a progressive or quickly. Decreased bone mass is causing bones to become thin and weak. So no wonder when the people who have severe osteoporosis, which will be easily fracture without any clear reason.

Normal bone was formed by a protein called collagen and the mineral calcium. Osteoporosis caused the vacuum deposit collagen and calcium in the bones. So that the process of the formation of a layer of bone does not take place while the depletion rate.

In normal bone formation process always happens and the depletion bone continuously. This aims to maintain bone mass that is not too heavy so as not to disrupt the process of movement. As I mentioned above, on osteoporosis, the process of formation does not occur while the depletion takes place continuously.

Thin bones that will be very weak and easily broken with the impact that even light. In normal bone, impact this will not lead to what is, while on osteoporosis causes a severe fracture. Almost all the bones have this included rib, pelvis and wrist.

Although osteoporosis can attack the men and women, but most people with osteoporosis are women who have been off. It is believed that the hormone estrogen is a material that is very important in maintaining bone mass. Now, in the women off, the production of this hormone are reduced so that the speed reduction in the occurrence of bone mass. Without effective prevention, a woman can lose 20 - 30% mass tulangnya in 10 years to enter the first period off. The process of osteoporosis can progress in a quiet and silent in a long time. Not a few women who ignore this because they really do not feel any, symptoms until the occurrence of fracture caused by a mild trauma.

According to research in the United States, more than 20 million people suffer from osteoporosis, and 1.3 million of them experienced symptoms of broken bones. How to Indonesia? Until this second I have not found enough data.

The main objective treatment to prevent osteoporosis is a fracture with the bone mass to stop the reduction and increase bone mass and strength.

Osteoporosis prevention and treatment among the dietary food, stop bad habits such as smoking and alcohol consumption, exercise regularly, consume enough calcium and vitamin D, hormone replacement therapy with estrogen in the women off drugs and medicines such as aledronate, etidronate or kalsitonin. Medicinal drugs, which I mentioned last will reduce the dilution of bones.