Osteoporosis and bone health

Short summary of osteoporosis:

Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease characterized by the deterioration of the microarchitecture of bone tissue, and low bone mineral density. The disease affects 30 to 50 million people in the United States, 80 % of whom are women [1].

Image credit: Unsplash by cosmin4000. Normal bone on the right and osteoporosis bone on the right.

As you can see in the figure on the right, there is a loss of tissue, and structure of the bone.

Gluten is it really bad for you?

Endocomprehensive.blogspot.com provides a diagram with symptoms experienced by a patient. Gluten causes many problems, an issue that is prevalent in some people is called celiac disease, a condition in which eating gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley and rye, causes damage to the villi of the mucosa of the small intestine. The damage is caused by the body’s sensitivity to alpha gliadin in the gluten. In turn, an inflammatory response by the body occurs where white blood cells attack the villi of the small intestine. The symptoms can range from bleeding, osteomalacia, rickets, anemia to a list of other complications which depends on the severity of the disease.