Meet Karen. She is a 62-year-old housewife from Calgary. Unlike most of my customer case study articles, Karen is not a customer. However, he successfully reversed osteoporosis by following my methodology, which I describe in my book, Secrets to reversing osteoporosis.
Karen has always been very active, but still, still broke a bone while ice skating. A year later, he was diagnosed with osteoporosis.
She didn’t want to take medication, so she bought my book, followed the advice there, and was able to deal with her osteoporosis.
In this article, we will cover:
- Karen’s life before her osteoporosis diagnosis.
- What did he do to reverse osteoporosis?
- The results – what her T score was before and what it is now.
- How different her life is now that she no longer has osteoporosis.
- What improvements would I have made?
If you want to see her tell her own story, she breaks it down in this 8-minute video:
And if you want help reversing your own osteoporosis/osteopenia, we have a special program that combines exercise, diet and supplements called the “Osteoporosis Reversal Program.” Want to see if this program is for you? Simply fill out the application form on our home page.
Karen’s life before Osteoporosis
Many women are surprised when they receive the diagnosis of osteoporosis. After all, they think they are activeAnd they eat healthy. How could this happen to them?
This was similar to Karen’s case – minus the surprise. They were very active indeed. She ran for 30 years and also enjoyed hiking, biking, downhill skiing and ice skating. He also ate pretty healthy.
But for her, the osteoporosis diagnosis was no surprise, since she had a family history from this.
Knowing she had the family history, she tried a few things to prevent it, including:
- Calcium, magnesium and vitamin D intake.
- She did weight training – just as the doctors recommend.
- He even wore a weighted vest.
…and still, he broke a bone and a year later, he was diagnosed with osteoporosis. So none of these “best practices” did any good. It doesn’t surprise me, because inside my book explain because calcium, vitamin D and weight bearing exercise don’t work.
Unwilling to take medication, she went to Amazon to see if there were any books available on reversing osteoporosis without medication. He saw that my book was highly ranked and had many scientific studies, so he bought it, read it, and implemented it.
Exercise, diet and supplements reversed Karen’s osteoporosis
The single the most important nutrient for osteoporosis it’s not actually calcium or vitamin D, but protein. Most people with osteoporosis only get about 20-40% of their required protein. So she upped her protein significantly and started eating a lot more meat – chicken, turkey, beef and pork.
He also took a supplement with 60 mcg of vitamin K2as type I collagen.
Finally, for exercise, he did deadlifts, back extensions, good morning and others. These exercises are directly for improvement in lumbar spine, femoral neck and total hip T-score.
But as I mention in many of my articles, the “secret sauce” of a program isn’t the exercises themselves—it’s the progress model.
And Karen executed beautifully. She will choose a weight that was challenging – it’s not easy. He would do many sets of 5 reps with it, and in some workouts, he would go up to 12 reps. Once he did 12 reps, he didn’t continue to increase the reps, but instead added weight and dropped to 5 reps.
Karen’s results
Nice methods, but The end results are better. What were the results of Karen’s efforts? Extremely impressive.
- She started her deadlifts with such a light weight that her daughter’s boyfriend made fun of her. They asked if these weights are for her pinky. He started with just 10 kilos. Over the next 2 years, he worked to 50 pounds. Her daughter’s friend doesn’t make fun of her anymore 😊
- T’s score improved very impressively:
- Before:
- Lumbar spine: -2.6
- Femoral neck: -1.3
- Total hip: -1.9
- 2 years later:
- Lumbar spine: -1.5
- Femoral Neck: -1.0
- Total hip: -1.5
- More important even than bone density was the risk of fracture. At the time of diagnosis, Her fracture risk was moderate. Now it’s low.
- Before:
How Karen’s life is different now
How different is Karen’s life now that her bones are significantly stronger? Quite essentially.
- Now she can enjoy the outdoor activities she enjoys without worrying too much about breaking a bone. Hiking, biking, ice skating, downhill skiing, etc. they are not a problem.
- Her daughter’s friend doesn’t make fun of her anymore 😊
- She helped her daughter move a week ago, which involved lifting and moving furniture, boxes, etc. Not only did he do a great job, but he didn’t even have any muscle soreness afterwards.
Overall, I am very proud of Karen’s determination, work ethic and progress.
What would I do differently?
Before Karen emailed me her progress report, I had never met her, so I didn’t have the opportunity to give personalized advice.
As good as her results were (and make no mistake – her results are very impressive), if either I or one of my team members were working with her one-on-one, we would have done a few things differently:
- We would have she progressed her strengthening exercises a little faster. Going from 10 lbs to 50 lbs in 2 years is pretty cool. But chances are we could have gotten there in 6-9 months if we monitored her training and made sure her technique stayed good at the heavier weights.
- we would have incorporated jumping exercises. In her case, immediately. But if her T-scores were significantly worse, we would wait 6-9 months to start jumping exercise progressions.
- We would have completed it collagen type 1 and/or soy isoflavones.
Regardless, I am very impressed with Karen’s progress and look forward to seeing how much more progress she makes in the coming years.
If you want help reversing your own osteoporosis/osteopenia, we have a special program that combines exercise, diet and supplements called the “Osteoporosis Reversal Program”. Want to see if this program is for you? Simply fill out the application form on our home page.
