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Pam Patient Expert

My special area of expertise is Osteoporosis and Osteopenia. I was diagnosed with it myself many years ago and set out to find some natural solutions. Now, many of the solutions I found or designed are hitting the mainstream so I'm very happy about that. Like everything else to do with health, our... Full Bio
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Resolutions for 2011 by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Well, I’ve been incredibly busy having a great time, which is part of my New Year’s Resolutions. I’m dancing NIA five days a week with an occasional weekend worksho ... Read on »
Resolutions for 2011 by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Well, I’ve been incredibly busy having a great time, which is part of my New Year’s Resolutions. I’m dancing NIA five days a week with an occasional weekend workshop ... Read on »
NPR Blows the Whistle on the Invention of Osteopenia by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis As I have been saying for years, osteopenia is a disease invented by drug companies to sell their drugs and NPR now has a very interesting article detailing the whol ... Read on »
Stay In Your Body by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I went through a seven day process to train as a White Belt in NIA dance a couple of weeks ago. It was intense! We were moving for a large part of the day and learni ... Read on »
Bone Drugs Linked to Broken Femur by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis The New York Times had an article on March 24 about bisphosphonate drugs being linked to the snapping of the femur bone in relatively young women. After 4 years ... Read on »
Older Women and Low Thyroid by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis To recap my thyroid challenges for new readers; I was first told I was hypothyroid a few years ago and put on Armour Thyroid. It worked for a while but then my body ... Read on »
Think of What You WANT, Not What You Don’t Want by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I think a key to living a life of joy is to notice our thoughts, especially as we get older. There are so many cultural group-thoughts that are fired at us all day l ... Read on »
Try Rebounding to Improve Bones by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis The health news today is that the experts have spoken and found that sitting is dangerous for your health. I actually said that in my last blog post. I’m ahead of th ... Read on »
May 2010 Be Your Best Year Ever by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I’m taking stock of the year in general and health in particular and 2009 was a keeper, a very good year for me. After talking at length to a woman on the phone yest ... Read on »
Drink Water, Breathe and Stay Alkaline by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I am doing so well healthwise but I realized that I am not drinking as much water now because it is winter.  A lot of warm or hot drinks like black tea or coffee don ... Read on »
Why do doctors prescribe drugs that are not good for us? by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis This is one of the first questions that women ask when I tell them that bisphosphonate drugs could be dangerous to their health. If the drugs were bad then their doctors ... Read on »
Hello Bone-Builders by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I am starting this blog to keep you posted on any new developments in the bone-strengthening arena. I will also post links here to articles in the press about the drug ... Read on »
Anti-depressants Decrease Bone Density by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis Certain anti-depressants, including Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil, have been found to decrease bone density and increase risk of falls. In the Archives of Internal Medicine, a ... Read on »
Reactions to Bone Drugs by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis I had a call from a woman who ordered a weight vest after trying Actonel. She only took it for two weeks because she had severe muscle pain after taking it. When she was a ... Read on »
Potassium Citrate for Osteopenia and Osteoporosis by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis A recent study from Switzerland that has been published in the October issue of the Journal of American Society of Nephrology, found that potassium citrate increased bone ... Read on »
Medical Schools Teaching Doctors to be Wary of Drug Reps by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis There has been a change in the way top medical professors have seen the constant attention paid to doctors by drug reps. The drug companies presents, free seminars and fre ... Read on »
More Dangerous Drugs for Osteoporosis by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis This is a great example of the brain-washing that we have all been subjected to by the drug companies. There was a news article yesterday headlined, "Depression can wea ... Read on »
Dentists refusing women who take Fosomax by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis It has been in the news lately that thousands of women who take the bisphosphanate drugs like Fosomax, have had bone death in the jaw after having minor dental surgery. Th ... Read on »
Done with blog reorganization by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis It seems that there is always something new to learn when you are involved in the Internet. My original blog software wasn’t working as well as I needed, so I bit the bull ... Read on »
Recipe for Green Soup by Pam Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Arthritis A customer asked me for the recipe for green soup that I mention on the Osteoporosis dvds so I’m going to start a recipe section in this blog. Although my recipes are not ... Read on »