Royal Osteoporosis Society

So I generally fall along the lines of increasing calcium intake by an additional portion of particularly calcium-rich food a day, and that's particularly important if you're taking medications to help to treat your osteoporosis.

So the Royal Osteoporosis Society in the UK does recommend increasing calcium to 1,000 milligrams per day if you're diagnosed with osteoporosis and on medication.

But I think that that's quite a helpful thing for anyone diagnosed with that bone disease to do, is to up that calcium intake a little bit.

Your doctor might also prescribe a higher dose of vitamin D to help calcium to be absorbed better, so it's about, again, being intentional and having a good routine with vitamin D supplementation to support you as well.

Do some resistance exercise to keep your bones strong.

Have I just made another assumption? I actually looked at the Royal Osteoporosis Society website, and it suggests do both impact and strength exercises, and some balance exercises so you don't fall over.

As the BMJ paper explains, there's actually wide variation in what national guidelines, so I don't just mean UK, I mean national guidelines in many countries around the world, recommend.

And it also suggests that clinicians are a bit reluctant to suggest exercise in older people, so people over the age of 60.

One day he called me up and he said, hey, Keith, you know, I can't go to NIH this weekend to meet with Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.

She's the president of the Royal Osteoporosis Society and her sidekick, Prince Charles.

I can't go to meet with them, but would you mind stepping in for me? And so I, you know, even though osteoporosis was very, very devastating to me, it's also done a lot for me as far as allowing me to meet with different people.

My world is so much bigger because of it.