A reader recently wrote to ask me if I had taken a Dexascan to prove that my body is now healthy and my bones strong. I replied to her that, after all the research I’ve done over the past four years, I no longer have any faith in Dexascan testing or what it purports to [...]
Continue reading about Creating Illness for Profit: How A Bone Disease Grew To Fit The Prescription
Although I no longer see Dexascan scores as the most telling indicator of bone health, I was encouraged by the results of this year’s scan. A 2.2% gain in the bone density of the hip (femoral neck), correlating with a T-score of -2.4 and a Z-score of -1.7. No longer is my hip in the [...]
Continue reading about Progress Report – Encouraging Dexascan Results!
If you’ve been diagnosed with osteopenia, it means that your bone density test indicates that you have a lower bone density than normal, BUT not low enough to qualify as osteoporosis. In osteopenia, bone density ranges between 1 and 2.5 standard deviations below the norm. Osteoporosis is diagnosed from anything more than 2.5 standard deviations [...]
