Sentences with phrase «bone mass begins»

Bone mass begins to decline gradually with age, but women are four times more likely than men to develop osteoporosis.

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The discussion also covers the management of common long - term complications such as heterotopic ossification, in which solid masses of bone begin growing inappropriately within soft tissues near blast injury sites, and the formation of blood clots in the extremities and lungs, which occurs at a high rate in DCBI survivors.

When bones stop carrying loads, however, they begin to lose mass and weaken.

The best prevention for bone - thinning osteoporosis begins early — during the first two decades of life, when you can most influence your peak bone mass by getting enough calcium and vitamin D and doing bone - strengthening exercise.

Put another way, low testosterone and the resulting low estradiol (a necessary form of estrogen in men's bodies derived from testosterone) can slow needed healthy bone regeneration, creating a gap between the amount of bone mass lost and bone tissue that can be regenerated — that means bones begin to weaken.

However, after the age of 30 to 35, the body mysteriously begins to lose bone mass at a rate the body can not keep up with effectively.

As we grow older, we begin to lose precious muscle mass and bone mineral density.

In the United States for instance, social anthropologists have noted that body size, body height, muscle mass, and bone density all increased in a dramatic and very advantageous way when Americans began to introduce more protein and calcium - containing foods into the diet in the latter part of the industrial era.