Health Energy Longevity is a Henderson, Nevada-based health and wellness company founded by leading medical research scientists and master natural healers dedicated to helping aging adults access their bodies’ natural healing abilities. One founder, Dr. James Stonehart, spent 30 years as a senior research scientist studying natural techniques capable of slowing aging and healing the body without surgical or pharmaceutical intervention. Alongside a team of researchers, he helped develop simple physical and mental exercises designed to stimulate the body and brain to produce rejuvenating hormones, including human growth hormone. Practiced for just a few minutes each day, these techniques combine ancient natural-healing traditions with modern science to strengthen the immune system, boost brain health, and increase energy levels, addressing issues ranging from fatigue and bone loss to muscle weakness and memory decline.
Bone density refers to the amount of mineral, including calcium, packed into bone. Although bone can look solid and permanent, it is living tissue that changes throughout a person’s lifetime. Mineral density contributes to strength, but it is not the only feature that affects whether a bone is prone to fracturing. As mineral content falls, bones generally become less resistant to breaking.
The reason density tends to fall with age is fairly simple – old bone is continually removed and new bone is built in its place. Earlier in adulthood, those two activities are usually close to being in balance. Later, bone removal can begin to outpace replacement, so bone mass gradually declines.
That renewal process is called bone remodeling. Osteoclasts are the cells that break down and remove old bone, while osteoblasts form new bone. In younger healthy adults, the work of those cells is generally balanced enough to maintain bone mass. Aging can tip that balance toward loss.
Adults also enter this period with different amounts of bone. Bone mass usually reaches its peak in the 20s, after years of growth and development. A person who built more bone by early adulthood has more in reserve when age-related loss begins, while someone with a lower peak starts from a smaller base. That difference can affect how much bone remains later in life.
For women, the pace can change sharply around menopause. Estrogen helps regulate bone remodeling, and estrogen levels fall during this transition. For several years around and after menopause, bone resorption can exceed bone formation by a wider margin. Bone mass may fall more quickly during that period, which helps explain why osteoporosis becomes more common after menopause.
Men lose bone with age too, but the pattern is usually slower. On average, men reach a higher peak bone mass and do not go through the same abrupt menopause-related fall in estrogen. Certain conditions that lower testosterone can increase osteoporosis risk. The gradual decline in testosterone that comes with normal aging, however, is probably not a major cause of bone loss.
Age is only one part of the picture. Low calcium or vitamin D intake, physical inactivity, prolonged bed rest, smoking, heavy alcohol use, some medical conditions, and certain medicines can all contribute to bone loss. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium. When dietary calcium is too low, the body can take calcium from bone over time.
Lower density does not necessarily mean osteoporosis. Osteopenia is a term sometimes used when bone density is low but has not reached the level used to diagnose osteoporosis. Osteoporosis involves greater loss of bone mass or changes in bone structure and strength that make fractures more likely.
One reason osteoporosis can go unnoticed is that it often causes no obvious symptoms. Osteoporosis may remain silent until a fracture occurs, commonly in the hip, spine, or wrist. Lower density raises fracture risk, but bone structure and other characteristics matter too. A density number gives useful information without describing bone strength completely.
Two people of the same age can have very different bone health because age is only one influence on what happens over time. Peak bone mass, remodeling, hormonal changes, medical conditions, medicines, nutrition, activity, smoking, and alcohol use can all affect the course. Osteoporosis can develop without obvious symptoms, so chronological age alone cannot show how much bone strength a person has retained.
About Health Energy Longevity
Health Energy Longevity is a Henderson, Nevada-based health and wellness company founded by leading medical research scientists and master natural healers. Co-founder Dr. James Stonehart spent 30 years as a senior research scientist studying natural, non-pharmaceutical techniques for slowing aging and promoting the body’s self-healing abilities. The company’s researchers have developed simple daily exercises that stimulate production of rejuvenating hormones, including human growth hormone, to strengthen the immune system, support cognitive function, and address fatigue, bone loss, and muscle weakness.
