What is "osteoporosis"?

What is "osteoporosis"?

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Osteoporosis is a disease of bone. It's a disease of actually losing bone. Osteoporosis takes place from not building up enough bone when we were young. Bone mass will often peak out at around the age of 27 or 28, and then start to diminish after that period. The reason for the bone growth is because our hormones are high in our youth, and then as we hit our thirties and later, the hormones (things like testosterone, oestrogen, and progesterone) start to diminish in the body, and we start to actually lose bone.