Dr. Joshua John-Ram Schacter says osteoporosis treatments like medicines and surgeries often harm patients without real benefit. He now pushes weight-bearing exercise instead, a shift from his 2015 practice, because the clinical evidence changed his mind.
To me to put somebody on a medicine or to do a surgery that's going to place them at increased risk when there's very limited effect of the medicine, it's a terrible travesty and we are really seeing that in traditional medicine now. Now not every single osteoporosis medicine is so horrible but a lot of them I think are really wrong headed and the way that we treat osteoporosis in this country has been very wrong headed. You know, I just heard JJ Virgin and Vonda both talk about the importance of weight bearing exercise as we that is not something that I recommended in 2015 because I was in the traditional mode. Oh hey, you don't want to do weight bearing exercise, it's going to cause your drugs to generate more. Well, I have learned through my process, you know, through my coming into this space and being much more interested in taking good care of my patients how important these things are critically important.
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