Women Doing It for Themselves
8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality
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A drug-free and natural way to reverse or prevent osteoporosis and osteopenia without side effects
If you are one of the millions of women diagnosed every year with low bone mass – osteoporosis or osteopenia – please know that losing some bone mass with age is normal. However – while you want to be informed and proactive in protecting your bone health – you don’t have to rely on risky drugs for the rest of your life. They are not your only option. You are not powerless, but – like many women – you may not have all the facts about what you can do to take control of your health.
Whether you are a novice or a pro at self care, the 8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality program gives you straight facts – and customized solutions – to often controversial issues about bone health. The eight learning and action steps, led by veteran nutrition educator, Dr. Judy Valentine, and support from other women doing it for themselves, will help you to preserve, protect and increase your bone’s lifelong strength, mass, and vitality. You may also solve the riddle of a lifetime … what is the best food plan for my unique metabolism? … and feel better than you have in years.
8 Steps to Building Bones for Lifelong Vitality is for you if:
* you are serious about taking control of your health
* you have been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia and want to know how to prevent further bone loss
* you have been diagnosed with osteopenia and want to find a drug-free way to grow new, healthy and strong bone
* you have been prescribed osteoporosis drugs and would like to do what you can to support your health
* you want a common-sense proven approach to staying healthy and fit through nutrition and lifestyle change
* you want to understand how emotions and stress contribute to losing bone mass, and what you can do about it
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8 Steps to Building Bones for Lifelong Vitality Step 1 Hyperbole, Myth and the Facts about Low Bone Density Step 2 You are Not a Disease: Determine Your Personal Risk Factors Step 3 Mind the Gap: 24 Non-negotiable Essential Nutrients and Your Diet Step 4 Watch Your Money: All Supplements are Not Created Equal Q & A with Dr. Valentine Step 5 Assess Your Stress: The Link Between Stress & Low Bone Mass Step 6 Be Mindful: Your Emotions, Depression & Osteoporosis Step 7 Solve the Acid-Alkaline Puzzle: Identify Your Optimal Food Group Step 8 Put It All Together: Personalizing Your Food Plan Q &A with Dr. Valentine
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The format: A weekly step by step program delivered to your email, includes 4 key self-assessments, action steps, food lists, menus, and supplement recommendations, lifestyle and diet practices that impact your bones, and how to evaluate if your program is working. Two one-hour Q & A calls with Dr. Valentine. A private forum to share experiences with other women in the program..
Your instructor: Dr. Judith Valentine, Ph.D. is a nutrition educator, Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, co-author of Weight Solutions: The New Body-Mind-Spirit Approach, and trained in Metabolic Typing. Dr. Valentine shows people how to achieve optimum health through programs designed to meet their body’s individual metabolic needs.
Results: Identify your unique individual Food Program. Learn foods most suited to your body. Understand your risk factors for osteoporosis. Learn all the nutrients vital to bone health, the foods and behaviors that inhibit bone growth, and those that pack the most power. Source quality supplements, and find out which are essential. Begin to identify emotions that trigger overeating. Know how to monitor if your program is working for you.
Materials: Eight action and learning modules in video and text format delivered to your email box weekly. Four key Self-Assessments, including Metabolism, Adrenal, Diet and Personal Risk. Journal worksheets. Individualized Food Plan. Resources to Track Your Progress. Where to buy professional supplements. Access to a private forum to share experiences with other Women Doing It For Themselves. Two one-hour Q & A conference calls with Dr. Valentine to clarify and answer questions about your program.
The Why, How and Who of This Course
Hands down the best thing you can do for your health in the long term is to learn to eat right. Research has consistently shown that developing good eating habits – eating good foods and avoiding unhealthy ones – improves blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease, and digestion, and helps maintain strong bones, to say nothing of improving your energy and naturally promoting weight loss.
As women become older, getting informed about taking care of our own bodies becomes critical. You can no longer take your health for granted. The accumulated habits of a lifetime change that equation. Given the growing influence of politics and profit in medicine, you also can’t entrust it to others without question if you want to live the second half of your life to its fullest.
Instead, women are learning to do it for themselves.
You can do it. Think for a moment on this simple analogy: your favorite plant. You know that it depends on a continual supply of quality nutrients, water, and light to stay healthy. If it’s missing one of these essential elements, you notice it immediately. The leaves will droop. Then turn yellow. After prolonged stress, the stalks become thin, and prone to disease.
But – you also know that when you finally figure out what your plant needs, it’s fully capable of renewing its vitality to regrow healthy stalks and leaves.
Bone Facts
Did you know that 20% of all your bone tissue is renewed each and every year? That means that – optimally – you regrow an entirely new and healthy skeleton every five years!
While new bone growth does slow with age, partially due to hormonal changes, it doesn’t stop. Bones are living tissue, and they are continually regenerating, creating new cells and getting rid of old ones.
If you’re losing too much bone, there are likely several essential elements that your body is missing so that it can thrive and regenerate itself. This isn’t at all uncommon if you don’t know what bones need to grow. Most modern, or on-the-run diets, don’t automatically provide them.
The problem that many women face is finding clear, reliable, and practical information and resources that they can trust. While there is a surplus of conflicting and often technical information from medical authorities – usually sensationalized by the media – basic facts about building bone are scarce.
Women can be forgiven for feeling fatalist, cynical, exasperated, and even helpless or victimized. But too often this leads to inaction – that is, until you are diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis – and given a prescription for one of the commonly prescribed osteoporosis drugs – a brochure about the dangers of osteoporosis, the recommendation to take a “good calcium supplement”, and sent on your way.
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Why do we feel this program is so important for women?
Let’s look at some of the statistics for osteoporosis in this country
Every year 55% of Americans over 50 are diagnosed with either osteoporosis or osteopenia – and 80% of those are women.
Women may naturally lose up to 10% of their bone mass in the first 3 to 5 years following menopause, after which it usually levels off, and then picks up again in the final decades of life.
300,000 women suffer a hip fracture every year.
One out of every five women who suffer hip fractures die within a year and a half. Women who do survive often n ever fully recover, and require long term nursing care.
The mantra of health care providers is that we need to take calcium to avoid osteoporosis. But calcium is just one of the 24 essential nutrients that each play a vital role in bone health. And – depending on your metabolic type – too much calcium may even be harmful! Certain Metabolic Types can process calcium while others can’t use the calcium they have. They may need more magnesium, potassium and manganese as co-factors.
The facts about calcium:
American women have one of the highest levels of dairy consumption in the world – yet also one of the highest rates of bone fracture.
In Japan where people consume almost no calcium-rich dairy products, bone fractures due to osteoporosis are relatively rare.
The 12 year Harvard Nurses Health Study found that women taking 900mg of calcium or more had double the rate of hip fractures than those who consumed half as much.
The Selling of Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis can be a serious and frightening condition. It can cause severe joint pain, create a painful ‘dowager’s hump’ in your back, and make it more likely that you will break a bone in the the event you should fall. Women are right to be concerned about osteoporosis. Frightening stories telling of broken hips, bent spines, wheelchairs, and constant pain are things we all want to avoid.
For some women, life will never be the same
So, many women are asking good questions – about taking hormones, supplements, which exercise programs are best, their drug options and risks, etc. They follow National Osteoporosis Foundation guidelines and get a bone density scan around menopause. But the health care system fails these women. All too often they are diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis and given a prescription for bisphosphonate drugs like Fosamax, Boniva, or Actonel. They are told that losing bone mass is a normal part of aging, and they are frightened about what will happen to their health if they don’t fill their prescriptions. They aren’t told of the frequent side effects of bisphosphonates, or the FDA warning of possible “incapacitating musculoskeletal pain” and the digestive upset that can lead to severe GI disturbances. Or that lawsuits are pending for several hundred cases of painful jaw necrosis (death of the jawbone).
More importantly, few women are given the opportunity to sit down with their health care provider to understand their options, get help in interpreting conflicting data, and provided with meaningful and useful information that they can use to make their own health care decisions.
And, they are not given information on how they can prevent – and even reverse – low bone mass by taking control of what they eat.
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These are just a few of the comments from women who’ve told us of their experiences taking Fosamax, Boniva or Actonel: “…I took it for a couple of months, and developed severe stomach pain…” “...Within 30 days I had excruciating ankle pain and within 60 days I had ankle, foot and hand pain. I could not zip my pants, or open a jar….” “…I took one pill of Actonel … and developed severe atrial fibrillation as well as flu like symptoms. Then I changed to Boniva. After 7 months I developed SEVERE bone pain in my back and hips and also pain in my heel. My teeth became sensitive and my jaw ached. I developed heartburn…” “…I am relieved to see the FDA alert substantiating my symptoms…”
“…I took boniva for two months I started having pain in my knees and hands, dental problems and abscessed teeth. Thanks for your post, this has helped me a lot.” |
To learn more about the maze of deceptively promoted health claims – as well as hidden dangers – of bisphosponate drugs like Fosamax, Actonel and Boniva for preventing and treating osteoporosis, see our special free report “The Selling of Osteoporosis.”
We put this report together as we began to hear from so many women that they – and even some of their doctors and other health professionals – weren’t aware of some of the severe risks associated with taking bisphosphonate drugs. Why they didn’t know became crystal clear as we researched the clinical studies and then read the misleading and deceptive language used in promotional materials put out by manufacturers.
Among the things you’ll learn is that there is no clear relationship between osteopororis and bone fractures..
Women – and men – deserve clear and factual information to make sound decisions about their health.
Women Doing It For Ourselves
To be honest, maintaining bone health isn’t a mystery, and it’s not rocket science. But it is based on sound nutritional science and bone physiology. Unfortunately doctors often don’t explain that osteoporosis is not inevitable, that it can be prevented, and that it may even be reversed, by modifying some very specific and simple lifestyle habits.
However, in a study of nutrition education in medical schools, only 10-18 hours of nutrition were taught in the 55% of schools that required them, while 5% of schools taught some nutrition in pathology courses, 12% in biochemistry, and 7% incorporated nutrition education into clinical internships. So perhaps it’s not surprising that patient brochures – and advertisers – place so much emphasis on drugs and calcium. And women can be forgiven for thinking that osteoporosis is a calcium-deficiency disease. It’s not!
Osteoporosis is not a normal part of aging
So women are on their own in finding out how to best to support their long-term health and vitality. We each need to advocate for ourselves, and to sort through the mass of conflicting data on preventing and treating osteoporosis. Which can be daunting!
We know. We have been on the front lines.
Using complementary therapies including acupuncture, herbal medicine, yoga and nutrition as integrative health care professionals specializing in women’s health for over 30 years, we have seen firsthand how the confounding changes in women’s bodies send them on a search for answers to regain control of their health. In our continuing commitment to find viable alternatives to health challenges, we founded Joy of Health Vacations offering the benefits of European medical spa therapies to relieve the pain of osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and other painful inflammatory conditions, as part of a complete rejuvenation program.
We operate on the principle that the more we focus on disease – even on preventing disease – the less likely we are to know how to encourage health. In focusing on osteoporosis, it’s easy to lose sight of the innate power of the body’s own self-healing mechanisms. It is a feminine approach intuitive to most any woman: nourish wholeness.
Since receiving so much feedback from women unaware of an effective drug-free ways to regenerate their bones, we saw the need for a practical and cost-effective approach to help them take on the challenge of an osteopenia or osteoporosis diagnosis. Not every woman can afford the private consultation with a nutrition expert – even if they knew where to look. But when we decided to create this program we knew exactly who could we rely on to know the latest in nutritional science and women’s health, and to deliver it with compassion and common-sense.
As part of our work in health education in our community, we worked alongside Dr. Judith Valentine, Ph.D., a holistic nutrition educator with special expertise in the changing nutritional needs of women in peri-menopause, and through their post-menopausal years. She brings strong advocacy and a clear voice in educating physicians and patients alike about how to ground health in the everyday practice of eating foods and taking supplements that provide optimal fuel for the body – each individual’s body. Judi always received rave reviews from our patients for her down to earth style, concrete suggestions – and improvements in their health!
Meet Dr. Judith Valentine, Ph.D.
Dr. Judith Valentine, Ph.D., is a nutrition educator and Certified Integrated Health Practitioner, trained in Metabolic Typing. An experienced natural health care expert, and co-author of Weight Solutions: The New Body-Mind-Spirit Approach, she is committed to empowering people to take charge of their own health. She shows you how to use natural and self-care strategies when possible to bring your body back into balance and to support its self-healing mechanisms. Over 25 years she has partnered with hundreds of clients to achieve greater health by integrating nutrition and other “wellness,” lifestyle options into their daily lives.
Dr. Valentine wants you to know that: “Metabolic Typing is a revolutionary new approach in nutrition science that allows you to cut through conflicting advice, and to choose your foods and supplements with precision, not on a wing and a prayer.”
Listen to her talk about how knowing your Metabolic Type takes the guess work from your daily diet puzzle.
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Testimonials from Judi’s clients “[You] spoke to me about health in ways I had not heard before, and provided clarity of information to begin and the no-nonsense encouragement to get and stay in the driver’s seat. … It is making a difference in my life.” JS, Practitioner “I have now been following your program for about seven weeks and have lost 20 pounds! Woo hoo! Your book is so easy to follow and I have become dependent on the shopping lists. Not only have I lost weight, I feel so much better now! KJG, Teacher |
The Unique Benefits of the 8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality
Your own osteoporosis risk factors based on your diet and lifestyle, including your emotions, exercise and ability to manage stress.
On your Food Plan, you may sleep better, have more energy, and less chronic aches, pains, digestive symptoms – and less pounds!
In as little as three months, you may detect positive trends in bone loss – signs that your bones are renewing.
If you want a ‘magic bullet’ to make your troubles go away, this program is not for you. It’s a commitment to self-care.
Interact and share with other women online , to exchange ideas, keep you accountable, and support your lifestyle changes.
Two one-hour conference calls with Dr. Valentine, to answer questions and clarify what you may be unclear about.
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Women Doing It for Themselves 8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality A great value! Individual nutritional consultations with Dr. Valentine and other specialized nutritional experts start at between $500-$700 and range upwards. This program gives you the benefit of Dr. Valentine’s personal expertise, plus the support of other women’s experiences. You also receive a 20% discount on home testing kits to monitor your progress.
Your program includes:
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8 learning and actions modules in text and videos from Dr. Valentine delivered weekly to your email box
The 8 Steps to Building Strong Bones for Lifelong Vitality Program: What You Learn
This program tells you what you need to know about osteoporosis and the tools to take charge of your bone health. You’ll take away a food plan based on your probable Metabolic Type, and be confident in knowing your optimum foods and supplements. And most importantly, you’ll feel better – with greater self esteem and confidence that no one can take away, because you have acted from your own experience and discovered what works for you.
Each Module Focuses on One or Two Crucial Topics:
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Learn by Doing, Reading, and Exchanging Ideas with Women Like You
The program will give you a rich educational experience that includes:
8 learning and action modules in text and video format delivered weekly to your email
Extensive handouts, including assessments, food plans and checklists making it easy to take action
Organized action steps to reflect on and put into practice, at your convenience
Access to a private forum for exchange and support with other women committed to taking control of their health
Two one-hour conference calls with Dr. Valentine to ask questions and briefly review any challenges you may be having. If the challenges are substantial, a personal consultation may be necessary (an additional fee).
Practical Matters
What materials are included in the $197 cost?
The 8 learning and action modules, including informational and action worksheets, four key self-assessments, and an introductory video to each module from Dr. Valentine delivered to your email box each week. You have access to a private forum to exchange experiences and support with others on the program, and two one-hour conference call Q & A’s with Dr. Valentine.
1. What is the refund policy?
This course comes with an unconditional money-back guarantee. If it doesn’t live up to your expectations, simply notify us within six months of the start of the course. We’ll ask you to fill out a short questionnaire explaining why you were dissatisfied with the program and you will receive a 100% refund.
2. How do I get started?
It’s easy. Click on the paypal button below, follow the prompts to register and you’ll be sent confirmation and everything else you need to know to get started.
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Yours in good health!
Kathleen Daniel, MA, L.Ac.
Jennifer Montgomery, R.Ph.
This information is not intended to replace recommendations or advice from physicians or other healthcare providers. rather, it is intended to help you make informed decisions
about your health and to cooperate with your healthcare provider in a joint quest for optimal wellness. If you suspect you have a medical problem, we urge you to seek medical attention from a competent healthcare provider
