osteoporosis. Osteoporosis can be noted on your x-rays. We adjust all patients very carefully, and especially those who have osteoporosis on their x-rays. These problems occur so rarely that there are no available statistics to quantify their incidence." Again, just telling them what it is and the fact that, again, we do adjust carefully. As carefully as we can, particularly as I've become smarter over the decades. In your seminars that you teach, I've heard you go through some of the reasons why patients are more susceptible today than they were 25 years ago to these types of fracture. Yeah. Even, Stu, maybe since I've last seen you, I forget. I know I see you a lot, but I'm even ramping that up. There are more reasons today why people have osteoporosis than at any other time in history, which, I think, puts even a greater percentage of the population at risk and we talk ... Particularly when I do a nutrition class because a lot of them are things that we're not taking or things that we're taking. For example, the more you read about phosphoric acid, heck, it's found in every soda and it's even found in both sugar sodas and diet sodas, the evidence that phosphoric acid causes osteoporosis and increases the risk, you start looking at how many people are drinking sodas and often more than one per day, that this causes a meaningful weakness of bones. Then the whole thing is, that people tend to forget, they think that osteoporosis is linked to calcium, but again, to get that calcium in there, you need your vitamin D. The article that I just reviewed, and will go up to date on our article review service is an article on NFL football players. It was just recently done on a sports trauma journal and they find ... They're looking at people that are exercising outside and their vitamin D levels are so incredibly low. Only 19% had the minimum desirable levels of vitamin D. Without adequate vitamin D, you cannot get the calcium in there. Then if you read the books by Mildred Seelig or Carolyn Dean, they both say, "Our magnesium levels have dropped so incredibly low that without adequate magnesium, you are still prone to osteoporosis." These are factors that we go over. There's an entire page that I've written up on why people have low magnesium levels and the point of it is that people do, and when they do, it increases the risk of osteoporosis, and it increases the risk that mechanically-based care would have the ability to cause some of these problems. This is why I have it in the informed consent. I just want people to know about it. I honestly don't think in the entire rest of my career, in the next 38 years of my practice, I don't think I'll ever break another rib, but you never know. Let's face it, some people just break ribs just by breathing weird because they're so osteoporotic, so it could happen. I think that you should inform people, so we put into our informed consent form.
Dr. Hoffman:
Dr. Murphy:
Dr. Hoffman:
That's awesome.
Dr. Murphy:
Right at the end, we use physical therapy and ice, so I have a section titled Physical
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