Good to the Bone

Whether you're 17 or 70, now is the time to protect yourself from osteoporosis. Weight-bearing yoga poses can help tone your bones.

By Linda Sparrowe

Even if you do decide to take hormones or another treatment (either now or when you get older), remember that pharmaceutical therapy alone (or herbal, for that matter) will not help you prevent osteoporosis. You still need to pay attention to your diet, you still need daily exercise (preferably a well-rounded yoga practice with weight-bearing poses), and you still need to honor your body's signals to rest and rebalance. While it's true that osteoporosis is a crippling, painful disease, with proper attention to all aspects of your health, it needn't be an inevitable consequence of aging.

Former Yoga Journal Managing Editor Linda Sparrowe is the coauthor (with Patricia Walden) of A Woman's Book of Yoga and Health, by Linda Sparrowe, Yoga Sequences by Patricia Walden. Shambhala Publications, September 2002, from which this article has been adapted.

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