Not to get too chatty about this, but, this stuff kills osteoclasts....possibly permanently. Osteoclasts FREE up the minerals that MAKE new bone, as well as destroying old decaying 'infrastructure'. Basically, they recycle the building blocks of bone. So, bisphosphonates, kill these cells, in a short sighted attempt to keep them from 'destroying' bone, if my assessment is correct.

Plus, they are phosphonates....as related to phosphorus, which altho needed in bone building, can also drain the bone of calcium?? We are supposed to NOT have too much phosphorus in our diets. Most Americans have too much due to soft drink consumption. So if this garbage was good for us, why not drink more soda, as we call it here...pop to some.

So, they are stopping normal bone recycling....they call it bone destruction, but it isn't. It is stopping normal recycling of bone and replacing this bone with an artificial phosphorus like compound which altho 'hard' can shatter like ceramics.

Lord....what is next.

I am 58....the longest I could expect to inhabit this body is 40 more years. (10 looks more realistic right now). If my bone metabolism doesn't work right, or AT ALL, I would think this decreases my life span, not lengthens it. Then they give you stats like this...."Half of all people who fracture a hip die within the year"....well of course, either they are OLDER to begin with, OR, they took this junk and can't function with concrete bones....cuz, duh, Calcium and K and Mg and Phosphorus are a bit important to other organs too. These scare tactics big pharma is using is dirty marketing....this is garbage....garbage stats.

Who, WHO comes up with these ridiculous therapies?? Some one who has no concept of how the body as a whole organism functions??