Your lifestyle is an important protection factor against osteoporosis – or a great risk for it. So you should make sure you:

• stick to the recommended daily intake of calcium and vitamin D more
• do regular weight-bearing exercise. For practical advice
• stop smoking and drinking excessive amounts of alcohol
• try training with “Galileo” if you have any difficulties in the muscles of leg and hip, in walking and your general mobility. This is a side-alternating vibration training which works with the seesaw principle for a physiologically optimized muscle stimulation. For more information go to www.galileo2000.de

If you want to know whether you are at risk for osteoporosis, take five minutes and do the following test www.shef.ac.uk/FRAX/