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Osteoporosis slowly weakens bones, often without symptoms, until a minor fall causes a serious fracture.
means A disease in which bones lose density and structural integrity, becoming porous and fragile enough to fracture from minor falls or even ordinary movement.
from Built from Greek pieces: 'osteon' (bone), 'poros' (pore or passage), and the medical suffix '-osis' (a condition or process). Put together, it literally means 'porous bone condition' — the name is a direct description, coined as doctors examined thinning bone tissue under the microscope and saw it had grown riddled with holes, like a honeycomb losing its structure.
- silent progression
- No symptoms until a bone actually breaks
- gender gap
- Women lose bone fast after menopause drops estrogen
- bone is alive
- Skeleton rebuilds itself constantly, just slower with age
- prevention window
- Peak bone mass is built by your late twenties