Re: onion and osteoporosis

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Can anyone point me to the research that this web site references? All comments and/or experiences welcome. Thanks. http://biomedx.com/bones/page6.html Late in 1999, researchers reported that, when dried onion was fed to animals, it could reverse the same type of bone loss seen in individuals suffering from osteoporosis.When male rats were fed 1 gram of onion powder per day for a period of only four weeks, the mineral content of their bones increased by over 17 percent, thickness increased by almost 15 percent and the mineral density increased by over 13 percent, which is higher than any pharmaceutical treatment. (This effect was greater than that available using the osteoporosis prescription drug Calcitonin.)Even when the ovaries were removed from female rats, the addition of 30 to

1500 mg of dried onion daily prevented the bone loss that would normally have occurred due to the decrease in estrogen levels.While similar results to those above have yet to be verified in human tests, it is obvious that the simple onion is very beneficial to health. And its effect on bone health are only the tip of the iceberg.

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" Some vegetables (commonly consumed by humans) efficiently modulate

bone metabolism.

Muhlbauer RC, Li F, Lozano A, Reinli A, Tschudi I.

Bone Biology Group, Department Clinical Research, University of Bern,

Switzerland. roman.muhlbauer@...

We have hypothesized that some vegetables which are part of the

regular human diet may contain modulators of bone metabolism. To

mimic a typical Western diet with large proportions of refined

components, rats were pair-fed a semi-purified diet to which, in the

treated animals, the dried material under investigation was added.

Effects are expressed as % of untreated control. Bone parameters in

rats were assessed in the proximal tibia by pQCT. Bone resorption

(BR) was assessed by the urinary excretion of [3H]-tetracycline from

prelabeled rats. Daily administration of 1 g of onion during 4 weeks

increased total bone mineral content by 17.4% (p<0.05), trabecular

bone mineral density by 13.6% (p<0.05). One g of onion/day

administered to male rats blunted BR by 23-/+5% (p<0.05). Daily

administration of onion to ovariectomized rats inhibited BR in a dose-

dependent manner. At the highest dose (1.5 g of onion) BR was

inhibited by 26-/+4% (p<0.01) as compared to 24-/+3% (p<0.001) for

estradiol (27microg/kg/day). An additional 13 vegetables displayed

significant effects on BR at the dose of 1g/day. Interestingly,

1g/day of soy did not inhibit BR in this model. Also, skimmed milk,

meat and egg (all 1 g/day) were ineffective. Thus, common vegetables

consumed by humans potently modulate bone metabolism in the rat. This

opens the possibility to develop the basis for a low-cost, safe and

effective nutritional approach to osteoporosis. "

PMID: 15758507

Rodney.

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> Can anyone point me to the research that this web site references?

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> All comments and/or experiences welcome.

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> Thanks.

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> http://biomedx.com/bones/page6.html

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> Late in 1999, researchers reported that, when dried onion was fed

to animals, it could reverse the same type of bone loss seen in

individuals suffering from osteoporosis.

>

> When male rats were fed 1 gram of onion powder per day for a period

of only four weeks, the mineral content of their bones increased by

over 17 percent, thickness increased by almost 15 percent and the

mineral density increased by over 13 percent, which is higher than

any pharmaceutical treatment. (This effect was greater than that

available using the osteoporosis prescription drug Calcitonin.)

>

> Even when the ovaries were removed from female rats, the addition

of 30 to 1500 mg of dried onion daily prevented the bone loss that

would normally have occurred due to the decrease in estrogen levels.

>

> While similar results to those above have yet to be verified in

human tests, it is obvious that the simple onion is very beneficial

to health. And its effect on bone health are only the tip of the

iceberg.

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>

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