READ THIS IF YOU HAVE OSTEOPOROSIS!!!!!!!!!

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(Calcitonin is in Armour!!! Thanks for Bev for providing this

excellent info and benefit we receive from Armour or natural

thyroid!)

> Calcitonin is a hormone produced by the thyroid gland that acts

primarily on

> bone. Bone is in a constant state of remodeling, whereby old bone

is removed

> by cells called osteoclasts, and new bone is laid down by cells

called

> osteoblasts.

>

> Calcitonin inhibits bone removal by osteoclasts, and promotes bone

formation

> by osteoblasts. In women with osteoporosis, the net result of using

> calcitonin is an increase in bone mass (density).

> http://www.medicinenet.com/calcitonin/article.htm