Bone Strength - Health In Action
Using your muscles to lift you up, rebuild your matrix, strengthen, lengthen, and stretch your bones.
What if I told you that maintaining strong bones and feeling youthful were possible at any age? Well, knowledge is power – and we can all take action to improve our health and lifestyle through food, exercise, stretches, and rest. Oil lubrication throughout the body is essential for our skin, tissues, joints, and cell membranes. When we’re well-oiled (both inside and out), we feel energized, able to move our body with ease, vitality, and youthfulness.
Our bones can become imbalanced when they break down faster than they reform, which leads to weaker bones, hair, nails, and teeth. This usually happens for women during and after menopause, and for men in their fifties. During this time, please be more vigilant in taking care of your needs.
It’s important to remember that building strong bone tissue relies on the help of good fat tissue. Eating high-quality, digestible fats is essential to strengthening bone tissue. Cultured ghee (clarified butter) is great for building bones, supporting gut health, and cooking since it has a high cooking point.
clarified butter - lactose free
Ghee is used in French cooking and finer restaurants, and is also known to have medicinal benefits in Ayurveda. The magic of ghee is that it has a high heat tolerance (doesn’t go rancid when heated at a high temperature), is very digestible, and deeply cleanses your body’s tissues. Ghee is made by melting butter over a low heat and removing the solids (lactose) during the simmering process. You can make this yourself or purchase cultured ghee, which has become increasingly available in health stores. And importantly, I absolutely love the taste!
I am grateful to my dear teacher Divya Alter – Ayurvedic practitioner, leads masterclasses, author of cookbooks What To Eat For How You Feel and Joy of Balance, and owner of Divya’s Kitchen in NYC. Divya recommends consulting with your doctors to determine your supplement needs and doses suitable for you.
I always like to focus on the positives – however, aging and brittle bones are a reality. Therefore, I feel compelled to share the truth when necessary, to inspire healthier choices that will create healthier bones.
What NOT to do:
Fat-free diets, hydrogenated oils, ultra-processed foods
Unhealthy vegan diets (try being ‘gheegan’ – cook with high-quality cultured ghee, even if that’s the only dairy you eat)
Lack of movement and exercise
Ingest calcium supplements that don’t work
Feel unhappy and/or unfulfilled
Live a fast-paced life
Spend too much time in front of screens/not enough time in nature
So, if you feel dry like a raisin, nourish your body with lubricating fats and mindful practices (like the ones below) to replenish your vitality and youthfulness.
Gentle Yoga for Bone Building, and Connective Tissue Strength and Stretch
Hold poses for at least 5 deep breaths and/or move gracefully through your practices
Warm up body, get blood flowing
Stand flat on soles of feet
Twist
Breath with movement
Loosen up through your tissues in large, and long movements
Bend knees
Move slowly
Use your own body weight
No impact or jumping
Relieve pressure on joints
Wishing you healthy, strong, and joyful bones,
Love, Genia