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Does osteoporosis eat away your bones?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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I suppose the "disease" does not actually eat away on your bones.

It would probably be more correct to say that it prevents your bones to be maintained.

Over time this lack of maintenance reduces the density and bones become weaker.

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