How can estrogen help osteoporosis?

Answer 1

Exercise increases bone strength. Without getting too long and drawn out your body reacts to the micro fractures (no, not actual breaks in the bone) along the bone cells by reinforcing them with more calcium. This creates a cycle by which, over time, the bones become stronger than before the person exercised.

Answer 2

Estrogen is the hormone that keeps females young and healthy, including keeping calcium in their bones. Males also produce estrogen, but they produce it at more or less even level throughout their lifetimes. Females, however, have a different situation. When they go through menopause their ovaries stop functioning, which is their primary site of estrogen production. So what this means for them is that their main mechanism that keeps calcium in their bones is lost. That is why women, more than men, suffer from osteoporosis in their later years.

A good way for women to help maintain their bone density is with a good diet high in leafy green vegetables and regular exercise. The best exercise is walking, or other load-bearing activity.

Answer 3

Osteoporosis is common in women after menopause. Estrogen supplement give to them helps in alleviating the symptoms of menopause and osteoporosis. How does estrogen do the same is probably not known.

Answer 4

In females a decrease in estrogen, such as after menopause, will result in a loss of bone mass. Possibly leading to osteoporosis.

Answer 5

secretion of estrogen needs more calcium ions which are taken from female's bones which decalcifies the bones