Yogurt helps reduce bone fracture risk

Is yogurt the new superfood for bones? Dr. Susan Brown of the Center for Better Bones discusses a new study that shows eating yogurt and other lacto-fermented foods can reduce fracture risk.

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Transcription:
hello hi to everyone in the better bones
community
this is dr. Susan Brown I'm director of
the Center for better bones and director
of the better bones foundation and it's
really the better bones foundation that
brings you these Facebook live chats
every week we do them every Thursday
right around this same time 12:30
Eastern Time and this is an opportunity
for you all to ask your questions you
might have a question about the blog I
wrote that week or you might have a
question about something you read about
bone health well I can't answer really
personal questions I can certainly help
you with a variety of issues that you
might be thinking about bone health so
we are happy you joined us today you can
type in your questions at any time
during the talk and then we'll will
answer those questions as we go along
generally what I like to do is spend a
few minutes talking about the blog the
better bones blog that was written for
this particular week those of you who
have been looking and watching our work
notice that every week we have a
different blog topic and this week we
spoke about yogurt actually yogurt
famous old yogurt and I went to the
store and I'll tell you there's so many
kinds of yogurt it's incredible when you
look at a yogurt you consider how many
live bacteria they actually have I'm
going to chat about the different kinds
of yogurt but this program was a study
that looked at yogurt consumption in
regards to the risk of osteoporosis it
in regards to the risk of developing low
bone density and in regards to the risk
of fracture
now these studies that were most
successful that saw the strongest link
between yogurt consumption and boil
we're studies in Europe so we're going
to talk about that because it's a little
different there yogurt is a little
different than our yogurt in many cases
but what studies found was that men and
women looking at large populations that
tended to consume one cup of yogurt or
more a day they tended to have better
bone density
and as a matter of fact in women it was
about almost 40% better and in men about
50% better a couple a couple of the
studies actually tried to estimate
fracture risk now again these are
controlled trials they don't actually
sit down and give a hundred people
yogurt and take a hundred people and
have them not use yogurt they're not
controlled trials their trials where
they look at large numbers of people and
they ask the people what they ate or
they study their diets so in the groups
that ate yogurt is a regular kind of
thing they did have better bone density
and there actually was some suggestion
that they reduced fracture now you might
say well why is it so and it's true you
could say well there was calcium in
there in the yogurt there's protein in
the yogurt there's B vitamins there's a
series of other nutrients that are
helpful to bone but we know from the
studies on dairy that like milk doesn't
seem to make a big difference for bone
certainly doesn't seem to prevent
fracture unless a person were extremely
deficient in calcium at extremely low
levels so we say why does yogurt why
would yo GERD perhaps work to prevent
both fracture and to prevent the loss of
bone in an excessive way and what we
come up with of course and what
scientists have come up with in animal
studies is it it's the probiotics in
other words the way they make this
yogurt is by culturing the milk having
introducing bacteria and having the
bacteria grow in the milk and those of
you that follow my work remember that
we're in a new age where the bacteria in
the human body what we call our