Nutrition and Orthopedics
As we get older, our bodies don’t process certain crucial nutrients as well as we used to. This makes our systems weaker at fighting off disease and slower in recovering from an injury. For instance, osteoporosis develops as our bones become less dense and therefore become more fragile. This is one of the reasons why older people can fall and easily break a hip – the hip often first cracks due to osteoporosis and enables a fall, not the other way around.… Read More
