First, is the Tour des Chutes event creating awareness and financial support in the fight against cancer. Second, is the risk of poor bone health. Starting around the age of 30, the average human body will lose about one to two percent bone density and skeletal strength year after year. While we all face bone loss, certain factors can increase these percentages. Cancer, osteoporosis, type two diabetes, diet, medications and age have a dramatic effect on bone health.

While an active lifestyle can help reduce your loss of bone density, low impact sports such as cycling leave even the fittest athletes at risk, too. This year, as we welcome the 14th year of the Tour des Chutes cycling event, we’re focused on educating our community about the importance of maintaining the body’s foundation — the skeletal system.

Why bone health is so important

To understand the importance of the skeletal system, it’s important to understand the role of the central nervous system in regulating your body’s strength. The central nervous system regulates the physical strength of your body based upon the strength of the skeletal system. As your skeletal system declines either from age or as a result of disease, your physical strength declines as well. Your central nervous system will not allow your muscles to become stronger than what your skeletal system can handle.

Today, we know through research that if bone tissue receives a sufficient amount of pressure at the appropriate angle and force, it will adapt and become stronger. This process is known as osteogenic loading. Most of us experience very little high-impact pressure to bones in our daily lives. Low impact activities like hiking, cycling and swimming, while good for your health, don’t equally gain the benefit of osteogenic loading.

If you have ever reached a plateau in your strength training or experienced strength loss as you age, a likely reason is the central nervous system adjusting your muscle strength to protect your skeletal system.

100 years after Dr. Wolff’s Law

Since the 19th century, the medical community has been looking at the relationship of bone to muscle. Dr. Julius Wolff, a German anatomist and surgeon, made the discovery that bone, in a healthy person or animal, adapts to the load under which it is placed. This pressure stimulates the development of healthy new bone tissue, creating healthier and stronger bones. Now known as Wolff’s Law, the law also states that the reverse of this is true. Bones exposed to decreased pressure, or load, would become less dense and weaker.

A century later, in 2012, a research study on osteogenic loading discovered the minimum amount of pressure required to stimulate bone development is 4.2 times a person’s body weight. From this research, a unique robotic musculoskeletal development system was

designed to safely deliver the proper stimulus to just about anyone at any age.

This proprietary system for osteogenic loading, called Spectrum, specifically develops the foundation of your physical body, the skeletal system, both efficiently and without risk of injury.

Introduction today’s safe, non-pharmaceutical solution

Today, more and more people are discovering the benefits of osteogenic loading, and protecting and developing their skeletal strength through OsteoStrong. The owners of Spectrum created this non-pharmaceutical, natural solution to bone density loss. By attending one session per week lasting between five and 10 minutes with no fatigue, sweating or even a need to change out of your regular clothes, you can take a significant step toward strengthening your vital foundation and creating a whole new level of health.

The wide-reaching benefits of osteogenic loading your skeletal system

• Increased Energy & Strength

• Improved Posture, Agility and Balance

• Often the Reversal and Elimination of Joint and Back Pain

• Avoidance or Reversal of Osteoporosis

• Avoidance or Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes

Wondering about your bone health?

Call OsteoStrong of Central Oregon at 541-241-7067 for a free bone test and balance test. You can also find additional information on strengthening your skeletal system or on the medical benefits of OsteoStrong by visiting osteostrong.me