Even if you may not get the impression, your bones are anything but "dead matter". Your bones are a living organ. Just as your skin, hair and nails are constantly renewing themselves, your bone substance is also constantly being broken down and rebuilt and at the same time newly formed. It is important for your bone metabolism to always be supplied with all the vital substances it needs.

From the age of 30, the mineralization of the bones slowly decreases. By now, at the latest, you should be making sure that your diet is as bone-friendly as possible. A sufficient supply of calcium and vitamin D is particularly important. If the metabolism does not have enough calcium available, it will take it from the bones. In the long term, this can damage the bones. Vitamin D, in turn, makes it easier for your body to utilize calcium and increases the calcium storage in your bones. In addition to regular exercise, a healthy lifestyle includes a balanced diet that provides your body with sufficient amounts of all the important nutrients.

Hormonal changes lead to increased bone loss, especially in women. Alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, medication and digestive problems can also have a negative effect on bone metabolism.

The recommended daily dose of two tablets of Nobilin Osteokomplex provides you with 800 mg calcium, 100 mg magnesium, 80 mg vitamin C, 1.3 mg manganese, 133 µg vitamin K1 and 10 µg vitamin D3. With these carefully selected vital substances you support the metabolism of your bones.

Good to know: For people suffering from bone loss (osteoporosis), the German Osteology Association recommends in its guidelines from 2014 a total intake of 1000 mg calcium daily.

Bones appear to be dead matter - inorganic like stones. In fact, however, they are living organs with good blood supply made up of different tissues. They are subject to constant building and breaking down processes. Various cell types play a prominent role in this: osteoblasts are responsible for building bones, while the main task of osteoclasts is the resorption of bone substance. Bone density, which is the result of normal bone metabolism, is important for bone stability.

Osteoporosis, which the dictionary says means "porous bone", is a disease that is also known colloquially as "bone loss". It is a chronic skeletal disease that leads to an abnormally increased breakdown of bone substance. This not only reduces bone mass - the fine structure of the bone tissue also changes. The bones lose density and become more porous, i.e. more brittle. As the disease progresses, the bones become increasingly susceptible to fractures and are increasingly unable to withstand stress. A distinction is made between primary osteoporosis, which breaks out without any identifiable cause, and a secondary form that is caused by other diseases, such as an overactive thyroid. Insidiously, the disease begins without any noticeable symptoms and therefore often remains undetected for a long time.

In a guideline published in 2014, the German Osteology Association recommends a total daily intake of 1000 mg of calcium for patients suffering from osteoporosis.

Calcium, or calcium, is one of the essential minerals and is a central building block of the human skeleton. Healthy bones and teeth are unthinkable without calcium, because the mineral gives these organs their stability and strength. If the organism is not supplied with enough calcium over a longer period of time, it falls back on the "reserve" contained in the bones.

The German Osteology Association recommends osteoporosis patients in its guideline ¹ a total intake of 1000 mg of calcium daily. The best-known foods with a high calcium content are milk and dairy products. Other sources of calcium are green vegetables, herbs or calcium-rich mineral water. However, calcium requirements cannot always be met through diet. According to the National Consumption Study of 2008, around 55 percent of women and 46 percent of men in Germany are not adequately supplied with this vital mineral.

Vitamin D has effects similar to those of hormones and is involved in numerous functions in the body. For example, it supports muscle coordination. Calcium plays an important role in bone metabolism by facilitating the absorption of calcium and improving the storage of calcium in the bones, thus keeping bone density high enough. In addition to a high calcium intake, an adequate supply of vitamin D is therefore also central to effective treatment of osteoporosis.

Vitamin D is one of the few vitamins that the body can produce itself when there is sufficient sunlight. However, older people in particular are often limited in their mobility and rarely spend long periods of time outdoors. They also suffer from a reduced production of the vital vitamin as a result of their age.