Mira Calton CN - Rebuild Your Bones: The 12-Week Osteoporosis Protocol

When I first met Mira, I was shocked to find out that such a young, vibrant woman had such an advanced form of osteoporosis. She told me that she had refused to take the medication her doctor had prescribed and instead was looking for an alternative, natural treatment for her condition, and I was immediately intrigued.

Over the last decade, I helped thousands of clients with a wide variety of health conditions and diseases through a unique low-carbohydrate (ketogenic) diet and lifestyle program that I had developed. It focused on whole foods, specific exercises, and supplementation with vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids. Although much of my work had been focused on weight loss, my clients often reported back to me other amazing health benefitsfrom lower cholesterol to alleviated chronic headaches. By the time I met Mira, the program had either improved or reversed more than twenty different health conditions beyond weight loss. Because of this, I was hopeful that I could help Mira find a way to reverse her osteoporosis.

Although I knew that a ketogenic diet and a weight-bearing exercise program would be an essential part of Miras recovery, I also knew that these two factors would not be enough on their own. Mira was a special case; I suspected that severe micronutrient deficiencies had played a central role in the development of her advanced osteoporosis. We needed to determine the cause of her deficiencies and then figure out a way to successfully get her body to absorb the vitamins and minerals necessary to rebuild her bones. This forced me to shift my attention away from the macronutrient side of food (carbohydrates, fats, and proteins), which I had been focusing on for most of my career (as macronutrients are the key component to a ketogenic diet). Instead, I took a much deeper look at essential micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, and amino acids), and how they interacted with one another.

Coincidentally, when I met Mira in 2003, I had been researching a little-known discovery in supplemental science: the fact that certain minerals compete with one another for absorption sites in the gastrointestinal tract. This competition prohibited the absorption of certain minerals, leading to deficiencies. I felt that by applying this knowledge to Miras supplementation program, and by separating the minerals that were crucial for her body to absorb into multiple doses throughout the day, we could eliminate their competition for absorption pathways. Although I was unsure whether this method to increase the absorption potential of the minerals would work, it just made sense to me. I had high hopes that this new anticompetition method of supplementation would yield the benefits we were looking for.

Mira and I worked to pinpoint specific diet and lifestyle habits that may have contributed to her disease. Mira thought that her daily routine was healthy: a low-fat muffin and black coffee for breakfast, spinach salad for lunch, and steamed chicken and vegetables for dinner. So she was shocked to discover that all of these dietary habits had, in their own ways,