For better bone health, turn up the heat!
With the aging of the population, osteoporosis affects more and more people. Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) explain how heat and the microbiota could fight against this chronic disease of bone density.
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If half of women are affected in old age, men are not spared: one in four has osteoporosis.
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One in two women and one in four men. Osteoporosis, the disease that makes our bones weaker and more vulnerable to fractures, is growing in importance in the population. Good news, however: in a study published last September in “Cell Metabolism”, Pr Mirko Trajkovski and his team have shown, in mice, that heat has an influence on bone metabolism and therefore on osteoporosis. “By placing adult mice at a temperature of 34 ° C, we found that they had stronger bones”, explains the professor of the Department of Cellular Physiology and Metabolism of the Faculty of Medicine at UNIGE.
