What causes osteoporosis?
Osteoporosis is a condition that leads to a decrease in bone mass. This decrease is quite simple to understand. It is estimated that a person reaches their peak bone mass around the age of 20. Thereafter, bone mass is relatively stable for about ten years. However, it begins to decline slowly but steadily from around the age of 30.
At a certain age, bone loss becomes greater than the regeneration that occurs in the bone cells. Bones then become porous, more fragile and more prone to fractures. This is how osteoporosis appears. It is unfortunately a silent disease since osteoporosis occurs without any apparent symptoms. The loss of bone mass associated with osteoporosis is often noticed when a person suffers a fracture for the first time.