Osteoporosis is a grave condition involving the thinning of bones, often starting off furtively and if adept measures are not taken, it can lead to excruciating pain accompanied by fractures and varying forms of disability. Risk factors that cause osteoporosis comprise of increasing age, smoking, drinking, being woman, lower bone mass, decreased levels of sex hormones caused during menopause and due to intake of some medicines. Osteoporosis Causes: Through the growth spurts in infant and teenager years, the rate of bone development is quicker than existent bone being absorbed by the body, a process which reverses subsequent to crossing the age of thirty. One is at greater risk at getting osteoporosis, if the idyllic bone mineral density or bone thickness is not attained during infant and teen years. Decrease in bone thickness accelerates in women close to menopause, when there is depleted production of the estrogen hormone that plays a crucial role in guarding against bone thinning.  [...]