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After an Osteoporosis Diagnosis, I Increased My Bone Density Naturally—Here's Everything I Did
After an Osteoporosis Diagnosis, I Increased My Bone Density Naturally—Here's Everything I Did

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time4 days ago

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After an Osteoporosis Diagnosis, I Increased My Bone Density Naturally—Here's Everything I Did

After an Osteoporosis Diagnosis, I Increased My Bone Density Naturally—Here's Everything I Did originally appeared on Parade. A lot happened to Luisa Milo when she was 51 years old. For starters, the now-retired dentist and certified personal trainer in New York was filing for divorce after finding out her spouse had cheated multiple times. She left the robust life and loving home she worked hard to create and maintain. And she received an osteoporosis diagnosis. Related: The One Simple Workout Move an Endocrinologist Is Begging People Over 50 To Do for Bone Health'The timing was cruelly poetic,' she says. "My body ached so badly and felt weaker than ever before. I felt broken emotionally and, now, physically…or so it felt at the time.' Her story isn't without hope, however. Ahead, read about her experience and how she increased her bone density naturally. 🩺SIGN UP for tips to stay healthy & fit with the top moves, clean eats, health trends & more delivered right to your inbox twice a week💊 Getting Diagnosed With Osteoporosis Milo's osteoporosis journey started when she entered menopause two years prior. And she's not alone in her experience: One in 10 postmenopausal women has osteoporosis. This population needs to consume more (but not too much) the start of menopause, she had lost 13 percent of bone density in sites except her wrist. She also needed a tooth extracted, a bone graft and a dental implant. But how do the latter three items play into her osteoporosis diagnosis?Essentially, she couldn't treat it all simultaneously. As a dentist, she knew she couldn't defer the dental procedures. However, she also remembered the chief of endocrinology at a top NYC hospital telling her that she needed an antiresorptive infusion, which slows down or prevents bone loss. Going through all that at once isn't necessarily safe or in a person's best interest. 'Antiresorptive medication can compromise the jaw bone's ability to heal from oral surgery in the time following the infusion,' Milo explains. She begged three doctors for estrogen replacement, and they all refused. Then, one outlined the necessity of heavy resistance training, which she soon began. Related: The #1 Best Strength Training Exercise for Bone Health, According to Personal Trainers for Seniors Milo decided to move forward with a more natural approach for another reason too. 'After surviving breast cancer at 34 and living with neuropathy from reconstructive surgery, I had no desire to rely on medications unless absolutely necessary,' she says. 'I wanted to reclaim agency in my healing and inspire others to do the same—especially those living with invisible disabilities like osteoporosis and neuropathy.' How Milo Increased Her Bone Density Naturally Milo naturally increased her bone density by five percent in eight months, effectively reversing the diagnosis. She shares the steps she took to get there with Parade. Resistance training Milo participated in progressive weight-bearing movements that stimulate osteogenesis, or bone-building. She also engaged in a variety of exercises: Pilates 2 times a week Walking with a weighted vest on every day with increased duration Heavy resistance training 3 times a week (including functional movements, like squatting, hinging, pulling, pushing and carrying) HIIT training 1-2 times a week Ballroom dancing for 2-4 hours a week Not going super hard from the start with the weighted vest is crucial, so she shares the progression that worked for her. It looks like this: Body weight walks and light runs with bodyweight resistance training, including Tai Chi-style movements. Wearing a five-pound weighted vest daily for 30 minutes, then an hour, then two hours—basically, as long as she could tolerate Wearing a 10-pound vest on walks and runs to resistance-train, and while running errands Wearing a 20-pound vest, resistance training with and without it, and walking and running in it Milo wants to clarify a few things, however: her routine isn't the only answer, weighted vests can cause discomfort and harm, and a person's best bet is to talk to their doctor first. Nutrition From a food standpoint, Milo encourages a diet rich in calcium, vitamin D with K2, magnesium, protein and whole foods. Some foods that fit into those categories include green, leafy vegetables, dairy products, seeds, nuts, chicken, eggs, quinoa, whole grain bread, fish and also suggests a protein-dense breakfast. For her, that meant consuming 30 grams of protein from various sources: eggs, meat, avocados, yogurt, cottage cheese, protein powder and ensure you're getting the ideal amount for your body, consider working with an anti-diet dietitian. Related: 'I'm an Osteoporosis Specialist, and This Is the Type of Cheese I Swear By for Bone Health' Restorative sleep Milo went to bed in a cold, dark room at 9 p.m. as consistently as possible, aiming to get seven to nine hours of sleep a night. Getting enough quality sleep is important for bone health because during sleep, old bone tissue is removed and new bone tissue is formed. This could explain why getting five or fewer hours of sleep is associated with lower bone mineral density and higher odds of osteoporosis. Emotional and spiritual wellness This category includes a lot of moving parts. Milo mentions therapy, journaling, spending time outdoors, enjoying being alone and spending time with people who leave her feeling energized. The research on how this benefits bone health is quite interesting. There's the fact that prolonged elevated levels of cortisol (the stress hormone) can inhibit bone formation. Additionally, relaxation techniques reduce stress, which reduces inflammation in the bones and other areas. A 2019 study in Frontiers in Psychiatryconcluded that there are potentially molecular links between a pathological response to stress and the development of bone disease. This information is only a start. Medical insight Milo didn't go on this journey without medical help. She still went in for tests and imaging, and she consulted with various healthcare professionals for their best advice.'Dr. Kyle Gillett helped optimize my internal environment through judicious selection of bioidentical hormones and comprehensive and continued health metric monitoring over time,' Milo says. 'Bioidentical hormones' are created by compounded pharmacies or other manufacturers, she explains, and are derived from plants in the likeness of naturally occurring hormones. Her doctor helped her select some of those supplements to help with the menopause piece. The 'health metric monitoring' part, for her, entailed tri-annual or quarterly labs and follow-ups. Leaning into community resources Spending time with her support system also helped Milo. She recommends getting connected with resources, research and purpose through the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation's peer educator, advocacy and training opportunities. As the saying goes, knowledge is power. While this approach may not work for everyone, it worked for Milo—and the results speak for themselves. 'Within eight months of my osteoporosis diagnosis, I reversed my osteoporosis diagnosis and continued to restore my bone density,' Milo says. 'More than the numbers, I reclaimed my strength and mobility and safeguarded the vibrancy of my life.' Up Next:Sources: Luisa Milo, a retired dentist and certified personal trainer who increased her bone density naturally Menopause and Bone Loss, Endocrine Society Getting a good night's rest is important for better bone health, University at Buffalo The Link Between Stress, Mental Health, and Bone Health, National Osteoporosis Foundation South Africa Bones and Beyond: The Benefits of Self-Care for Both Body and Mind, Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation Impacts of Psychological Stress on Osteoporosis: Clinical Implications and Treatment Interactions, Frontiers in Psychiatry After an Osteoporosis Diagnosis, I Increased My Bone Density Naturally—Here's Everything I Did first appeared on Parade on Jul 19, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 19, 2025, where it first appeared.

Cyanide, an affair, and a jailhouse murder plot: The case against a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife
Cyanide, an affair, and a jailhouse murder plot: The case against a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife

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time10-07-2025

  • CNN

Cyanide, an affair, and a jailhouse murder plot: The case against a Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife

Crime Prescription drugsFacebookTweetLink Follow Angela Craig was complaining of severe headaches and dizziness. She had been to the hospital three times in 10 days, yet doctors in Colorado couldn't explain what was causing her illness. 'I feel drugged,' she texted her husband, James Craig, during her first hospitalization. She told him the only thing she consumed that morning was her protein shake, according to court records. Three hours into her third hospital visit, the mother of six began seizing and was transferred unresponsive to the hospital's intensive care unit. Three days later, on March 18, 2023, 43-year-old Craig was declared brain dead, court records show. More than two years after her death, her dentist husband is due to stand trial for her murder. Jury selection begins Thursday. A probable cause affidavit containing more than 50 pages of evidence investigators compiled against James Craig includes witness accounts, screenshots of text messages and computer search histories, and the discovery of a secret email account used to order a multitude of poisons and carry out an affair with another woman. Between Angela Craig's death and the start of her husband's trial, the defendant has cycled through a carousel of lawyers – including one who withdrew due to Craig's alleged actions and another accused of setting fire to his own home – and the dentist himself has been accused of plotting a jailhouse murder against the case's lead investigator. Craig has pleaded not guilty to six felony charges, including first-degree murder, solicitation to commit first-degree murder, solicitation to commit tampering with physical evidence, and solicitation to commit perjury. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted of murder. James Craig's dental partner, Ryan Redfearn, was the first person to sound the alarm to authorities that Angela could have been poisoned, according to the affidavit. While he was en route to the hospital the day of Angela's final hospitalization, a colleague called Redfearn saying an office manager had seen a package of potassium cyanide delivered for Craig to the office days prior, the affidavit says. When he arrived, Redfearn alerted a nurse about the package, telling her there would be no medical reason for a dentist's office to need potassium cyanide. The nurse subsequently contacted law enforcement, according to the document. Craig called his colleague later that night asking if he had spoken with the medical staff. Redfearn said he had and that he knew about the package, the affidavit says. Craig allegedly tried to fabricate a story before eventually admitting to ordering the potassium cyanide, but said his wife had asked him to buy it – purportedly the first of several unsubstantiated claims that she was suffering from suicidal ideations. By that point in the conversation, Redfearn had only one more thing to tell his colleague, the affidavit says: 'Stop talking and get a lawyer.' Michelle Redfearn, Ryan Redfearn's wife, has previously declined CNN's requests for comment, saying the couple expects to be called to testify at trial. Text messages between Craig and his wife during her hospitalizations suggest she may have suspected she was being drugged leading up to her death, according to the affidavit. 'It feels more like I feel when I take heavy meds and everything adjusts and moves slowly,' she texted Craig during her first hospitalization. When she said she felt drugged, her husband replied, 'Given our history, I know that must be triggering.' 'Just for the record, I didn't drug you.' One of Angela Craig's sisters told investigators James Craig had drugged his wife several years prior, so she wouldn't be able to stop him from attempting suicide, the affidavit says. And Craig's wife directly accused him of poisoning her when she was discharged from her second hospital stay, the dental employee who saw the potassium cyanide package told investigators, according to the affidavit. Angela's cause of death was acute cyanide and tetrahydrozoline poisoning, with subacute arsenic poisoning listed as a significant condition, according to the coroner's report. Investigators later discovered an email account that had only been accessed using a computer in an exam room at Craig's dental practice, according to the affidavit. Within the account history, investigators uncovered numerous searches related to poisons, including 'how many grams of pure arsenic will kill a human,' and 'Is Arsenic Detectable in Autopsy?' along with YouTube searches for 'how to make poison,' and 'Top 5 Undetectable Poisons That Show No Signs of Foul Play,' the affidavit says. Investigators found the account had been used to place online orders for some of the poisons from those searches, including arsenic and potassium cyanide, according to the affidavit, which provided a timeline. Receipts showed the arsenic was purchased on February 24 and delivered to the Craig home on March 4, just two days before Angela Craig's first hospitalization. The potassium cyanide was ordered on March 8 and delivered to James Craig's office March 13 – the same date the dental employee saw the open package of potassium cyanide there. Investigators also uncovered 'sexually explicit' email exchanges between Craig and a woman named Karin Cain who traveled from Texas to Colorado to visit Craig while his wife was hospitalized, the affidavit says. In an exclusive interview with ABC News in 2023, Cain said she met Craig at a dental convention that February and he told her he was amid a divorce. 'If I had known what was true, I would not have been with this person,' Cain said. Cain denied investigators' assertions that she was part of Craig's motive to allegedly kill his wife, saying they'd only been together for three weeks at the time. Since his arrest, Craig has cycled through a litany of lawyers in the case, at times causing court delays. He initially hired a team of three attorneys to defend him against the charges. In May 2024, Craig replaced them with well-known Denver attorney Harvey Steinberg. But November 21, 2024, the day jury selection for the rescheduled trial was set to begin, Steinberg abruptly requested to withdraw from the case, citing two rules of professional conduct, according to prosecutors. The first states, 'The client persists in a course of action involving the lawyer's services that the lawyer reasonably believes is criminal or fraudulent,' and the second says, 'The client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant or with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement.' Steinberg has not responded to requests for comment. Craig's next attorneys, Lisa Moses and Robert Werking, were appointed for him by the court and the trial was rescheduled for July. But one of those lawyers, Werking, soon found himself in legal trouble: On June 14, he was cited for a misdemeanor weapons violation, court records show. Then on June 29, he was arrested for felony fourth-degree arson at his home, according to Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office spokesperson John Bartmann. When deputies responded to the house fire, Werking was sitting on the porch, Bartmann said. Last week, Werking filed a motion to withdraw from Craig's case, which was granted on July 2, prosecutors said. To defend himself against his own alleged crimes, Werking retained Liz Delay and David Beller – two of the attorneys who originally represented Craig. 'Being a defense lawyer necessarily means bearing the burden of living at all times in other people's trauma,' Beller said in a statement to CNN, adding that Werking is seeking mental health treatment. 'I'm asking the public give him and others like him grace, compassion, and withhold judgment, knowing that the constant fight for justice takes out soldiers, but others are always lined up to ensure that constitutional protections are spared for no one.' Werking has not entered pleas. Moses remains as counsel for Craig, and an additional attorney, Ashley Whitham, has also joined his defense team. One day after Steinberg withdrew from the case, prosecutors added a solicitation to commit murder charge and an additional solicitation to commit perjury charge against Craig, alleging he plotted to kill four people from behind bars while awaiting trial. 'The worst, dirtiest detective in the world is on my case. Her name is Bobbi Olson, we have to discredit her,' the defendant wrote in a letter from jail, referring to the lead detective investigating his wife's murder. Prosecutors introduced the letter during a February preliminary hearing on the new charges. Craig tried to convince a fellow inmate, Nathaniel Harris, to kill Olson, along with an officer referred to in court only as Officer Hillstrand, who investigators say they have not been able to identify, and two other inmates housed in the detention facility's medical unit with Craig, prosecutors said. Craig also wrote letters to Harris' ex-wife, Kasiani 'Kasi' Konstantinidis, in an attempt to convince her to 'fabricate evidence,' according to prosecutors. Law enforcement intercepted one of the letters during a cell search and testified during the hearing that Craig offered 'essentially a blank check' for Konstantinidis to fabricate texts, phone records and photographs to back up a fake story about her being friends with Angela Craig. Another investigator testified that they retrieved a second letter to Konstantinidis – unopened – which indicated Craig believed his case hinged on 'being able to find someone to say Angela was suicidal.' Craig allegedly wanted Konstantinidis to sell the story not just to the district attorney's office, but also to his own attorney at the time, Steinberg, who then withdrew from the case.

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