Drinking Alcohol, How Does This Affect Bone Health? - Dr. Siris (VIDEO)
Dr. Siris explains how drinking alcohol affects women's bone health.
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Dr. Siris:
But the second thing that alcohol does is many people when they’re intoxicated fall down a lot. If you fall down and you have weaker bones you’re more likely to break them. And finally, in individuals who are truly alcoholic their nutrition isn’t very good, that has a bad effect on bone. They fall down a lot, they may break bone and of course there are the metabolic things I mentioned earlier.
About Dr. Ethel Siris, M.D.:
Dr. Ethel S. Siris is the Director at the Toni Stabile Osteoporosis Center, Columbia University, is the Madeline C. Stabile Professor of Medicine at Columbia University, and is the immediate past-President for the National Osteoporosis Foundation. She is board certified in endocrinology and internal medicine, focusing on osteoporosis, metabolic bone disease, and bone and mineral metabolism.
