Re: Milk basic protein promotes bone formation
"Juhana Harju" <nope@mail.fi> wrote in message
news:5aajhvF2n4htgU1@mid.individual . net ...
> Milk basic protein promotes bone formation is healthy young women
> according
> to a new study. There are previous studies showing that whey protein has
> some beneficial effect as well but milk basec protein - a fracture of whey
> protein - is more efficient.
>
Look at this (about MEN, and _not_ women):
* w w w .ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11471735&dopt=Abstract
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> Osteoporos Int. 2007 Mar;18(3):385-90. Epub 2006 Oct 18.
> Milk basic protein increases bone mineral density and improves bone
> metabolism in healthy young women.
> Uenishi K, Ishida H, Toba Y, Aoe S, Itabashi A, Takada Y.
> Laboratory of Physiological Nutrition, Kagawa Nutrition University, 3-9-21
> Chiyoda, Sakado-shi, Saitama, 350-0288, Japan.
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> Effect of milk basic protein on bone metabolism in healthy young women.
> INTRODUCTION: Milk has more beneficial effects on bone health than other
> food sources. Recent in vitro and in vivo studies have shown that milk
> whey
> protein, especially its basic protein fraction (milk basic protein, MBP),
> contains several components capable of promoting bone formation and
> inhibiting bone resorption. The object of this study was to examine the
> effect of MBP on the bone mineral density and bone metabolism of healthy
> young women. METHODS: Thirty-five healthy young women were randomly
> assigned
> to treatment with either placebo or MBP (40 mg per day) for 6 months. The
> bone mineral density (BMD) of the lumbar vertebrae L2-L4 of each subject
> was
> measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) at 0 and 6 months of
> treatment. Serum and urine indexes of bone metabolism were measured at 0,
> 3
> and 6 months. All subjects completed the study in accordance with the
> protocol. RESULTS: The mean rate of gain of lumbar BMD in the MBP group
> (1.57%) was significantly higher than in the placebo group (0.13%,
> P=0.042).
> When compared with the placebo group, urinary cross-linked N-telopeptides
> of
> type-I collagen (NTx) were significantly decreased, and serum osteocalcin
> was significantly increased in the MBP group at 6 months. CONCLUSION:
> These
> results suggested that MBP supplementation was effective in increasing BMD
> in young women and that this increase in BMD may be primarily mediated
> through the promotion of bone formation and inhibition of bone resorption
> by
> MBP supplementation. PMID: 17048062
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> * tinyurl . com /ysssep
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> Juhana
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