Osteobelt for osteopenia

[Anonymous]

Anyone else hear about this on NPR?
https://www.osteoboost.com/osteoboost-clinical-trial
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/08/nx-s1-5843308/bone-density-loss-vibrating-plates-belt

Seeing my doctor in a few months to get a follow-up DEXA scan and curious if anyone here knows anything about it.

- Mid 50s, menopause, on HRT with osteopenia

[Anonymous]

First thought— the FDA approves many devices that have no clear benefit to the user.

That being said, there are bone growth stimulators that have been proven useful in certain clinical situations( multilevel fusion, non healing fractures, etc) Some use US waves, some are electrical.

This is interesting since the belt uses vibrations and bone gets stronger with resistance.

What does your doctor think?

[Anonymous]

I stand on a vibration plate for 20 minutes/day in socks (no barrier to cushion the vibration.) They say they are used for astronauts to combat bone density issues in zero gravity conditions. I don't know if it works yet or not, but if nothing else it's good for lymphatic drainage and stress relief.

[Anonymous]

I’d try it but $1k is pretty steep

I recently started HRT and vitamin K2 so I’ll give that a year to see if there are any improvements. Maybe by then there will be more info and the price will have dropped a little.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d try it but $1k is pretty steep

I recently started HRT and vitamin K2 so I’ll give that a year to see if there are any improvements. Maybe by then there will be more info and the price will have dropped a little.

It is steep, but I feel like I need to do something more than what I am doing. My grandmother lost the ability to sit up straight and then was confined to a wheelchair. I'm afraid of following in her footsteps. My mother has osteoporosis, but is trying to build some muscle. She took fosomax when she was diagnosed with osteopenia, but I think that was the old-school way of doing things. It helped, though -- she took it for a few years and the bone loss halted. She didn't bump up to osteoporosis for almost another 25 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d try it but $1k is pretty steep

I recently started HRT and vitamin K2 so I’ll give that a year to see if there are any improvements. Maybe by then there will be more info and the price will have dropped a little.

can you explain the K2 connection and how it relates to Vitamin D and calcium?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d try it but $1k is pretty steep

I recently started HRT and vitamin K2 so I’ll give that a year to see if there are any improvements. Maybe by then there will be more info and the price will have dropped a little.

can you explain the K2 connection and how it relates to Vitamin D and calcium?

It directs calcium into the bones instead of the arteries.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else hear about this on NPR?
https://www.osteoboost.com/osteoboost-clinical-trial
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/08/nx-s1-5843308/bone-density-loss-vibrating-plates-belt

Seeing my doctor in a few months to get a follow-up DEXA scan and curious if anyone here knows anything about it.

- Mid 50s, menopause, on HRT with osteopenia

To build bone, one needs to use the muscles. That is scientifically proven. But you need to use certain muscles, and this has been outlined in the LIFTMOR study.

You also need to use weights with feet on the floor--and not just machines that have your feet OFF the floor.

The LIFTMOR study showed that these exercises work:

dead lifts
jumping
overhead presses
goblet squats

The exercises in video:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40nVQeuMObUT-cZCEsuT2LABwD9D-oqG

Summary of the study:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26243363/

--Person who lifted weights and took medicine and moved from osteoporosis to osteopenia and will soon be off the medicine