{"id":205299,"date":"2025-02-03T03:26:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/injectable-bone-gel-may-be-a-radically-better-treatment-for-osteoporosis"},"modified":"2025-02-03T03:26:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:26:46","slug":"injectable-bone-gel-may-be-a-radically-better-treatment-for-osteoporosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/injectable-bone-gel-may-be-a-radically-better-treatment-for-osteoporosis","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInjectable bone\u201d gel may be a radically better treatment for osteoporosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/injectable-bone-gel-may-be-a-radically-better-treatment-for-osteoporosis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Osteoporosis is typically treated with orally administered drugs, which may take up to a year to have a noticeable effect. A new injectable hydrogel, however, is claimed to drastically boost bone density in as little as two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The disease occurs when there\u2019s an imbalance between a person\u2019s osteoblasts \u2013 which are bone-building cells \u2013 and their osteoclasts, which are bone-degrading cells.<\/p>\n<p>Ordinarily, osteoclasts serve a beneficial function by reshaping bones so they become stronger over time. When those cells outnumber the osteoblasts, though, there\u2019s an overall loss of bone tissue, resulting in weaker, more fragile bones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Osteoporosis is typically treated with orally administered drugs, which may take up to a year to have a noticeable effect. A new injectable hydrogel, however, is claimed to drastically boost bone density in as little as two weeks. The disease occurs when there\u2019s an imbalance between a person\u2019s osteoblasts \u2013 which are bone-building cells \u2013 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}