Reviewed by Dr.Vijaykumar Kamat & written by Dr. Shivani Desai.

Dietary Nutrients that Influence Fracture Repair

Fractures are healed by the body’s self-repairing process, which is natural and spontaneous. However, there are certain dietary nutrients that influence and enhance the process of recovery. These nutrients include calcium, magnesium, potassium, silicon, vitamin D, and vitamin K.

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Can Diet Help Heal a Fracture?

Bone fracture is often a result of stress or a high-force impact that the bone cannot withstand. When a bone is fractured, the body must produce new bone cells to repair the break. Our body is guided by complex intelligence, which helps the bone repair itself and the crack or break is gradually fused back. There is scientific evidence, which shows that food has an important role in influencing the speed and comfort level during the repair process. These dietary changes made in response to a fracture can also help strengthen the complete skeletal structure and reduce the risk of fracture in the future.

We are providing the necessary food recommendations for Fracture that can help speed the process of healing.

Recommended Foods:

• Calcium and Magnesium are quite vital in the formation of bones and optimum strength.
• Increase food rich in calcium like milk, yogurt, lassi, wholegrain cereals, etc…
• Food rich in magnesium such as dried fruits and nuts, wheat germ, banana, broccoli
• Increase your intake of dried fruits and nuts to maintain healthy bones and heal fractures quickly. Include seeds like flax, pumpkin, and sesame, nuts like Brazil and almonds, dark chocolate, molasses, and dried herbs
• Include potassium-rich foods like bananas, sweet potatoes, avocados, dried apricots, and pistachios; seeds like pumpkin, sunflower, and squash; fish like salmon, halibut, and tuna, beans, and Medjool dates.
• Foods rich in Silicon foods are onions, bell peppers, apples, raisins, raw cabbage, cucumber, carrots, and oranges.
• Fish, cod liver oil, oysters, sardines (with bones), organic eggs, and mushrooms are rich in Vitamin D
• Foods high in Vitamin K are Fresh and dry herbs, dark leafy greens (collards, kale, chard), scallions, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, cabbage, prunes
• Include foods that are abundant sources of Lysine. These include dairy products, fish, lentils, chickpeas, beef, pork, and soy products.

Foods for Moderate Consumption:

Limit food rich in oxalates (such as spinach, fenugreek, beetroots, and rhubarb) High oxalate is known to reduce calcium absorption.

Foods to Avoid:

• It is best to avoid tea, coffee, caffeine, alcohol, and refined sugars.
• Excess of oil and salty foods can also reduce the calcium in the body.
• Avoid food rich in vitamin C like lemon and tamarind which reduce the calcium absorption

Home Remedies:

The dandelion plant has an abundance of organic magnesium. Freshly prepared juice from the leaves and roots or leaves alone are valuable for all bone disorders, it is often mixed with juices of carrot leaves and turnips for treating fractures.