There are many elderly patients in my clinic who often have osteoporosis and ask me every time they visit why I have taken a lot of calcium supplements with poor results. In this regard, I would like to briefly introduce the misconceptions of osteoporosis treatment here. First of all, the biggest misconception in the treatment of osteoporosis is that many patients think that as long as they take enough calcium, their osteoporosis should get better, or at least should not be further aggravated. However, according to our clinical experience, for many patients, calcium supplementation alone is often not enough to maintain the total amount of bone calcium in the body, and even some patients with osteoporosis who have a well-rounded diet should not be taking calcium supplements in the first place, and have spent a lot of money very wrongfully taking calcium supplements for many years, but the bone mass is still very low. Therefore, it is important for the general public to know a little bit about osteoporosis, which after all concerns the quality of life of tens of millions of elderly osteoporosis patients in their later years. Secondly, in the human body, bones are not static, relatively old bones are constantly removed, new bone is constantly produced, in the normal human body, this growth and decline is dynamic and balanced, in which two types of cells play a key role – osteoclasts and osteoblasts. Osteoclasts are a type of bone cell that perform the function of bone resorption. Osteoclasts and osteoblasts are the functional counterparts. In synergy, both play an important role in the development and formation of bones. However, in patients with osteoporosis, the function of osteoclasts becomes dysfunctional, and excess bone is constantly destroyed and lost, while new bone cannot be replenished in a timely manner, which means that the speed of osteoclasts is greater than that of osteoblasts. This is the reason why many elderly people have osteoporosis even with calcium supplements. Therefore, for many patients with osteoporosis, the amount of calcium taken is far from the amount of calcium lost from the bones, so the focus of treatment should also be on reducing bone calcium loss, that is, inhibiting the function of osteoclasts. In recent years, medical science has made a breakthrough in this area, and many new treatments have emerged, including injections and infusions for osteoporosis, and nasal sprays for osteoporosis, but the key is to proceed scientifically under the guidance of a specialist, rather than taking oral calcium supplements in a uniform manner.