Diane:
I am not an endocrinologist and I am not aware of thyroid hormone having any direct/indirect effect on bone health, but I do know that enough years with insufficient thyroid hormone in your body can lead to major deterioration...whether that is indirectly or directly related to thyroid hormone I have no idea.
I am mixed on the issue of Armour. (Armour is "natural" only in that it is derived from dessicated pig thyroid.) While on the one hand armour does contain a small dose of T3 (as well as T2, etc., which no one has much knowledge about yet) and many women swear by it, some of us just can't take it without accelerating Hashimoto's or destabalizing completely. This happened to me and my endo told me that she has had to treat a LOT of men and women for problems that can be attributed to use of armour (she mentioned to me before I "fired" her that she is about to publish a paper about armour triggering a sharp increase in antibodies in many patients even while the rest of their thyroid levels were acceptable). There are many websites right now that have a strong pro-armour bias, but I would caution you to keep your wits about you if you should decide to take it. Maybe you are one of the lucky women for whom it works, eh?
Good luck. 
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