Women 40+: Become Unbreakable (The Midlife Muscle Fix) w/ Dr. Vonda Wright

Coming up on this episode of the Dr. Hyman Show. Women and men age differently. Women are already winning the longevity race. We live 4.5 to 6 years longer than our partners. But we do not age well. For women, I call 35 to 45 the critical decade. Double board certified. orthopedic surgeon right. He's a recognized voice on performance and longevity. Bringing pro-level science to women's everyday health. Take us down where we were, where it went wrong, and what we have to do now. Historically, the research dollars that are allocated to things that predominantly affect women over 40 is about one to two percent of the total research dollars. And yet women over 40 are 25% of the population. Created a six-week protocol, you talked about strength as your antidote declining. What about the role of hormones? What about the role of food? What about the role with the strength training and other exercise to be unbreakable. Vonda, welcome to the Doctor Hyman Show. So good to have you. Uh followed your work for a while and um I just think you've got a lot of good things to say. Thank you so much for having me. Plus it's really cool that you're a woman orthopedic surgeon because there's not that many of them. I think you said six percent. My daughter just got into orthopedic residency at Dartmouth, so I'm very proud of her. She there were nine hundred applicants for

four spots and she got one of'em and was the only woman. So it's funny'cause a lot of the bone issues really relate to women. P predominantly and the men get affected too, but it's It's interesting that's how it's such a man's profession, but You know, one of the things I sort of wanna dive in is as as you've sort of written this new book, Unbreakable, which is out now. You you kind of dive into this aspect of women's longevity and health. What I found in studying longevity is that

And I think you've seen the same thing is that as we get older We seem to see a progressive decline in health and function. across the population. And so we've come to accept this as normal. Uh as just a completely normal phenomena that there's not much we can do about. I was so inspired when I was younger uh by this book, which you kinda hinted at when we were chatting before the podcast. Called Growing Old Is Not For Sissy. It was a it was a it was a photography book about

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