Navigating bone health: early life influences and advanced strategies for improvement and injury prevention (#214 rebroadcast)

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It was released to subscribers initially, but we're opening this one up to everybody so that those of you who are not subscribers might get a sense of what the AMAs are all about. In this episode, we discuss why fracture-related death rises steeply after the age of 65, especially following hip and pelvic breaks. and why prevention must start decades earlier, what bone mineral density is, and how dexoscans measure it, and how to read a T score and Z score, how bone changes with age in men and women, the outsize effects of menopause and estrogen loss, and the role of vitamin D, calcium, parathyroid hormone, and magnesium in bone turnover, the difference between healthy bone osteopenia and osteoporosis and when each diagnosis is made, major risk factors for low BMD, when to start screening sooner than most guidelines suggest, and how often to repeat DEXA, which type of exercises best improve or preserve BMD, nutritional priorities for bone, how weight loss without resistance training accelerates bone loss, and why combining diet with heavy load exercise can offset it, pharmacologic options when lifestyle options are not enough, and strategies to minimize bone loss during bed rest or injury.

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