Cass

Thank you for making the time today.

Pleasure.

Lovely to be here.

I've asked you on today to talk about how exercise benefits our bones across our whole life and to talk about the findings, which were surprising to some, from your research on postmenopausal women with low to very low bone mass.

But before we get into all of that, could you please tell us a bit about your background and how you came to be interested in the relationship between exercise and healthy bones?

I have to admit, I'm one of those people who didn't really, I didn't know a lot about bone and I didn't think a lot about bone until I hit menopause.

And then you start to really think about and hear about how important bone health is.

So I think it's the public health need is really important.

And to look at it from the preventative lens as well, what can we do to have that longer health span, as you said?

I wish we learned more about this earlier.

It's so important.

In a previous episode, we had a guest, Dr. Tracey Clissold on, and she talked about the importance of building strong, healthy bones, that important window up until the age of 30.

But for people who didn't listen to that episode, could you please explain what's happening with the building of bones in our first 30 years and why it's so important for parents to understand this?

Thank you.

So what is it about exercise or how do particular types of exercise impact the bone and influence the health of our bones?

Yes, and that's what we're going to talk about.

Before we get to the LIFMO study, can you please explain what starts to happen after 30 or after 20 in terms of bone loss and also how bone loss is accelerated at the time of menopause?

Thank you for that.

And is men's bone loss, because they don't have the same relationship with estrogen, is it a slower decline, like a more gradual decline for men?

Could you tell us a bit about what led you to create this study and what the main aims of the LIFT more clinical trial were?