Chris van Tulleken

You talk about your clinic.

So it has never occurred to me to go to the University of Edinburgh's website and use their calcium calculator.

That seems like a hassle.

I'd have to keep a food diary.

But that is one route to your clinic.

Yeah.

Is to never think about your calcium intake.

Am I oversimplifying it or is that right?

Many of our listeners are in their 20s, 30s, 40s, they're pre or perimenopause.

What are the things at this point that people can do to avoid essentially ending up in your clinic?

a lot of people think that their bones are like rocks.

And that's not true, is it?

Bones are living tissue and they're not just fixed when you hit your mid-twenties.

Tell us about how they keep being changed throughout our lives, what changes them and what we can do to support that process.

So osteoblasts build bone.

The B is for build.

And then osteoclasts are like iconoclasts.

They break things down and the clasts break down the bone.

And that's happening throughout our lives.

That's going on with us sitting here right now.