Dr. Douglas Lucas
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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The building side, there's a marker called P1NP.
It's a long... P1N?
P1N is a Nancy P, long acronym.
But it's basically a type of collagen.
And so when your osteoblasts, these cells that build bone, are doing that, they release this into the bloodstream and you can measure it.
Osteoclasts, the cells that break down bone, release something called CTX or C telepepta.
That one's easier to say.
And CTX also released in the bloodstream.
You can measure it and you can objectify these things.
So quantifiably, you can determine are you in more of a
bone building dominant mode or more of a breakdown dominant mode.
We see this in the phase three trials for every bone drug that's out there they're used.
They're used in research for you know, nutrition interventions, supplement interventions.
I mean, these things are used across the board.
They're awesome.
And so now we have the opportunity to use them in conjunction with measuring serum or blood levels of hormones to understand what are the hormones doing to your bone turnover.
And this is beautiful because again, it's the only organ system that really gives you this feedback.
so for our patients that have you know they have bone loss osteoporosis they're worried about fractures we're talking about bone metabolism now if they're on hormones we can say okay well what is this form of estrogen whatever you know transdermal gel cream patch whatever you're using
What are those levels of estradiol?
I also measure FSH, which we can talk about, which is kind of a feedback loop hormone.
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