Dr. Douglas Lucas
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first heard Jul 2026
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because my gut told me that birth control is bad for bones.
But when I looked into this to try to create this like, again, public service announcement, what I found is that because the progestins, the synthetic progesterones in birth control tend to be anabolic, there's a couple of exceptions there, but they tend to be anabolic and actually push on androgen receptors.
Likely because of that, they do not seem to be associated with bone loss.
There are some that are though, and I actually don't remember the names off the top of my head, so I'm not going to say any out loud.
But definitely for a woman who is suppressing her cycle using birth control, understand what's happening with your bum.
So the first thing I would say is, how long has it been?
How long have you been working with her to see that change?
Two years.
Yeah, so two years is still relatively short, right?
You are seeing improvement in two years, which is great.
So the first thing I would say is, let's be patient, because it's probably all working anyway.
But if you wanted to optimize exercise, yes, resistance is great and we should continue to do resistance.
But the bones really do respond to impact.
And the challenge then is how do you do impact in a way that doesn't hurt the body?
I love the concept of plyometrics and jumping, but it's really hard to recreate in studies.
Like how I jump and how you jump and how you land is going to look very different.
So how do we recreate that intervention?
There are some studies on some very simple things like heel drops.
Not sexy.
Yeah.
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