Dr. Jocelyn Wittstein
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And again, scale wise, it's hard to say, OK, for hormone therapy, if you look at a meta-analysis, we know that this corresponding increase in bone density reduces our hip fracture risk by about 30 percent or vertebral body fracture risk by about 40 percent.
we don't have those exact numbers for like exercise and you can't really take the numbers from medication and be like, this percentage equals this much fracture reduction.
It doesn't work exactly like that.
But my point is, if you just look at the scale of these things, 1% gain is a really big deal.
3% gain is a really big deal.
And if we think about that, I think it just helps people value these exercise interventions more.
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That's terrible.
With her dementia.
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Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, the dementia, of course, you know, the benefits of exercise, which are huge.
Like that is the most protective thing women can do to prevent dementia is exercise for our brains.
But yeah, so for... Build me a protocol.
What I recommend and what I do is a couple of days a week of heavier strength training, making sure you're doing...
like large muscle groups, again, similar to those lift more protocols.
The balance work, I do some of that every day.
Flexibility work, I like to.