Dr. Mary Claire Haver

Did it show fracture prevention?

Yeah.

And there's more to fracture than just your bone density.

Yes, yeah.

So if you don't fall, if you're more, if you're less stiff, if you have better mobility, better balance, like less likelihood of falling out.

All right.

So back to fractures.

I get this question all the time and our clinic has dug into what research is available, but I'd like to hear it from you.

How much estrogen, estradiol levels specifically, is needed for bone protection?

So for our listeners, you know, bone is not static.

It is constantly turning over and until 30-ish, maybe in our late 20s, we're laying, we're

building more bone than we're chewing up.

But we're constantly, like your bones turn over every 10 years or so.

Our muscles do something similar too.

So when we go through menopause, and with aging, we accelerate how much we chew versus what we lay down.

And in menopause, it goes crazy.

where we chew up way more bone than we lay down.

And that leads to bone loss and then osteoporosis.

And even maybe in perimenopause.

Oh, yeah.