Dr Natalie Crawford

We generally tend to see X, Y, Z. So rather than like, you absolutely have to do this at these different times.

So the most popular class for females right now, I just saw this statistic somewhere, is Pilates.

And my daughter loves her Legree and gets on that machine.

It's like, you know...

Where does that fall in all of this?

I have a lot of Pilates.

There's a term called geroprotective, geroprotection.

So, gero is the term we use for aging.

So, gerontology is the part of medicine that focuses on the elderly patients.

And so, when we look in females and the organs that are the most geroprotective, it is the muscle.

And the ovaries go away.

We have a shelf life in our ovaries.

So then we're just really left with our muscle as far as protecting us in those elderly years as we age.

And it's directly correlative to the amount of muscle that we have.

Because if you have a lot of muscle, you're going to have stronger bones.

So when my patients come in and they are looking to prevent osteoporosis or they've gotten a diagnosis of low bone density, you know, what can they do?

I've discussed the Lift More trial.

The new study just came out May of this year, 2025, and they looked at very similar to the protocol used in Lyft more.

So there was a control group where they just did nothing.

Then a group that did the they did three days a week and they did resistance training and jump training.