Dr. Peter Attia

Peter, is this graph accurate, roughly? Yes, this would be accurate.

Peter, is this graph accurate, roughly? Yes, this would be accurate.

It's preventing decline. Most of us reach our peak bone mass in our 20s. So the name of the game is prevent it from getting any weaker. The good news is, by the way, I had a woman on my podcast named Belinda Beck who studies osteoporosis. She's from Australia.

It's preventing decline. Most of us reach our peak bone mass in our 20s. So the name of the game is prevent it from getting any weaker. The good news is, by the way, I had a woman on my podcast named Belinda Beck who studies osteoporosis. She's from Australia.

And she did this amazing study there called the Lift More Study where she enrolled a bunch of women with osteoporosis who had never done any resistance training. And half of them were randomized to the usual activities like yoga and things of that nature. And then half of them were randomized to heavy resistance training.

And she did this amazing study there called the Lift More Study where she enrolled a bunch of women with osteoporosis who had never done any resistance training. And half of them were randomized to the usual activities like yoga and things of that nature. And then half of them were randomized to heavy resistance training.

And the women that did the heavy resistance training actually, first of all, on DEXA saw no change in bone density or saw a very minor reduction in bone density compared to a significant reduction in the women who were not resistance training. But more importantly, on CT scans,

And the women that did the heavy resistance training actually, first of all, on DEXA saw no change in bone density or saw a very minor reduction in bone density compared to a significant reduction in the women who were not resistance training. But more importantly, on CT scans,

The women who had done the resistance training actually showed an increase in cortical thickening of bone, suggesting that it might even be that DEXA is not by itself sufficient to fully assess bone health. It assesses bone density, but not necessarily bone health. And her hypothesis is that these women might actually be getting stronger bones, even if the density is going down just a little.

The women who had done the resistance training actually showed an increase in cortical thickening of bone, suggesting that it might even be that DEXA is not by itself sufficient to fully assess bone health. It assesses bone density, but not necessarily bone health. And her hypothesis is that these women might actually be getting stronger bones, even if the density is going down just a little.

But either way, even if density were sufficient, the fact that their density went down so much less than the others was amazing. And it's actually, you know, if you can find the video and link to it on YouTube, Belinda Beck's Lift More study. It's just an awesome video to watch these little old ladies walking around picking up, you know, dead lifting their body weight and stuff like that.

But either way, even if density were sufficient, the fact that their density went down so much less than the others was amazing. And it's actually, you know, if you can find the video and link to it on YouTube, Belinda Beck's Lift More study. It's just an awesome video to watch these little old ladies walking around picking up, you know, dead lifting their body weight and stuff like that.

Yeah, calcium, vitamin D, protein. Everything that's going to support muscle mass as well because that's the other thing that we found here. So we looked at your body fat percentage. Again, in absolute terms, not that high, but for your age, pretty high. Because you're young, so you're at the 80th percentile for your age. And your visceral fat was at the 50th percentile for your age.

Yeah, calcium, vitamin D, protein. Everything that's going to support muscle mass as well because that's the other thing that we found here. So we looked at your body fat percentage. Again, in absolute terms, not that high, but for your age, pretty high. Because you're young, so you're at the 80th percentile for your age. And your visceral fat was at the 50th percentile for your age.

So we don't really care that much about total body fat. We care a lot more about visceral fat. So the fact that your visceral fat was at the 50th percentile, visceral fat is the fat that's around your organs. That's the more metabolically deranging, damaging fat. We actually have a very high standard. We want to see that below the 10th percentile. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

So we don't really care that much about total body fat. We care a lot more about visceral fat. So the fact that your visceral fat was at the 50th percentile, visceral fat is the fat that's around your organs. That's the more metabolically deranging, damaging fat. We actually have a very high standard. We want to see that below the 10th percentile. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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