Dr. Vonda Wright

Ages, age is the most natural thing we do from the minute of our birth.

But men and women age at different rates, especially after perimenopause with the lack of estrogen.

We age very differently from that point on.

But your point being made is, can we please maximize our bone density and our muscle mass and everything else, frankly,

in our youth when we're probably not aware, right?

When we're in college and doing all the things kids do, it's the last thing on our mind, and yet it's the most critical time because you want to start both your bone and your muscle from the highest possible level.

Now, can you, through lifestyle and hormones, build bone again?

Yes, actually, you can.

But wouldn't it have been better to start out with the maximum?

so that the natural decline doesn't take you into dangerous levels.

For my youngest daughter,

I was worried about, she was a dancer also.

She was teeny tiny, so tiny, even though she had great muscle mass, but she, like me, wasn't having periods.

And so the advice was to put her on birth control to regulate periods.

But I was always uncomfortable with that because she didn't, to be a dancer, she didn't have to be quite as tiny as she was.

And so what we've done now is I've encouraged her to gain a little weight

and get a little bit more body fat.

Because I took her off of that, she only had to gain five pounds, I think I said to you, maybe seven.

And it has more regulated her.

And she's having her own periods now.