Professor Belinda Beck

And then we looked at a whole lot of risk factors for falling.

These are functional things that are really important to keep people on their feet because we know that fractures are normally a result of a fall.

And these were things like tandem walk, walking along a straight line heel to toes and timing people and standing up and sitting down out of a chair, timing how long that takes, looking at people's posture and straight, a whole bunch of those factors.

And then at the end of it, we just compared the outcomes between those two groups.

That was basically it in a nutshell.

This was what was so wonderful about it.

We did show that the hyrit group actually did improve lumbar spine BMD.

And, you know, so these are the vertebral bones that are often affected by osteoporosis.

And these are the ones where fractures occur and you end up with the dowager's hump and that sort of, they call it a kyphosis.

Yeah, they were able to grow spine BMD.

They were also able to grow a little bit of BMD at the hip.

But what we saw at the hip was more there was a change in bone structure.

So thickness of the cortex of the bone and in ways that would make the hip more resistant to fracture.

So it wasn't so much a BMD change.

It was more of a structural change.

And this was a really interesting finding and

Because when I saw the BMD results, I thought, how can this be?

They don't seem to be changing.

But actually, the body is far smarter than scientists.

It will change itself to best respond to the loading in a way that is far more practical.