Belinda R. Beck

The sun has just risen in Australia, and it's tomorrow.

She's Professor Belinda Beck.

Dr. Beck is a professor at the Griffith University and the director of the Bone Clinic Institute.

She graduated from the University of Queensland and from the University of Oregon.

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Sometimes when I encounter women in my practice who have osteoporosis, I inevitably ask the question, do you exercise? And the response usually is, oh, yes, I walk all over.

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Griffith University by Professor Belinda Beck and she found that uh women and men put through uh heavy resistance and impact training were able to strengthen their bones by two to four percent now that's a very conservative number for

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study but because they it varies and you can go quite further than that so there is solid evidence lots of studies around exercise and resistance training and impact training and bone density

Bone health is something many of us probably don't give much thought to until we're told we have low bone density, osteopenia or osteoporosis, or we experience a fracture.

My guest today is Professor Belinda Beck, an exercise physiologist, lead researcher and expert in bone health, Her work has helped change the way we understand exercise as a treatment for osteoporosis, particularly the role of resistance training and impact exercise in improving bone strength.

She's the founder of The Bone Clinic, a world-leading clinic specialising in bone health, and O'Nero, an evidence-based exercise program designed to help people improve their bone health.

Today we're going to talk about what actually makes our bones stronger, what can weaken them, what we can do to protect our bone health as we age, and why it matters so much for our long-term health and independence.

Professor Belinda Beck, welcome to Beyond the Surface.

Thank you, delighted to be here.

I'm delighted to have you.

I understand.

There's a Pagan Grimoire article by Rebecca Swaner, "Moon Gods and Goddesses: Deities of Lunar Magic and Mysticism"; an Eddie Monline article on the history of the word lunatic; a NASA article on moon phases; a history.com article by Belinda Beck on European wolf trials; and then again, like, a dozen [laughs] shy, a little shy of a dozen PubMed articles and some other books that will be listed out.

I'm really glad you brought up the wolf trials, because in third grade I was the defense attorney-

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Yeah, totally.

I had, I had Belinda Beck on the show, and we were talking primarily about bone density, because that's her forte.

And she was saying, you know...

She was saying something about runners, and I had s- oh, this is what it was.

And I now know if I had left it to 70, which is the age in Australia where men and women can get a free DEXA, I would've most likely had very advanced osteoporosis.

So not only did my doctor notice and respond to my result, he was able to refer me to the Anero Bone Density Program, and this is based on the research led by Belinda Beck.

And you might recall, she was my guest on the Eating For You podcast in episode 141.

So if bone density is not something you've looked into yet, then I really do encourage you to listen to that episode.

Onuru is a program.

It's kind of a franchise that was developed by Dr. Belinda Beck at the Bone Clinic in Australia.

It involves high-intensity resistance training using weights, barbell squats, deadlifts, overhead press.

some high-impact exercise that's safely performed, jumping to trigger bone-building responses, balance and coordination, because after all, broken bones are more about falls, you know, lack of proper balance and strength.