bone

We might come back to that later on.

But I noticed in the paper that you've published about this topic, about what adults worry about, that – Bones wasn't the number one.

So I want to ask you, what were they worried about?

People are worried about cancer, getting dementia, about their weight, putting on weight and things.

exercise? Absolutely.

It's a very specialised field and particularly for older adults with other chronic conditions, you really just don't want to go to any old gym and find yourself, you know, one thing, the environment has got to be supportive and something that you'll do regularly, but you really need the help of an exercise physiologist who can develop a specific program, particularly if someone has osteoporosis, it's even more important to that they don't do exercises that is not helpful for their osteoporosis.

And there's a really good guide about exercise on the Healthy Bones Australia website.

So if anyone's interested, have a look at that.

we're working maybe that takes you to know it might need to take longer and if there are bones in it chicken breast there's no bones yeah you know what

i mean bone in takes a little longer to cook it does either way i'm gonna burn the hell out of it because i'm gonna i'm gonna smack it till it goes out of style Bone or no bone, this is going to get smacked.

All right? They have bills for that.

I'm just letting you know.

Okay.

That's the trick.

Bone in.

Bone in.

His hips wasn't exactly right.

Bone met bone or something anyway.

he was on crutches for the first nine years of his life.

And a lot of people, a lot of people don't know that, but I think that's why he was so, he thought so much of me because he understood what it was and what it was like.

But let's look at what degeneration involves on a physiological level.

Bone is living tissue, right? It's constantly undergoing remodeling through the coordinated activity of these things called osteoblasts, which build bone, and osteoclasts, which break down or resorb bone.

When I was in school, I'd remember osteoblast, B, builders, osteoclasts, break down bone, or crash, crush, even though they don't literally crush, but that's just the mnemonic I used to remember it.

That process is influenced by mechanical loading, right? So weight bearing, hormonal signals, inflammatory mediators, nutritional status, and normal cellular metabolism.

Peter, this one's for you.

Are you ready? Ready? This one is called Machines of Bone and Blood.

This feels

easy.

Sorry.

Okay.

Machines of Bone and Blood.

Flesh golems.

Once you stretch it that much, it's not the same.

Bone heals a lot better and more structurally sound than when you have that degree of a sprain.

And that changed everything for me.

Wow.

I'm sorry if you've got a bit mixed messages there.

I'm Anita McLaughlin, the host of this episode today, where we're talking about a subject that is very dear to my heart, bone health.

Now, I've been reversing my osteoporosis diagnosis, which I got about eight years ago at the age of 51.

I'm 59 now.

And that came about because I had an overactive parathyroid gland.

That was the reason that my bones started to decline.

The calcium was literally being taken out of them.

And I've been monitoring my bones very carefully over those last eight years.