Medically Speaking with Dr. Eve Glazier
Sep 13, 2026 · 50 min · 12 segments
Bone health is a lifelong process, but changes in bone density often happen without symptoms. In this episode, Dr. Eve Glazier talks with UCLA Health endocrinologists Julie Bernthal, MD, and Albert…
Eve GlazierHost
Albert ShiehGuest
Julie BernthalGuest
I mean, I think everyone would really, um, appreciate just establishing some bone basics.
Um, I think a lot of people think of bones as just these kind of, uh, hard, static, you know, kind of scaffolding for the body.
[smacks lips] Well, as you mentioned, bones are sort of, they are scaffolding, right?
We need something to hold up the muscles and the organs and everything else, but they're really so much more.
They are made up of different types of cells, um, that sort of, over time, help to rebuild the skeleton.
There are bone-building cells that we think of, and they're called osteoblasts, and there are cells that break down bone, and they're called osteoclasts.
And so sort of over a lifetime is this interesting balance, and one type of cell takes the lead at certain times, and the other one takes the back seat, um, as we build bone.
I think that for a lot of people it's gonna be a news flash that bones are living active tissue.
And in fact, you know, if you think about it, like, your skeleton today is completely different than your skeleton from 10 years ago, you know, because this, this-
I mean, I think everyone would really, um, appreciate just establishing some bone basics.
Um, I think a lot of people think of bones as just these kind of, uh, hard, static, you know, kind of scaffolding for the body.
[smacks lips] Well, as you mentioned, bones are sort of, they are scaffolding, right?
We need something to hold up the muscles and the organs and everything else, but they're really so much more.
They are made up of different types of cells, um, that sort of, over time, help to rebuild the skeleton.
There are bone-building cells that we think of, and they're called osteoblasts, and there are cells that break down bone, and they're called osteoclasts.
And so sort of over a lifetime is this interesting balance, and one type of cell takes the lead at certain times, and the other one takes the back seat, um, as we build bone.
I think that for a lot of people it's gonna be a news flash that bones are living active tissue.
And in fact, you know, if you think about it, like, your skeleton today is completely different than your skeleton from 10 years ago, you know, because this, this-
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