by Stephen Holt, Timonium Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach
If you're eating the same amount of protein you ate at 35, you're almost certainly undereating it. The research on protein needs after 50 is clear, and the standard government...
The honest answer is partial – and the reasons are more encouraging than most physicians have time to explain. Bone loss after menopause is real and measurable. The documented...
Bone responds to mechanical demand. That four-word summary covers the entire mechanism, and understanding it explains why the types of exercise most often recommended for women...
Calcium and vitamin D are real factors in bone health after menopause. They are also frequently used as substitutes for the interventions that matter most — and that substitution...
Walking is the most common exercise recommendation women receive after menopause. For cardiovascular health, mood, blood sugar regulation, and joint mobility, that recommendation...
Not all exercise builds bone. The type of mechanical stress matters — and the exercises most commonly recommended for older women are often the least effective for bone density....
A DEXA scan gives you a number. Here’s what that number actually means for your fracture risk – and what it doesn’t tell you.
After menopause, bone loss accelerates faster than at any other point in a woman’s life. Here’s what’s driving it – and what the research shows actually reverses it.
The research on building muscle after 60 is more encouraging than most people have been led to believe. The ability doesn’t disappear – it just requires more deliberate management.
