On my podcast today, I'm with Dr. Doug Lucas, who's from the US.

He's an orthopaedic surgeon and a bone and hormone specialist.

And we really talk a lot about osteoporosis.

What it is, what it means to have it, the risks of having it and how we can prevent it.

We talk about hormones, we talk about exercise.

It's so important because osteoporosis really is common as we age.

So have a listen and hope you learn.

So Doug, we're here to talk about bones mainly.

And I've been quite vocal in the past saying that one of the reasons that I take hormones

is because I'm really scared of osteoporosis but lots of people don't even know what osteoporosis is

and I'm actually I'm less scared of having a fractured hip but I'm more scared about osteoporosis of my spine

and I've doctored hundreds of women in the past with osteoporosis of my spine and I've doctored hundreds of women in the past with osteoporosis of their

spine and they've been very disabled they've been deformed in their shape but they've also been in a lot of

pain they're on morphine they're on laxatives they're on antis sickness every time they cough and sneeze

it could be another little micro fracture so

osteoporosis is a real condition but it's I think quite a scary diagnosis that people just

like are brushing under the carpet they're not it's not sensationalized enough really. So you are a bone expert. I'm really keen just

to really unpick and go back to the basics. Like our bones are more than just a skeleton

that hold up our body, aren't they? Oh my gosh, absolutely. Yeah. So my journey as an orthopedic surgeon really taught me a lot about bones, what they are, how

they heal.

I mean, literally how they feel, right?

But as I exited out of orthopedics, I got into the space of prevention, integrative medicine,

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