Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

I'm Melanie Beasley here with Brittany Vincent.

We are both licensed and registered dietitians, and today on our podcast, we're talking about something

that affects so many people, especially as we age. The title of our show is habits and foods

that strengthen bones. Brittany and I specifically want to address how we can maintain and even build bone density.

Well, I'm happy to be here today with you, Melanie, and I think this is such an important topic,

and I have clients coming in, I would say, weekly, and this is part of what they want to talk

about. Yeah. What can they do to help to build their bone?

I think when you're in that appointment with your doctor, they scare the daylights out of you.

Yes. So you walk in feeling like a strong, vital woman or man, and you walk out feeling like you're made of graham crackers. It's a terrible diagnosis.

That is not a good feeling.

And I think the message we really want to get across today is there are plenty of positive things we can implement in our day-to-day routines that will stop or slow the progression of bone loss.

And in some cases, even build bone.

I feel like you do not hear that very often.

You can actually build bone.

Naturally, without medications.

Yeah, it's amazing.

Yes.

So if you've been told that, we're here to tell you,

we, a nutritional weight and wellness,

have seen multiple people improve their bone density naturally without medication. We have. It's a whole kitten caboodle

that you need to do. We're not saying it's easy, but we have the tools. You can do it. And personally,

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