Hey everyone. Welcome to today's episode of the Run to the Top Extra Kick Daily Podcast.

I am your host, one of the coaches here at Runners Connect,

Haley Munn.

And it's great to be talking to you guys today.

I've done a couple of podcasts before,

recently on stress fractures and nutrition

to prevent stress fractures and to treat stress fractures.

This one is a little more general.

It's about how to improve your bone density,

how to prevent loss of bone density, which of

of course is going to have a knock on effect on your stress

fracture risk, but is just a really important topic for runners generally. As runners we might think that our

sport with all its pounding and impact will prevent us from losing bone as we age because of course after the age of sort of 30 to 40

we we do begin to lose bone and it comes increasingly difficult to to build or

even maintain bone but actually some studies of showing that just

running especially just lots of easy or steady running is not actually enough to prevent this decline in bone health.

And actually there are other things that we need to take into account as well.

This is especially true for women who have been through the

menopause because after this the reduction in the female hormone estrogen actually hastens

this bone loss and makes it really difficult to build bone.

Some studies actually suggest that repeated low impact sports like distance running

may not be as good at building bone as

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