Every study on protein intake and bone health shows that those that consume the most protein

have the highest bone density, always.

Pregnancy and breastfeeding is just a remarkable process in general, right?

Like this amazing thing that women can do to bring life into the world.

But that baby will take from you what it needs to survive.

So while you're pregnant, it is very likely that you will lose bone

density. I can't tell you how many women. It's like 1,100 calories for whatever reason seems to be

the number, which is not enough substrate to build bone, muscle, joint, like to regenerate.

We as humans replace our skeleton about every decade, the entire skeleton, right? Like the femur that you have

today, Stephanie, you didn't have a decade ago. Totally different femur. I got to say,

prunes, man. Like, that's my big takeaway is as their own intervention for osteoporosis.

All right, friends, welcome back to another episode of Better with Dr. Stephanie.

Tis me, your host, Dr. Stephanie, Esteema, as always.

And today's episode is for, I don't care how old you are, girl, okay?

You can be, you can be 20.

You can be 80.

This episode is for you. So if you think this is too early for you, eh, wrong. If you think that you are too late, eh, wrong. Again, we are talking

all about bone health because bone health is one of those little, one of those little ditties

that tends to sneak up on you. And we all of a sudden get this diagnosis when we're 65,

there are osteoporotic, when it can in effect be prevented when you were 20 or 25. So we are talking

today with Dr. Doug Lucas. He is a double board certified orthopedic surgeon and osteoporosis

specialist. He retired from orthopedics to further his mission to educate the world, that osteoporosis specialist. He retired from orthopedics to further his

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