EP 180 What You Need To Know About Bone 1: Your Skeleton Is An Autobiography

Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman

Nutritious Movement

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🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This is the first of two episodes on bone. In this first episode biomechanist Katy Bowman and biologist Jeannette Loram place bone tissue health into a wider context; what really matters is how well the entire skeleton is working—as a system—to support our bodies and our movement.

Katy and Jeannette explain how the status of the bone in different parts of your skeleton is a record of the movement you have—and have not done—in the past. They outline Wolff's law, the idea that bone adapts and changes according to the stress and load it experiences throughout a lifetime. They bring this concept to life using examples from populations with distinct movement and bone loading histories ranging from ancient human archers and farmers, through different sporting populations to astronauts.

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Chapters:

00:05:30 - This Season’s Dynamic Collective

00:06:30 - The Skeleton - a Bone Response Primer

00:10:00 - Ancient Bones

00:15:05 - Modern High-Tech Bones

00:21:55 - Listener Question brought to you by Smart Playrooms

00:36:30 - Bone and other sports

00:43:55 - Multidirectional Odd Impact sports and bone

00:51:45 - Your Stance is also informing your bones

Books Mentioned:

Move Your DNA by Katy Bowman
Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Rethink Your Position by Katy Bowman

Research Mentioned:

Neolithic Women, Manual Labour and Bone
Cycling and Bone Health
Multidirectional Sport and Running: bone strength

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1:50.3	This is the Move Your DNA podcast, a show where movement science meets your everyday life.
1:59.6	I'm Katie Bowman, biomechanist, author, and I wrote a book called Move Your DNA, which has a lot about bone in it.
2:03.1	And I'm Jeanette Lorham, biologist, a movement teacher,
2:06.5	and I would say I'm a skeleton nerd.
2:09.3	Everybody is welcome here.
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