Save Your Menopausal Skeleton with Kristi DeSapri, MD (Episode 157)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Women generally talk about what they see and feel during menopause. Symptoms like hot flashes, joint pain, and vaginal dryness grab our attention while our bone density silently slips away. Women can lose up to 20% of their spinal bone mass through the menopause transition. Thirty-five to 50 percent of women have low bone mass by age 50. Your lifetime risk of having a hip fracture is higher than breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and uterine cancer combined. Thirty percent of women will die within a year of having a hip fracture. Yet, bone health still fails to grab the headlines it deserves. We want to stay strong and active into our older years, and that starts with maintaining healthy bones. This week we dive into all of it with osteoporosis and menopause expert Dr. Kristi DeSapri.

Kristi DeSapri, MD, truly believes that women deserve to function at optimal health and are gatekeepers to their families’ and communities’ health. She is a board certified internist specializing in midlife women’s health and is regarded as a national leader in the field of osteoporosis and menopause management. After fellowship training at the Cleveland Clinic, she has worked in private practice and academic medicine including being director of the Northwestern Women’s Bone Health program at the Center for Sexual Medicine and Menopause at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago. She is the founding physician and owner of Bone and Body Women’s Health, LCC a specialized midlife women’s health practice in Winnetka, IL focused on consultation and management of perimenopause, menopause, osteoporosis, fracture prevention and treatment and sexual health. You can learn more about her and her work at www.boneandbodywh.com.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:30.5	Hello, strong, feisty women.
0:33.0	I hope you all are well.
0:35.5	So this week, we are going to talk about something we should all probably
0:40.0	be talking about a whole lot more. Our bones. We talk a lot about brain health and heart health.
0:47.5	We talk a whole lot about our symptoms that grab our attention like raging hot flashes and soaking
0:52.4	night sweats and sleepless nights and joint pain.
0:55.4	And all that is super important and we shouldn't stop talking about it. But we absolutely should
1:01.0	be talking about our bone health with the same breath because menopause is a precarious time
1:09.0	for bone health and osteoporosis is a silent condition.
1:14.6	Women can lose up to 20% of their spinal bone mass through the menopause transition.
1:20.6	35 to 50% of women depending on race have low bone mass by age 50.
1:26.7	Your lifetime risk of having a hip fracture is higher than breast
1:30.6	cancer, ovarian cancer, and uterine cancer combined. And 30% of women will die within a year
1:38.6	of having a hip fracture. The standard recommendation, given all of this, is still to get your bone density scanned
1:47.1	when you're 65. F that. If we want to stay strong and active for the at least 30% of our lives
1:54.3	that we can live post menopause, we need to stay on top of our skeletal health. So this week,
2:00.2	I sat down with osteoporosis and menopause expert,
2:04.0	Dr. Christy DeSappery, and we talk all about it. She is the founding physician and owner of
2:10.5	bone and body women's health, which is a specialized midlife women's health practice that is
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