We discovered that HRT can increase your bone density on average by 7% over two years, which is brilliant, right?

When I go and tell them this, women's jaws drop, they have no sense that they could protect themselves from osteoporosis.

Bone and muscle are not separate things. They're working together. And if you've got the muscle

working, it's got your bone working. They're looking after one another. You know, they're

building up hormones together. And the better your muscle, the better your bones. Kate Muir is a

women's health expert, journalist, award-winning documentary maker and campaigner.

I love it a bit. She has spent years shedding light on the scandals going on behind the scenes with the menopause and the pill.

Now, well, she's asking why our bone health isn't getting more airtime.

Welcome back to the Lizar well-being show, the podcast

helping us all have a better second half of life, whether your midlife, later life or older life,

this is the place to be. I'm Liz Earl and my mission is to find ways for all of us to thrive

in our later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

Well, all this month, we have been focusing on disease prevention. We've talked about cancer,

diabetes, Alzheimer's, but one that we absolutely must discuss in depth is osteoporosis,

and in fact, bone health in in general because statistics tell us that

50% of women over the age of 50 are expected to get a fracture due to osteoporosis and devastatingly

20% of women die within a year of a hip fracture. You know it's such a silent killer. How do we know

what's happening inside our

bones until we have a fall or we break something or start to endure chronic pain, by which time

it may well be too late to do something about it? Well, Kate is the author and documentary maker

behind Davina McCall's menopause shows. She also helped Louise Newsome set up the

menopause charity. Now, she's turned her activism towards women's bone health by launching

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