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Professor Belinda Beck discusses the importance of bone health and how evidence-based exercise can prevent and reverse osteoporosis.

Most women are not thinking about their bones until a fracture happens or a scan comes back alarmingly. By then, the window for the most impactful intervention has often been narrowing for decades. Bone density peaks around age 18, not 30 as widely believed and the slow decline that follows is largely silent until it isn't. Professor Belinda Beck, PhD has spent more than two decades studying exactly what it takes to stop and reverse that decline. She is a professor at Griffith University, founder of the Bloom Clinic in Brisbane, and the principal investigator behind the LIFTMORE trials, a body of research that changed the scientific consensus on what is actually possible for women with osteoporosis and osteopenia. Her findings showed that heavy resistance and impact training twice weekly can safely grow bone mineral density in the spine and hip, even in women already diagnosed with very low bone mass and prior osteoporotic fractures. This was not what the medical establishment expected. And it fundamentally changed how serious practitioners now think about bone. This episode is sponsored by Zen Basil. Their certified edible basil seeds are designed for human nutrition, deliver…

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Host: Kayla Barnes-Lentz

Guest: Belinda Beck

Topics covered

• bone health
• osteoporosis
• exercise
• women's health
• nutrition
• resistance training

Keywords

• bone density
• osteopenia
• heavy resistance training
• impact training
• women's health
• fractures
• nutrition

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Zen Basil

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Organizations: Griffith University, Bloom Clinic, LIFTMORE trials

Products: Zen Basil, basil seeds

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