Men lose estrogen with age due to the aromatization of testosterone into estrogen, leading to a lower risk of significant bone loss compared to post-menopausal women.

“Now, there are other factors that go into that. Um, ataposity can give you more estrogen etc. Um, this might be one example by the way of where atyposity helps because you have the additional weight and load that is a strain signal and you have more estrogen all things equal. So um, but men lose estrogen at a far more gradual rate than women and that's why women experience this loss more significantly and that's why women are at greater risk for osteopenia and osteoporosis.”