Peter Attia· MD
and then add on to that women fall more than men in later life and so you've got this perfect storm of this is why more women than men are affected by osteoporosis and fracture
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and then add on to that women fall more than men in later life and so you've got this perfect storm of this is why more women than men are affected by osteoporosis and fracture
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because firstly we don't gain as much Peak bone masks meaning more women fracture than men that's right y yeah um but in sort of in our 20s we don't have as much bone as men and then we lose more throughout life so by the end of life there's this greater disparity
So, being male versus female also factors into it a lot. So if I see a woman prior to menopause, so let's say I'm talking about, you know, I got a 42year-old female patient who's, you know, I might guess 3 to 5 years out from menopause and she already has a low Zcore. That worries me a lot because of what we'll talk about shortly, uh, visav the effect of estrogen here and why women are disproportionately affected by estrogen estrogen withdrawal.