Bone mineral density plateaus between ages 20-50 and declines thereafter, with a precipitous drop in women post-menopause.

“the body reacts when do you lose the ability to increase bone density through that activity it's usually around 30 and women have an accelerated bone loss in menopause”

“this is another one of those things that declines precipitously um with age um and it's nonlinear meaning the rate of decline goes up by decade it's not a constant rate of decline”

“and for women you'll see that loss rapidly accelerate uh for probably 5 to 8 years uh this is because um circulating estrogen almost vanishes from your blood”

“When you look at men and women aging from a skeletal system. They're both going through a comparable decline starting in their 20s because we both peak both men and women peak in the early 20s. Um but at about 50, women fall off a cliff. Uh whereas men just continue a linear decline and and and so the gap really widens.”

“So you know, interestingly, women are no different than men when it comes to the cortical section of bone, but obviously a significant reduction at the spongy part of the bone.”

“Whereas in men over 65, it's actually a higher rate of bone loss, but they're starting at a much higher point because they didn't suffer that precipitous loss the way women did after menopause. So for men at the age of 65, it's usually more typically about 1 to 2% per year.”