Peter Attia· MD
you will reach your maximum bone potential by the time your growth plates fuse which again for most people is probably late teens maybe in the case of uh men early 20s
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you will reach your maximum bone potential by the time your growth plates fuse which again for most people is probably late teens maybe in the case of uh men early 20s
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And you've mentioned this a few different times and why don't we double click on it here which is and we did get a lot of questions about this too which is, you know, what is it about menopause that creates issues in bone health? Why can it lower bone mineral density?
And then you really start to see the fall. Look at the dotted line. The dotted line tells you that there's really a totally separate trajectory for this woman, which is if she didn't reach her full genetic potential by the age of 20, she's missed an enormous opportunity later in life.