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Join our bone health retreat & workshop! Learn more here: https:\/\/shop.betterbones.com\/pages\/love-your-bones-love-your-life-virtual-retreat\n\n\u2192 If you are interested in working with Dr. Brown to develop a personalized natural bone health program, read more about consultations here: https:\/\/www.betterbones.com\/consultations\/help-osteoporosis-osteopenia-fracture-healing-bone-health-concerns\/\n\n\u2192 Would you like your questions answered by Dr. Brown?  Comment below and she may address them in a future video!\n\nCheck out our website! \u2192 http:\/\/ www.betterbones.com\n\nWant to connect with Better Bones on social media?\nLike on Facebook \u2192 http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\u200bFollow on Twitter \u2192 http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/drsusanbrown\n\u200bFollow our Instagram \u2192 http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\u200bCheck out our Pinterest \u2192 http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/betterbonesbetterbody\n\n#osteoporosis #osteopenia #bonemass #bonehealth #weightandbonemass #womenshealth #drsusanbrown #betterbonesbetterbody #preventosteoporosis\n\nExercise for bone health: patreon.com\/betterbones\n\nClient has followed exercised and dietary recommendations, but has not seen much improvement, what should they do next? 00:50\nAfter being diagnosed with osteopenia and osteoporosis by a Dexa scan T-score, is the next step a CT scan to see if it really is osteoporosis? 6:08\nIs a 4% loss in spinal bone density and a 1% loss in hip density over two years normal loss or excessive? 8:15\nShould a light and small-boned women be concerned with being told they have osteopenia?  10:17\nHow is osteopenia a statistical calculation? 14:39\nIs the heal bone density a measurement recorded in the bone density scan? 21:39\nWhat effect does radiation have on bone loss? 22:17\nWhy are all 6 steps of the Better Bones, Better Body Program necessary? 25:40\nIs low calcium in the urine a concern? 29:56\n\nTranscription:\nhi everybody this is dr. Susan brown\ndirector of the center for better bones\nit's my great pleasure to be with you\ntoday to answer questions and answers\nregarding our online course moving\nbeyond osteopenia there are 44 million\npeople in this country who have a bone\ndensity that qualifies them as being\ntold they have osteopenia many times\nwomen in particular are very frightened\nwhen they're told they have osteopenia\nthere's many misconceptions around this\ndefinition and use of the term\nosteopenia so today I want to answer\nsome of the questions that you've been\nasking after you listen to our webinar\non moving beyond osteopenia so let's\nstart out with question number one I am\na 60 62 year old woman and have been\nhaving bone density scans for several\nyears now from the scan I had four years\nago to the scan I had two years ago my\nspinal bone density increased and\nincreased a tiny bit and my hip bone\ndensity decreased from minus one\nstandard deviation to minus one point\nsix I've been trying to exercise and eat\naccording to your better bones a calm\nwebsite so I was a little discouraged\nthat there wasn't much improvement she\ngoes on to say I started taking your\nbetter bone basic supplement about a\nyear ago I am due for another scan soon\nand I'm hoping to see improvements in my\nbone density but what if it doesn't\nimprove or not very much what would my\nnext move be thank you so what we see\nhere the 62 year old woman she's well\nbeyond that period of rapid menopausal\nbone loss which occurs the first few\nyears before the last period - say the\nfirst five years after she's beyond that\nand her spine a bone density was stable\nwhich is really good and that suggests\nto us that she was doing some upper body\nexercise to strengthen the back muscles\nbecause when you strengthen the back\nmuscles you tend to gain bone density\nhowever her hip decreased looks to be a\nsignificant amount\nand she feels she's been doing you know\nmany parts of the better bones better\nbody program the hip decreasing the\nfirst thing we would ask is well I\nwonder if you're not getting enough\nexercise on the lower body if you're not\nputting a left enough load on the legs\nand the hip and this load comes of\ncourse from walking but better yet from\nhopping skipping jumping barrier from\nlifting weights that load the hip so\nwe'd ask the exercise question and we\nwould say yeah that was a two-year loss\nit's probably more than we like to see\nthe average woman in her 60s is losing\none half to possibly one percent of bone\ndensity a year now we don't have the\nexact percentage on this person's loss\nbut I suspect it's more than one percent\nso you could do more exercise you can\ncontinue with the basics get your next\nbone density in a year but I would move\nto the better bones builder and I'd also\nmake sure that I did every single step\nin the better bones better body program\nfor example here is a circle chart which\nshows you the steps the first one is to\nassess what's going on and in","thumbnailUrl":["https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L2QCZbw3oo4\/default.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L2QCZbw3oo4\/mqdefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L2QCZbw3oo4\/hqdefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L2QCZbw3oo4\/sddefault.jpg","https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/L2QCZbw3oo4\/maxresdefault.jpg"],"uploadDate":"2018-10-04T19:30:15+00:00","duration":"PT32M13S","embedUrl":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2QCZbw3oo4","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm6Zry9uGdrZpm05sQLIxMw#Organization","url":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCm6Zry9uGdrZpm05sQLIxMw","name":"Dr. Susan E. 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