How to Get and Keep Strong Bones

Get-Fit Guy

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Health & Fitness, Sports

4.6 • 746 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Bone health and bone density are two things that most of us don’t think about until much later in life. But bone loss can begin in late 30s and early 40s, so don’t put it off until it is too late. Get-Fit Guy and Dr. Marc Bubbs discuss simple ways to reverse and prevent bone loss. Read the transcript. Subscribe to the newsletter to get more fitness tips. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/exercise/how-long-recover-between-sets https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/GetFitGuy https://twitter.com/GetFitGuy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Get Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.
0:07.6	My name is Brock Armstrong and I'm the Get Fit Guy.
0:10.3	You know, I've written about why exercise is essential for bone growth before, but it is such
0:16.9	an important subject that I think it is worth repeating.
0:20.2	And this time, to set the stage for us,
0:22.4	I've asked a fellow named Dr. Mark Bubbs, who was a previous guest on the Get Fit Guy podcast,
0:28.8	to fill us in on why this is so important. Now, Dr. Mark Bubbs just published a new book,
0:35.4	and it's called Peak 40,
0:43.1	the new science of midlife health for a leaner, stronger body, and a sharper mind. And in the book, he covers many issues like bone density and gives a clear prescription for all of them.
0:50.4	So here's Dr. Mark Bubbs.
0:52.5	Brock, thanks for having me on the Get Fit Guy podcast for some quick and dirty tips for bone
0:57.9	health. My name's Dr. Mark Bubbs. I'm the performance nutrition lead for Canada
1:02.5	basketball, our men's Olympic team, as well as professional and recreational athletes
1:07.9	all around the world. Now, midlife is a really important time to start thinking about what you can do to support
1:14.0	your bone health, and it's not an obvious time because loss of bone density is a silent
1:20.3	condition.
1:21.0	We don't really feel that we're losing any density in our bones.
1:25.0	It's also important because half of adults aged 50 and older are at risk
1:30.5	of breaking a bone and therefore really need to be thinking about their bone health. One in two
1:36.0	women and up to one in four men will actually break a bone in their lifetime due to osteoporosis.
1:43.2	We know that for women, that incidence is higher, and it's actually
1:47.7	higher than the combination of heart attack, stroke, and breast cancer risk, which makes it a really
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