The Australian Women's Weekly

How to get stronger bones

“The good news is that it’s never too late to learn about your bone density and get your health back on track.”
– Dr Ginni Mansberg

It was French pathologist and surgeon Jean Lobstein who coined the term osteoporosis in 1835, but it wasn’t until 1941 that endocrinologist Fuller Albright connected the dots between menopausal women and bone density. And so we began to understand our body as it ages and how that impacts our bones and life. Today we have oodles of data, bone-building medication and can even take a real-time snapshot of how many grams of calcium and minerals are packed into our bones, and yet we still have far to go; make no bones about it (sorry, first and

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