Quote Originally Posted by mudmucker View Post
I do have a general question on prevention.

I will be 47 this year. I have not reached the big M yet - I am still very regular but in the last couple of years, intermittently, I have had a few unusual months. Likely my body is beginning to react to an impending change. All my life, I have been athletic and fairly fit so there has been weight bearing stuff present. However in the last 5 years or so I have made a particularly greater and conscious effort to incorporate more weight bearing exercise (some lifting and some weekly running), and to consume more calcium in order to ward off the big O. I am doing this for good practice, maintenance and hopefully future prevention.

My question is for those of you who are a little ahead of me on this journey and have had more dialog with doctors; does my conscious effort to do weight bearing now, matter that much in terms of future loss once the estrogen levels get really low? I sense that it helps now, because I haven't gone through menopause yet and I still have cycles. But later? Does bone loss just begin to occur at a more rapid and uncontrollable rate after menopause and there's not much I can do to stop it other than medications or how I am genetically? Or can the weight bearing help after menopause in an attempt to slow everything down.

after losing 4% of my bone mass since 2004

Yikes!
YES. build bone now, while you still have estrogen. Bone is always coming or going, depending on what you're doing. It just goes away faster after you don't have the estrogen in your system. but do make sure you're taking enough calcium, vit D, the b vitamins and also BORON, just drinking milk isn't going to do it.
another trick, too much running will change the balance and cause you to lose bone. I think part of what is going on has to do with acid/alkalinity, i don't think they really understand yet. So everything in moderation