Brigid Titgemeier warns against waiting until 59 for a DEXA scan. Women lose 15-20% of bone density during perimenopause, plus additional loss postpartum and while breastfeeding. Bone loss accelerates in the 40s, raising fracture risk without early screening.
Waiting until the age of 59 for a DEXA scan to look at your bone health is completely missing the mark. It's like training for the marathon in mile 20. It's like it's much too late. Women are losing 15 to 20% according to Dr. Vonder Wright of their bone density in five to seven years surrounding perimenopause. We also see a decline in bone health postpartum and in breastfeeding. And so if you are going from the postpartum phase than just like going back to living your life and after breastfeeding and all that and you're not accounting for the muscle and the bone that you had lost and then you enter your 40s and you're continuously losing up to 1% of your muscle mass and a significant amount of your bone mass every single year. And then you enter perimenopause and you're losing 15 to 20% of your bone density in five to seven years. You are at a very high risk of poor bone health, frailty, fractures.
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