Dr. Betty Murray explains that osteoporosis begins in your 20s when peak bone mass forms, not in old age. Antidepressants damage bone, and GLP-1 drugs may cause nutritional deficiencies that harm bones years later. Neglecting bone health young sets you up for fractures decades down the line.
It's interesting in the research. I sometimes, I've come across the, the phrase that osteoporosis is a pediatric condition with geriatric consequences. So we're, we're setting the stage at a young life, you know, in our 20s when we have, get peak bone mass occurs. If we're not taking care of our health, then it can manifest decades later. We may not know for decades and decades later. And one of the concerns that I have besides the fact that more and more young people, especially young women, are being put on antidepressants and that is a powerful bone destroyer, but also GLP-1s. While there's no evidence that those, those medications directly damage bone, there's no current evidence of that. My concern is that people are going to end up with nutritional deficiencies. Oh, they do. Yeah. They get, they're not eating enough. They're not consuming enough protein. They're not consuming enough micronutrients. And that is going to have devastating consequences decades down the road that we won't even see for a long time.
