Dr. Betty MurrayHelping Women Navigate Menopause | Speaker, Author, and Advocate for Women's Health Over 40

Reduce Fear of Falling and Protect Bone Health

12 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dr. Betty Murray explains that fear of falling is a strong predictor of actual falls. She argues that empowering individuals—by building confidence, increasing strength, improving bone health, and providing accurate information—can significantly lower fracture risk. Murray emphasizes that the comprehensive, integrative approach outlined in her book, which includes diet, lifestyle, and sleep optimization, not only reduces fall-related injuries but also mitigates the risk of other chronic diseases such as heart disease and cancer. The message is that addressing fear of falling through holistic health strategies yields broad protective benefits.

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Fear of falling has been shown to be predictive of people falling. And so anything we can do to empower people to not feel afraid, to help them feel more confident and to give them the, the, the real information and the real help and the real steps they can take to reduce that fear and increase their strength and increase their bone health and increase their knowledge and their confidence is going to go a long way to helping them reduce their fracture risk, but also everything we've been talking about when it comes to diet, lifestyle, sleep. When you're approaching all of those in the way that we, we discuss and the way that's laid out in my book, and I'm sure the way that you work with your clients and patients with, it also reduces the risk for every other chronic disease, heart disease, cancer, death from cancer. I mean, all of that is helped by these integrative approaches.