Dr. Betty Murray says waiting until 65 to screen for osteoporosis is a mistake that leaves women dependent on drugs that improve scan numbers but don't restore actual bone strength. Estrogen acts as the foreman directing bone formation and resorption, so earlier hormonal replacement could prevent the damage.
Guidelines are not to even look at your bone density until you're 65. Guess what? That train has left the building. You're going to have osteoporosis and you're going to be on a bunch of bone drugs because instead of replacing the hormone that actually tells your bones to build, they wait until the problem is big enough to then give you bone restoring drugs that make bone that even isn't as strong as the bone that was there before, but it makes the DEXA look better. So we know estrogen protects the bones. It actually is the foreman for the construction and the demolition side of your bones.
