YouTube conversation (Living Light Metabolic Coach with Debi Robinson) about bone health and osteoporosis, focusing on Debi Robinson’s personal journey (hip injury and hip replacement) and her mission to empower women to proactively protect and rebuild bone strength through lifestyle, movement, and functional testing. The talk highlights that peak bone mass occurs in the 30s and that bone loss accelerates afterward, and frames bone health as connected to broader habits (sleep, stress, diet, hormones).
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Good afternoon, friends. Welcome, welcome. Happy Friday. Great to see you all. Hi, Corinda. Hi, Becca. Hi, Kimberly. I'm Melissa. Nice to see you. Hi, Nancy. Hi, Patty. And as you're tuning in, let me know what your grateful for today. So great to see you all. We have a very special guest today, so I'm super excited for that. Just wait a few more minutes for a few more people to join us today. And as I said, as you're tuning in, let me know what you're grateful for today. Hi, Nikki. Hi, Shelley. Becca says I'm always grateful for sunny weather this time of year. Yes, I hear you. Patty says Tomorrow is day 43. Awesome. Great job, Patty. I know you just finished your second round, so congratulations on getting through that. Okay. Someone here says, grateful for my pets that are arriving from Ireland to take care of our pup while we go to Mexico next week. Wow, that's very kind. Melissa says, grateful to be back and getting back on track with my health for this next round. Day 11. Awesome. Congratulations, Melissa. Corinda says, grateful for feeling stable and confident as I enter lifestyle phase. Awesome, Corinda. She says, I'm grateful to be able to enjoy and thrive in life. Love that. Thank you, Harshi for sharing. Okay. Shelly says, I'm grateful for my cousin. We enjoyed a beautiful lunch and conversation yesterday. Beautiful. So nice to connect with friends and family, right? Especially after a little while. I'll just wait another minute here and then we will get started. Mickey says, I'm grateful to find out that I had a calcium score of zero. After founding that finding out that I had high lipoprotein A, it was a relief. Oh, that's very, very good to hear and I'm sure you're relieved to to get that news. So congratulations. Awesome. Okay, so today we have our special guest, Debbie Robinson. So I'm going to introduce Debbie. I know I. I put something in our Facebook group, but Debbie is on a global mission to redefine how we think about bone health. Putting the power back in the hands of women. For far too long, conventional medicine has reduced osteoporosis to a diagnosis and a drug, leaving women feeling broken, afraid, and out of options. And Debbie is here to change that. As a yoga therapist, functional bone expert, a chef, she helps women worldwide naturally stop bone loss and build strength, balance and confidence from the inside out. Her journey is personal. At 51, Debbie had a total hip replacement and felt firsthand what it means to live in a body that feels fragile. That experience became the foundation of her life's work. To help women rebuild from the inside out and never feel powerless again. Through private coaching retreats, weekly classes, functional lab testing, and our popular podcast, Debbie shows women how to take charge, address the root of their bone loss, and live vibrant, active lives without fear. I love that, Debbie. So welcome. Welcome. Thank you so much for being here. I'm just going to make sure that you're able to unmute yourself. Yes.
Yeah, I'm unmuted.
Okay. Awesome. So thank you once again for being here with our community and sharing all your wisdom and insights. And today, we're going to just have a very casual conversation. I can ask you a few questions so we can learn a little bit more about this important topic. Right. Especially as we age. You know, the. You're. You probably know better than me, but, you know, as far as I know, we kind of reach our peak bone mass probably in our 30s, and then it starts to decline very quickly after that if we are not proactive about it and if we're not doing something about it. So. So I'd love for you to start off with your story. I know it touched. I touched on it a little bit. But if you could share a little bit about your story and why you do what you do, we would love to hear that. Okay.
Thanks for having me really excited. And I was listening to you tell my story, and I'm like, yeah, that's right. That is my story. So in my early 40s, in a yoga class, a male yoga teacher tore my hip. I felt it happen when it happened. I don't. You know, I'm being much more vocal about that part of it because I really think that what's happening in the bone health world, it's heavy weights. Heavy weights. And now I'm meeting women who are being injured and injured and injured and injuries sideline us, which actually leads to even more problems. 44 years old, my hip joint was torn. In about 5 years, my whole life kind of slowed down, and then I'm going to say, stopped. I played tennis five days a week. I spun at the gym four days a week. I used to do a pretty. A vigorous vinyasa flow practice, and everything started to slow down, and I couldn't really walk anymore without pain and discomfort. So I had to actually start thinking about my bones. It was my hip. So when you think of your hip, I think most of us think bones come into that equation, and I never would have thought about that before, because when do we think about our bones? We think about our bones at 65, when we get a DEXA scan that says you have osteoporosis, and now you feel like you're an egg that's going to break, and you start tiptoeing and walking on eggshells. So that's how it started for me. I had a surgery that collapsed my hip joint, and for 17 months, tried as a yoga therapist to do all that I could and I couldn't. And so I had a hip replacement. I was 51. And to make that decision to cut the top of your femur bone off when it's like, wait, what if this doesn't work? And that whole time, I used to think, will my hip just break? Where will I be? Will I be crumpled on the floor? Who's going to be near me? Will somebody pick me up? How will I get to the hospital? Like, I. I had all of these fears, so I think I kind of was forced ahead in a way that most of us aren't. And that put me to where I am now. And as a yoga therapist, as a functional health coach, running functional labs, uncovering root causes of bone loss. Now, my mission is to raise awareness to the fact that we all have bones. Not to be Debbie Downer and not to be scary. Yes, you're right. In our mid-30s is when the bone loss begins to be more bone loss versus more bone building. So that's when that shift takes place. And just to have this knowledge and raised awareness, because everything else we do for our health, whether it's for perimenopause, balancing our hormones, managing stress, optimizing sleep, optimizing diet, managing our thoughts, really, as a main part of this, all of these lifestyle habits we're going to be doing are actually supporting our bones to be the strongest that they could be. And that's. I just want to raise that awareness to this.
Yeah. And it. It's a topic that I find is interesting because even when women get the diagnosis of osteoporosis in their 60s and beyond, which is usually the typical age, if not earlier for some, it's something that has no symptoms for the most cause. Right? For the most part. Right. So it's really hard for us to grasp our. Our mind around that, because usually we address things that are causing us pain, that are causing us discomfort. And for the most part, for most people, a diagnosis like osteoporosis doesn't really have any symptoms. Right. There's no pain really associated with it. So it's something that is reactive versus proactive. Right.
