48: Osteoporosis: a Young Person’s Disease?

Let’s be honest, when we hear the word osteoporosis, what image comes to mind?An elite athlete at the peak of their powers?No? How about a frail older lady? Is that closer to the mark?I mean osteoporosis, that’s an old person’s disease, right?Hmm.Whilst we typically experience the devastating and perhaps even fatal consequences of osteoporosis in our final decades, the seeds are planted much younger – probably before we’ve even left our twenties.Join our talkative twosome to find out how to create a healthy skeleton that will hopefully, outlast our need for it!And as always, let us know what you think about this conversation and what you’d like us to chat about next.