Women's health after 40, and what the research actually supports
The tissues that change fastest after menopause — reading a DXA scan, preventing sarcopenia, and managing joint health.
Vitamin D helps you absorb calcium. Everyone knows this, and it’s true. What’s less known is how much of your calcium absorption actually depends on it, and when. The honest answer involves a proportion smaller than expected, and a mechanism that turned out not to work the way the diagrams show. Calcium gets in … Read more
Sarcopenia is diagnosed by measuring three things: how much muscle you have, how strong it is, and how well you move. That part is settled. What isn’t settled is where the lines fall. And when one expert group redrew those lines in 2019, the share of men diagnosed in one dataset dropped from 31.9% to … Read more
A T-score isn’t a measurement. It’s a comparison — and the thing you’re being compared to is a specific group of people, chosen decades ago, who may not resemble you at all. That sounds like a technicality. It isn’t. It changes what the number on your report means, and it’s the part almost no one … Read more
High-dose vitamin D and fall risk is worth revisiting for a reason beyond vitamin D itself. It’s one of the clearest available examples of a pattern that keeps catching people out — including researchers who designed the trials. Most of us carry two assumptions about dose. First, more of a good thing produces more effect. … Read more
Vitamin D and muscle strength is one of the few supplement questions where the research produced a genuinely uncomfortable answer. Modest doses helped. Larger doses did the opposite. That pattern is unusual. Most of the time an ingredient either works or it doesn’t, and the debate is about how much benefit. Here the same nutrient, … Read more