Wellness Industry vs My PubMed Access: We Are Doing The Bone Dance

This article will radicalize you to care about your skeleton. Yes.

First off: I know. THIS IS BORING. WHO CARES.

That is what I, too, once thought at the beginning of medical school, at the beginning of residency, etc up until about two years ago, when I started experience mild low back pain, and ended up in physical therapy to help with the ongoing bother of it. This opened a sort of Pandora’s Box for me, and in combination with my clinical work in eating disorders, general distaste for the Wellness Industry, and deeply feminist orientation, I have begun to care with great vigor about my (and, dear reader, your) bones. Today’s Wellness vs Pubmed will battle it out over what we can do with exercise now and later to help prevent being brittle when we would love to be spry in our 60s and beyond (and possibly before that).

As always, this is not medical, clinical, or personalized advice. I am not speaking in any way as an expert, and I am not an endocrinologist, so buyer beware of information. I write this column to offer a way of looking through the actual research together, and coming to nuanced, more usable points of understanding than magazines or companies selling you things do. Alright, onward!