At 51 Anita was diagnosed with osteoporosis. She’s now almost 58 and post-menopausal. Determined to turn this around, she formulated her bone health plan and is making it happen. The results have been brilliant and very encouraging. Giving her the confirmation that she’s on the right track and the confidence to keep going.
In this chat Anita shares the one signifcant thing that has reversed her osteoporosis and how she knows it to be so.
Anita talks about REMS bone scanning and how that assessment tool has given her more helpful, accurate information about her bone health (in ways that DEXA had not in the past).
We also talk about something that is often not included in converstaions about bone health that should be because of the impact it has. Agency & hope.
Anita is proof that we have the power to better our bone health in ways that are empowering - that fuels our belief that it’s possible and the hope that we absolutely can.
Links:
In this chat we mention where you can go to get Anita’s free Bone Health Series on her blog and video pages over at her other world at Sequins and Sand. A world that’s in transition just as she is :)
Anita produces a weekly health and wellness newsletter Midlife Mojo - helping women to fill the many health gaps, encouraging us to be our own health advocates to fill those gaps.
If you’d like to subscribe to receive those each week then head here to the VIP section on Sequins and Sand.
Eventually she will move it to Substack. It’s in the pipeline :)
Get a REMS bone scan and find out your bone health status. In Australia head to Echolight.com.au; In other countries around the world ‘Google’ REMS bone scan and your country or local area to find out where to go. REMS stands for Radiofrequency Echographic Multi Spectrometry and is ultrasound and radio frequency signals based. A very different technology to QUS (Quantitative Bone Ultrasound) and DEXA (DXA - Dual-Energy X-ray Absorptiometry) and is radiation free.
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Anita & Erica xx
