The pencil marks on the door frame are your children's. There is one near the top with your name on it, from a night you all measured yourselves for a laugh.

You stood against it last month and you are not where you were.

You think about your mother's shoulders, the way they rounded in her seventies. You think about your friend who slipped on the ice and broke her wrist, and how everyone called it bad luck.

There is nothing to feel here. No ache, no signal, no symptom. Bone leaves silently.

And it leaves fastest in a window almost nobody tells you about, which is open right now or has just closed.

You likely do this 2-3 times a week.

It’s something that sabotages your hair...

And causes shedding, scalp irritation, and even thinning. 

Can you tell me which habit YOU think is a major cause of thinning hair?

Tap one of the options above or click HERE to get the answer.

To having a crown of hair as strong, feminine, and vibrant as you feel on the inside.

Estrogen's role in your skeleton is restraint. It holds back the cells that dissolve old bone so the cells that build new bone can keep up.

SWAN tracked bone density across the transition. Accelerated loss begins about one year before the final menstrual period and runs rapidly for roughly three years, then slows.

In that window, bone density falls on average about 2 percent a year, with greater declines at the spine than at the hip.

Across a decade, around 10 percent of it is gone.

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You cannot identify your final menstrual period until twelve months after it has happened.

So the window opens before you can name it, and a good part of it has closed by the time you are allowed to call yourself postmenopausal.

Meanwhile most screening guidelines start scanning women at 65.

The loss happened between about 48 and 53. The scan arrives twelve years later and calls the result your age.

In SWAN, women with obesity had as many fractures as women without it. Compared with non-obese women of similar bone density, they had significantly more.

Carrying more weight is not the protection it is widely assumed to be.

Do this. Ask for a DEXA scan at your current age rather than at 65.

The argument to make is not that you are worried. It is that a single scan has no meaning without a comparison, and a baseline taken now is what makes every future scan interpretable.

If you are refused, ask which specific risk factors would qualify you, and write down the answer. Then check yourself against them. Early menopause, a parent who fractured a hip, long-term steroid use, smoking, low body weight, coeliac disease, a history of disordered eating.

Bone responds to force. Not to walking, which your skeleton stopped finding remarkable decades ago.

Resistance training twice a week, with the weight going up over time. Heavy enough to be hard.

And impact. Around fifty hops, jumps or firm heel drops a day, spread across the day rather than in one go. It takes two minutes and it is free.

If you already have osteoporosis or a previous fracture, get this programme checked by a clinician first. Impact is the right prescription for most women in this window and the wrong one for some.

You are not too young for this conversation. You are in the exact years it gets decided.