HRT: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
- Will Medicare cover all my menopausal tests and treatments? Medicare covers all investigations except bone density scans, and this may change in the near future.
- Can premenopausal women increase their bone strength? The reason I ask is that my bone density is low, possibly due to a time many years ago when I was anorexic and didn’t have periods for over a year.
You are right in thinking that your low bone density probably relates to the time when you were anorexic, which is likely to have had an adverse effect on your peak bone mass. With the current state of knowledge about osteoporosis, the most helpful things to do at this stage are to make sure your diet is nutritious and well balanced, with plenty of calcium-containing foods (see chapter 6), to avoid smoking, to exer-
cise regularly, and to get regular sun exposure, which will help your body make vitamin D (essential for calcium absorption).
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