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You wrote that you were “able to improve my lumbar spine bone density t-score from -2.5 to -1.9 in 11 months of working the program”. That’s super-impressive.
I haven’t signed up for Dr. Brown’s program but I frequent her website, am always telling others to check out her site, especially the testing to rule out secondary causes of osteoporosis, and I have read one of her books.
My lumbar spine t-score was -3.9 in July 2019 and in December 2022 was -3.6. I don’t have any fragility fractures and I have had a TBS done.
Unfortunately, I didn’t learn about Dr. Brown before my endocrinologist pushed me toward meds. I’m off of them for now and for the last 1.25 yrs have been hitting the gym and slowing increasing the weights. I’ve tried to incorporate some of the exercises Cindi did (Cindi’s story on Dr. Brown’s website).
If you don’t mind sharing, did you do anything beyond just following Dr. Brown’s plan. I’m assuming you didn’t take any osteoporosis meds but did you/do you do HRT (hormone replacement therapy)?