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Estrogen actively shields skeletal integrity

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This primary female hormone is secretly moonlighting as a structural foreman for your internal scaffolding. Estrogen directly inhibits the specialized cells that actively dissolve bone tissue, maintaining a crucial balance between destruction and rebuilding. When its levels inevitably plummet during menopause, that cellular protection vanishes, leaving the skeleton highly vulnerable to rapid microscopic erosion.

Estrogen actively shields skeletal integrity
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