Shadowing Practice: Why is Bone Health Important in Women? | The Diary Of A CEO - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Why is bone health so important for women in particular?
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It is driven by interplay between estrogen and progesterone.
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We see peak velocity or peak bone mass hitting around the time we're 20-ish,
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and then we'll start to degrade it if we're not creating multi-directional stress on the bone through resistance training.
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And if we start to lose bone density and we become osteopenic or osteoporitic, they break easily.
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It's really, really difficult for someone who is in their reproductive years to
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be able to do all the things they want to do if they don't have a really strong, robust skeletal system.
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And this is why vitamin D is also so important.
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Yes.
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And men and women have different bone density.
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Yep.
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Men have thicker bones and tend to not have as much degradation of the bone because they don't have estrogen,
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progesterone perturbations that are changing the signaling to increasing bone density or stopping the growth of bone.
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So, women have this perturbation throughout their menstrual cycle that will change how their bones are responding.
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And then when we don't have a menstrual cycle or we get put on an oral contraceptive pill, we have changes in that signaling which changes our bone density.

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You're practicing English with "Why is Bone Health Important in Women? | The Diary Of A CEO" using the Shadowing technique — a method originally developed for professional interpreter training.

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What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.