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In her own search to reverse her osteopenia, Liz Lehmann found this really interesting device, called a bioDensity machine.

It's similar to a workout machine for muscles in a gym, but it's optimized to build bone. The reason the bioDensity machine is so good at building bones is because of...

Science of Osteogenic Loading

(osteo bone; → genic producing) →

Since the 1880's, doctors have known that healthy bones remodel themselves after a load is placed on them, known as Wolff's Law.

As it turns out, bones and muscles are similar and different – both have the use-it-or-lose-it process. To build muscles you have to do long workouts a couple times a week and your muscles need a day or two to recover.

Bones, on the other hand, only require five seconds of stress and the recovery time is a week. But the stress needed to start the bone building process is multiple times a person's body weight. For a 130 lb woman, it would take about 550 lbs of force on the leg bones to make them stronger, which is not really possible at a gym.

“What is unique about the bioDensity machine is that it isn’t doing anything to them,” Lehmann explained. “They’re pressing or pulling on the machine on their own. It's simply measuring their muscle efforts and therefore how much stress is applied to their bones. People have complete control over their sessions and they get a chart of their progress.”

Build Bones from the Inside Out

During each session, a client tries to produce maximal force for five seconds in four different exercises: chest press, leg press, core pull, and vertical lift. The force would be similar to pushing or lifting a heavy object, but in a controlled manner.

As a result, these exercises build denser bones from the inside out by remodeling and strengthening the interior bone matrix – the way bones naturally get stronger.