From @drmaryclaire: A new 2-year follow-up study (Baker et al., Clin Physiol Funct Imaging, 2025) tracked women across pre-, peri-, and postmenopause and found: 1. Muscle quality declines, even if muscle size stays the same. Postmenopausal women had a significant increase in muscle echo intensity (a marker of muscle quality loss, despite no change in muscle size. Translation? Appearance may be deceiving - strength and function can decline before size does. 2. Bone mass decreases significantly ac