Case study
The 71-year-old who reversed her T-score with twelve minutes a day — Kokorology
A T-score of −2.7, a prescription for alendronate she did not want to take, and a quiet, growing fear of stairs. Eighteen months of a daily 12-minute polyvagal-informed yoga sequence moved her spinal density into the osteopenic range and her femoral neck out of fracture risk.
Post-menopausal, T-score −2.7 at the lumbar spine, family history of hip fracture, a fall-anxiety so quiet she had not named it. She declined alendronate and asked for an alternative. We designed a daily 12-minute polyvagal-informed yoga sequence (weight-bearing axial loading, balance work, paced exhale to keep the sequence parasympathetic) alongside her endocrinologist's bloodwork, vitamin D and calcium plan. Eighteen months later: spinal T-score in the osteopenic range, femoral neck out of fracture risk, balance test improved by two grades, fall anxiety gone. She is still doing the twelve minutes.