Welcome to the Bone Coach Show dedicated to helping you understand all things related to diet,

lifestyle, bone health, and how you can live and thrive with low bone density and osteoporosis.

I'm your host, Kevin Ellis, certified health coach, health and wellness speaker, and above all else,

your bone coach.

After being diagnosed with osteoporosis in my early 30s, I transform my health

through diet and lifestyle and now help my clients and community members do the same through my online

coaching practice, bonecoach.com. Look, there are no quick and easy cures for low bone density,

but the choices we make every single day can have a powerful impact on our bones, our health, and our

general well-being. I'll share the research, interview the experts, and help you figure out

how to get the conditions right in your body so you can better your bones through diet and

lifestyle. Short disclaimer, I'm not a medical doctor and this show should not be considered

medical advice. Always consult with your

healthcare team before making medical decisions and changes to your diet and lifestyle. With that

being said, let's get on with the show.

Inflammation is a major, major problem these days with modern life and it's linked to numerous

different diseases and including osteoporosis as well.

And in asthma, and they're all linked. So because inflammation is like a tier of system. And ironically,

when your body produces inflammation, it also, the same molecules also turn on repair pathways.

So they're able to shut themselves off.

A lot of times when we take steroids or pain meds that are not, you know, that are often like more than we need,

we're kind of messing with the system and we're preventing our bodies from turning on the repair

pathways. And the same thing when we have chronic inflammation, our repair pathways get out of

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