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

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

being said, let's get on with the show. But when we have that mental stress, we produce cortisol

in our body and cortisol is a hormone that is necessary for a lot of cellular processes,

but it also is catabolic, meaning

it causes our body to break things down. And so if we're emitting this all the time, it keeps our

body in a bit of a breakdown state. And so that can apply to a bunch of our organs, including our

bones. And then the other fascinating thing about bones that I think a lot of people don't realize

is they're part of our immune system. It's where our immune cells come from. So if we're starting to have bone moss, it actually

affects our immune system, which means that then we might get more infections, which means that

then we might deal with more inflammation and more cortisol and more bone loss than more infections.

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