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. Digestion starts with your smell. So smelling your food,

like the moment you start to smell the food, it actually primes the nervous system to start your stomach to start creating

stomach acid. So when someone says like pray before you eat or take some deep breaths before you

eat, yeah, we're trying to get you to relax and enjoy your meal, but we're also trying to get you

to smell more because that action of smelling actually starts a lot of the digestive enzyme

release and the acid release. So that starts, you start chewing. There's the mechanical breakdown of the

food, but there's also enzymes, mostly amylase in your mouth, which is a carbohydrate digesting

enzyme. And that starts to break down the food as it goes down your esophagus into your stomach.

Then in your stomach, this is a really cool organ that most people, I don't know, just never

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