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. When we have a stress response, we shift into like a heightened

state and our nervous system goes into overdrive. It's a sympathetic nervous system that's

activated and that goes into this fight-flight freeze mode. And so that like impacts our whole body.

Our heart rate will go up. Our breathing rate will go up and we get the release of different

types of hormones like cortisol, adrenaline. And so when we have or when we are exposed to

chronic levels of stress, we really get the buildup of cortisol in our body. And cortisol, as

listeners might also know, like negatively impacts bone density and bone moss. So there is like

almost a direct link between heightened levels of stress and the bone density that we have.

And so the increased chances of osteoporosis, right?

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