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. We underappreciate it in Western busy culture where we

try to hard charge all the time. We drink a lot of coffee to stay up and get going. Sleep is our

body's chance to balance

our anabolic and catabolic hormones. The hormones that build up our tissues and our muscles

and our bones and then the tissues that the hormones that break it down, the catabolic hormones.

Sleep is one of the master regulators of melatonin. And this is something a lot of people know as being

a supplement, but it's actually one of the biggest anti-aging molecules that we know of. It acts in the brain.

It probably has actions secondarily through the immune system on bones and on osteoblasts and

osteoclasts. And it creates a hormonal environment of success. So I see it all the time.

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