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. Testostero gets metabolized or broken down in our bodies

in both men and women into estrogen, estradiol. Now that enzyme is called aromatase and

aromatase is typically found in fat cells. That is the most common place to find aromatase enzyme. And so men who have more visceral fat, fat on the inside, around their organs especially, those are the men who are going to convert more testosterone into estrogen. And so one of the causes of low testosterone can be that your testosterone simply being siphoned off, metabolized, converted into estradiol, which is not helpful. It's not harmful.

The other cause of low testosterone is simply low production, poor production.

And that could either be from the brain not sending the right signals, or it could be from the testicles not making enough testosterone as a result of that signal. Either way, one of those common causes of that, that is

very clear from all the literature, is endocrine disruption. And what that means is a fancy word

for toxins in our environment that are crushing hormone production.

If you haven't done so already, especially if you're newly diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis,

or if your most recent bone density scan still showed more bone loss, go ahead and pause this episode

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