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.

So one of the tricks of maintaining gut diversity and reducing leaky gut is by using probiotics and prebiotics,

which is why I was very excited when I first

learned about all the things you guys do, that you have this mindset of improving gut health as

part of overall bone health, because that is the pathology that's increasing their risk of

osteoporosis and osteopenia is the changes in the gut and the resulting changes of

increased chronic low-grade inflammation, resulting changes of increased chronic low-grade

inflammation, right? And that chronic low-grade inflammation comes from leaky gut. And so we need to

address leaky gut in perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause as well, because the gut

diversity just continues to decrease over that period of time. But you can increase it by dietary changes, you know, better exposure, probiotics, prebiotics,

fiber, and so on.

...