# 156 What Psychiatry Didn’t Tell Women About Bone Loss & Antidepressants w/ Dr. Aruna Tummala, MD + BoneCoach™
The Bone Coach Osteoporosis & Bone Health Podcast
Kevin Ellis
4.9 • 803 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Number one, there is no chemical imbalance. |
| 0:04.0 | The latest study that pointed out 70 years of meta-analysis just last year, |
| 0:10.0 | summer of 2022 that came out, that there is no evidence that serotonin imbalance causes depression, |
| 0:18.0 | no evidence that there is any serotonin imbalance. So then that begs the question, |
| 0:23.1 | why are we getting depressed? Why do we fall ill, especially in the mind? Sadly, the way modern |
| 0:28.8 | psychiatry is practiced, I was taught in my psychiatric residency and fellowship in geriatric |
| 0:33.6 | psychiatry was to tell people that it's a chemical imbalance and then you give these |
| 0:38.9 | medications and yes antidepressants are harmful for bone health as well one in four women are taking an |
| 0:47.3 | antidepressant postmenopausal women are taking an antidepressant the medications can make you gain weight |
| 0:52.7 | or they can mess up your gut health or your bone health, |
| 0:56.6 | but there is nothing to do, nothing else to offer. So yeah, tough luck. You know, this is all you have to do. |
| 1:02.4 | Holistic psychiatry, because this may be the first time somebody's heard holistic put in front of |
| 1:07.8 | psychiatry. So what is holistic psychiatry and how did you become a holistic psychiatrist? Most of us in the of psychiatry. So what is holistic psychiatry and how did you become a |
| 1:12.0 | holistic psychiatrist? Most of us in the holistic field, it started off with my own health issues. |
| 1:19.9 | Welcome to the Bone Coach Show dedicated to helping you understand all things related to diet, |
| 1:24.6 | lifestyle, bone health and how you can live and thrive with low bone |
| 1:28.1 | density and osteoporosis. I'm your host, Kevin Ellis, certified health coach, health and |
| 1:32.9 | wellness speaker, and above all else, your bone coach. After being diagnosed with osteoporosis |
| 1:37.4 | in my early 30s, I transform my health through diet and lifestyle and now help my clients |
| 1:42.6 | and community members do the same through |
| 1:44.6 | my online coaching practice, bonecoach.com. Look, there are no quick and easy cures for low bone |
| 1:50.0 | density. But the choices we make every single day can have a powerful impact on our bones, |
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