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 these individuals are low in serotonin and because of that,

they have a low pain threshold, pains magnified, tend to be a little bit down, a bit depressed,

maybe anxious, can't

sleep because serotonin is needed to make the sleep hormone melatonin. And then you have more

serotonin receptors in your intestinal tract than you do in your brain. So that's why when

you get nervous, you get butterflies in your stomach. But when you get low in serotonin in your

gut, now you start to have issues with

the irritable bowel. So early on, I realized if I could get their serotonin level up and get them

going into deeper shorts of sleep, I was going to have some opportunity to have some success.

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

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