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. Is the person who has say, let's just pick a score.

Say their T score is negative 1.7 in the osteopenia range and they tripped on their kitchen floor over the

broom that fell on the floor and they fell and they broke, fractured, synonymous term, their hip.

This is a clinical diagnosis of osteoporosis. Even though the bone density tests did not show

osteoporosis, they absolutely have it.

And it's based on the mechanism of injury. So if you break your hip or your spine from a low trauma fall and your bone density is osteopenia or normal,

this means there's probably something going on with your bone quality, which is that micro-architecture that we cannot see with X-ray technology.

We cannot see it with the naked eye.

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

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