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. People come to intermittent fasting out of a curiosity. They

want to change body composition. They want to lose weight. But I remind them there's so many other

benefits. Well, when we're in an unfed state,

as we are becoming more metabolically flexible, as we are becoming more insulin sensitive,

when insulin levels are low, our body can go and free up stored fat as a fuel source. And

our bodies really run very efficiently on stored fat. So it improves energy.

We can also produce a special type of ketones that can be crossed the blood-brain barrier.

So brain-derived neurotrophic factor crosses the blood-brain barrier allows for tremendous

mental clarity.

I find for a lot of people this is oftentimes a very surprising benefit.

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