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. A 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 to the show. Welcome to this episode of the bone coach podcast, Kevin Ellis here.

In this episode, I'll be interviewing one of the leading experts in parathyroid disease

as she talks about hyperparathyroidism, an important cause of osteoporosis to rule out.

Now, I briefly touch on hyperparatthyroidism in episode number three of the Bone Coach

podcast on osteoporosis causes, but in this interview, we go into much greater detail and will likely answer

many of the questions you have. If you're newly diagnosed with osteoporosis, or even if you've

had low bone density for a long time, and you come to find out you are actively losing bone

by way of bone turnover marker testing and a 24-hour urine calcium, you'll want to figure out why. Also,

if you've had blood work done and have come to find you have low or elevated serum calcium,

even within the normal range, normal or elevated PTH, parathyroid hormone, and low vitamin D,

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