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. There's one thing that we all should be doing innately that we

don't do well and that is breathe. When we're under stress, we don't breathe. We just,

we power through.

And what's cool about breath is the muscles that are used for breath actually calm the nervous system.

They actually pull on the vagus nerve and calm the body down if we're breathing correctly.

And so one of the things that I always say to do, and this is a way to use technology in a positive way, is set

an alarm on your phone once an hour that says breathe and take two minutes, stop what

you're doing, just be present in the moment, be grounded, and just breathe.

And you find that when you get into practice of doing that, then you start doing it more

often. And as you do it more often, there's a calming effect that happens to your body and all these

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