The Gut–Bone Pathway
A 9-Month Personalized 1:1 Program
Your bones don’t exist in isolation.Â
A deeper look at your gut health, with your bones in mind.
For women with osteopenia or osteoporosis who want to better understand and address digestive health, nutrient absorption, the gut microbiome, and other gut-related factors that may be influencing their bone health.
Through comprehensive testing and personalized 1:1 care, we’ll identify your individual gut-health priorities and build a step-by-step plan. Along the way, we’ll also address nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, and other factors that support your overall bone health.
No obligation. Just an opportunity to ask questions and explore your next steps.
What’s Included
Clinical Care & Testing
- Two comprehensive digestive stool analyses, including detailed interpretation and personalized recommendations
- One 90-minute comprehensive initial consultation
- Approximately twice-monthly 45-minute follow-up visits during the first five months
- Monthly 45-minute follow-up visits during the final four months
- Comprehensive Digestive Health Questionnaire at baseline and again around the four-month mark to help track changes in symptoms
- 14-day dietary assessment to evaluate nutritional intake, including fiber and plant diversity
- Additional sessions available if more support is needed
The comprehensive stool analyses give us a deeper look at digestive function and the gut microbiome. Combined with your symptoms, health history, and nutritional assessment, they help us identify areas that may be influencing digestion, nutrient availability, inflammation, and the environment needed to support healthy bones.
Because testing, implementation, and progress vary from person to person, the timing of each phase may shift. Your plan and timeline will be adjusted based on your individual needs, progress, and participation throughout the program.
Personalized & Evolving Care
There is no one-size-fits-all Gut–Bone protocol.
Your recommendations are based on your health history, symptoms, testing, nutrition, lifestyle, bone health, and how you respond throughout the program.
Depending on your individual needs, our work may address:
- Digestion and nutrient absorption
- Gut microbiome health
- Bowel regularity and motility
- Intestinal health
- Nutrition for bone and muscle health
- Protein, calcium, fiber, plant diversity, and other important nutrients
- Targeted supplementation
- Osteoporosis-safe exercise, strength, balance, and movement
- Sleep and stress
- Lifestyle factors that may influence gut and bone health
Your plan evolves as you do. We’ll continually assess what’s working, what needs adjustment, and where our attention should go next.
Your 9-Month Gut–Bone Journey
Phase 1: Assess & Establish Your Priorities
We begin with a 90-minute comprehensive consultation designed to understand your health as a whole rather than focusing on a single symptom, test result, or T-score.
We’ll review your:
- Health and medical history
- Digestive symptoms and concerns
- Diet and eating patterns
- Supplements and medications
- Bone health history and available testing
- Movement, sleep, stress, and other relevant lifestyle factors
Together, we’ll identify your most important priorities and establish an initial roadmap for our work.
You’ll complete a 14-day dietary assessment and your first comprehensive digestive stool analysis.
While we wait for those results, we’ll begin with foundational digestive hygiene and appropriate nutrition and lifestyle strategies so you can start making meaningful changes right away.
Phase 2: Investigate & Personalize
Once your stool analysis results are available, we’ll review the findings together during a follow-up visit.
I’ll explain what we’re seeing, how the findings may relate to your symptoms and health history, and which areas deserve our attention first. From there, we’ll develop a targeted plan based on your results and priorities.
Depending on your findings, your plan may include strategies to:
- Support digestion and nutrient absorption
- Improve bowel regularity and motility
- Support the intestinal environment and barrier
- Address imbalances within the gut microbiome
- Increase fiber and plant diversity appropriately
- Optimize nutrition
- Use targeted supplementation when appropriate
We’ll prioritize what matters most rather than trying to address everything at once.
Phase 3: Implement, Monitor & Adjust
During the more active phase of the program, we’ll meet approximately twice each month.
These regular check-ins allow us to evaluate how you’re responding, address questions or challenges, and adjust your recommendations as needed.
And our work isn’t limited to your gut.
Throughout the program, we’ll also address the factors that help support healthy bones and muscles, including:
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- Adequate protein and overall nutrition
- Calcium and other bone-supportive nutrients
- Strength and resistance exercise
- Osteoporosis-safe movement
- Balance and fall-risk reduction
- Supplementation
- Sleep
- Stress
- Sustainable lifestyle habits
What we focus on at any given point will depend on your individual needs and priorities.
Progress Check: Around Month 4
At approximately four months, you’ll repeat the Digestive Health Questionnaire.
We’ll compare your symptoms with where you started, identify what has changed, determine what still needs attention, and use that information to guide the next phase of your program.
Phase 4: Retest & Reassess
Typically around the six-month mark, we’ll repeat your comprehensive digestive stool analysis.
Once the results are available, we’ll review them together during a follow-up visit and compare the findings with your baseline testing.
We’ll consider those results alongside changes in your symptoms, nutrition, lifestyle, and overall health to identify what has improved, what may still need attention, and what we should adjust moving forward.
The timing of repeat testing may vary depending on your progress and when your initial testing and protocol began.
Phase 5: Refine & Build for the Future
During the final phase of the program, we’ll use everything we’ve learned to refine your plan.
We’ll continue addressing your gut health while making adjustments to nutrition, supplementation, exercise, sleep, stress, and lifestyle as needed.
We’ll also begin shifting the focus from active intervention toward the strategies and habits you can realistically maintain long term.
The goal isn’t for you to finish nine months dependent on a complicated protocol.
The goal is for you to better understand your body, recognize what supports your health, and know which strategies matter most for your gut, bones, muscles, and overall well-being.
Ongoing Support Throughout the Program
Questions often arise between appointments, particularly when you’re implementing new nutrition, lifestyle, or supplement recommendations.
You’ll have email support between visits for brief questions, updates, and clarification, with responses typically within 1–2 business days.
Questions that require a more detailed discussion or significant changes to your plan may be addressed during a scheduled visit.
You’ll also receive:
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- 25% off supplements ordered through Fullscript
- Practical nutrition and meal guidance
- Movement and exercise recommendations
- Tracking tools and resourcesÂ
- Clear explanations so you understand what we’re doing and why
Your Final Gut–Bone Plan
At the end of our nine months together, we’ll review your progress and create a personalized plan for moving forward.
You’ll leave with clarity about:
What to continue
What may no longer be necessary
Your nutrition priorities
Your supplement strategy
Your exercise and movement priorities
What symptoms or health markers to continue monitoring
Whether additional testing or follow-up may be appropriate
Your next steps for continuing to support your gut and bone health
If you’d like continued guidance, we can also discuss options for less frequent ongoing support.
No obligation. Just an opportunity to ask questions and explore your next steps.
Who This Program Is For
The Gut–Bone Connection may be a good fit for you if you:
- Have been diagnosed with osteopenia or osteoporosis
- Experience digestive concerns such as bloating, reflux, constipation, irregular bowel movements, or food sensitivities
- Wonder if digestive issues may be limiting the nutrients your bones need
- Are tired of piecing together advice from different sources
- Want to better understand how your gut health may be connected to your bone health
- Want nutrition, supplementation, exercise, and other lifestyle factors considered alongside your gut health
- Are looking for personalized, ongoing guidance rather than another short-term protocol
- Are ready to actively participate in improving your health
Why Work With Me?
Bone health is about more than calcium and vitamin D, and digestive health is about more than eliminating symptoms.
My background in physical therapy, nutrition and integrative health, microbiome clinical science, and more than a decade of working with women with osteopenia and osteoporosis allows me to bring these areas together.
As the founder of Nurtured Bones and author of The Gut–Bone Connection, my work focuses on helping women understand the many factors that can influence bone health and translating that information into practical, personalized steps they can use in their everyday lives.
This program gives us the time to do that work together.
FAQs
Is this only about gut health?
Gut health is the primary focus of the Gut-Bone Pathway, but we won’t look at your gut in isolation.
Throughout the nine months, we’ll also address nutrition, supplementation, exercise, muscle and strength, sleep, stress, and other lifestyle factors that support bone health.
Why is the program nine months?
Improving digestive health and making meaningful, sustainable changes takes time.
Nine months allows us to assess where you’re starting, implement changes, monitor how you respond, repeat testing, make adjustments, and ultimately develop a plan you can maintain moving forward.
Will I receive a clear plan?
Yes. We’ll establish your initial priorities at the beginning of the program and continue updating your recommendations as we learn more from your testing, symptoms, and progress.
You’ll know what we’re focusing on and why.
What happens if my testing takes longer than expected?
That’s okay. Testing, implementation, and progress don’t happen on exactly the same timeline for everyone.
The phases of the program are designed to be flexible. We’ll adjust the timing based on when your testing is completed, your individual needs, and how you’re progressing.
How does email support work?
You may email brief questions, updates, or requests for clarification between appointments. I typically respond within 1–2 business days.
Questions that require a more detailed discussion or significant changes to your plan may be addressed during a scheduled appointment.
What if I need more support?
Additional appointments are available if needed. We can discuss whether another session would be appropriate based on what’s happening at that point in your program.
Will this program reverse my osteoporosis?
No program can promise to reverse osteoporosis, and meaningful changes in bone density take time.
Our focus is on identifying and addressing modifiable factors that may be influencing your health while supporting the digestive, nutritional, physical, and lifestyle foundations important for bone health.
What happens after nine months?
We’ll complete the program with a progress review and your personalized Gut-Bone Plan for moving forward.
If you’d like continued guidance, less frequent ongoing support will also be available.
Investment
The Gut-Bone Pathway
9-Month Personalized 1:1 Program
$2,997
Payment options are available.
Your investment includes both comprehensive digestive stool analyses, all scheduled private consultations, personalized recommendations and protocol adjustments, between-visit email support, and the resources and guidance provided throughout the program.
Additional testing that may be recommended, such as bloodwork, bone turnover markers, or food sensitivity/intolerance testing, is not included in the program fee.
Special enrollment opportunities may be available for book readers, webinar participants, and other Nurtured Bones programs.
Ready to Connect the Dots Between Your Gut and Your Bones?
Ready to explore a more personalized approach to your gut and  bone health?
Schedule a complimentary call to discuss your bone health goals, digestive concerns, and whether the Gut–Bone Pathway Program is the right fit for you.
No obligation. Just an opportunity to ask questions and explore your next steps.
If you’ve been treating your digestive health and your bone health as two separate problems, it may be time to look at the connection.
The Gut-Bone Pathway gives us the time to investigate what may be affecting your gut health, make thoughtful changes, monitor your progress, and adjust your plan as we learn more about your individual needs.
If this approach resonates with you, I invite you to schedule a complimentary discovery call to see whether the program is the right fit for you.