Educational purpose only
The Understanding Bone Health website, guide, interactive tools, and all related content (the “Content”), published by Josi Clary Coaching (“we,” “us,” “Josi Clary Coaching”), are provided for general educational and informational purposes only. The Content does not constitute medical, clinical, nutritional, or professional healthcare advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Not a substitute for professional care
Always seek the advice of your physician or another qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, your bones, medications, supplements, diet, or an exercise program. Never disregard professional medical advice or delay seeking it because of something you have read or interacted with on this website.
Reliance on any information provided by this website is solely at your own risk.
No doctor–patient relationship
Use of this website does not create a doctor–patient, therapist–client, or any other clinical or licensed-professional relationship between you and Josi Clary Coaching. Josi Clary Coaching is not your healthcare provider. This is equally true of paid coaching and Medical Advocacy sessions: they create a coach–client relationship for education and advocacy support only, and Josi Clary Coaching is not your healthcare provider, attorney, or agent.
License status
Josi Clary is not a licensed physician or psychologist or provider of medical or psychological services. Her coaching and advocacy services are alternative or complementary to the healing arts services licensed by the State of California, and they are not licensed by the State of California.
Notice
State law allows any person to provide nutritional advice or give advice concerning proper nutrition—which is the giving of advice as to the role of food and food ingredients, including dietary supplements. This state law does NOT confer authority to practice medicine or to undertake the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of any disease, pain, deformity, injury, or physical or mental condition and specifically does not authorize any person other than one who is a licensed health practitioner to state that any product might cure any disease, disorder, or condition.
Coaching and medical advocacy services
The Advocacy Guide, the pay-what-you-want toolkit in the Testing & Advocacy Center, is educational material whether you donate for it or not: checklists, worksheets, and questions to bring to your own licensed clinicians, not medical advice, and it does not assess, diagnose, or recommend any test or treatment for you.
Josi Clary Coaching offers paid health coaching and medical advocacy support. These services are organizing, preparation, education, and accompaniment. They are not medical, nursing, pharmacy, nutrition-therapy, legal, or insurance services, and no provider–patient, attorney–client, or agent–principal relationship is created by paying for them. Josi Clary is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and does not hold a clinical license. In the course of coaching she does not diagnose; evaluate symptoms; interpret scans, labs, imaging, or reports; recommend starting, stopping, or changing any medication, supplement, or dose; order tests; make referrals; access your medical records or patient portal on your behalf; or represent you with an insurer, health plan, or government program, in an appeal, or in any legal matter. Where she helps you write down a question about a medication, for example that two prescribers may not have compared notes or that the purpose of something is unclear, that is a question for your prescriber or pharmacist, not a clinical opinion. Any contact she has with a clinician’s office or a program about you happens only under a written permission you sign, and only in the way you agreed. Any list, summary, or set of questions she helps you prepare is for discussion with your own licensed clinicians, whose judgment governs. Josi cannot guarantee that any test, referral, approval, coverage decision, or program enrollment will result. Coaching is not for emergencies; if you may have a medical emergency, call 911 (in the U.S.) or your local emergency number.
The interactive tools are illustrations, not diagnostics
The simulations on this site (including the bone-quality, remodeling, scan-comparison, jump/impact, menopause, oxidative-stress, and “full picture” tools) are simplified visual illustrations and rough estimates created to explain concepts. They are not medical measurements, do not reflect your personal physiology, and must not be used to assess your fracture risk, bone density, or bone quality. Only a qualified clinician using validated tests (such as DEXA, and where appropriate TBS, REMS, FRAX, and laboratory biomarkers) can evaluate your bones. The Medical Advocacy intake form is an organizing tool for your own use and your conversations with Josi and your clinicians; it is not a medical questionnaire, is not reviewed by a clinician, and does not assess, score, screen for, or detect any condition.
Emergencies
If you think you may have a medical emergency, call 911 (in the U.S.) or your local emergency number immediately. Do not rely on this website for urgent needs.
Evidence, accuracy, and change over time
We strive for accuracy and label claims by strength of evidence (Established, Emerging, or Promising/Debated). However, science evolves, and we make no warranty or guarantee that the Content is complete, current, or error-free. Evidence labels and summaries reflect our general reading of the research at the time of writing and may change.
Individual results vary
Bone health is highly individual. Nothing here predicts or guarantees any particular outcome for you. What is appropriate for one person may be inappropriate or unsafe for another.
Exercise and loading
Impact and resistance activities discussed on this site can be beneficial for bone but also carry risk, especially for people with osteoporosis, a prior fragility fracture, frailty, or other conditions. Consult and obtain clearance from your physician or a qualified professional (such as a physiotherapist) before beginning any new exercise program.
Third-party content, names, and links
This site references third parties for educational and informational purposes, including Dr. Vonda Wright, the Buck Institute’s Move the Mountain™ initiative, and Echolight (maker of REMS bone-scan devices). Such references are descriptive and do not imply any endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or partnership unless expressly stated in writing. Josi Clary Coaching is independent of, and not affiliated with, these parties. Links to external websites are provided for convenience; we do not control and are not responsible for their content, accuracy, or practices.
Automated translation
Any translation of this site into languages other than English is provided by an automated third-party service for convenience and may contain errors. The English version is the authoritative version, and we are not responsible for inaccuracies introduced by machine translation.
Limitation of liability
The Content is provided “as is,” without warranties of any kind. To the fullest extent permitted by law, our liability for anything arising from the Content, the interactive tools, the Advocacy Guide or coaching is limited as set out in the Limitation of liability section of our Terms of Use: indirect and consequential damages are excluded, and total liability is capped at US $100 for the Site, its Content and the Advocacy Guide, and at the fees paid in the previous twelve months for the Medical Advocacy program. That section also explains what is not limited: nothing in this disclaimer or the Terms excludes liability for fraud, willful injury, gross negligence or violation of law, or takes away any right that the law does not allow to be waived. If this disclaimer and the Terms differ, the Terms control.
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