In this show you’ll learn:

How gluten-related disorders are inflammatoryWhy the brain is the most common system affected by gluten sensitivityWays to treat the fire that is created by inflammation and not the smoke

Background:

Gluten-sensitivities are typical complex inflammatory disorders.  The brain is on fire.  It’s the most common system affected by gluten-sensitivity.  What we want to do is treat the fire, not the smoke.

Join Dr. Ritamarie and Dr. Tom O’Bryan as they discuss how increases in inflammation in areas of the brain are affected by gluten.

Dr. Thomas O’Bryan,DC, CCN, DACBN,  is a nationally recognized speaker and workshop leader specializing in, and a passion to educate about, the many extra-intestinal complications of celiac disease and gluten sensitivity.

In this show you’ll learn:

How bacteria in your digestive system may influence your moods, behavior, and feelingsThe real truth about how the way you digest your food influences your brainHow your stomach acid affects the chemical communication system in your brain

Background:

If you’ve ever “gone with your gut” to make a decision or felt “butterflies in your stomach” when nervous, you’re likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain.  Hidden in the walls of the digestive system, this “brain in your gut” is revolutionizing medicine’s understanding of the links between digestion, mood, health, and even the way you think.

Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system (ENS). And it’s not so little. The ENS is two thin layers of more than 100 million nerve cells lining your gastrointestinal tract from esophagus to rectum.

Dr. Ritamarie is the founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology, and has over 23 years of clinical experience as a functional medicine practitioner and clinical nutritionist

Digestive problems are practically an epidemic in today’s world of fast food, antibiotics, and hormone-fed meat. Low energy, digestive troubles, brain fog, and sinus problems are just a few of the many health woes people suffer. Health starts and is maintained in the gut.

According to Hippocrates, ‘the father of medicine’, “All disease begins in the gut.”  Digestive disorders are more than just a nuisance. They are downright dangerous. Chronic gut issues can contribute to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, suicide, and a host of other serious conditions.

So how do you know if you have digestive issues that need attention?  If you’re bloated, gassy, or have gut pain, it’s obvious.

This week, Dr. Ritamarie reveals the less subtle symptoms of digestive issue and the root cause behind them. It's not what you think!

In this show you’ll learn:

What the Superwoman Syndrome isHow the Superwoman Syndrome impacts your health and well-beingThree secrets to release overwhelm and stress

Background:

We’re all conditioned to want big, measurable results now – to get past all our obstacles and move on to super-efficiency and super-effectiveness. We’re told to “Just Do It” and “Lean In.”

But the truth is – creating a life of wellness, success, ease, and flow involves lessons that mesh your mind, body, and spirit; they can’t be learned overnight!  It is a lifelong journey!

Join Lynn DeBuhr Johnson and Cassandra Herbert as they invite you to de-stress, not di-stress, with a few of the lessons they’ve learned along the way….

In this show you’ll learn:

How to help your family thrive eating healthy, plant-based foodsHow to create recipe replacements for processed and refined foodsFun tips to get your family on board while increasing nutrient-dense, fresh foods in their diets

Background:

Despite the importance of healthy eating habits, it can be a real challenge to get the whole family on board with your decision to get healthier.

Unfortunately, today more than one third of children and adolescents are overweight or obese. Eating habits that contribute to obesity are often those established during adolescence and young adulthood.

Obesity is associated with a higher risk for various health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and several types of cancer, including colon cancer.

The good news is you have the power to help your family develop good health practices early on so those diet habits carry on into adulthood.

In this show you’ll learn:

The different types of fibroids and the options for treating themThe relationship of hormones and the menstrual cycle to fibroidsDiet, supplements, herbal remedies, exercise, emotional healing, and the effects of environmental toxins in managing fibroids

Background:

Fact: By the time they reach menopause forty percent of American women have at least one uterine fibroid; 600,000 women are diagnosed each year.

Fact: Fibroids are the leading cause of hysterectomy, the second most common surgical procedure performed on women.

Fibroid tumors, while usually benign, can swell a woman’s uterus to the size of a basketball, frequently causing heavy menstrual bleeding, cramping, bladder infections, and even infertility. Most doctors recommend surgery as the only answer.

In this show you’ll learn:

Why it’s important to be gluten-free, even if you don’t have Celiac diseaseWhat the different tests you can use for gluten sensitivityWhat gluten sensitivity means, and why it’s not a fad

Background:

Celiac disease (CD), non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), and wheat allergy (WA) represent a spectrum of immune-mediated reactions to wheat and, in some cases, specifically gluten, a protein composite of gliadin and gluten in. Once believed to be relatively rare, particularly in the US, it is now thought that gluten-related disorders affect nearly 10% of the population.

Join Lynn DeBuhr Johnson and Diane Letchworth, CGP, as they discuss some answers to wheat and gluten sensitivity and some of the confusion out there around the topic.

Diane Letchworth is a Certified Transformational Nutrition Coach, Certified Gluten Practitioner, and Certified Reiki Master. She is currently a student in Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo’s Nutritional Endocrinology Practitioner Training program, and is also studying to be a Master Aromatherapist

In this show you’ll learn:

What mitochondria are and what they do for you.

Why people lose muscle mass as they age and when they diet.

The importance of mitochondrial function in cellular energy, weight regulation, sports, aging, detoxification, and retaining muscle mass.

Background:

The preservation of skeletal muscle mass is central to maintaining mobility and quality of life with aging and also impacts on our capacity to recover from illness and injury.  When you go through periods of time when you don’t use your muscles, this also creates a change in cellular and molecular processes in your muscles.  Mitochondrial changes also contribute to muscle aging.

Join Dr. Ritamarie, Dr. Alan Miller, and Dawn Aubrey, CCN, as they discuss the changes that occur in aging muscles and the determining potential relevance of the mitochondrial theory of aging.

Dr. Alan Miller graduated from the prestigious Bastyr University, and has 25 years of experience as a naturopathic physician in the areas of clinical practice, research, writing, education, formulation, product development, and technical support.

In this show you’ll learn:

Doing the right things vs. doing things right!Take a good, better, best approach…it’s not all or nothing!Remain kind, compassionate, and loving to yourself on your path to balanced health and balanced living!

Background:

“If you want something you’ve never had, you’ll have to do something you’ve never done.” – J.D. Houston

If you’re reading this, you probably have more than a passing interest in achieving and maintaining optimum health.  So the problem is not that you don’t want to transform your health, the problem may be the transition.  Why?  Because this is where it can sometimes get hard, murky, lonely, or just plain frustrating.

Join Dr. Ritamarie and Toni St. Clair as they discuss to successfully transition to transformation you must have RELIABLE information (SCIENCE)  and TRUST in your own wisdom (INTUITION).

She has training in nutritional endocrinology (using food to manage and manipulate hormones), and has received multiple but interrelated certifications as a live food chef, plant-based nutrition educator, hatha yoga teacher, and natural eyesight improvement teacher.

In this show you’ll learn:

What the single most revolutionary thing you can do isWhere to find information and supportHow to live healthy even in the face of challenges

Background:

It might be hard to imagine, but being healthy in today’s world is a revolutionary act. In so many ways, our health has been taken from us.   Despite the fact that America shells out more money on healthcare than any other country in the world, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and a hefty 75 percent of those dollars are going toward aiding people with chronic conditions—almost half of American adults had at least one chronic condition in 2005

Join Dr. Ritamarie as she discusses that we all have the power to change so much by making simple choices that create health rather than disease.

Dr. Ritamarie is the founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology, and has over 23 years of clinical experience as a functional medicine practitioner and clinical nutritionist.