For many practitioners, the reflex is simple: replace it. But we’re living in the most over-supplemented era in history. People are taking magnesium for sleep, B12 for energy, iron for fatigue, adaptogens for stress, creatine for cognition without asking the most important question.

Why is it low in the first place?

That question is the difference between protocol prescribing and real clinical thinking. A deficiency isn’t a diagnosis but a clue. Until we understand the mechanism behind that clue, we’re reacting and not practicing true healthcare.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Low nutrients: why they’re a clue, not a diagnosis

• Six hidden drivers: the real causes of many deficiencies

• Absorption problems: why adding more often fails

• Activation issues: when nutrients can’t convert to active forms

• Cellular transport: the overlooked signaling problem

• Increased demand: how stress, toxins, and inflammation drain nutrients

• Functional deficiency: when labs look normal but cells aren’t

• Supplement decisions: when they help and when they miss the root cause

Resources and Links:

• Download the full transcript here
• Download our FREE Smart Supplementation Matrix
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results
• Check out other podcast episodes here

In this conversation, Dr. Ritamarie speaks with Dan Buettner Jr. of Blue Zones about what the world’s longest-lived populations can teach us, and how entire U.S. cities are applying those lessons through practical changes in people, places, and policy. You’ll hear why individual discipline often fails, how small changes create massive health shifts over time, and what this means for practitioners who want results that actually stick.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why willpower breaks down, even when motivation is high
2. What the longest-living populations did instead of chasing health
3. How small environmental shifts outperform big personal efforts
4. The longevity levers most health conversations sidestep, but communities can’t
5. What changes when health becomes a shared identity rather than a personal project
6. A simple way to redesign your own environment so better choices happen automatically
7. What modern culture is erasing from traditional longevity regions, and what still matters
8. How practitioners can move beyond protocols and participate in population-level change

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here.
2. Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

1. Blue Zones website: BlueZones.com
2. Blue Zones Challenge
3. Blue Zones Project communities: BlueZones.com
4. Blue Zones® Certification Course (with ACLM): LifestyleMedicine.org

Guest Bio

Dan Buettner Jr. is a driving force behind Blue Zones LLC and its success in deploying a well-being strategy across the US, leading transformative community health initiatives across America. With a focus on applying evidence-based longevity principles from global Blue Zones, he has spearheaded projects impacting over 10 million people in 80+ U.S. communities, achieving measurable reductions in obesity, smoking, and healthcare costs while boosting well-being and economic vitality through innovative partnerships and scalable models.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie looks at creatine through a clinical lens. She explains why creatinine levels often rise when someone takes creatine, why that change is frequently misinterpreted as kidney damage, and what labs actually tell us about kidney function.

This conversation also opens a bigger question about supplements: how practitioners can develop real discernment. She is separating myths, marketing, and fear from meaningful science and clinical context.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why creatinine often rises with creatine and why it doesn’t necessarily mean kidney damage
2. The difference between creatinine production and kidney filtration
3. Why lab markers can be misinterpreted when supplements are involved
4. How creatine supports cellular energy and metabolic health
5. The bigger clinical question: how practitioners develop discernment around supplements
6. When creatine may be helpful and when it deserves a closer look

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our FREE Guide to Customize your Food Plan for Health and Longevity
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie sits down with functional practitioner Dr. Sam Shay to explore what he calls the “neuro-spicy brain.” They unpack how genetics, sensory processing, and nervous system signaling shape the way neurodivergent individuals experience the world.

You’ll hear why many neurodivergent people are misunderstood in clinical settings, how sensory overload can drive chronic stress and health challenges, and what practitioners can do differently to create safer, more effective care.

This conversation offers a fresh lens on neurodiversity, communication, and the biology behind why some brains respond to the world in profoundly different ways.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. The question most practitioners never ask when someone feels constantly overwhelmed by everyday stimuli
2. Why some brains experience sound, light, stress, and social environments so intensely
3. What “neuro-spicy” really means and how genetics shape sensory processing
4. Why neurodiverse people are frequently misunderstood in healthcare
5. The clues that a patient or client may be experiencing sensory overload
6. How practitioners can shift communication and care to better support neurodivergent patients

Resources and Links:

1. Download the transcript here
2. Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

1. Guest Resources and Links
2. Visit Dr. Sam Shay’s websites here: www.FitgenesUSA.com and
3. www.DrSamShay.com
4. Connect with Dr. Sam on social media:
5. Facebook
6. Instagram
7. YouTube
8. Access Dr. Sam’s gift and practitioner genetics resources here

Guest Bio

Dr. Sam Shay, DC, IFMCP is a functional medicine expert, speaker, and stand-up comic who helps practitioners unlock their client's ideal diet, reduce inflammation, and reclaim energy through simple genetic testing.

Dr. Sam Shay started www.FitgenesUSA.com to help licensed practitioners and certified health professionals integrate powerful functional genetics to improve their practice outcomes.

Dr. Sam’s mission is to make personalized genetic testing easy, effective, and actionable. He’s known for making cutting-edge science relatable and actionable, giving practitioners and their clients the tools to turn DNA into a blueprint for better health.

Whether supporting exhausted parents, health-conscious professionals, or individuals seeking sustainable transformation, Dr. Sam makes cutting-edge science feel human, hopeful, and empowering. Featured on over 200 podcasts and summits, he delivers each conversation with insight, warmth, and a dose of sharp humor—helping audiences turn their genetic blueprint into a roadmap for thriving.

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie dives into metabolic readiness, why some protocols work beautifully for some clients and don’t move the needle for others. She explains how metabolic chaos (not dysfunction), and the body's readiness to respond to interventions, are the real game-changers.

This episode is a must-listen if you’ve ever been puzzled by why the "right" protocol fails despite clear lab data. Discover how shifting from reactive to readiness-based thinking can transform your clinical outcomes.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why sequencing plans is more important than just following lab data
2. The critical gap between identifying dysfunction and understanding readiness
3. How metabolic chaos creates resistance, while readiness fosters response
4. Why the same protocol can have opposite effects depending on the body’s stress, inflammation, and signaling status
5. The order that must come before progress happens
6. How metabolic readiness shifts clinical thinking from chasing markers to stabilizing systems

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

In today’s episode, we dive into why even the most well-designed functional protocols can fall short. It's not that your plan was wrong. It’s about sequencing. The body doesn't respond to everything at once, and when we miss the critical regulatory hierarchy, even the best plans can stall.

We’ll unpack the gap between lab data and clinical outcomes, and why understanding readiness and context is the missing link for sustainable transformation.

If you've ever had a case where the labs looked fine, the protocol seemed right, but the results didn’t follow through, this episode will change how you approach your work.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why lab data alone won’t tell you what the body is truly ready to heal
2. The hidden cause of stalled protocols
3. How understanding the body’s regulatory hierarchy can unlock treatment success
4. Why addressing multiple dysfunctions at once often derails progress
5. The game-changer: why context and readiness are key to true healing
6. The critical next step: how to know when the body is actually ready to respond

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here.
2. Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

In today’s episode, Dr. Ritamarie explores why focusing solely on macronutrients isn’t enough to restore metabolic health. While macros are important, they’re only one piece of the puzzle. The real key lies in understanding how the body responds to those inputs and why your clients might still struggle even when they’re following the "perfect" protocol.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why just tweaking macros doesn’t address the deeper metabolic issues
2. The hidden truth: metabolic health is driven by how the body responds, not just what you eat
3. Why insulin resistance, thyroid issues, and weight struggles persist even with the "right" macros
4. How chronic stress, inflammation, and nervous system imbalances shift how the body handles food
5. The vital shift from focusing on numbers to understanding the body’s signals
6. Why looking at metabolic health through a systems lens changes everything in practice
7. The real question practitioners should be asking to restore metabolic health

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here.
2. Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

In this deeply personal solocast, Dr. Ritamarie reflects on the unexpected death of a colleague in the natural health community and the vulnerability it surfaced. When someone who appears healthy dies suddenly, it forces a difficult but necessary question: what silent risks might be accumulating beneath the surface?

This episode explores the quiet progression of cardiovascular disease, the limitations of standard lab panels, and why doing everything “right” is not the same as measuring what matters. Dr. Ritamarie shares her own experience with elevated lipoprotein(a), what she did in response, and why awareness is not fear, it is responsibility.

If you are a practitioner, this conversation is a reminder to screen earlier and look deeper. If you are on your own health journey, it is an invitation to measure what matters before symptoms ever appear.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why sudden death in “healthy” people feels different and what it reveals
2. The silent progression of cardiovascular disease over decades
3. Why standard cholesterol panels miss critical risk markers
4. What lipoprotein(a) is and why most doctors never test for it
5. How inflammation, insulin resistance, and endothelial dysfunction quietly accumulate
6. Dr. Ritamarie’s personal experience lowering elevated Lp(a)
7. Why genetics influence risk but do not dictate destiny
8. The difference between helplessness and awareness
9. What practitioners should be screening for now, not later
10. A powerful question to ask yourself about hidden risk

Resources and Links:

1. Download the transcript here
2. Download our FREE Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Guide
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

You’ll discover the biological processes that make trauma a root cause of illness, why the body keeps the score, and how trauma creates a feedback loop that keeps people stuck in their symptoms. Dr. Apigian shares actionable strategies for practitioners and self-healers to help break the trauma cycle, understand the body’s response, and guide their clients toward healing.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. How unresolved trauma rewires your metabolism, immunity, and nervous system
2. The "Body Trauma Loop": Why trauma keeps you in fight or flight
3. How childhood trauma shapes adult health, metabolism, and immunity
4. The 3-phase healing process: From safety to expansion
5. Why “little T” trauma can be just as damaging as “big T” trauma
6. How to recognize when trauma is the root cause of chronic symptoms

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our FREE Guide to Fasting for Health and Longevity
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links:

1. Dr. Aimie Apigian’s Website: biologyoftrauma.com
2. Dr. Aimie Apigian’s Book - The Biology of Trauma: Get the book here
3. Dr. Aimie Apigian’s Podcast: Biology of Trauma Podcast
4. Free Gift: Nervous System Reset - Five Somatic Practices
5. Connect with Dr. Aimie on Social Media:
6. Instagram: @dr.aimie
7. LinkedIn: Dr. Aimie Apigian
8. YouTube: Dr. Aimie Apigian

Guest Bio

Dr. Aimie Apigian, double board-certified physician (Preventive/Addiction Medicine) with master's degrees in biochemistry and public health, revolutionizes trauma healing by revealing how our cells—not just our minds—store trauma. Her book "The Biology of Trauma" (foreword by Gabor Maté) transforms our understanding of how the body experiences and holds trauma. After adopting a child during medical school sparked her journey, she developed an integrative science-based sequence for the healing journey. Through her practitioner training, podcast, YouTube channel, and international speaking, she bridges functional medicine, attachment and trauma therapy, proving that repairing trauma's impact on the mind, body, and biology is possible.

In this foundational episode, Dr. Ritamarie explains why food is first and foremost information, a powerful metabolic signal that shapes hormones, stress responses, inflammation, and repair, before calories are ever used.

You’ll learn why rigid nutrition plans often fail, why the same food can produce opposite effects in different bodies, and how a nutritional endocrinology lens transforms nutrition from mechanical rules into physiological understanding.

If you’ve ever followed a “perfect” diet and still felt stuck, or watched good food choices backfire, this episode reveals what’s really happening beneath the surface.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why the calorie-and-macro model explains combustion, but not communication
2. The signals every meal sends to insulin, cortisol, thyroid, and inflammation
3. Why the same food can calm one body and stress another
4. How timing, stress, and metabolic state change how food is interpreted
5. The real reason rigid nutrition protocols stall progress
6. What it means to match food choices to the body’s current priorities
7. How nutritional endocrinology teaches you to listen instead of override

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our FREE Functional Food Guide here
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie explains why chronic metabolic issues aren’t solved by fixing isolated markers, and why systems-level thinking is essential for healing. She introduces nutritional endocrinology and how the body adapts, communicates, and prioritizes survival through interconnected signals.

If you’ve ever followed the right protocol, seen lab improvements, and still felt stuck, this episode reveals why and what to do about it.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why metabolic health unravels even when nothing appears “missing”
2. The mistake that turns well-intended protocols into stalled progress
3. How the body actually communicates and why most approaches miss it
4. The consequences of chasing isolated lab numbers instead of patterns
5. A different way to understand metabolism that explains inconsistency
6. Why doing everything “right” can still lead to the wrong outcome
7. What changes when metabolic health is viewed as a system, not a set of parts

Resources and Links

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our Free Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

From the beginning, this podcast has aimed to challenge the status quo, helping practitioners and health-seekers break free from the limitations of reductionist medicine. Dr. Ritamarie explores why foundational knowledge alone is not enough and how nutritional endocrinology, a systems-based approach to metabolic health, is the key to real, sustainable change.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why “this for that” thinking sabotages even the best intentions in healthcare
2. The missing layer that explains why chronic and metabolic cases stay stuck
3. The lens that changes how food, hormones, and metabolism actually make sense together
4. What today’s healthcare model gets fundamentally wrong when the labs “look fine”
5. The deeper purpose behind ReInvent Healthcare, and where this next chapter is headed

Resources and Links:

1. Download the transcript here
2. Get the FREE Magic Questions and Health Detective System
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner tools and training
5. Check out other podcast episodes: ReInvent Healthcare

What if the key to resolving your client’s chronic inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, or hormone imbalance was a neural switch hidden in the body? In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie sits down with “The Vagus Nerve Doc,” Dr. Navaz Habib, to expose how vagus nerve activation regulates the immune system, improves digestion, and acts as the true foundation for healing. If your clients aren't getting results, even with the perfect diet or plan, this could be why.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. The most overlooked switch that determines whether healing can even begin
2. Why the vagus nerve is more than just a “relaxation nerve” and what it controls
3. A deep dive into the neuroimmune connection (and how it explains autoimmune flares, chronic fatigue, and more)
4. The role of HRV, CO₂ tolerance, and breathwork in rewiring the nervous system
5. What the 80/15/5 rule reveals about the direction of vagus nerve communication
6. How to assess vagus tone with the BOLT score, no labs needed
7. Why even GLP-1 and satiety hormones rely on vagus nerve signaling
8. A practical breathwork roadmap, plus the best timing for real results
9. Bonus: how Dr. Ritamarie’s son hacked an early HeartMath device on a plane!

Resources and Links:

1. Download the Full Transcript Here
2. Download our FREE Guide to Adrenal Support
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner tools and training
5. Check out other podcast episodes: ReInvent Healthcare

Guest Resources and Links:

1. Checkout Dr Habib’s website DrNavazHabib.com and HealthUpgraded.com
2. Grab Dr Habib’s Free Gift – 10-Day Vagus Nerve Jumpstart: Access Here
3. Checkout Dr Habib’s Books – Activate Your Vagus Nerve and Upgrade Your Vagus Nerve (read by Dr. Habib)
4. Podcast – The Health Upgrade Podcast:
5. Listen on Apple or Listen on Spotify
6. Social Media:
7. Instagram: @drnavazhabib
8. Facebook: DrNavazHabib
9. YouTube: Dr. Navaz Habib
10. LinkedIn: Dr. Navaz Habib

Guest Bio:

Dr. Navaz Habib, aka "The Vagus Nerve Doc," is a best-selling author of 2 books - “Activate Your Vagus Nerve” and “Upgrade Your Vagus Nerve” and host of The Health Upgrade Podcast. After using functional medicine to overcome his own health challenges, Dr. Habib built Health Upgraded, an online health program implementing his VAGUS protocol, to guide parents and professionals to enhance their health by unlocking the healing power of the Vagus nerve to reduce the effects of stress and inflammation.

You’ll learn how to approach these complex cases with compassion, advanced testing, and functional strategies including lifestyle, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceutical interventions. This conversation sheds light on why many people continue to struggle despite conventional care and how a root-cause approach can restore hope and health.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why chronic fatigue syndromes, Long COVID, and post-infectious conditions are often misdiagnosed
2. How mold toxicity, viral reactivation, and vector-borne infections hide from standard testing
3. Functional testing strategies for Lyme, Babesia, Bartonella, and other co-infections
4. The role of genetics and nutrigenomics in guiding testing and treatment
5. Integrative approaches combining lifestyle, diet, mindfulness, and targeted pharmaceuticals
6. Early warning signs practitioners should never overlook
7. Why patience and multi-layered care are crucial for recovery

Resources and Links:

1. Download the full transcript here
2. Download our FREE Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links:

1. Dr. Alison Grimston’s website: DrFinlays.co.uk | DoctorAllie.com
2. Free gift Tantalizing Smoothies
3. Connect with Dr Ali on Social Media:
4. Facebook
5. X/Twitter
6. LinkedIn:
7. Instagram
8. YouTube

Guest Bio

Dr Alison Grimston is a UK-based functional medicine physician with a background in general practice and extensive experience supporting individuals with complex, chronic fatigue-related conditions. With advanced training in nutrigenomics and root-cause medicine, she focuses on the hidden contributors to illness — including mold toxicity, Lyme disease, Long COVID, and chronic infections. She is passionate about empowering patients with personalised strategies to optimise energy, resilience, and long-term health.

In this solocast, Dr. Ritamarie breaks down the thinking process behind effective root-cause work. Not more labs. Not more tools. But the mental model that helps you connect symptoms, patterns, physiology, and history into a clear, actionable hypothesis.

This episode walks you through how experienced practitioners move from reacting to data to making sense of it. You’ll learn how to identify the right entry point, avoid overwhelm, and build confidence in your clinical decisions without chasing everything at once.

If you’ve ever felt stuck between too much information and not enough clarity, this episode will give you a framework you can return to again and again.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

1. Why more data doesn’t automatically lead to better decisions
2. What a root-cause hypothesis really is, and what it is not
3. How to recognize symptom patterns instead of chasing diagnoses
4. The systems most commonly involved in fatigue, weight changes, mood shifts, and metabolic imbalance
5. How to identify upstream contributors that feed downstream symptoms
6. What pattern clustering reveals about where to start
7. How to determine the primary driver that creates the biggest shift with the fewest steps
8. Common mistakes that keep practitioners stuck in complexity
9. Why sequence matters more than volume when supporting healing
10. How a strong hypothesis saves time, money, and unnecessary testing

Resources and Links

1. Download the full Transcript here
2. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group here for free resources and community support
3. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical results
4. Check out other podcast episodes here

Most people think normal labs mean a healthy heart, but that’s a dangerous myth. In this episode, we expose why standard tests often miss the earliest signs of cardiovascular disease and what you can do instead. Whether you're a practitioner or on your own healing journey, this is the kind of root-cause strategy that puts the power back in your hands.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why 50% of people with heart disease never know until it's too late
2. The test that shows early arterial plaque… before labs say there’s a problem
3. How vascular age is calculated and what it reveals about true risk
4. What Joe saw in his own arteries that triggered a major health transformation
5. Why showing patients their own plaque may be more powerful than any lab result
6. The critical difference between soft plaque and calcified plaque and how to track both
7. When normal cholesterol and blood pressure still mean you're at risk
8. Why sugar is the most dangerous (and overlooked) drug for your arteries
9. What every practitioner needs to know about Lp(a), homocysteine, and oxidized fats
10. How you can bring this tool into your clinic (or find someone nearby who offers it)

Resources and Links:

1. Download the transcript here
2. Get our FREE Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Guide
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links:

1. Find Joseph Ence at vasolabs.com
2. Connect with Joseph on Socials
3. Get the Links referenced in this episode here
4. Instagram: @_vasolabs
5. Facebook: Vasolabs
6. LinkedIn: Vasolabs on LinkedIn
7. YouTube Channels:
8. Vasolabs Education
9. Legends of Longevity

Guest Bio:

For over 20+ years, Joseph Ence has been dedicated to helping people take control of their heart health. After discovering plaque in his own arteries and losing 84 pounds, Joe's mission became personal. He now creates clear, visual reports that empower others to understand their heart health and take proactive steps toward a healthier future. His goal is simple: to give people the tools they need to live longer, healthier lives. When Joe started Vasolabs, he knew he wanted to create more than a business—he wanted to build a community. His approach is rooted in education, empowerment, and making advanced heart health diagnostics accessible to everyone. By offering non-invasive CIMT scans, expert telemedicine consultations, and tailored health plans, Joe and his team help people understand their risks and make informed decisions.

You’ll learn how to detect early metabolic imbalances, what markers to prioritize for inflammation and detox stress, and how to combine genetics with advanced testing to create truly personalized healing plans. This episode will help you connect the dots and become the practitioner who sees what others miss.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why “normal” CBC, CMP, and lipid panels rarely explain fatigue, brain fog, or weight gain
2. The 3 types of dysfunction standard labs always overlook
3. Critical immune and mitochondrial markers to catch early burnout and chronic inflammation
4. Functional ranges and “gray zone” patterns that reveal trouble before red flags
5. How genetics can guide smarter test selection (even without expensive panels)
6. Overlooked tools for catching methylation, detox stress, and early insulin resistance
7. Why GGT, uric acid, and homocysteine might be your most powerful early-warning tools
8. How to interpret functional trends over time and avoid falling into the “normal trap”

Resources and Links:

1. Download the transcript here
2. Download our FREE Comprehensive Blood Chemistry Guide
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Dr Ritamarie and Dr. Larisa Sharipova share how frequencies, emotions, and subtle energy patterns influence the body’s hormonal resilience and how practitioners can tap into this powerful layer of healing.

What’s Inside This Episode?

1. Why some people don’t respond to “perfect protocols” and what may be missing
2. How emotional stagnation blocks hormone signals at the energetic level
3. The role of bioenergetic scanning in identifying hidden stressors
4. Early signs of energetic hormone imbalance you won’t see on bloodwork
5. What frequency medicine has to do with menopause, infertility, and chronic stress
6. How detoxification looks different when you scan the body’s energy terrain
7. Real case examples where energetic shifts triggered rapid healing
8. The daily habits that regulate energy flow and restore hormonal balance
9. A mindset shift to help your people move from burnout to bioenergetic balance

Resources and Links:

1. Download the Transcript here
2. Download our FREE Guide: Strategies for Enhancing Energy Metabolism
3. Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
4. Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.
5. Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

1. Find Dr Larisa at dr-larisa.com and harmonicalignment.co
2. Download her Free Gift: Energy4Life eBook
3. Find her on Socials
4. Instagram: @harmonicalignment_co
5. YouTube: Harmonic Alignment Podcast

Guest Bio

Dr. Larisa Sharipova is a trailblazing Holistic Health Practitioner, Bioenergetic Specialist, and Women’s Lifestyle Doctor dedicated to empowering women to reclaim their health, balance their lives, and thrive naturally. With a profound background as a trained Medical Doctor and OBGYN, Larisa combines her extensive medical expertise with holistic healing practices to deliver transformational health solutions. As a partner of Harmonic Alignment Collaborative, Dr. Larisa specializes in natural hormone balancing, epigenetics, stress management, detoxification, anti-aging, and bio-energetics. She is also a co-host of Harmonic Alignment Podcast, the Amazon bestselling author of Listen to Your Body and Regain Your Health, and a sought-after public speaker who inspires women globally to prioritize their well-being.

With chronic illness, anxiety, and metabolic dysfunction rising fast among youth, this conversation is a beacon of hope and a call to action. Discover how these boys went from health challenges to health leaders, what role their mom played in the transformation, and why they believe any teen (and any parent) can be part of the solution. If you're a parent, practitioner, or educator who cares about the future of healthcare, this is a must-listen episode.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The sobering statistics that sparked these teens’ mission and why the next generation’s health is at risk
• How four teenage boys transformed their health with real food and root-cause thinking
• The top challenges teens face today and how to solve them without meds
• Why parents and practitioners need to rethink how we engage youth in their health journey
• Surprising strategies that helped improve mood, sleep, confidence, and performance
• A teen-led perspective on health freedom and personal responsibility

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Guide to Customize your Food Plan for Health and Longevity 
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here
• Visit INEMethod.com for training and tools to grow your practice
• Check out more podcast episodes here

The Holistic Kids’ Resources and Links:

• Visit their website: TheHolisticKidsShow.com
• Check out their books, including:
• The Teen Health Revolution:  TheTeenHealthRevolution.com
• Adam’s Healing Adventures TheTeenHealthRevolution.com
• Grab their free gift: Dessert Recipe Cookbook
• Listen to their podcast:
• iTunes
• Spotify
• Find them on social media platforms:
• Instagram: @holistickidsshow
• Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/theholistickidsshow/

Guest Bio

Abdullah, Zain, Emaad and Qasim Ansari, 17,14,12,10, are the hosts of The Holistic Kids’ Show Podcast, national speakers, and co-authors of the traditionally published book, The Teen Health Revolution: Lifestyle Secrets to Optimize Your Mind, Body, and Soul (releasing November 13, 2025). They are the coauthors of Adam’s Healing Adventures children’s health book series. The Holistic Kids are the co-hosts of The Holistic Kids’ Show Podcast episode, where they have interviewed over 200 world-renowned guests and best-selling authors. The Holistic Kids have lectured at the leading integrative and functional medicine conferences, including being the first youth speakers at the 2024 International Institute of Functional Medicine, A4M 2025, and The Mindshare Summit 2025. They have also spoken at the Nourished Festival, served as keynote speakers at the YMCA Interfaith Mayor’s Breakfast, and presented at major conferences like MAS-ICNA, reaching audiences of over 60,000. In May 2025, Abdullah was featured in the docuseries Young and Thriving as a “young voice for mental health who is bringing a unique perspective of today’s youth into the conversation. Abdullah and Zain have made appearances on the Emmy Award-winning Dr. Nandi Show. The Holistic Kids have been featured in top podcasts and print and online media outlets like Wellness Mama podcast, Rational Wellness Podcast, and The Holistic Primary Care Magazine.

Discover why building a body where cancer cannot thrive is essential, whether your client is recovering from treatment, living with cancer long-term, or wants to prevent recurrence. From terrain restoration and tumor microenvironment to nutrient repletion, blood viscosity, immune modulation, and glycemic control, this episode uncovers clinical strategies every practitioner needs to know to better support cancer patients and survivors.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The distinction between the “disease team” and the “health team” and why both are vital
• Why the tumor microenvironment and terrain may matter more than the tumor itself
• The blood markers that reveal hidden risks that are often missed by oncologists
• How glycemic control and inflammation increase cancer recurrence by up to 40%
• The often missed danger of fibrin clots in cancer patients (and what to do about it)
• Why many patients develop autoimmune disease after immunotherapy and how to modulate without overstimulation
• Practical tips to rebuild the microbiome and blood-brain barrier post-treatment
• A new way to think about melatonin, vitamin A, zinc, and omega-3s in cancer support
• How to talk to oncologists and position yourself as an essential part of the care team
• Why terrain restoration and functional support matter most after cancer treatment ends

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

• Visit OutsmartCancer.com for free recipes, educational tools, and the Outsmart Cancer Roadmap (coming soon)
• Practitioner training and professional resources at aiioRE.com
• Chilkov Clinic - NaliniChilkov.com 
• Social Media:
• Facebook: facebook.com/DrNalini
• Instagram: instagram.com/drnalinichilkov/
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/nalinichilkov

Guest Bio

Dr. Nalini Chilkov is a leading authority and pioneer in the field of Integrative Cancer Care, cancer prevention, and immune enhancement.  

She is the Founder of the American Institute of Integrative Oncology Research & Education and creator of the OutSmart Cancer System teaching clinicians and patients whose lives have been touched by cancer how to Create a Body Where Cancer Cannot Thrive.

Dr. Chilkov’s OutSmart Cancer Programs are recognized as the most comprehensive, science based, safe and natural programs for supporting cancer patients, survivors, and those who do not want to get cancer to Get Well, Stay Well and Live Well.

Dr. Chilkov is the author of the best selling book 32 Ways to Outsmart Cancer, How to Create a Body Where Cancer Cannot Thrive.

With more than 35 years of clinical experience combining the best of modern functional medicine with the ancient wisdom of traditional Oriental and natural healing, Dr. Chilkov is a seasoned clinician and an innovator, building bridges between modern and traditional healing paradigms and partnering with physicians to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Discover how to combine genetic data with functional testing, and learn how to personalize your interventions with surgical precision.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• What metabolic health really means and where it goes wrong
• The SNPs linked to obesity, insulin resistance, and energy dysregulation
• Why normal labs can be misleading without a genetic lens
• How to pair key SNPs with targeted lab tests to get clearer answers
• Real-world examples of using DNA to uncover hidden dysfunction
• When to test beyond TSH and lipid panels and what to order instead
• The one genetic insight that could change your whole approach to weight loss and blood sugar

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Guide to Using Genetic Testing to Optimize Patient Outcomes
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

From detox-resistant weight gain to reversing chronic conditions that seem “untreatable,” this conversation will challenge everything you’ve been taught about food, symptoms, and what it really means to heal.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Why fasting equals liberation
• The shocking connection between hydration, mucoid plaque, and autoimmune symptoms
• The truth about "healthy" people who never get sick and still die young
• Why lean clients may benefit the most from extended fasting
• How to determine if your client’s labs are missing early signs of deeper toxicity
• When a 5-day fast isn’t enough and what’s really required for cellular repair
• A simple blood pressure formula Loren uses to spot hidden dehydration
• Incredible real-life healing stories from clients with migraines, paralysis, cancer, and chronic fatigue

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Guide to The Many Faces of Fasting
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

Connect with Loren Lockman on:

• Loren’s Facebook
• Loren’s Instagram
• Tanglewood Wellness Center
• Loren’s YouTube Channel – Official
• Loren’s Legacy YouTube Channel

Grab his free Gift: : email Loren Lockman at faster1still@gmail.com to receive his free ebook Ancient Secrets of Healing

Guest Bio:

Loren Lockman, age 64 is a 38-year vegan and 33.5 year raw vegan. Loren has been a health coach since 1987 and began supervising water-only fasts in 1996, running the world’s largest dedicated water-only fasting center for 29 years. He’s guided nearly 12,000 people through water-only fasts averaging 26 days with consistently amazing transformations. A Reiki Master, Certified Permaculture Instructor, body surfer, poet, frisbee and backgammon player, Loren is passionate about helping people become their very best selves.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo takes you deep into the radical idea that transformation doesn’t begin with protocols but with  questions. Too many people accept dismissive diagnoses, symptom-suppressing prescriptions, and “normal” lab results that overlook early signs of metabolic dysfunction. This episode is a call to action for practitioners to help their clients rebel against the status quo and reclaim authority over their health.

You’ll discover how to recognize the red flags conventional medicine misses, how to empower clients to speak up, and how to use root-cause strategies that go beyond symptom management. If you’ve ever had a client say “my doctor said everything looks fine” while their body clearly says otherwise, this is the episode that arms you with the mindset and methods to change that narrative.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• How blind trust in the healthcare system can lead to missed diagnoses and worse
• Why “normal” lab ranges are anything but normal for vibrant health
• The early metabolic signs that signal disease before symptoms appear
• Dr. Ritamarie’s personal story and why she’s made it her mission to help others question everything
• The truth about firing doctors, advocating for better labs, and demanding answers
• The role of the practitioner as a health detective, not a protocol pusher
• Why personalized, root-cause healing requires rebellion
• How to teach clients to tune into their bodies and take ownership of their health journey

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Create Your Next-Level Practice.  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

This is not a surface-level conversation. Dr. Hirsch breaks down the toxic five, his four-step recovery system, and why most testing methods fail to reveal the real root causes. You’ll learn what to look for in clients presenting with post-COVID fatigue, why overtraining can backfire, and how to help clients finally move the needle.

What’s Inside This Episode?

•  Why long COVID and chronic fatigue are more alike than most realize
• How spike protein becomes the "final straw" for an already stressed system
• The difference between whispers and shouts in client symptom history
• Why standard immune testing often gives false negatives
• The five hidden drivers behind long COVID and chronic fatigue
• Dr. Hirsch’s four-step framework for long-term recovery
• Why testing might be unnecessary and what to do instead
• How to build resilience with herbal, nutritional, and nervous system support
• Why proper sequencing is key to sustainable detox and repair
• A look inside Dr. Hirsch’s hybrid coaching model and success rate

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Guide to Unlock the Power of Optimal Energy
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

• Join Dr Evan Hirsch’s FREE Facebook Group
• Connect with Dr Evan  on:
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Instagram
• TikTok
• YouTube

Grab his free Gift: Free Masterclass

Guest Bio:

Evan H. Hirsch, MD, (also known as the EnergyMD) is a world-renowned fatigue expert, best-selling author, and professional speaker. He is the creator of the EnergyMD Method, the science-backed and clinically proven 4-step process to resolving Long Covid and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) naturally. Through his best-selling book, podcast, and international online program, he has helped thousands of people around the world resolve their fatigue. He has been featured on TV, podcasts, and summits, and when he’s not at the office, you can find him singing musicals, dancing hip-hop, learning languages, and traveling with his family.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, I explore the deeper drivers of neuropathy, beyond what conventional medicine typically considers, and share how to identify and address them before lasting damage occurs.. You’ll learn how to spot the red flags and how to apply targeted strategies to halt or reverse nerve damage.

If your patients are complaining of unexplained nerve symptoms, or you’re experiencing them yourself, don’t wait. These are clues. And when you know how to read them, you can intervene early and change the trajectory of metabolic decline.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The metabolic mechanisms linking insulin resistance to nerve damage
• The three types of neuropathies every practitioner should recognize
• Functional labs that detect root causes
• The hidden role of vitamin deficiencies and genetics in nerve symptoms
• Clinical clues that distinguish neuropathy from carpal tunnel, fibromyalgia, or toxicity
• Functional interventions: diet, exercise, supplements, and antioxidant therapies that restore nerve health
• Nutrients that accelerate repair
• Lifestyle and stress‑management strategies that promote regeneration and protect mitochondria

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Download our FREE Guide to for Lab Test Recommendations
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for our Reinvent Healthcare Online Event Nov 7-9! It’s the event of the year for practitioners serious about root-cause healing. 
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is joined by functional health experts Steph Jackson and Jennifer Whitmire to explore how peptides may support gut repair, reduce immune reactivity, and help stabilize autoimmune clients.

They don’t hold back. This is a grounded, real-world conversation about how peptides actually work, when to use them, how to layer them into gut programs, and when not to waste your money.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• What peptides really are and which ones actually support gut and immune healing
• When peptides might help restore tight junction integrity and reduce leaky gut
• The real risks: growth promotion, poor absorption, and overreliance
• Why “jumping on the peptide bandwagon” can backfire if root causes aren’t addressed
• How to time peptides with food, supplements, and protein intake
• Oral vs. subcutaneous vs. intranasal delivery—what the research actually says
• Items like dosage, pulsing, retesting, and client readiness
• Why peptides should support and not replace your root-cause solutions
• The power of true gut and autoimmune repair

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for our Reinvent Healthcare Online Event Nov 7-9! It’s the event of the year for practitioners serious about root-cause healing. 
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

Steph Jackson

• Join the Friendly Flora Collective – Microbiome Membership
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Jennifer Whitmire

• Join the Culinary Healing Circle
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Steph Jackson

If you are ready to go deep with your digestive health and you need more than slippery elm, you will enjoy working with Nutritional Endocrinology coach, Steph Jackson. Steph loves customizing balancing programs for the micro biome, working with fermented foods, and looking at how the body systems work together. After finding and clearing the root cause of her severe physical pain and exhaustion, Steph has gone on to help others to do the same. She is also the proud founder of Crave Conscious, a non-dairy yogurt company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jennifer Whitmire 

On a mission to save body parts, Jennifer Whitmire is a culinary coach, health educator, and master herbalist specializing in autoimmune and thyroid health. Since 2017, she’s taught women how to heal with food by restoring energy, balancing hormones, and repairing the gut through science-backed, whole food plant-based cooking and kitchen-based strategies.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie uncovers the common progression of kidney damage fueled by insulin resistance and elevated glucose. Most practitioners miss the early clues. And most patients never feel symptoms… until it’s too late.

Discover the early biochemical markers, the overlooked tests, and the clinical action steps you can take now to prevent progression to fibrosis, dialysis, and even renal failure.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The silent mechanisms linking insulin resistance to kidney scarring and decline
• Why normal creatinine and BUN may be misleading and what to test instead
• Which labs signal decline before patients show symptoms
• The food patterns and protein levels that support vs. stress the kidneys
• Targeted botanicals, nutrients, and fasting strategies for protecting kidney function
• How to approach intermittent fasting, inflammation, and oxalates with nuance
• When medications like SGLT2 inhibitors or ACE inhibitors may be protective
• The practitioner’s role in prevention, education, and root-cause reversal

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Health Detective Checklist.
• Download our FREE Guide to for Lab Test Recommendations
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for our Reinvent Healthcare Online Event Nov 7-9! It’s the event of the year for practitioners serious about root-cause healing. 
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here  

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie exposes a quiet transformation that's becoming alarmingly common: the metabolic cascade behind fatty liver. It doesn’t start with pain or obvious signs. It starts with subtle shifts in biochemistry that most protocols completely miss.

Before the liver scars, there are clues. And if you know where to look, you can help reverse the damage long before it becomes permanent.

What’s Inside This Episode?

•  Why liver damage is now driven more by food than by alcohol
• The signals that mark the shift from fat accumulation to fibrosis
• What “normal” AST and ALT might be hiding, and how to interpret them
• A critical lab ratio that reveals what single values can’t
• Early metabolic signs that point to liver inflammation before imaging shows a thing
• Therapeutic strategies to restore liver function, starting with the kitchen
• How trauma and oxytocin tie into liver recovery
• The botanical allies that protect and regenerate hepatic tissue

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Check out the FREE From Fat to Fibrosis Practitioner Quick Guide
• Here is a FIB-4 Calculator Tool 
• FIB-4 = (Age × AST) / (Platelets × √ALT)
• NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) = -1.675 + (0.037 × age) + (0.094 × BMI) + (1.13 × hyperglycemia) + (0.99 × AST/ALT ratio) - (0.013 × platelet count) - (0.66 × albumin)
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

From autoimmune flares and brain fog to hidden cardiovascular risks, the trio explores how everyday foods, even so-called “healthy” ones, can lead to inflammation, and what to do about it. This episode will shift how you look at food, labs, and healing.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• How inflammation silently hides in autoimmune conditions, heart disease, and brain fog
• The tests most practitioners miss when screening for inflammation
• Why food “sensitivities” go far beyond IgA or IgG testing
• The hidden downside of health foods
• Why ginger may be as powerful as turmeric and how both interact with the microbiome
• How oxytocin, hydration, and color diversity can be more anti-inflammatory than supplements

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Functional Food Guide
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for ReInvent 2025 here for a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome on brain health including lab testing and genetics
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

Steph Jackson

• Join the Friendly Flora Collective – Microbiome Membership

Jennifer Whitmire

• Join the Culinary Healing Circle

Guest Bio

Steph Jackson

If you are ready to go deep with your digestive health and you need more than slippery elm, you will enjoy working with Nutritional Endocrinology coach, Steph Jackson. Steph loves customizing balancing programs for the micro biome, working with fermented foods, and looking at how the body systems work together. After finding and clearing the root cause of her severe physical pain and exhaustion, Steph has gone on to help others to do the same. She is also the proud founder of Crave Conscious, a non-dairy yogurt company based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Jennifer Whitmire 

On a mission to save body parts, Jennifer Whitmire is a culinary coach, health educator, and master herbalist specializing in autoimmune and thyroid health. Since 2017, she’s taught women how to heal with food by restoring energy, balancing hormones, and repairing the gut through science-backed, whole food plant-based cooking and kitchen-based strategies.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie sits down with mindset and motivation expert Toni St. Clair to uncover what really stops clients from moving forward, and how you can become the kind of practitioner who inspires lasting transformation.

You’ll discover Toni’s 3-part framework for turning fear into focus, overwhelm into action, and resistance into results. This conversation will equip you with the tools to create change that sticks.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The surprising mindset trap that paralyzes even the most motivated clients
• How to uncover the hidden fears that sabotage follow-through
• The art of anchoring habit change to meaningful, personal goals
• What to say when a client “fails” and how to turn setbacks into momentum
• How to manage expectations (yours and theirs) for sustainable success
• Why small wins matter more than perfect plans and how to build on them
• The one thing you must create before any clinical strategy can work

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Tickets are available for our 2025 ReInvent Healthcare Online Intensive. Grab your spot now and get the resources and support you need to thrive. Click Here to Register
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Guest Resources and Links

• Check out Toni St Clair’s website at True Self Total Health
• Find Toni on LinkedIn at Toni St. Clair on LinkedIn
• Download Toni’s Free Gift: Kick Start Kit for Prompts and tools for applying Toni’s 3 C’s framework

Guest Bio

Toni is a passionate and results-driven National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach specializing in functional medicine, integrative health, and behavior change. As the founder and CEO of TrueSelf TotalHealth, she helps high-functioning, purpose-driven professionals and leaders reclaim their energy, balance, and joy through personalized lifestyle strategies rooted in functional medicine and mindfulness.

With over a decade of experience, Toni has supported individuals and groups through one-on-one coaching, group programs, and collaborative care in integrative and functional medicine practice settings.

She holds additional certifications from the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy in partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine, as well as the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology. Toni has also completed extensive coach training in Positive Intelligence (PQ), which allows her to blend cutting-edge science with mindset mastery. Whether she's guiding clients through sustainable habit change or co-creating wellness plans with healthcare teams, her “superpower” lies in inspiring lasting lifestyle transformation with compassion, clarity, and strategic support.

Toni's work is grounded in the belief that real healing goes beyond symptom relief—it’s about shifting beliefs, integrating simple (though not always easy), sustainable lifestyle practices, and tapping into your true self by identifying and leaning into your innate strengths.

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with functional nutrition experts and NEPT grads Steph Jackson and Jennifer Whitmire to challenge the shallow training and one-size-fits-all approaches flooding the health coaching industry.

You’ll hear raw stories of autoimmune recovery, near-missed diagnoses, and the tools practitioners need to truly help the clients that conventional medicine and standard health coaching fails.

This episode will change how you approach your role as a practitioner.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Why most health coaching certifications miss the mark (and what real clinical depth looks like)
• The role of deep health histories, not just symptom lists
• The dangers of relying on single tests alone and the overlooked signs of disease
• How one practitioner uncovered colon cancer by refusing to accept “normal” labs
• Why gut health is the center of many illnesses and why personalization is everything

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Join the 3 Day 2025 Reinvent HealthCare Online Intensive [RHOI]
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie uncovers the hidden metabolic dialogue between the liver and pancreas. It’s a connection that begins to break down long before glucose or A1C raise red flags. Beneath the surface of “normal labs” lies a growing storm: insulin buildup, glucagon misfires, and early beta-cell stress that quietly unravel metabolic balance.

If you're only testing blood sugar, you're missing the real story.

Discover the overlooked markers that reveal the dysfunction most practitioners miss. This episode will change the way you view insulin resistance and give you the tools to catch it before the spiral begins.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• What most practitioners miss by focusing only on glucose, A1C, or symptoms
• How to spot early-stage metabolic collapse while there’s still time to reverse it
• Why blood sugar may be the last thing to change and what starts breaking down long before
• The overlooked conversation between two metabolic powerhouses and what happens when it goes quiet
• How hidden hormone signals spark a chain reaction of dysfunction no one’s talking about
• The surprising reason some clients wake up with high glucose even on a “perfect” diet
• Clues your clients are missing the mark, not because of willpower, but because of broken feedback loops

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Glucagon, Insulin, and Blood Sugar chart.  
• Download our FREE Proinsulin, Insulin, and C-Peptide Chart
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for The REINVENT HEALTHCARE Intensive Learn Proven,​​ Leading-Edge Frameworks to Enhance Clinical Skills, Improve 
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

What’s Inside This Episode?

• A conversation your client’s blood sugar is already having—between liver, pancreas, insulin, and glucose
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• Why fatty liver disrupts insulin clearance and leads to silent hyperinsulinemia
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• The glucagon paradox: how this “forgotten hormone” can drive glucose production even in the fed state
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• Beta-cell stress decoded: how proinsulin and C-peptide ratios uncover hidden dysfunction
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• The truth about "normal" A1C—and why it may just mean the pancreas is compensating
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• What poor insulin clearance looks like—and how to spot liver stress using routine labs
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• How and when to use labs like proinsulin, fasting glucagon, and FIB-4
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Natural strategies to restore liver-pancreas harmony with fasting, circadian alignment, and targeted nutrients

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie sits down with hormone specialist and bestselling author Dr. Mariza Snyder to discuss the critical phase of perimenopause. Long before menopause sets in, subtle shifts in hormone function can disrupt mood, metabolism, sleep, and more.

If you’re only testing estrogen and progesterone, you’re missing the bigger picture. This conversation challenges outdated assumptions and exposes the hidden patterns that masquerade as anxiety, depression, and burnout, so you can catch the real root cause before it’s too late.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

The Silent Phase That Sets the Stage

Why the most critical hormonal changes start years before menopause and go unnoticed by most providers.

The Missing Piece in Hormone Testing

A key hormone marker that can reveal perimenopausal shifts early but is rarely measured.

When Stress Becomes the Master Hormone

How modern life drives the adrenal-hormone feedback loop and what to watch for in burned-out clients.

The Blood Sugar–Estrogen Link

Why metabolic balance is non-negotiable for hormonal balance and how to spot trouble before it spirals.

What Most Practitioners Miss About HRT Timing

The real risks of waiting too long and why “not yet” can be just as dangerous as “not at all.”

Resources and Links:

• Download the transcript here
• Download our FREE guides:
• Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Protein Charts
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here
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Dr. Mariza Snyder’s Resources and Links:

• Visit Dr Mariza’s website: www.drmariza.com
• Check out her books here
• Grab her Free Hormone Quiz + Gifts: https://www.drmariza.com/hormone-quiz
• Listen to her podcast: Essentially You with Dr. Mariza Snyder
• Find her on social media platforms: 
• Follow her on Instagram: @drmariza
• Facebook: @drmarizasnyder 
• Insta: @drmariza 
• YouTube
• Twitter: @drmariza
• Pinterest

Guest Bio

Dr. Mariza Snyder is a powerhouse advocate for midlife women, leveraging 17+ years as a practitioner, author, and speaker to spark a massive movement for women in perimenopause and beyond. With her top-rated Energized with Dr. Mariza podcast (13 million downloads) and a passionate social media audience of over 400K and 8 million monthly views, she’s a trusted guide—offering science-backed solutions for perimenopause and metabolic health. 

Her upcoming book, The Perimenopause Revolution (Hay House, October 2025), is the ultimate resource for women ready to take charge of their health and embrace perimenopause with resilience and confidence. 

A sought-after speaker and educator, Dr. Mariza is changing lives, breaking myths, and ensuring women have all the tools and resources they need to thrive. Featured in Oprah Daily, Dr. Oz, Fox News Health, and MindBodyGreen, she’s a leading voice in women’s hormone health. Visit her website, drmariza.com, for evidence-based solutions to help you thrive.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie takes you inside the metabolic feedback loop few practitioners are trained to detect. Long before glucose rises or A1C shifts, subtle signals in the liver may already be pointing to a much bigger problem. They’re easy to miss, unless you know where to look. Discover the early biochemical whispers of insulin resistance, the hidden drivers of liver fat accumulation, and the lab markers most clinicians overlook. If your clients “look normal” on paper but still struggle, this is the episode you can’t afford to skip.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The silent organ shift that can signal metabolic trouble before blood sugar ever changes
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• A hidden fat-making process your body might be running without your consent
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• How a sweet addiction quietly derails liver function and energy production
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• The overlooked lab markers that whisper metabolic distress long before diagnosis
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• A little-known score that could change how you assess “normal” labs
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• Simple but strategic actions that tip the scales from fatty liver to functional health
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• How small shifts in timing and nutrients may unlock powerful liver regeneration
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• Why stable glucose isn’t the full story, and the signal you might be missing

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Here is a FIB-4 Calculator Tool 
• FIB-4 = (Age × AST) / (Platelets × √ALT)
• NAFLD fibrosis score (NFS) = -1.675 + (0.037 × age) + (0.094 × BMI) + (1.13 × hyperglycemia) + (0.99 × AST/ALT ratio) - (0.013 × platelet count) - (0.66 × albumin)
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes here

Drawing from her own journey with Hashimoto’s and gallbladder surgery—while juggling a high-stress corporate career—Divya reveals the overlooked patterns that block healing, the functional markers that actually matter, and how personalized nutrition can change the trajectory of thyroid health.

This conversation is a wake-up call for any practitioner who wants to go beyond the TSH trap and uncover what the body is really trying to say.

What’s Inside This Episode?

The “Normal” Lab Lie

A common lab result that’s often misread—and why it could be delaying your client’s healing.

Thyroid Clues in Disguise

What symptoms and organ systems often point to thyroid dysfunction before the labs ever do.

The Gallbladder-Thyroid Connection

Why losing this one organ may set off a hormonal cascade—and what most providers miss in post-op recovery.

How Corporate Stress Masks as Chronic Fatigue

What happened when one high-achieving woman finally decoded her burnout—and why it’s more common than you think.

Functional Testing That Speaks the Truth

Which labs and lifestyle markers Divya trusts most to uncover hidden patterns in thyroid and metabolic dysfunction.

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE guides: 
• Get the Optimize Thyroid Function Guide here.  
• Get the Cardiovascular Risk Assessment here.
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here

Divya Gupta’s Resources and Links

• Find Divya on her Website: divyagupta.net
• Instagram: _divgupta
• Facebook: Divya Gupta
• Download her Free Guide: Hypothyroidism Symptoms & Labs Guide

Guest Bio

About Divya Gupta

Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist & Restorative Wellness Practitioner, Divya helps ambitious professionals create healthier futures than their parents experienced through personalized functional nutrition. Having overcome her own health challenges—gallbladder removal and Hashimoto's—while balancing corporate demands, she understands the limitations of conventional healthcare.

Her personal transformation fuels her passion for guiding clients to reclaim their well-being. When not working with clients, Divya enjoys hiking, cooking, yoga, and traveling. She lives in San Jose with her husband and two children, including a newborn welcomed in March 2025—embodying the vibrant health she helps others achieve.

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie explores one of the most overlooked hormonal players in metabolic function. It’s not a supplement, not a medication, and not a superfood, but it profoundly influences metabolic health. It plays a role in glucose uptake, mitochondrial health, and inflammatory balance. You’ll discover how this nighttime signal impacts leptin and insulin and why testing and personalization matter more than ever.

If your clients are doing “all the right things” and still struggling with stubborn weight or glucose spikes, this might be the missing piece.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• A deep dive into the circadian hormone that influences insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial function
• How nighttime habits, light exposure, and stress blunt metabolic recovery
• The unexpected impact of this hormone on appetite regulation and fat storage
• Why common supplement protocols may backfire without genetic context
• Nutrient and lifestyle strategies that enhance endogenous production safely
• Testing options to assess hormonal circadian alignment and insulin response

Resources and Links

• Download the transcript here
• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for resources and community support
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• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and clinical mentorship
• Explore other podcast episodes here
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References

• Reiter RJ, et al. Melatonin in mitochondria: roles in oxidative stress and aging. J Pineal Res. 2010.
• Cipolla-Neto J, et al. Melatonin and energy metabolism. Mol Cell Endocrinol. 2014.
• Lane JM, et al. MTNR1B gene variant and glucose metabolism. Diabetes. 2016.
• Tuomi T, et al. MTNR1B variants impair beta-cell function. Cell Metab. 2016.
• Anderson G, et al. Melatonin’s role in insulin sensitivity. Sleep Med Rev. 2015.
• Gómez-Abellán P, et al. Circadian rhythms and metabolic regulation. Int J Obes. 2020.
• Arendt J. Human circadian rhythms and melatonin. J Endocrinol. 2005.

Khan A, et al. Cinnamon improves glucose and lipid metabolism. Diabetes Care. 2003.

Drawing from her unique lens as both a Western-trained physician and a stage IV cancer thriver, Dr. Amigues unpacks the emotional and energetic patterns she believes often underlie autoimmune disease, chronic pain, and unexplainable fatigue. This conversation challenges conventional clinical thinking and invites practitioners to go beyond the physical and into the subtle—but powerful—world of body-based wisdom.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• What Traditional Labs Are Missing
• The surprising clues hiding in plain sight when test results don’t explain your client’s symptoms.
• A Hidden Language of Healing
• Why some patients respond to treatments others don’t—and how the answer may lie beyond the physical.
• The Unexpected Roots of Chronic Illness
• A silent influence that can drive inflammation, fatigue, and autoimmunity—without ever showing up on a lab report.
• A Case Study That Changes Everything
• What happened when one physician applied this overlooked approach to her own life-threatening diagnosis.
• How to Listen When the Body Speaks
• The skillset every practitioner needs to uncover what standard protocols never address.

Resources and Links:

• Download the transcript here
• Download our FREE Guide: Immune Modulation Strategies Guide
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here
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Dr. Isabelle Amigues’ Resources & Links:

• Visit Isabelle’s website at www.unabridgedMD.com
• Get her free meditation resource
• Follow her on Instagram
• Check out her TEDx talk
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Bio

Isabelle Amigues, MD, is a rheumatologist based in Denver, Colorado. She honed her expertise by studying in Paris, as well as at Columbia University in New York City. At age 40, she was diagnosed with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. A timely meeting with a non-traditionally trained practitioner taught her a different approach to disease, where she experienced the power of meditation, visualization, energy healing, and love. Her journey through cancer inspired her to learn more about these alternative techniques, and she now blends Western medicine and Eastern techniques into her practice at UnabridgedMD. 

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie explores a metabolic adaptation that occurs during midlife and alters how the body responds to glucose, insulin, and stress. There’s a multi-system shift that rewires fat storage, energy production, and appetite regulation.

What if one of the most overlooked drivers of insulin resistance in women is also one of the most correctable?

What’s Inside This Episode?

• A surprising hormonal connection that rewires the body’s response to glucose and insulin
• Why most blood sugar protocols fall short in midlife and what’s often missing
• The under-discussed cascade that turns food into fat even when eating “healthy”
• How specific plant-based foods and herbs can influence metabolic rhythm
• Why personalizing protocols is non-negotiable during this life stage
• Key markers to watch when tracking metabolic shifts in women 40+

Resources and Links

• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and clinical mentorship
• Check out other podcast episodes here
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References

• Barros RP, Gustafsson JÅ. Estrogen and metabolic regulation. Cell Metab. 2011.
• Mauvais-Jarvis F. Estrogen and androgen receptors in metabolic disease. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2015.
• Khan A, et al. Cinnamon improves glucose and lipids of people with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2003.
• Zhang Q, et al. Berberine reduces insulin resistance and improves glucose metabolism. Metabolism. 2008.

Li SS, et al. Flaxseed and hormonal modulation in women. Nutrients. 2021.

From debilitating mood swings and memory lapses to hidden bone loss and cardiovascular risks, Dr. Maita reveals why conventional medicine is failing midlife women—and what functional practitioners must do differently. If you’ve ever wondered if you should recommend HRT, how to test properly, or how to prepare the body for hormones, this conversation is a must-listen.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

The Hot Flash Red Flag:

Why menopausal symptoms are more than a nuisance—and what they’re really signaling about your health.

The Hormone Testing Trifecta:

What Dr. Maita uses to map hormone metabolism—and why timing is everything.

What To Do First:

The critical step most practitioners skip before adding hormones—and how other conditions can make or break outcomes.

Estrogen’s Bad Reputation—Debunked:

The real story behind the Women’s Health Initiative study and bioidentical estrogen’s safety..

Beyond the Bandaid:

Why functional practitioners must stop swapping pills for supplements—and start building personalized, root-cause strategies.

When HRT Goes Wrong:

Why pellets can backfire, when progesterone alone is enough, and how even “natural” hormones can go toxic if pathways are blocked.

Resources & Links

• Grab Our Free Guide to  Unlock the Power of Optimal Energy
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free tools and training
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice
• Explore More Episodes on hormone balancing on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Endocrinology here

Dr. Lorraine Maita’s Resources & Links

• Visit The Feel Good Again Institute for courses and coaching
• Explore her medical practice at Vibrance for Life
• HRT4U Course and Ultimate Hormone Reset: Course Links Here
• Follow Dr. Maita on:
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• YouTube

Dr. Lorraine Maita’s Bio

Lorraine Maita, MD, the Hormone Harmonizer and Detoxifier, specializes in helping you ditch weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, mood swings, and hormone havoc to have boundless energy, stable moods, a lean body, a sharp, clear mind, and balanced hormones so you can feel like yourself again. 

She helps you understand how your lifestyle choices impact your mind and body so you can choose what makes you feel great. 

•        As a triple board-certified and award-winning physician, writer, author, and speaker, her own struggles with hormone imbalance prompted her to become Board Certified in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine, and Advanced Endocrinology. 

•        Her programs impacted over 120,000 people in each of 3 Fortune 100 companies where she served as Chief Medical Officer or Medical Director of Global Health Services, as well as thousands in her private practice. 

•        Her patients call her a “miracle worker,” “a revolutionary doctor,” “a warm, caring, medical professional who listened, really listened and is extremely smart” “words cannot express how grateful I am to Dr. Maita for turning my life around” “feeling 20 years younger.”

•        As CEO and Founder of The Feel Good Again Institute, Vibrance for Life, and How to Live Younger, she has been featured in ABC News, Forbes, WOR Radio, and many media outlets to spread the word that you can live younger and healthier at any age. 

Aging is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Be good to yourself and get the support you need to Feel Good Again at www.TheFeelGoodAgainInstitute.com

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie pulls back the curtain on one of the most underestimated players in metabolic function: oxytocin. You’ll discover why this “feel-good” hormone is far more than a bonding chemical and why ignoring it could mean missing a key piece in your client’s healing.

If you aren't factoring in connection, community, and nervous system regulation, you might be overlooking one of the most powerful metabolic modulators nature has to offer.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Connection Between Love and Glucose
• What science reveals about the link between emotional connection and blood sugar balance.
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• Why More Protein and Exercise Aren’t Always the Answer
• How ignoring this hormone could cause your best health plans to fall flat.
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• The Secret Saboteur of Metabolic Recovery
• A hidden form of stress that blocks oxytocin and what to do about it.
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• Natural Ways to Boost This Overlooked Hormone
• How to stimulate oxytocin through functional strategies.
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Resources and Links:

• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes here

Discover what functional medicine gets wrong about kidneys and how practitioners can spot the early signs of decline before it’s too late.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• The Hidden Kidney Crisis: Why conventional medicine often misses the earliest signs of decline

• Renology Defined: A new, functional lens for understanding and healing kidney disease

• Peptides & Kidney Repair: How bioregulators work, and why they’re not a magic bullet

• The Lab Markers That Matter: Functional ranges for GFR, phosphorus, cystatin C, and more

• The Kidney’s Web of Influence: Why supporting the kidneys improves brain, thyroid, and cardiovascular health

• Robin’s Personal Healing Journey: A deep dive into her personal tools for reversing her disease

Resources and Links:

Download the transcript here

Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.

Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support.

Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results.

Check out other podcast episodes here.

Dr Robin’s Resources:

• Website: RenologyIsKidneySuccess.com
• Book: Renology Peptides by Dr. Robin Rose

About Dr. Robin Rose:

Robin Rose MD has been a world traveler, a health food chef, journalist, professional dancer, and artist. After some years of collecting life experiences, she went to nursing school then became a family nurse practitioner while learning nutrition, herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, homeopathy. Then she made the leap and went to university of Arizona college of medicine and then completed a family medicine residency- while continuing to study holistic and functional medicine. She practiced for many years in southern Oregon offering a holistic array of loveliness and healing medical guidance. After a series of intense stresses she found herself challenged with kidney cancer and severe kidney disease. In the past decade she has become agile in the realm of kidney regeneration and has created a new paradigm of kidney success - ways to engage nature and mind body spirit to achieve the innate healing that leads to thriving. Her recent book RENOLOGY Peptides is a text that dives into the root to succeed - using bioregulator peptides as a way to illuminate the path.

This episode doesn’t take sides. It’s about dismantling the entire argument and replacing it with a smarter, more personalized approach. If you’ve ever been confused by conflicting dietary advice or struggled to guide your clients to lasting results, don’t miss this one.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

A Food Fight with Real Consequences

How online diet drama distracts us from what truly matters—and disempowers the people we’re here to help.

The Myth of the “Perfect” Diet

Why every popular plan—from raw vegan to carnivore—holds a sliver of truth… and a blind spot that can cause harm.

The Missing Piece in Every Protocol

What all diet tribes forget to mention and how it could make or break your client’s results.

How to Find the Real Truth (Hint: It’s Not on Instagram)

A smarter way to decode conflicting advice and build nutrition plans that actually work.

The YOU Diet: Where All the Puzzle Pieces Finally Fit

Dr. Ritamarie’s signature framework for personalization that puts the power back in the client’s hands.

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE  Eat to Thrive Guide
• Download our FREE Guide to Fasting
• Get the Replay and Recordings from the Wellness Reset Weekend 
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with Dr. Rani Banik—a board-certified neuro-ophthalmologist and integrative medicine expert—to explore how eye health is influenced by diet, oxidative stress, and blood sugar imbalance.

If you’re overlooking the eyes in your assessments, you may be missing a key opportunity for early intervention. From macular degeneration to diabetic retinopathy, the clues are often visible—literally—before the labs confirm a diagnosis.

This episode is a must-listen for practitioners who want to expand their root-cause lens and empower clients to protect their vision naturally.

What You’ll Discover Inside

• The 3 Silent Vision Wreckers You’re Probably Ignoring
• (And what they have to do with mitochondria and metabolic health)
• Why Blue-Light Glasses May Be a Waste of Money
• (And the science-backed alternative that works better)
• The Truth About Carrots—and the 30+ Nutrients Eyes Actually Crave
• (Hint: It’s not just carrots and beta carotene)
• The Nutrient Deficiency Hiding Behind Dry Eyes and Eye Strain
• (And how most patients are barely getting 1/10th of what they need)
• How to Catch Diabetes Before It’s Diagnosed
• (Through an unexpected early warning system in the eyes)
• The Food Prescription for Clearer Vision
• (Plus: what carnivore diets might be missing)

Resources & Links

Download the Transcript [here]

Check out our Free Guide to Food Swaps: Good, Better Best

Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free tools and training

Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice

Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Endocrinology here

Dr. Rani Banik’s Resources & Links

Explore Dr. Banik’s work at DrRaniBanik.com

Watch the full iHealth Summit recordings at theeyehealthsummit.com

Check out her books:

Follow Dr. Banik on social:

Instagram @dr.ranibanik 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rudrani.banik.2025/

EnVisionHealth: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1864863853844167

Website: www.drranibanik.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@dr.ranibanik

Podcast: https://www.drranibanik.com/theeyeqpodcast

Dr. Rani Banik’s Bio

Dr. Rudrani (Rani) Banik is a board-certified neuro-ophthalmologist. She completed her MD at Brown University, residency at UC Irvine, and fellowship at Wilmer Eye Institute. Dr. Banik runs a private practice based in NYC and is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Mount Sinai. Dr. Banik is also certified in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She focuses on the root cause of eye diseases, and uses strategies based on nutrition, botanicals, lifestyle modification, and supplements.

Dr. Banik is often featured as an expert in the media. She has been voted Castle Connolly Top Doctor and NY Magazine's Best Doctor in Ophthalmology annually since 2017.

Dr. Banik is the author of two best-selling books,“Beyond Carrots - Best Foods For Eye Health A to Z’ and “Dr. Rani’s Visionary Kitchen.”

When it comes to protein, opinions are everywhere, and confusion is rampant. Should your clients eat more? Less? Go animal-based? Plant-powered? What about leucine, sarcopenia, and kidney stress?

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie breaks through the confusion with a functional medicine lens, revealing why standard protein advice may be sabotaging your clients’ health goals—and what to do instead. If you've ever felt unsure about how to personalize protein recommendations, this episode will help you solve the puzzle once and for all.

What’s Inside This Episode?

The Numbers You Can’t Trust

Why the most commonly quoted protein guidelines may be setting your clients up for failure.

The Invisible Variable Sabotaging Your Plan

What you're likely overlooking when you calculate protein needs—and how to factor it in.

A Surprising Source of Protein Confusion

How some "clean" diets can backfire without one critical adjustment.

What Your Plate Might Be Missing

The underappreciated nutrient that determines whether protein helps or harms.

The Truth Behind the Trends

Why you should question influencer advice—and what functional practitioners need to do instead.

Resources and Links:

• Download our FREE  Protein Charts 
• Get the Recording from the 90 minute Protein Puzzle Masterclass
• Get the Replay and Recordings from the Wellness Reset Weekend 
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes here

From the microscopic changes happening inside your cells to the rise of early-onset colorectal cancer and cognitive decline, this conversation pulls back the curtain on what’s really happening when protein becomes your primary fuel. Could your favorite “health foods” actually be aging you from the inside out?

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• The Protein-Aging Puzzle: Could your quest for longevity be triggering the very cellular damage you’re trying to avoid?
• The Silent Gut Saboteur: What’s really happening inside your gut when protein goes up and fiber disappears—and why you might not feel it… until it’s too late.
• Your Brain on Protein Overload: Is an unseen toxin quietly hijacking your memory, mood, and mental clarity?
• The mTOR Trap No One Warns About: You’re activating this “anti-aging” pathway—but could it be the hidden reason your body isn’t detoxifying properly?
• The Protein Source Dilemma: Are plants powerful enough to meet your protein needs—or is there a hidden cost either way?
• Your Unique Protein Blueprint: The critical test most people skip before deciding how much protein they really need.
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Resources & Links

• Grab Our Free Guide to Create Customized Functional Food Plans to Support Individual Needs for Hormone Balance and Metabolic Health
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free tools and training
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice
• Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Endocrinology here

Dr. Monisha Bhanote’s Resources & Links

• Get the Free Bio-Hacker’s Cell Care Cookbook: Download Here
• Visit her website: drbhanote.com
• Follow on Social:
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• YouTube
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Dr. Monisha Bhanote’s Bio

Meet Dr. Monisha Bhanote, the integrative pathologist turned longevity expert who’s not afraid to challenge outdated health norms.

She’s quintuple board-certified (yes, five times), and while most doctors stop at treating disease, Dr. B goes deeper—down to the cellular level. Her mission? To help you understand how your gut, brain, and mitochondria are constantly in conversation—and why that’s the real secret to aging well, feeling energized, and preventing chronic disease.

Dr. Bhanote blends modern science with ancient wisdom to deliver the kind of truth bombs that make you rethink everything you thought you knew about your health. She’ll break down the dangers of silent inflammation, the myths of “normal” lab ranges, and why your nervous system might be the real root of your fatigue, brain fog, or belly bloat.

She’s not here for wellness fluff. She’s here for results. From redox reactions to the gut-brain axis, Dr. Bhanote translates the complex into the practical—so you can take back control of your health with rituals that actually work.

As the bestselling author of The Anatomy of Wellbeing and founder of WELLKULÅ, she’s leading a global movement grounded in her signature philosophy: #CellCare—the art and science of taking care of your body at its most intelligent level, your cells.

Whether she’s speaking on international stages, hosting sold-out longevity retreats, or guiding clients through her virtual integrative practice, Dr. Bhanote is rewriting the future of medicine—where prevention is personalized, lifestyle is the first prescription, and you are your own best healer.

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie uncovers a hidden force that could be quietly derailing even your healthiest clients—an invisible saboteur that standard labs overlook. What if insulin is rising… even when blood sugar appears normal? If you’re not looking beyond glucose or questioning the usual markers, you may be missing the earliest whispers of metabolic chaos.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• The Hidden Hormonal Spike That Labs Miss-
• Why some clients stay inflamed, tired, and stuck—despite “perfect” blood sugar levels.
• The Metabolic Saboteur in Your Protein Shake-
• How everyday foods could be quietly blocking fat burning.
• When Taste Alone Triggers Insulin-
• What you need to know about the cephalic phase response—and why it matters more than you think.
• Why Grazing May Be Keeping Clients Sick-
• How even low-carb snacks and meal combos can trap the body in a fat-storing mode.
• The Lab Marker That Changes Everything-
• One test (you’re probably not running) that reveals what glucose and A1C can’t.

Resources and Links:

• Download the Insulin and Glucose Chart here
• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes on metabolic health here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with integrative mental health professional Mary Parker for a deeply personal and eye-opening conversation. After watching her son regress into seizures and developmental delays following a vaccine injury, Mary stepped away from the mainstream mental health model to uncover a radically different approach—one that gets results by addressing the whole person.

Mary shares how genetics, detox pathways, diet, toxic exposures, and trauma can all contribute to mental health struggles—and why true healing means going beyond the label and getting to the root.

If you're working with patients or clients who “don’t respond” to standard mental health protocols, this episode may change everything you thought you knew.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

The shocking childhood incident that forced Mary to abandon traditional mental health solutions—and how it changed everything she believed about healing.

The overlooked clues in your patient’s story, behavior, and even their skin that could point to deeper dysfunction you’re missing.

Why one surprising everyday food might hold the key to recovery for some kids—and why it’s often ignored in clinical practice.

The critical misstep most mental health providers make with ADHD, anxiety, and mood disorders—and how it could be making things worse.

What’s hiding in common foods that could be sabotaging your client’s progress—and why going gluten-free isn’t the full answer.

The single most important test Mary runs before developing any care plan—and what it reveals that standard labs can’t.

Resources & Links

Check out our Free Guide to Using Genetic Testing to Optimize Patient Outcomes

Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free tools and training

Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice

Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Endocrinology here

Mary Parker’s Resources & Links

Find out more about Mary on her website: InfinitePotentialINCTX.com

Pieces to Purpose – Read Mary’s story of turning tragedy into purpose in this powerful anthology

Facebook: InfinitePotentialCounselingInc

Instagram: @InfinitePotentialCounseling

Twitter: @InfinitepotenTX

Mary Parker’s Bio

Mary is an integrative mental health professional, with 15 years of experience in the field. She owns Infinite Potential Counseling Inc, located in Round Rock and Austin/ Dripping Springs. At Infinite Potential Counseling Inc, she is helping families identify genetic, diet and environmental issues that can impact mental health, and heal the whole person. 

Mary is also the President of TX C.U.R.E. A non profit organization working with families who are impacted by the criminal justice system. Her role is to help foster and grow relationships for children and families who feel alone when a parent or veteran in their lives is incarcerated. 

In her spare time, she is a homeschooling mom that enjoys hiking, kayaking, and traveling with her family. 

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo unpacks the heated debate around seed oils—and why the real conversation goes deeper than the typical social media soundbites. Are these oils truly toxic, or can they have a place in a balanced, healing diet? Get ready for a fresh perspective that cuts through the hype and brings it back to what really supports metabolic health.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

• The Hidden Danger in Your “Healthy” Foods: Why seed oils in organic snack bars and salad dressings may be doing more harm than good.
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• The Processing Trap No One Talks About: How industrial extraction methods turn natural fats into metabolic saboteurs.
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• The Omega Paradox: Why even “good” omega-3s can backfire—and how to know when you’ve gone too far.
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• Are You Eating Oxidized Fats? The silent mitochondrial disruptors hidden in your pantry—and how they sabotage your cells.
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• The Real Balance Your Body Needs: The truth about omega-6 vs. omega-3 ratios and how to spot when things are out of control.
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• Do You Actually Need Oils at All? A clear breakdown of when oils can support health—and when they’re best left out.
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Resources and Links:

• Get our Free Guide: The Functional Food Guide to Customize your Food Plan for Health and Longevity
• Join the Practitioner Community: Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group
• Advanced Practitioner Training: Visit INEMethod.com for certifications and clinical tools.

Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Food here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with Dr. Louise Swartswalter—naturopath, frequency medicine pioneer, and founder of the Brain Soul Success Academy—to explore what’s really going on when healing stalls.

Is it possible that the key to lasting transformation lies beyond the physical body?

They dive into the hidden role of energetic imprints, trauma, and the brain’s unseen “operating system”—and why ignoring this piece could be the biggest mistake even the best practitioners make.

If your clients are stuck in a frustrating cycle of “almost better,” this conversation just might flip the switch.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

The Brain’s Energetic Field—Your Missing Link?  Why symptoms persist even when the labs look great and protocols are dialed in.

The Unseen Trauma Trap  How unresolved childhood wounds, ancestral patterns, and shock states quietly sabotage healing.

When Supplements and Testing Aren’t Enough  Why your most complex cases might need frequency-based healing, not just another protocol.

How to Read the Brain’s “Biofield”  The subtle energetic markers that show up long before disease does.

Mini-Brain Hacks You Can Teach Your Clients  Simple nervous system resets you can use right away—even with kids.

The B.R.A.I.N. System™ Framework  A 5-part roadmap that merges body, mind, and spirit for healing that actually sticks.

Resources & Links

Download the Transcript [here]

Check out our Free Guide to Unlock the Power of Optimal Energy

Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free tools and training

Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice

Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Endocrinology here

Dr. Louise Swartswalter’s Resources & Links

Get the 12 Mind Gems to help rewire the brain and clear emotional blocks

Book a Free Brain-Soul Assessment to uncover hidden trauma and energy imbalances

Learn more about the Brain Soul Success Academy

Follow Dr. Louise Swartswalter on social:

• Instagram: @drlouiseswartswalter
• Facebook: Louise Swartswalter
• LinkedIn: louise-swartswalter-330174a

Dr. Louise Swartswalter’s Bio

Dr. Louise Swartswalter is a speaker, transformational coach, naturopath and frequency medicine doctor, and podcast host serving women and men around the world.

She is the creator of the Brain Soul Success Academy and the B.R.A.I.N. System TM, a unique multi-dimensional system that works on the mind, body, soul and 

energetic field all at the same time for quicker results that stick!   

Dr. Louise Swartswalter has 30 years of experience helping people achieve optimal brain power and success in life and business.  She is a transformation wizard blending naturopathy, NLP, Kinesiology, trauma release work, and powerful energy work.  She is passionate about connecting; clearing blocks to success and helping others achieve their highest potential. Using a combination of tools Louise has helped people move from anxiety to calm in one session. One client told her that “one session felt like sixteen years of therapy” while another said, “She saved my life.” 

Her team of certified Brain Soul Success Coaches are helping people just like you worldwide transform their lives and increase their businesses.  Dr.  Louise has been a guest on KKOB radio and KOB-TV Good Day New Mexico and featured in Inc5000 Magazine (as a Power Partner helping other businesses) and Albuquerque Magazine's top docs. 

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sounds the alarm on the rise of over-simplified, fear-based messaging in the health world. She explores why true healing can’t be reduced to trending foods, magic detoxes, or black-and-white thinking—and how practitioners can rise above the noise by getting back to the science and honoring the individuality of every client.

If you’re a functional or holistic practitioner feeling overwhelmed by conflicting messages, or simply want to sharpen your clinical integrity, this episode is a powerful reset.

What You’ll Discover Inside:

When Health Advice Becomes Harmful – The quiet shift happening online that’s leaving even well-intentioned practitioners misinformed.

The Food Fear Epidemic – What’s really behind the sudden paranoia around spinach, kale, and cruciferous veggies?

The Truth Behind the Studies – How published research might be leading your clients—and you—down the wrong path.

The Protein Most People Trust… But Shouldn’t – A common “health food” that may be silently spiking insulin and blocking progress.

Why 80% Success Might Be Your Downfall – The small percentage of clients who don’t get better… and why they matter more than you think.

What Influencers Can’t Teach You – The deep functional insight that separates clinical success from viral sound bites.

How to Spot the Hidden Imbalance – The overlooked red flags that reveal when a client’s root cause is being completely missed.

Resources & Links

• Get our Free Guide: The Functional Food Guide
• Join the Practitioner Community: Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group
• Advanced Practitioner Training: Visit INEMethod.com for certifications and clinical tools.

Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Food here

In this episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo pulls back the curtain on why most conventional approaches to hypothyroidism miss the mark—and what to do instead. If you or your patients struggle with fatigue, weight gain, depression, dry skin, or stubborn health issues despite being told your thyroid is “fine,” this episode is a must-listen.

Dr. Ritamarie breaks down the outdated medical myths that keep people sick, the overlooked root causes of thyroid dysfunction, and what functional practitioners must understand to truly help patients heal.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Truth About TSH – Why relying solely on TSH keeps millions misdiagnosed and mistreated.
• T3 Conversion Matters – Why looking only at T4 misses a critical step in thyroid function.
• Thyroid Resistance Is Real – Why “normal labs” don’t always mean healthy function.
• Autoimmunity and Hashimoto’s – The gut-immune-thyroid link doctors aren’t addressing.
• The Metabolic-Thyroid Connection – How insulin resistance sabotages thyroid healing.
• Your Thyroid Is Not Static – Why it can heal with the right support—and how to help it do just that.
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Resources & Links

• FREE Guide: Thyroid Health Checklist – Discover the functional tests, root causes, and healing strategies practitioners need to support thyroid recovery.
• Free Guide: Magic Questions and Health Detective System – Ask better questions. Get better results.
• Join the Practitioner Community: Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group
• Advanced Practitioner Training: Visit INEMethod.com for certifications and clinical tools.

Check out other podcast episodes on Thyroid Testing here. 

In this eye-opening episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with Mira Dessy, The Ingredient Guru, to expose the shocking hidden additives that sneak into your food—even the ones marketed as “natural” and “organic.”

From gut-wrecking emulsifiers to misleading labels, Mira reveals the top toxic ingredients that can fuel inflammation, metabolic chaos, and chronic disease. If you're a health-conscious individual or a practitioner guiding others, you must hear this conversation before your next grocery run!

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The #1 Food Industry Lie That’s Keeping You Sick – Why “natural” and “organic” labels don’t always mean safe.
• The Silent Gut Destroyers in Your Favorite Foods – The emulsifiers and additives triggering bloating, gas, and inflammation.
• Artificial Sweeteners & Hidden Sugars – Why “healthy” sugars like agave may be worse than high fructose corn syrup.
• The Banned Ingredient STILL in Your Food – What food manufacturers don’t want you to know about Red #3 and trans fats.
• How Food Labels Trick You – The sneaky tactics companies use to hide harmful ingredients.
• The Truth About Gums & Fillers – Are guar gum, xanthan gum, and carrageenan actually safe?
• GMO Apples & Packaging – Why even your produce aisle isn’t as safe as you think.

Resources & Links

• Check out our Free guide on Functional Food
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group for free resources and community support.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice.
• Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Functional Food  here

Mira Dessy’s Resources & Links

• The Pantry Principle: How to Read the Label and Understand What's Really In Your Food  – Get Mira’s book on decoding food labels and avoiding toxic ingredients. Grab Your Copy Here
• Visit Mira at  TheIngredientGuru.com
• Food News You Can Use (Substack): MiraDessy.Substack.com
• Find Mira Dessy on social media at: 
• Facebook: facebook.com/miradessy
• Instagram: @TheIngredientGuru
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/miradessy
• Pinterest: The Ingredient Guru

Mira Dessy’s Bio

Mira Dessy is The Ingredient Guru. A holistic nutrition professional, author, and popular public speaker, she knows that it's not just what you eat, but what's in what you eat.  Over time this philosophy has been expanded to include helping people understand the basics of building a preparedness pantry as one of the ingredients for a healthy life.

Mira is a member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals, the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, and the American Nutrition Association. Additionally, she is on the Board of Directors for the American Holistic Health Association.

What if everything you’ve been told about metabolic health is outdated?

Most conventional doctors don’t recognize the warning signs of metabolic dysfunction until it’s too late. By the time someone is diagnosed with metabolic syndrome, their body has already suffered years—if not decades—of silent damage. And that’s a problem.

In this eye-opening episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo pulls back the curtain on the most dangerous myths about metabolic health, why the standard tests fail to detect early imbalances, and what YOU can do—whether you’re a practitioner or someone trying to take charge of your own health.

If you’re ready to step beyond the outdated symptom-suppression model and embrace a proactive, root-cause approach to metabolic health, this episode is a must-listen.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Dangerous Myth of Metabolic Syndrome – Why waiting until you meet the diagnostic criteria is a health disaster.
• How Standard Lab Tests Fail You – The crucial metabolic markers that most doctors never check.
• Early Warning Signs of Metabolic Dysfunction – The subtle red flags you need to catch BEFORE they turn into disease.
• The Power of Metabolic Testing – Why a true metabolic health panel should be standard for everyone, and what should be included.
• Why Fasting is a Game-Changer – How strategic fasting can reverse metabolic imbalances and prevent chronic disease.
• The Practitioner’s Role in Reinventing Healthcare – How functional testing and early intervention can transform patient outcomes.

Resources & Links

• FREE Guide: The Many Faces of Fasting – Learn how to incorporate fasting into your routine for optimal metabolic health.
• Get Our Free Guide: Magic Questions and Health Detective System – Take your functional health practice to the next level with better patient assessments.
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group – Get free resources and community support.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes here

What if the real problem isn’t just your thyroid—but your brain?

In this eye-opening episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with biochemist and mind-body expert Jennifer Swank to uncover the hidden role of the limbic system in thyroid dysfunction.

If your body is in a constant state of stress, your limbic system—the brain’s survival center—keeps you trapped in a cycle of fatigue, weight gain, and hormonal chaos. Until you reset your brain’s protective responses, no amount of diet changes, meds, or supplements will truly work.

Jennifer shares her personal journey from unstoppable energizer bunny to barely making it off the couch—and how she cracked the code on balancing thyroid function through brain-body healing.

This is the missing piece no one is talking about.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Why Your Thyroid Isn’t Healing – The hidden reason TSH tests fail—and how the limbic system blocks recovery.
• Is Your Brain Keeping You Sick? – How past trauma and chronic stress fuel autoimmune disease.
• Rewire Your Brain, Heal Your Thyroid – Simple techniques to shift from survival mode to deep healing.
• The Truth About Feeling “Safe” – Why real healing only happens when your body trusts you.
• Laughter & Joy as Medicine – How laughter yoga and movement can rewire your brain for health.
• The Food-Brain Connection – The surprising role of whole foods in thyroid and nervous system balance.

Resources & Links

• Check out our Free guide on Optimizing Thyroid Function
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group for free resources and community support.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice.
• Explore More Episodes on ReInvent Healthcare and Thyroid & Hormones at here

Jennifer Swank’s Resources & Links

• Join Jennifer’s FREE Laughter Yoga Sessions – Monday through Friday at 7:30 AM PT.
• Check Out Her Zen & Zest Membership – A transformational community for vibrant living.
• Visit Jennifer's Website: TheJenTwins.com
• Connect on Social Media:
• Jennifer Swank on Facebook
• Jennifer Swank on Instagram

Jennifer Swank

Meet Jennifer Swank, a dynamic force of nature and a beacon of vitality, dedicated to transforming the lives of exhausted women through her unique and invigorating approach to wellness. As a Biochemist and Happy Mind, Healthy Body Coach, Jennifer has mastered the art of energizing her clients, turning life’s weariness into boundless zest.

Jennifer specializes in reigniting the spark in women who once felt like energizer bunnies but now find it challenging to get off the couch. She tackles the trifecta of fatigue, weight gain, and brain fog, guiding her clients to a place where they feel great in their bodies and wake up with unstoppable energy. Imagine feeling more vibrant in your 60s than you ever did in your 20s—Jennifer's clients do!

Most doctors are missing critical warning signs of heart disease—signs that could save lives if they knew what to test for. The truth? The standard cholesterol test doesn’t tell you what you really need to know. And what your doctor isn’t testing might just be putting you at risk for a fatal heart attack.

In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo exposes the dangerous misconceptions about cardiovascular health in conventional medicine. From outdated cholesterol theories to overlooked risk factors like insulin resistance and inflammatory markers, she reveals the real tests that could mean the difference between life and death.

If your doctor isn’t running these tests—you need to hear this.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The biggest myth about heart disease that could be costing lives
• Why elevated insulin—not just cholesterol—is a major risk factor for heart attacks
• The standard lipid panel mistake most doctors make (and the tests that actually matter)
• What a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) can reveal about your cardiovascular risk
• The one overlooked genetic marker that increases sudden heart attack risk (and why most doctors never check for it)
• Why the first symptom of heart disease in 50% of people is sudden death—and how to prevent it

Resources & Links

• Get the 17-Page Heart Health Test Guide: Discover exactly which tests your doctor should be running at drritamarie.com/hearttests. 
• Click here to order labs direct through Evexia
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Grab your copy of the  ReInvent 2025 Conference Replay and Slides here for a deep dive into the microbiome, lab testing and genetics
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes on metabolic health here

What if the chronic symptoms that won’t budge—thyroid issues, weight struggles, hormone imbalances—aren’t just about diet or exercise, but stored energy blockages that modern medicine ignores?

In this mind-expanding episode of ReInvent Healthcare, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo sits down with Terri Jay, a medical intuitive and energy healer, to reveal the physics behind energy medicine—and why it could be the missing link in both traditional and functional healthcare.

Could unresolved trauma and suppressed emotions be physically reshaping your health? Terri breaks down why energy, frequency, and vibration are the real forces behind healing—and how ignoring them could be keeping you or your clients sick.

If you've ever felt there was something more beyond lab tests and prescriptions, something deeper that science has yet to fully acknowledge, this episode is for you.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Science They Don’t Teach in Medical School – How energy fields, frequency, and physics impact health on a cellular level.
• The Shocking Connection Between Trauma & Chronic Illness – Why emotional wounds get trapped in the body—and how they silently create disease.
• Thyroid Issues & The Truth You’re Not Speaking – The surprising emotional and energetic patterns behind thyroid dysfunction.
• Chakra Clearing & Energy Field Rebalancing – A simple, no-nonsense method to release stored trauma and restore balance—no “woo-woo” required.
• Why Your Intuition Is More Powerful Than Any Lab Test – And how to train yourself (or your clients) to use it for healing, clarity, and self-restoration.
• How to See & Read Energy Like an Expert – Terri explains why anyone—yes, even skeptics—can develop this skill and transform their approach to health and healing.

Resources & Links

• Download our Free Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Want to learn more about Functional Immunology?  Check out this episode.

Terri Jay’s Resources & Links

• Get Your FREE Energy Healing Guide – Email Terri Jay at Terri@TerriJay.com to receive step-by-step instructions for clearing energy blocks and restoring balance.
• Find Terry’s Website: www.TerriJay.com
• Connect on Social Media: 
• Facebook: facebook.com/cowgirlshaman
• Instagram: @intuitiveterrijay
• LinkedIn: Terri Jay
• Watch Terry on YouTube: Terri Jay Cowgirl Shaman

Terri Jay’s Bio

Terri Jay is an author, speaker, clinician and entertainer. She is an intuitive, medium, animal communicator, horse whisperer, medical and veterinary intuitive, map dowser, remote viewer and more. She has been helping people and their animals to heal their lives for 35 years with the messages she receives. Terri takes the "woo-woo" out of the intuitive field by basing her work in physics - energy, frequency and vibration.

She breaks down why non-starchy vegetables are not the enemy, but rather an essential part of supporting metabolic health and lowering A1C. Many people following a strict keto diet drastically reduce their carb intake, often to the point of avoiding nutrient-dense vegetables. While this may show short-term benefits, what does it mean for long-term blood sugar control, insulin sensitivity, and overall health?

If you’ve been told to limit yourself to just a few grams of carbs a day to stay in ketosis, this episode will challenge what you think you know about carbohydrates and blood sugar.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Are You Sabotaging Your A1C Without Realizing It? – Why the way you’re avoiding carbs might be doing more harm than good
• The Keto Mistake No One Talks About – What happens when you cut out too many carbs, and why some people’s blood sugar worsens over time
• Good Carbs vs. Bad Carbs – Are You Getting It Wrong? – If all carbs aren’t created equal, which ones actually help lower A1C?
• What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About A1C – Is a “normal” 5.6 actually putting you at risk? When does insulin resistance really start?
• The Gut-Blood Sugar Connection You Can’t Ignore – How does your microbiome play a role in insulin resistance and metabolic health?
• How to Customize Carb Intake – Why one-size-fits-all nutrition doesn't work and how to tailor your diet for optimal A1C levels

Resources and Links

• Get Your FREE Guide: FREE CHECKLIST: Foods that Can Reverse Belly Fat, Fatigue, and Lack of Focus
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group here for resources and community.
• ReInvent 2025 Replay and Slides: Watch a deep dive into gut health, genetics, and lab testing here.
• Check out our Insulin Resistance Mastery Program for Practitioners and/or The Sweet Spot Solution for a metabolic reset.
• Explore Advanced Training and Resources: Visit INEMethod.com to take your practice or personal healing to the next level.

Check Out Related Podcast Episodes: Dive into more metabolic health strategies here.

If you or your clients are struggling with persistent symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, or hormone imbalances, this episode reveals the hidden triggers behind autoimmune flares and how diet, detox, and gut health can hold the key to reversing chronic conditions. Discover how you can take charge of your health—or help your clients reclaim theirs—by addressing the root causes of autoimmunity.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The shocking reality of how conventional medicine handles autoimmune conditions—and why it falls short.
• The role of diet, gut health, and environmental factors in reversing autoimmune conditions.
• Why common foods you think are "healthy" might actually be fueling inflammation.
• The truth about "gluten-free" swaps—and why they could be sabotaging your healing journey.
• How personalized nutrition and root-cause approaches can help clients regain control of their health.

Resources and Links

Download the FREE Free Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System

Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for community and resources.

• Get the replay and slides from our most recent summit for practitioners, ReInvent 2025 here, a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome, lab testing, and genetics.
• Check out the eBook Dried And Gone To Heaven for healthy recipes for your favorite comfort foods.

Explore Advanced Training and Resources at INEMethod.com

Check Out Other Podcast Episodes on Functional Immunology here

Connect with Jennifer Whitmire

• Learn more about Jennifer at www.wholisticjen.com and www.thejentwins.com
• Download Jennifer’s FREE eBook of Healing Meals
• Find her on social media on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok
• Join Jennifer’s Zen & Zest Zone Membership.

About Jennifer Whitmire

Jennifer Whitmire is on a mission to save body parts and transform lives. After overcoming a life-altering diagnosis of Graves' disease, Jennifer co-founded The Jen Twins with fellow NEPT graduate Jennifer Swank, where they empower individuals to reverse chronic symptoms, reclaim energy, and find lasting relief through holistic, whole-food strategies.

A graduate of the Nutritional Endocrinology Practitioner Training and a key coach in the  Unstoppable Health Community, Jennifer is renowned for her expertise in functional nutrition and her ability to make healthy living approachable, delicious, and effective.

Discover the surprising triggers behind insulin resistance, how your stress and sleep habits might be derailing your metabolism, and the hidden power of customized nutrition. If you've been struggling with fatigue, stubborn belly fat, or cravings—or if you're a practitioner who wants to create life-changing results—this episode will blow your mind.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Secret Culprit Behind Fatigue and Weight Gain: Why insulin resistance starts years before diabetes is diagnosed—and what your doctor won’t tell you.
• Metabolism’s Hidden Enemies: How stress, sleep deprivation, and timing your meals the wrong way are silently wrecking your metabolic health.
• A 30-Day Reset That Works: Step-by-step strategies for unlocking stubborn fat, stabilizing blood sugar, and boosting energy—without crazy diets or extreme exercise.
• Craving Crushers: The three nutrients you must add to your daily routine to stop sugar cravings and emotional eating in their tracks.
• Metabolic Myths Busted: Why “eating every two hours” could be the worst advice ever—and what to do instead.
• The Sleep Connection: How late nights and poor sleep could be turning off your fat-burning hormones and destroying your appetite control.

Links & Resources

• Get Your FREE Guide: FREE CHECKLIST: Foods that Can Reverse Belly Fat, Fatigue, and Lack of Focus
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group here for resources and community.
• ReInvent 2025 Replay and Slides: Watch a deep dive into gut health, genetics, and lab testing here.
• Check out our Insulin Resistance Mastery Program for Practitioners and/or The Sweet Spot Solution for a metabolic reset.
• Explore Advanced Training and Resources: Visit INEMethod.com to take your practice or personal healing to the next level.

Check Out Related Podcast Episodes: Dive into more metabolic health strategies here.

Most people, including practitioners, are unaware of how inaccurate readings can lead to misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments. Beyond just numbers, they reveal how oral health, systemic inflammation, and lifestyle factors silently contribute to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. 

Dr. Campbell also shares her remarkable personal journey of uncovering these connections after a tragic loss in her practice, leading her to develop revolutionary protocols that have saved countless lives.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Hidden Risks of Blood Pressure: Why most blood pressure readings are inaccurate and how to ensure proper measurements.
• Oral Health and Cardiovascular Disease: The direct link between gum disease and plaque in the arteries.
• Critical Labs for Prevention: Five essential tests to identify inflammation and oxidative stress.
• Functional Medicine in Action: How magnesium, meditation, and personalized care can prevent deadly events.

The Power of Collaboration: Why working with biological dentists is crucial for complete cardiovascular prevention.

Links & Resources

• Download our FREE Guide to Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Want to learn more about testing and preventing heart disease?  Check out this episode.

Dr. Ellie Campbell’s Resources and Links

• Get the Book – The Blood Pressure Blueprint: A comprehensive guide to understanding and improving blood pressure health.
• Visit Dr. Ellie Campbell’s Website: Explore her innovative approaches to cardiovascular health and more.
• Check out the AMA Map Hypertension Website to help your practice improve blood pressure control
• Connect with Dr. Ellie Campbell on Facebook: Join her mission to educate and empower through better cardiovascular care.

Dr Ellie Campbell’s Bio

Dr. Campbell is a native Chicagoan, and a graduate of the University of Illinois, the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, and the Medical College of Georgia. Board-certified in Family Medicine for 30 years, she also holds certification from the American Board of Integrative Medicine.

She is a solo physician with specialty interests in interdisciplinary collaboration, Functional Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, reversing chronic disease, cardiovascular disease prevention, natural treatments for high blood pressure, the oral-systemic connection, and Vitamin D. She also enjoys live theater, gardening, healthy cooking, hiking, travel, and playtime with her husband, three adult daughters, and 2 100-lb dogs.

What if your so-called “normal” blood sugar is silently setting the stage for heart disease, nerve damage, and other irreversible complications? Discover why fasting glucose is the last marker to change and how hidden markers like post-meal blood sugar spikes and insulin resistance are causing damage long before a diabetes diagnosis.

Learn the truth about continuous glucose monitors, overlooked lab markers, and game-changing strategies to protect your body and your clients from long-term damage. Click now to uncover the truth—and take control before it’s too late!

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• The critical dangers of fasting glucose over 90—even before reaching the "diabetic range."
• Why conventional medicine ignores the early signs of blood sugar imbalances.
• The importance of additional markers like insulin levels, hemoglobin A1C, and C-reactive protein.
• How CGMs can help track blood sugar responses to food, exercise, and stress.
• The truth about hormone-hacking breakfasts and how they set the tone for stable blood sugar all day.
• Simple steps to empower your clients—or yourself—to reverse insulin resistance and avoid long-term damage.

Resources and Links:

• Download the Transcript here
• Click here to order labs direct through Evexia
• Click here to order a continuous glucose monitor (CGM)
• Click here for the FREE CHECKLIST: Foods that Can Reverse Belly Fat, Fatigue, and Lack of Focus
• Download our FREE Hormone Hacking, Break Your Fast Recipes  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Grab your copy of the  ReInvent 2025 Summit Replay and Slides here for a deep dive into the microbiome, lab testing and genetics
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 

Check out other podcast episodes on metabolic health here

Dr. Kines shares her proven strategies for identifying, testing, and managing this viral threat, giving practitioners the tools to look beyond symptoms and instead zero in on hidden causes that may be holding their clients back from true healing. This episode is packed with information for anyone looking to understand the complex factors that contribute to persistent health struggles—and actionable steps to start addressing them.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Hidden Virus Behind Chronic Fatigue: Many people unknowingly carry this virus which lies dormant until triggered by various factors and changes.
• Triggers That Reactivate the Virus: Dr. Kines explains which factors can reawaken this virus, setting off cycles of fatigue and other symptoms.
• The Importance of Root Cause Identification: Dr. Kines’ approach goes beyond standard treatment; her methods involve testing and identifying the virus as a root cause rather than merely managing surface symptoms.
• Symptoms to Watch For: Classic signs of viral reactivation are revealed. Practitioners can use these as indicators to dig deeper.
• Evidence-Based Methods for Lasting Recovery: With a combination of habits and tools, Dr. Kines shares her evidence-based approach to stabilizing clients and promoting true recovery. 
• Empowering Clients Through Education: Practitioners can help clients understand their triggers, manage reactivation risks, and create sustainable lifestyle changes for long-term health.

Links & Resources

• Download our Free Guide to Supporting a Healthy and Balanced Immune System
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Get the replay and slides from our most recent conference for practitioners, ReInvent 2025, for a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome, lab testing, and genetics.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Want to learn more about balancing the immune system?  Check out this episode.

Dr Kasia Kines Resources and Links

• Take Dr. Kines’ Free Quiz on Viral Symptoms EBV Global Institute Quiz
• Learn more about Dr. Kines’ resources and training for practitioners at EBV Global Institute –  EBVhelp.com
• Check out Dr Kines Book - The EBV Solution 
• Connect with Dr Kasia Kines 

Dr. Kasia Kines Bio

Kasia Kines DCN, MS, MA, CN, CSN

Doctor of Clinical Nutrition

Dr. Kines is the CEO and Founder of EBV Global Institute. She is an expert on recovery therapy for chronic Epstein-Barr Virus, an author, a wellness expert, and a doctor of clinical nutrition. Since 2005, she has built an international reputation as a functional nutritionist, from being sought after by Johns Hopkins University to the ground-breaking Amazon best-seller book Epstein-Barr Virus Solution.

Dr. Kines has developed the only evidence-based methodology for a complete long-term recovery from Epstein-Barr Virus. She has been teaching that in the EBV Recovery Program. She also provides turn-key trainings in that methodology for the medical community.

Dr. Kines is a passionate advocate for debunking common misinformation about EBV in the medical community and lectures on this topic extensively. She is on a mission to share the truth about EBV and the solutions globally, so no one needs to suffer needlessly from this misunderstood virus and its complications.

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Discover how specific genetic SNPs influence blood sugar regulation, insulin sensitivity, and fat metabolism. Whether you're a health practitioner or a self-healer, this episode will revolutionize the way you approach personalized health care.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Genetics as a Predictive Tool: How understanding certain SNPs can reveal hidden metabolic risks and be used to personalize plans.
• Practical Applications: How to integrate genetic insights with lab testing for personalized dietary and lifestyle strategies.
• The Sweet Tooth Gene and Beyond: Explore key SNPs affecting blood sugar, insulin resistance, and weight management.
• Fasting Protocols: The role of fasting mimicking diets in optimizing metabolic health safely and effectively.
• Actionable Lab Testing Tips: What markers to test for a comprehensive metabolic health assessment.

Links & Resources

• Download our FREE Guide to Using Genetic Testing to Optimize Patient Outcomes
• References to GLUT2 gene?
• Video for Adiponectin?
• Find out more about our Insulin Resistance Mastery Program for Practitioners here.
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free resources and community support.
• Get the replay and slides from our most recent summit for practitioners, ReInvent 2025 here, a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome, lab 
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills.

Learn more about The Lab Testing Gaps That Are Sabotaging Your Client’s Health found in this episode.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Trauma-Health Connection: Discover how hidden emotional wounds can sabotage healing and why addressing trauma is essential for overcoming chronic illness.
• Breaking the Misconceptions: Uncover the shocking truth about "little t" trauma and how everyday experiences can create havoc on physical health without clients even realizing it.
• The Acidic Thoughts: Learn how self-critical thinking creates biochemical chaos in the body—and the practical strategies to help clients shift to healing, “alkaline” thoughts.
• Trauma's Impact on Metabolism and Hormones: Explore how unresolved trauma disrupts biochemical processes and hormonal balance, keeping your clients stuck in a cycle of illness.
• The Practitioner’s Hidden Role: Find out how nonverbal cues could be the key to unlocking deeper client trust and facilitating transformational breakthroughs.

Resources and Links

• Download the FREE Practitioner’s Guide to Adrenal Support.
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for community and resources.
• Get the replay and slides from our most recent summit for practitioners, ReInvent 2025 here, a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome, lab testing, and genetics.
• Explore advanced training and resources at INEMethod.com.
• Check out other podcast episodes on adrenals here. 

Connect with Tonya Octave

• Website: https://www.tonyaoctave-lcsw.com
• Book: Heal Thy Mind: Seven Strategies Towards Mental Wellness on Amazon.
• LinkedIn: Tonya Octave

About Tonya Octave

Tonya Octave is an integrative psychotherapist and coach specializing in the interplay between mental health and physical wellness. As the creator of the Octaves Method, she bridges psychotherapy, hypnosis, and nutritional endocrinology to address the root causes of chronic illness. Tonya is also the author of Heal Thy Mind: Seven Strategies Towards Mental Wellness, a guide to achieving emotional, mental, and physical harmony.

If you’re ready to guide yourself or your clients through a metabolic makeover, this episode is for you.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Holiday Metabolic Chaos: How celebrations wreak havoc on sleep, stress, and metabolism—and why resetting is essential.
• The Power of Fasting: Discover the benefits of fasting for regulating blood sugar, lowering insulin levels, and boosting brain and gut health.
• Fasting-Mimicking Diet Explained: How Dr. Ritamarie’s whole-food-based program replicates the benefits of fasting without going hungry and without packaged foods.
• Client Success Stories: Real-life transformations, including significant reductions in blood sugar levels in just a few days.
• Practical Steps for Practitioners: Implement fasting-mimicking strategies and time-restricted eating to help clients achieve incredible results.

Links & Resources

• Download the Free Fasting While Feasting Guide for a step-by-step plan.
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for community and resources.
• Reserve your spot for ReInvent 2025, a deep dive into metabolic health and root-cause strategies. If you missed this event, you can still catch the recordings.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your practice.
• Learn more about insulin resistance and metabolic health with Dr. Ritamarie’s Insulin Resistance Mastery Course.

Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo’s Bio

Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is a pioneering expert in functional nutrition and metabolic health, with over 33 years of clinical experience. As the founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology, she’s dedicated to training health practitioners to uncover root causes and create lasting results for their clients. Her mission is to reinvent healthcare by empowering practitioners to integrate personalized, science-backed approaches to health restoration.

Ready to transform your practice or personal health? Dive into this episode and discover the tools to make it happen!

Michelle reveals how advanced tools that provide real time data can combine with personalized care to create life-changing outcomes. This episode explores why now is the best time to take the leap into functional health and root cause care—whether for yourself or as a career move.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• Breaking Free from Burnout: How personal health crises can ignite a passion for transformational work in functional health.
• The Power of Data and Heart: How combining technology with emotional connection creates lasting wellness.
• Why Conventional Models Fail: Discover the gaps in traditional health care and how an integrative approach addresses root causes.
• From High-Tech to Health: Learn why professionals from tech, law, and accounting are shifting to health coaching.
• The Future of Healthcare: Why functional health coaching and advanced tools like wearable tech are shaping the next generation of care.
• Practical Tools for Practitioners: How NEPT’s in-depth training prepares health professionals to create powerful results for their clients.

Resources and Links

• Download our FREE Practice Clarity Audit
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for ReInvent 2025 here for a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome on brain health including lab testing and genetics
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes on building your Functional Health care Practice  here

Connect with Michelle Hernandez

• Website: michellehernandez.health
• LinkedIn: michellehernandezatx/
• YouTube: @michellehernandez.health

Michelle Hernandez Bio

Michelle Hernandez supports organized, professional women who have smashed into their walls to achieve lasting weight release, build resilience, and reclaim emotional well-being.

Michelle understands the critical role of technology in healthcare. Through her Data HeartTM program, she integrates advanced tracking tools, wearables, functional blood chemistry labs, and genetic testing to provide measurable, tangible results to empower health decisions.

True success isn't just about achieving your goals—it's about living a vibrant, fulfilling life with a high health span.

Why are so many practitioners missing these vital pieces? How can understanding the microbiome and subtle genetic clues unlock hidden root causes behind chronic illness? And what’s the surprising truth about metabolic dysfunction that affects over 90% of the population?

What’s Inside This Episode?

• The Hidden Power of the Gut: Discover how your microbiome holds the keys to brain health, immune function, and hormone balance—and what happens when it goes off track.
• Genetics Unraveled: Learn how subtle genetic weaknesses can create vulnerabilities—but also how they reveal opportunities for personalized healing.
• Metabolic Mayhem: Did you know 93% of the population is metabolically unhealthy? Learn the little-known markers that reveal early imbalances before they spiral into disease.
• Root-Cause Mastery: How integrating these three areas can set you apart as the practitioner who cracks the code when others can’t.

Resources and Links

• Download the Transcript here.
• Download our FREE Guide to Using Genetic Testing to Optimize Patient Outcomes
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• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook Group for free resources and community support.
• Reserve your spot for ReInvent 2025 here, a deep dive into the microbiome, metabolic health, and cutting-edge functional practices.
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills.
• Learn more about The Lab Testing Gaps That Are Sabotaging Your Client’s Health found in this episode.
• Check out our favorite CGM here.

Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo’s Bio

Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is a pioneer in functional nutrition and nutritional endocrinology. With over 33 years of clinical experience, she’s helped thousands uncover the root causes of their health challenges through a unique, data-driven approach. As the founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology and author of Unstoppable Health, Dr. Ritamarie trains practitioners worldwide to think beyond symptoms and connect the dots to true healing.

With organs affected beyond the reproductive system, skyrocketing rates of chronic pain, infertility, and a myriad of related health problems, practitioners need to understand this under-the-radar crisis and know how to help clients who are suffering silently.

What’s Inside This Episode?

• “It’s Not Just Your Period”: Discover why endometriosis impacts far beyond the uterus, and understand why this condition often goes undiagnosed for decades.
• Uncovering the Myths: Think a hysterectomy cures endometriosis? Think again. Find out why common treatments may be setting patients back rather than helping them heal.
• Fertility in Crisis: Endometriosis is one of the leading causes of infertility, but it’s not just a “woman’s issue.” Learn the genetic, environmental, and systemic factors that might be making fertility impossible for many.
• Toxins and Triggers:  Learn how common everyday products, and other environmental factors are silently contributing to a health disaster, worsening endometriosis symptoms and other chronic conditions.
• Painful Truths and Silent Suffering:  Endometriosis is a leading cause of infertility, but it’s more than just “bad luck.” Dive into the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental culprits that make conception feel impossible for many women today.
• Functional Approaches for Practitioners: Go beyond symptom management. Discover actionable strategies that can make a profound difference for endometriosis patients and transform their quality of life.

Resources and Links:

• Download the Transcript
• Download our FREE Metabolic Health Guide here.  
• Join the Next-Level Health Practitioner Facebook group here for free resources and community support
• Reserve your spot for ReInvent 2025 here for a deep dive into the impact of the microbiome on hormone and brain health,  including lab testing and genetics
• Visit INEMethod.com for advanced health practitioner training and tools to elevate your clinical skills and grow your practice by getting life-changing results. 
• Check out other podcast episodes here.

Dr. Jessica Drummond Resources and Links

Integrative Women's Health Institute: integrativewomenshealthinstitute.com

Dr. Jessica Drummond’s Book Outsmart Endometriosis – Available on Amazon

Dr. Jessica Drummond’s Menopause Program: The Menopause Solution

Facebook Integrative Women’s Health Institute

Instagram @integrativewomenshealthinstitute  

Youtube The Integrative Women's Health Institute

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Dr. Jessica’s Podcast Integrative Women’s Health Podcast

Dr Jessica Drummonds’s Bio

Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC is the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health Institute and the best-selling author of Outsmart Endometriosis. Dr. Drummond has 22 years of clinical experience as a licensed physical therapist, licensed clinical nutritionist, and board-certified health coach working with women with pelvic pain, including endometriosis, vulvodynia, and bladder pain syndrome. She brings a unique, conservative, and integrative approach to supporting women to overcome hormonal imbalances and chronic pain conditions. She is a sought-after international speaker on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, menopause, and female athlete nutrition. Her clinical coaching programs and educational programs reach thousands of clients and professional students in over 60 countries. Dr. Drummond has a BA in Biology from The University of Virginia, a Master's in Physical Therapy from Emory University, and a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health.