Dr. Ritamarie

Dr. Ritamarie Nutrition and functional medicine resources that empower root cause healing and practioner education

Fresh, joyful, and vibrant, brimming with energy and wisdom to guide you gently back to health, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo combines experience, education, and practical advice to make healthful eating fun again. For over three decades, Dr. Ritamarie has provided chiropractic care, health guidance, and nutritional advice to countless people just like you who want to make healthy changes but don’t know where to start. She motivates and inspires both fellow health coaches and individual clients by making healthy changes fun. As a health catalyst, Dr. Ritamarie provides the transformational spark to ignite the desire of change in her clients. Using education, inspiration, natural therapies and loving coaching, Dr. Ritamarie combines the latest scientific health knowledge with a dash of humor and warmth to support her clients in their journey to good health. She practices Integrative Health Care, using her knowledge of nutrition, herbs, homeopathic and chiropractic treatment to return the body to a state of natural, vibrant good health. Because most people bite off more than they can chew when they embark on a new health regimen, Dr. Ritamarie focuses on simple, effective ways to change your diet to achieve optimal good health. She dishes out simple steps with a dash of daily fun to motivate people to achieve their health goals. Dr. Ritamarie became interested in living foods and healthy eating after her own bout with illness that transformed her understanding of the relationship between diet and health. After recovering her health through fasting and raw foods, she began her formal training in diet, nutrition, and natural medicine. Dr. Ritamarie holds a Doctor of Chiropractic Degree with Certification in Acupuncture, and is a Diplomat of the American Clinical Nutrition Board. She is a Certified Clinical Nutritionist, with a Master of Science in Human Nutrition. She also holds a Master’s degree In Computer Science from New And is certified in whole foods plant based nutrition. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Nutritional Perspectives, Natural Awakenings, Purely Delicious, and many other national magazines as well as countless online publications. She is in great demand as a speaker at conferences nationwide. She is the founder of the International Association of OnLine Holistic Nutrition Professionals (AOLNP) and the author of several books. She continues today to provide the ingredients for good health through her coaching practice, seminars, workshops, and books, guiding countless individuals to better health through diet. She is available for in person and long-distance consultations and coaching or for groups and conferences. Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and 2 active and vibrant sons. When she's not writing, speaking and coaching on health and nutrition topics, she loves to run, hike, swim, paint and make pottery!

08/22/2026

This one is for the person who's been wondering if this retreat is really for them.

If you've been dealing with fatigue, stubborn weight, brain fog, or labs that say "normal" while you feel anything but, this is for you.

If you're actually doing okay but you know that healthy aging doesn't happen by accident, and you want to get ahead of it, this is also for you.

You don't need to be plant-based. You don't need to be at peak health. You just need to be ready to show up and focus on yourself for four days.

25 spots. September 13-17 in Austin, Texas. Comment "RETREAT" and I'll send you everything.

As a practitioner, you've probably sat across from someone like this.She's doing everything she's been told to do. Eatin...
08/20/2026

As a practitioner, you've probably sat across from someone like this.

She's doing everything she's been told to do. Eating well. Taking her thyroid medication. Using hormone support. Getting to bed earlier. Managing her stress.
Her labs aren't alarming. Her doctor says she's fine.

But she doesn't feel fine. And she's sitting across from you wondering if something is being missed.

It probably is.

Not because the hormone isn't there. But because the body may have stopped listening to it.

That's hormone resistance. And it doesn't only happen with insulin.

Leptin. Thyroid. Cortisol. Estrogen. Progesterone. All of them can be present in the bloodstream and still fail to produce the response the body needs.

I'm spending two full days teaching practitioners how to recognize these patterns, connect the hormone systems, and build a more strategic plan for the clients who keep getting stuck.

Live workshop. August 21 and 22. Two sessions, three hours each.

Comment "RESIST" and I'll send you everything you need to know.

It’s so frustrating.A client comes to you exhausted, gaining weight, craving sugar, foggy, not sleeping well, and clearl...
08/19/2026

It’s so frustrating.

A client comes to you exhausted, gaining weight, craving sugar, foggy, not sleeping well, and clearly not feeling like themselves.

You run the labs. Hormone levels look ok but you know they’re tired of being
“Everything looks normal.”

But you’re not sure what else to look at.

You know something isn’t adding up but now what?

This is one of the things that frustrates me most about the way hormone problems are commonly evaluated.

We’re taught to look at whether there is enough hormone in the bloodstream.

But we’re not nearly often enough taught to ask:
Is the hormone’s message actually getting through?

A hormone can be present and still fail to create the response the body needs.

Insulin.
Leptin.
Thyroid hormone.
Cortisol.
Estrogen.
Progesterone.
Testosterone.

And when signaling breaks down, a person can have very real symptoms long before a conventional lab flag tells you what’s wrong.

We, as health practitioners need to know how to look further than just whether a hormone is “high” or “low,”

When we do we completely miss the physiology that explains why the person sitting in front of us still feels awful.

That’s exactly why I taught The Missing Signal.

If you work with clients whose symptoms and labs don’t seem to match, watch this training. It will change how you practices

The replay is available now.

Comment SIGNAL below and I’ll send you the link.

Practitioners, there's a question most hormone evaluations never ask.“Is the hormone's message actually getting through?...
08/18/2026

Practitioners, there's a question most hormone evaluations never ask.

“Is the hormone's message actually getting through?”

For a hormone to do its job, it has to be produced, transported, converted into its active form, received by the right receptor, translated into a cellular signal, and then cleared appropriately.

A disruption at any one of those steps can produce symptoms that look exactly like hormone deficiency, even when the hormone shows up perfectly fine on a lab report.

And because these systems don't work in isolation, when one signal breaks down, it pulls others with it. Insulin resistance affects leptin, thyroid, cortisol, s*x hormones, inflammation, energy production. All of it.

This is what I'm unpacking across two full days of live clinical training on August 21 and 22, designed specifically for health and wellness practitioners who are ready to go deeper.

You won't leave with a protocol to apply to every client. You'll leave knowing how to think through the case in front of you.

Comment "RESIST" and I'll send you the link.

One of our students described the NEPT community as "still like university, but more fun, less wine, more green juice." ...
08/17/2026

One of our students described the NEPT community as "still like university, but more fun, less wine, more green juice." That made me laugh and also made me really proud.

Because the community is genuinely one of the most generous, intellectually alive groups of health professionals I've ever been part of. MDs, nurses, chiropractors, naturopaths, health coaches, nutritionists, all learning together, reviewing cases together, and actually rooting for each other to succeed.

If that's the kind of professional home you've been looking for, the door is open.

Comment "COMMUNITY" and I'll send you everything you need to know.

My mom didn't have to die at 56. That truth has driven everything I've built.Every program, every training, every podcas...
08/15/2026

My mom didn't have to die at 56. That truth has driven everything I've built.

Every program, every training, every podcast episode, every recipe, every free resource, all of it exists because I know what it costs when someone doesn't get the right information in time.

You have access to something different. A way of looking at health that goes to the root, that respects your body's intelligence, that gives you real tools.

Whatever brought you here, I'm glad you found your way.

Love, health, and joy, always.

08/13/2026

Let me tell you what a day at the Healthy Longevity Immersion Retreat actually looks like.

Morning Qi Gong and meditation. Whole food, plant-based breakfast. Educational sessions on metabolic health, cardiovascular wellness, and blood sugar balance. Culinary demonstrations with Jennifer Whitmire. Afternoon nature walks on 230 acres of Texas Hill Country. Evening community and reflection.

Every participant also receives a personalized C-IMT cardiovascular assessment, a Continuous Glucose Monitor for real-time blood sugar tracking, and a Personalized Healthy Longevity Roadmap to take home.

This is not a conference. It is an experience.

September 13-17 in Austin, Texas. Only 25 spots. Comment "RETREAT" and I'll send you all the details.

08/13/2026

What to do when “all the things” for hormone balancing aren’t working
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Practitioners, this is for you.Your client has fatigue, cravings, stubborn weight, and brain fog. Their labs come back n...
08/12/2026

Practitioners, this is for you.

Your client has fatigue, cravings, stubborn weight, and brain fog. Their labs come back normal. You know something is off, but the standard results aren't giving you the full picture.

What if the hormones are there, but the signal isn't getting through?

That's exactly what we're covering in my free live training, The Missing Signal - today, August 12 at 4pm PT / 6pm CT / 7pm ET.

I'm going to walk you through how disrupted insulin, leptin, thyroid, cortisol, and s*x hormone signaling can explain the symptoms that refuse to resolve, and how to start recognizing those hidden patterns in your most complex cases.

This is the clinical lens that changes everything.

Join me live - starting in a few hours. Link in the comments.

For more than 30 years, I've been teaching people how food, lifestyle, and personalized health strategies can support vi...
08/11/2026

For more than 30 years, I've been teaching people how food, lifestyle, and personalized health strategies can support vibrant health and healthy aging.

Not by following trends. By getting to the root of why the body breaks down in the first place.

As a Metabolic Recovery Specialist and Founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology, I've helped thousands of people finally understand what their bodies have been trying to tell them, and take real, lasting control of their health.

This September, I'm bringing that work to life in person, and I'd love for you to be there.

Healthy Longevity Immersion Retreat
📍 Austin, Texas
📅 September 13–17, 2026

Five days. Deep immersion. Real transformation.

👉 Grab your spot: go.drritamarie.com/healthy-longevity-immersion-retreat

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