Meet Our S.H.I.N.E. Conference Leader
Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo
Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is passionately committed to transforming our current broken disease-care system into a true health care system where each and every practitioner is skilled at finding the root cause of health challenges and using ancient healing wisdom married with modern scientific research to restore balance.
As the founder of the Institute of Nutritional Endocrinology, Dr. Ritamarie specializes in using the wisdom of nature to restore balance to hormones with a special emphasis on thyroid, adrenal, and insulin imbalances. Her practitioner training programs empower health and nutrition practitioners to get to the root cause of health issues by using functional assessments and natural therapeutics to balance the endocrine system, the master controller.
Dr. Ritamarie is a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic with Certifications in Acupuncture, Nutrition, Herbal Medicine, and HeartMath®. She’s also a certified living foods chef, instructor, and coach, and she has trained and certified hundreds of others in the art of using palate-pleasing, whole fresh food as medicine.
A best-selling author, speaker, and internationally recognized nutrition and women’s health authority with over 25 years of clinical experience, Dr. Ritamarie offers online courses, long-distance coaching and counseling, and deeply empowering and informative live events. Her wildly popular practitioner certification program empowers health and wellness professionals to unravel the mystery of their clients’ complex health challenges, so they become known as go-to practitioners for true healing and lasting results.
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Ocean Robbins
Ocean Robbins is co-founder & CEO of the 500,000+ member Food Revolution Network —one of the largest communities of healthy eating advocates on the planet. He has held hundreds of live seminars and events that have touched millions of lives in 190 nations.
Ocean has served as adjunct professor for Chapman University, and is a recipient of the national Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service, the Freedom’s Flame Award, the Harmon Wilkinson Award and many other honors. He is author of the best-seller 31-Day Food Revolution: Heal Your Body, Feel Great, and Transform Your World.
Ocean’s grandfather founded Baskin-Robbins, and his father, John Robbins, walked away from the family company to write bestsellers like Diet for a New America and to become a renowned health advocate. Now, Ocean is on a mission to transform the industrialized food culture into one that celebrates and supports healthy people and a healthy planet, and he’s inviting YOU to join the food revolution.
The Power of Food to prevent and
heal the metabolic disorders that cause cancer,
heart-disease, and type 2 diabetes
Big ag, big food and big pharma are making billions - while a toxic food culture fuels skyrocketing rates of chronic illness, out-of-control medical costs and environmental deterioration. But the good news is that you can turn it all around - starting with food. You can radically extend your lifespan and that of your patients and clients and slash the risk of Alzheimer’s, type 2 diabetes, heart disease cancer, and many other ailments - deliciously.
Food Revolution Network co-founder Ocean Robbins will bring you candid truth and heartening stories from the front lines of the food movement. And you’ll discover what's really going on with GMOs, important breakthroughs in food and medical science, and how you can best guide your clients, patients and loved ones to heal ...with food!
Dr. Anna Cabeca
Anna Cabeca, DO, FACOG is triple board-certified and a fellow of gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She has special certification in functional medicine, sexual health, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. She is known for her work using natural alternatives for successful menopause as well as her expertise in age management medicine. She is the creator of the highly acclaimed virtual transformation programs Women's Restorative Health, Sexual CPR ®, Magic Menopause; she offers Keto-Alkaline ® nutrition plans to online subscribers; and she developed the alkaline superfoods drink Mighty Maca ® Plus.
She has been interviewed by all major television networks, and has been featured in InStyle and The Huffington Post. Dr. Cabeca has 100,000 email subscribers, 26,000 social media followers and often hosts popular webinars (there were 10,000 registrants for a recent one on menopause). She lives on Saint Simon's Island, Georgia.
HORMONES, MENOPAUSE, AND DIET
As we age our hormones naturally decrease and through the peri to post menopause there are new physiologic and metabolic challenges during this transformation. I will discuss these and the voting edge dietary, hormonal and lifestyle interventions to power up this stage of life!
Dr. Tom O'Bryan
Dr. O’Bryan is considered a ‘Sherlock Holmes’ for chronic disease and teaches that recognizing and addressing the underlying mechanisms that activate an immune response is the map to the highway towards better health. He holds teaching Faculty positions with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He has trained and certified tens of thousands of practitioners around the world in advanced understanding of the impact of wheat sensitivity and the development of individual autoimmune diseases.
SWEET THOUGHTS:
WHEN NOT ENOUGH OR TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING
FUELS COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT
In humans, insulin resistance is associated with increased rates of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. This talk will examine the mechanisms behind ‘feeding the brain’ appropriate amounts of its primary fuel (glucose) to enhance and optimize brain cognitive function
Mike Mutzel
Mike Mutzel, MS has an undergraduate degree in Biology from Western Washington University, a Masters Degree in Human Clinical Nutrition from University of Bridgeport and the author of Belly Fat Effect. He makes videos and podcasts to help everyday people around the world learn how to stay lean and metabolically healthy.
EXERCISE, FASTING AND AUTOPHAGY:
UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS
OF THE CELLULAR REGENERATION
- A review of the overlapping and shared mechanisms between ketone synthesis and autophagy
- Understanding the practical regulators of autophagy
- What foods and dietary compounds enhance and inhibit autophagy
- Using fasting and exercise as modalities to enhance autophagy.
Dr. Alan Hopkins
Dr. Alan Hopkins is a graduate of Loma Linda University School of Medicine where he was elected into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society for leadership and academic excellence. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine and completed an A4M fellowship in Anti-Aging Medicine.
ADVANCED BIOMARKERS IN METABOLISM
Everyone wants an optimal metabolism but few know what key biomarkers we can measure to adequately assess our body’s metabolic state.
Dr. Alan reviews common sense biomarkers that, when measured, signal clinically actionable pathways. He will take us on a deep dive into the hormone symphony of metabolism and introduce the concept of adiposity and the role it plays in chronic inflammation.
Most importantly, Dr. Alan will share with us his protocols to improve each of these biomarkers to have more energy, sleep better and achieve optimal body composition.
Tricia Nelson
Tricia Nelson lost fifty pounds by healing the root causes of her emotional eating. She has spent over thirty years helping thousands do the same. Tricia is an Emotional Eating Expert and author of the #1 bestseller, Heal Your Hunger, 7 Simple Steps to End Emotional Eating Now. Tricia trains and certifies health coaches as Emotional Eating Coaches so they can maximize results for their clients and their business. Tricia is also the host of the popular podcast, The Heal Your Hunger Show. As a highly regarded speaker and coach, Tricia has been featured on NBC, CBS, KTLA, FOX and Discovery Health.
FASTING & KETO:
LIFELINE OR LIABILITY FOR CHRONIC DIETERS?
Are intermittent fasting and the Ketogenic diet beneficial for everyone? Emotional Eating Expert Tricia Nelson explores the pros and cons of these plans for those with a pattern of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating.
You will learn how to equip your clients with the supportive tools they need to achieve lasting weight loss and maximize the benefits of whatever plan of eating is recommended.
- How to ensure that these plans aren’t just another “diet” that ends badly.
- The safest form of fasting for binge-eaters.
- How to identify the most common personality traits that lead to self-sabotage.
- How to effectively address the underlying causes of emotional eating.
- What tools your clients need in order to stick to a healthy plan of eating, long-term.
Steph Jackson
Steph Jackson, ex-yogurt maker now called “The Gut Whisperer” by her clients, is here to give you valuable and unique resources for digestive health. She advocates using probiotic bacteria functionally in consideration of each person’s biochemistry, their environment, and their whole digestive bacterial colonies in order to achieve optimal health. After doing the research to build her non-dairy yogurt company, she could not keep quiet about some of the things she discovered and is now using her Masters degrees in education and curriculum design to put together programs to teach others this valuable information. She always says she is wishing you vibrant health and the freedom to live it, and she means it.
MICROBIOME HEALTH ON A KETO DIET
Have you ever wondered how eating keto affects your gut microbiome? Did you know you have bacteria that help with blood sugar balancing and hormone health? They may need a little help if you are eating keto. They need feeding. They need balancing.
Find out how to maximize the health of your gut bugs to maximize the benefits of your diet!
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Medical Disclaimer: The information in this presentation is not intended to replace a one-on-one relationship with a qualified health care professional and is not intended as medical advice. It is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from the research and experience of Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, drritamarie.com, and the experts who have contributed. We encourage you to make your own health care decisions based upon your research and in partnership with a qualified health care professional.
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