Dr. Ritamarie’s Food Allergy Spy Training: FAST Relief From Leaky Gut, Fibromyalgia, and More

If you have any of these problems, you should find out if underlying food allergies are the cause:

If you have persistent weight issues that won’t go away
If there are dark circles under eyes
If you ever experience upset stomach and poor digestion
If you’re embarrassed by skin eruptions
If you suffer from fibromyalgia (long-term, body-wide pain and tenderness in the joints, muscles, tendons, and soft tissues)
If you have autoimmune disease (an overactive immune response where the body mistakenly attacks its own cells)
If you’re struggling with hormone imbalance
If you have concerns about your thyroid health
If you’re experiencing fatigue and adrenal burnout
If you struggle with depression
If you need to correct blood sugar imbalances
If you suffer from headaches

These unwanted health symptoms may actually be a “good” thing if they are the early warning signs that your body is trying to get you to hear. The sooner you listen to what your body is telling you, the sooner you can heal the inflammation that’s causing the problems and avoid more serious health risks.

For a limited time, Dr. Ritamarie’s Food Allergy Spy Training program (FAST) is being offered for $100 off the regular price.  You’ll receive 30 days of step-by-step guidance to help you detect your hidden food allergies through a proven Food Elimination-Provocation Process (FEPP) and get a handle on your symptoms.  After, you can participate for two months in the new VITAL Community (Vibrant Ideas and Tools for Awesome Living).

The first live group run of the FAST program begins on January 17th, 2012.

Click HERE to learn more:

http://www.FoodAllergySpy.com

7 Simple Strategies for Correcting Hormone Imbalance and Harmonizing Your Life

When you hear the term “hormone imbalance” do you right way think about PMS or menopause?  If you’re not suffering from hot flashes or cyclic irritability, you may be tempted to dismiss information about hormone imbalance as “not applicable to me”.

What you may not realize is that your hormones are involved with just about every aspect of your day to day life, including:

- Your metabolic rate, which means how quickly you burn fuel for energy.  Imbalances can lead to hard to shed extra pounds and low energy.

- Your response to stress.  Hormone imbalance affects your ability to respond to stress without burning yourself out or getting sick.

- How much sugar is in your blood and how much reaches your brain, controlling your mood and your ability to think clearly.  Imbalances can lead to diabetes, hypoglycemia and insulin resistance.

- Your mood and attitude, due to the intimate relationship between hormones and neurotransmitters.  Hormone imbalance can lead to depression, anxiety and irritability.

- The efficiency of your digestion.  Imbalance can lead to ulcers, irritable bowel and chronic infection.

- Your sex drive and ability to enjoy intimacy.

- The quality of your skin and hair.

- Your short term memory and ability to think clearly and quickly.

- The quality of your sleep.

The list goes on and on.  This is just a sampling of the widespread and diverse effects of your hormones.

How Hormone Imbalance Effects your Health

Hormones are like members of your family.  When they’re in sync, everyone is communicating well, resulting in happy and harmonious relationships.  When they are out of sync, you’re sunk.  Communication gets disrupted and dysfunction results.

There are over a dozen major players in your hormone family, and your health relies on proper communication and balance between them.

The sooner you get them working in harmony, the happier and healthier you’ll be.

While hormone imbalance can result in unpleasant conditions like depression, dry skin, low energy, irritability, insomnia and hot flashes, what’s more important is that hormone imbalances underlie much more serious illnesses, like osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

So getting your hormones in balance is not just about improving the quality of your life; it’s about actually saving your life.

So how do you get your hormones in balance?  Do you need the latest designer drug or exotic supplements?  Expensive medical procedures?

Natural Methods for Hormone Imbalance

Fortunately, in most cases, balance can be restored through the application of diet and lifestyle actions combined with targeted and specific supplementation of  nutrients and possibly bioidentical hormones, if your body can no longer make them on its own.

There are foods to avoid, foods to include, environmental factors to clean up, stressors to manage, and simple things like the amount and type of movement you do, how much sun you get and the balance between activity and rest.

Here’s a list of seven simple strategies you can get started on right away to get you started on hormone balance.  This is a handful taken from the dozens included
in brand new “The Secrets of Being Sexy and Vibrant at ANY Age” course.

7 Natural Approaches for Hormone Imbalance

1-Consume at least 32 ounces of green drink daily, made from at least a pound of green leafy vegetables.  This may sound like a lot but the greens are so important and drinking them rather than just eating them helps increase the quality you consume.  You can make delicious green smoothies,  juices or soups.  Greens are filled with antioxidants, minerals and the B vitamin folate, which  is very important for hormone balance.  Be sure to include  sprouts and cruciferous vegetables as they’re especially potent hormone balancers.

2- Break a sweat every day, even if just for 30 second bursts.  Exercising to exhaustion for 30 seconds at a time, for a total of 4 to 8 minutes is an amazing way to increase testosterone levels, balance adrenal hormones  and  the hormone insulin, support your thyroid hormone production and overall strengthen your immune system.

3- Get outside for at least 20 minutes, preferably in the middle of the day, for fresh air and sunshine.  This supports your body in making Vitamin D and excreting the chemicals you breathe from indoor air.

4- Open your windows, even if just a crack, for at least 15 minutes every day.  This brings fresh air in to replace the buildup of hormone disrupting chemicals found in indoor air.

5- Dump the sugar for whole fresh fruits.  Sugar disrupts your B vitamins which are essential for hormone regulation.  It also affects the balance between estrogen receptors that are protective and those that promote growth.  When these receptors get out of balance, your risk
of hormonally induced cancer increases.

6- Drink pure water from glass containers, rather than plastic.  Hydration is vital to production and circulation of hormones and chemicals in the plastic have been shown to  be hormone disruptors.

7- Take time each day to appreciate your gifts and the people you love.  Appreciation has profound effects on your immune system, the level of stress hormones in your system and your ability to cleanse and detoxify the toxic exposures that disrupt hormone balance.

You’ll most likely notice changes right away when you master these 7 simple strategies.

If you’re already suffering from symptoms of hormone imbalance, like depression, fatigue, sugar cravings, excess weight around your middle, menstrual irregularities or pain, hot flashes or other menopausal symptoms, or if you or a family member have had breast cancer, or if you’d just like to circumvent these problems and be vibrantly healthy, strong and sexy your whole life through, it’s worth it for you to invest the time to learn all you can about keeping your hormones safe and balanced.

To bring you the whole scoop on hormone balance,  I’ve teamed up with world renown hormone expert Dr. Lindsey Berkson, author of “Hormone Deception”,  “Safe Hormones, Smart Women”, “Natural Answers to Women’s Health Questions”, “Healthy Digestion the Natural Way”, and at least 8 other books on natural health.  We put together a groundbreaking 5 week course that’s filled with information about hormones that even most doctors don’t know.

We’re thrilled to bring you cutting edge information that will enhance your life and may even save your life.  It saved Dr. Lindsey’s!  Read her story for details.

It’s such a joy to have steady energy and mood, strength and stamina and the clarity of mind that balanced hormones brings.  We experience this daily and we teach our patients to do the same.   We’d like you to have the same experience.  For the first time ever, we have packaged this material in a way that we can share it with you in a convenient  and cost effective manner.

If you’re ready to take charge of your own hormones and create balance and vibrant health, we invite you to check out the course we’ve put together.

Love, Health and Joy,

Dr. Ritamarie

 http://www.drritamarie.com/go/vibranthormones

Eating for Hormone Health: New Hope for Hormone Imbalance

I’m excited to be doing a talk in New Jersey this week on Eating for Hormone Health.

Karen Ranzi, author of “Creating Healthy Children” is hosting me.

Here are the details.

If you live in the area, come on by.

Eating for Hormone Balance

The Secrets to Staying Young and Vibrant At Any Age

With Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo, MS, DC, CCN, DACBN

How to Nourish Your Hormones and Keep Yourself Strong, Safe and Healthy Your Whole Life Through.

In this Inspirational talk, You’ll learn:

• Who all the members of your hormone family are and how you can keep them balanced and humming
• The role of your digestion,emotions and your environment in keeping your hormones balanced and safe.
• How balancing your hormone starting as early as in your 20’s leads to improved vitality and strength in your later decades — the untold secret to seeing more life ahead of you than behind you.
• The 5 foods you MUST eat and the 5 foods You MUST avoid for hormone health
• How stress effects your hormones —and techniques for protecting yourself from the dangers of being in fight-flight mode daily
• How nutrients effect hormone balance, and why synthetic nutrients can be dangerous
• The importance of sleep in protecting you from hormone-related cancers.
• How hormones are disrupted by the environment and essential secrets in protecting yourself.

In her fun and exuberant style, Dr. Ritamarie shares her passion for vibrant health and her secrets for creating for herself more strength and stamina in her 50’s than she experienced in her 20’s. There’ll be ample time for questions and answers.

For over 2 decades, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo has been a student and practitioner of natural health and whole fresh food diets as a path to wellness. Her success in recovering from chronic fatigue and lifestyle induced health challenges prompted

As a doctor of chiropractic certified in acupuncture, clinical nutrition and herbal medicine, Dr. Ritamarie empowers powerful transformation and vibrant health in busy people worldwide. Through her coaching programs, nutrition consultations and books, Dr. Ritamarie touches countless lives with her message of self-healing. Visit her website www.FreshnFunLiving.com for lots of resources, recipes and valuable information.

Thursday August 5, 2010 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Ramsey, New Jersey (201) 934-6778

Investment in your health: $20 in advance, $25 at the door

To register contact Karen at karen@superhealthychildren.com

Hormone Imbalance Video and Self Assessment

Hormone imbalance is one of the most common causes of feeling “less than good”.

Proper functioning of your hormones depends on the delicate orchestration of a number of key lifestyle factors.  When your hormones are in balance, you feel great—energetic, clear headed, strong and joyful.  But, when your hormones  get out of balance, the opposite is true,  You just don’t feel quite right.

You may be suffering from adrenal fatigue, thyroid imbalance, autoimmune disease, digestive problems and a host of other symptoms.  Plus you’re at higher risk for hormone related cancers — breast, prostate, ovarian and uterine.

Use the assessment below to determine how well balanced YOUR hormones are:

Mark each one you experience.

1.    Fatigue/lack of energy?
2.    Distractibility or lack of focus?
3.    Memory loss?
4.    Anger or irritability?
5.    Anxiety?
6.    Depression?
7.    Mood swings?
8.    Headaches?
9.    Muscle Aches?
10.    Joint pain?
11.    PMS?
12.    Painful periods?
13.    Breast tenderness or swelling?
14.    Accumulation of weight around your midline?
15.    Weight loss resistance?
16.    Acne or oily skin?
17.    Dry or thinning hair?
18.    Dry or itchy skin?
19.    Increased facial hair?
20.    Urinary incontinence?
21.    Decrease in sex drive?
22.    Vaginal dryness, itching or pain?
23.    Painful intercourse?
24.    Difficult achieving orgasm?
25.    Hot flashes/or night sweats?
26.    Insomnia or night time awakenings?
27.    Osteopenia or osteoporosis?
28.    Elevated cholesterol?
29.    Constipation?
30.    Bloating, gas or indigestion?

Score one point for each positive answer.  Score an additional point for each symptom that’s moderate to severe in intensity or you experience it frequently.

**If your score is 20 or higher, you most likely have a hormone imbalance that needs to be addressed ASAP.

**If you scored between 10 and 20, you are likely suffering from a hormone imbalance that’s interfering with your
quality of life.

**If you scored between 5 and 10, your hormone imbalance is mild and should be addressed to prevent it from getting worse.

**If you scored less than 5, congratulations.  Your hormones are mostly in balance and you are in a good position to  take measures to protect and nourish your hormones to prevent future imbalances.

There’s a series of 5 videos we recorded to show you how to get your hormones in balance.  The videos are free at http://www.vibranthormones.com

I teamed up with internationally acclaimed hormone expert Dr. Lindsey Berkson, author of  “Safe Hormones, Smart Women”, “Hormone Deception”,”Natural Answers to Women’s Health Questions”, “Healthy Digestion the Natural Way” and 8 other books to create these videos that share the best kept secrets about nourishing and protecting your hormones.

This Natural Hormone Balance Video Series covers the following topics and more:

• How your hormones are like email messages – and the factors that affect their delivery
• Why testosterone is important for keeping women’s hormones safe
• Important vitamins  that balance your mood, energy and libido
• The intimate connection between food and hormones, and why living and raw foods can help keep your hormones balanced
• How sleep protects you from cancer
• Why synthetic vitamins may be hurting you

In the very very first video, we share why testosterone is so  important for women as well as men and how it keeps a certain body part safe.

http://www.vibranthormones.com

This information is not to be missed if you’d like to be healthy, happy, sexy and vibrant at any age!

Love, Health and Joy to you

Dr. Ritamarie

http://www.vibranthormones.com

Detoxification and Health: Overcoming Chronic Disease by Unburdening your Body

What would the world be like if we all felt good… all the time?

Its a wonderful fantasy.

War…gone

theft…gone

poverty…gone

We’d be left with joy, generosity, love, caring, beauty…..

If everyone felt good, there would be no need to hurt others, feel less than or engage in activities that are self destructive, other destructive or planet destructive. Everyone would be too busy enjoying life to bother with hurtful activities.

When was the last time you felt really good? I mean REALLY good…as in jumping for joy, full of energy, bursting with love?

It’s easy to get caught up in the stress of the moment and lose track of whats really important.

The Cancer Toxicity Connection

A recent guest on my Blog Talk Radio Show was Dr. Brian Clement of Hippocrates Health Institute. We talked about cancer, and the primary cause of cancer, namely a breakdown of the immune system as a result of exposure to toxic elements in food, water, environment and emotions. If you missed the show, you can listen in here: http://www.drritamarie.com/go/ClementInterview

Less than half an hour later, I was interviewed by Tera Warner of the Raw Divas on the subject of detoxification. The calls tied in so well together.

All effective cancer management needs to include detoxification. According to oncologist Thomas Lodi in Arizona, the first step in cancer management needs to be “Stop Making Cancer” by stopping the activities, foods, exposures and thoughts that cause cancer to get out of control. The next step is “killing” the cancer cells.

Western medicine has a distorted approach. The therapies that are aimed at killing the cancer with no attention to building up your body’s natural defenses are doomed to failure. It’s like a race to see if they can destroy the cancer before the treatment destroys you.

Regular detoxification is a great way to cleanse and restore immune function and thus can help prevent cancer. In addition, regular cleansing programs lead to more energy and overall health improvement.

Most health complaints that I come across in clinical practice result from a body out of balance. Your inborn detoxification systems are designed to handle the “normal” toxic exposure – from your metabolic processes and a few environmental things that sneak in. Our modern world has become so overwhelmed with toxic exposure. The food supply is poisened with pesticides and fungicides and other toxins that are damaging to your immune and nervous systems. Drinking water is treated with chlorine. The air is filled with car exhaust, factory fumes, and outgassing from the myriad of plastics and chemicals used in paints, cleaning products and a long list of other “modern conveniences”

With all the exposures, your natural detoxification mecahnisms become overloaded, and the chemicals that should be neutralized and eliminated get caught in the backlog and are recycled and stored in your precious cells. The result? You don’t feel so good!

Symptoms of Toxicity

Symptoms of body toxicity include skin rashes, depression, difficulty focusing, digestive problems, sinus congestion, headaches, “brain fog”, hormone imbalances, autoimmune disease and persistant weight gain that doesn’t seem to respond to calorie restriction.

When I was in my 20′s I suffered from many of these symptoms. You can read my full story at www.sixweekdetox.com

After my first cleanse, I was on cloud nine. Symptoms I’d experienced for decades began to melt away and I became more clear headed and energetic than I’d ever dreamed possible.

To learn more about the benefits of detox, listen in on my interview with Tera Warner .

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If you’d like to experience the profound changes that detox can bring, join us for the next 6 week detox program. You’ll be guided step by step through the process of reduciing toxic exposure, restoringn and rebuilding digestive function, and enhancing your liver’s ability to neutralize and eliminate stored toxins. The result? You’ll feel lighter, more energetic and emotionally balanced than you ever thought possible. We’re startign the preparatory phase of our 6-Week Deep Tissue Detox on Monday!

http://www.sixweekdetox.com

As a special bonus for new members

4 audio recordings and e-book transcripts

1- Candida and Leaky Gut

2- Unlocking the Gut-Brain Connection Behind Brain Fog, ADHD, Autism, Depression and more

3- Hormones, Thyroid Imbalances, Weight Gain & Water Retention

4- Understanding Environmental Sensitivities & Allergies

The special bonuses we’re offering on this call are for new registrations only. After May 17th, they will no longer be offered again for fr.ee.

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Join the Six Week Detox Program:  www.sixweekdetox.com

Love, health and Joy to you,

Dr. Ritamarie