Most people think neuropathy shows up after a diabetes diagnosis. But in reality, tingling, numbness, or burning in the hands or feet often shows up years earlier.

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.

• 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

• 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.
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Peptides are everywhere right now, in social media, practitioner circles, and supplement protocols. But are they really the solution for autoimmune and gut healing… or just another overhyped tool?

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 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

• 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

Steph Jackson

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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...

What if your patient’s blood sugar looks “okay,” but their kidneys are already under attack?

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.

• 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

• 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

One in three adults now has fatty liver disease, and most don’t even know it. It’s become the most common form of liver dysfunction worldwide—even outpacing alcohol-related liver damage. And the real danger? It often progresses in silence, from fat to inflammation to fibrosis, with no symptoms until it's too late.

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.

• 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

• 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.
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Inflammation is the biological fire underlying most chronic disease. In this episode, Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo returns with NEPT graduates Steph Jackson and Jennifer Whitmire to uncover how food fuels or fights inflammation.

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.

• 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

• 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

Steph Jackson

• Join the Friendly Flora Collective – Microbiome Membership

Jennifer Whitmire

• Join the Culinary Healing Circle

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.

What if the biggest block to your client’s healing isn’t the protocol but their fear of change?

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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...

What if your patient’s “normal labs” were hiding a serious disease? What if protocols were making them worse, and you didn’t know?

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.

• 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

• 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

What if the first signs of insulin resistance have nothing to do with glucose?

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 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

• Download our FREE Glucagon, Insulin, and Blood Sugar chart.
• Download our FREE Proinsulin, Insulin, and C-Peptide Chart
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• Reserve your spot for The REINVENT HEALTHCARE Intensive Learn Proven,​​ Leading-Edge Frameworks to Enhance Clinical Skills, Improve
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• 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