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Podcast: ReInvent Healthcare
Episode: Food Is Not Just Fuel: How It Acts as a Metabolic Signal
Description: Most nutrition advice still treats food as fuel, calories to burn, macros to balance, energy to manage. The body doesn’t experience food that way.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 f...