People from all over the world with different chronic illnesses seek out Dr. Roni DeLuz, RN, ND, PhD.
Dr. Roni founded the Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat in 1997 to help others discover the path to wellness that she herself achieved after years of debilitating chronic illness. You may know her from her NY Times Best-Selling book 21 lbs. in 21 days.
Here’s how I got to know her so I could share her wisdom with you.
My buddy Tim and I were talking on the phone while I was driving when he asked, “So what are you doing today?”
I told him I was heading to the radio station to do my Wellness Wednesday show. He asked, “Who’s your guest today?” I said, “I don’t have a guest today, did my homework and I’m just gonna talk myself which I often do”.
He said, “No, no, no, you gotta have Dr. Roni and he patched her into our call while I was driving before we even had a chance to discuss it.
I remembered Tim saying, “There’s a woman, she saved my life, you don’t understand, I lost 80 pounds, she moved in, she’s a healer, she’s like Mother Teresa, I never met a woman like her, it’s not just me, she’s done it for many people.”
So lucky me and lucky you, because of that random phone introduction, we now get to meet the amazing Dr. Roni, healer to the masses and to many lucky people who will forever be grateful that she’s kept them alive.
Dr. Roni is a Naturopathic Doctor, has a PhD in Natural Health, is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Colon Therapist and is a certified Hypnotherapist who’s been practicing in all these areas for over 40 years.
She is the founder of The Martha’s Vineyard Holistic Retreat and is the New York Times Bestselling Author of “21 Pounds in 21 Days The Martha’s Vineyard Diet Detox” and “1 Pound a Day”.
People fly into Martha’s Vineyard, take a boat or do whatever they have to do to get there, in order to get to her to get her help. How did this all happen?
Dr. Roni said,
“Well, it sort of grew into this. I have this very large house on Martha’s Vineyard and I built it because people would come and stay with me and wouldn’t leave. So, I kept building sections on and sections on. It finally opened up. I’m not kidding you, they’d come from California, my friends when I lived out there, they would come like, you know, for like a weekend or something or a week, and then I started doing treatments on them, then they wouldn’t leave.”
“Then one day I met a man named James Tester and he said, well, can you help me? He said, I hire chefs and cooks all the time, and I still can’t lose this weight. I gained it all back. And he told me this large story about him and I just looked at him and I go, that’s so easy. And you’re going to lose 21 pounds in 21 days. “
“He said, lady, he’d just met me. He said, if I lose 21 pounds in 21 days, the world will know about you. He said, I’m not kidding you. And he was absolutely right!”
“I had no idea that that he was important because remember all I cared about was healing people. All I cared about was these chronic illnesses. That was my background. But when I did these 21 pounds in 21 days book that this publisher and James talked me into, they were right. “
“Now people come to me from all over the world, and all over the country for different chronic illnesses. And I have a protocol for each and every one of them, but it’s always going to start with who you are. See, it’s customized. It’s integrated. It’s for who you are.”
Dr. Roni believes she was born to heal people.
“Well, you know, I’ve been doing this for over 40 years. I literally believe I was born healing people. That’s why my father told me to go into nursing. I mean, he knew this. He saw it in me. So all my life, I’ve been a healer. “
“And half of my life, I just went to school, getting certifications and certification. I started as a nurse and I became a naturopath and now I became a healer to the stars and politicians and now I live on this island called Martha’s Vineyard. I love it. People fly in to see me privately most of the time.”
I wondered if this now ‘healer to the stars’, who says she was born a healer ever tried to heal anyone as a kid? Animals? Her dolls?
Dr. Roni said,
“I mean, when the little babies would cry, I was just a little girl. And I would just go over to them and for some reason, my energy, I would rock them and I would rub their foreheads. And I was so passionate. And so people saw that in me. I just did what my father told me to do, you know, become a healer, become a nurse. That’s just who I am. That’s who I’ll always be.“
This quote on Dr. Roni’s website sums it all up.
“IF YOU GIVE YOUR BODY WHAT IT NEEDS IT WILL WORK MIRACLES FOR YOU”
-Rr. Roni
Based on somebody’s condition, whether it’s cancer or weight loss, Dr. Roni knows exactly what their body needs. But how does she figure that out?
“We live in a world of plenty, but we’re starving. I learned that from my grandmother, because my grandmother wouldn’t open up a can, a bag, or a bottle. She wouldn’t own a can opener. Everything came from nature.
“Everything was pure. Everything was basically if you couldn’t grow it yourself, you shouldn’t eat it. You can’t open up a can of preservatives and dyes, you know, red dye, yellow dye, all kinds of stuff that you get when you eat your food. And you want to repair your cellular space. You want to repair your body, your organs. It just doesn’t happen like that.”
“We kill our own bodies by doing processed food. Now it’s ultra processed food. So, we’re not getting better, we’re getting worse.”
People in the know with the means, go to see Dr. Roni when something goes wrong with their body. But she cares deeply about the average person who cannot get to her, which is why she shared her knowledge in a book that was a New York Times bestseller, 21 Pounds in 21 Days.
Now she’s got a new book coming called ‘High Fives’ and it’s about the five things that kill 80% of men over 50.
“I’ve watched people die from things that are unnecessary. The high fives are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high sugar, high weight and high stress and we see it every day.”
“But when you teach people from nature on how to eat the right things and how to eat according to not just their body type, but what their blood level says, who they are, then you can cure these things, right? And I think a lot of people don’t understand that. I mean, they hear me say that, but they don’t understand the process. And I talk about going back to nature and living a cleaner life, but they don’t know what that means anymore.”
How does Dr. Roni handle the emotions of all these people needing her help?
“Oh, oh my goodness, Debbie, I’m not just a healer, I’m an empath and this is so hard for me.”
“I told my friend the other day, and she was there, she said, you’re going to have to calm down, because I run up and down the stairs and I’ve got all this energy. I said, listen, if you ever see me just sitting down doing nothing for more than 10 minutes call 9-1-1.”
What a fabulous woman!
Please listen to the amazing wisdom of Dr. Roni in this podcast of our live conversation on The Debbie Nigro Show. If you’d rather read than listen the transcript of the audio is below.
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT:
0:00:00
And now, back to the Debbie Nigro Show.
Hi guys, it’s my one day of the week where I do wellness information and share with you stuff that I find out about that I’m like, wow, and I want you to say wow and win with the knowledge that can help you in some way feel better, do better, live better. That’s what I do here on this particular day of the week. So let me tell you about my next guest coming up because she’s obviously a legend that I am meeting for the
1
0:00:52
first time today. I’m on the phone today coming to the studio with my buddy Tim Sabian who had told me about her before. I remember him saying there’s a woman, she saved my life, you don’t understand, I lost 80 pounds, she moved in, she’s a healer, she’s like Mother Teresa, I can’t never met a woman like her, it’s not just me, she’s done it for people. I go okay, okay. So as we’re talking about a completely different topic. He says, what are you doing today?
1
0:01:15
I said, I’m heading to the show, doing my wellness show. He goes, who’s your guest today? I said, you know, I just don’t have a guest today, which is typical sometimes, I just will talk myself. He goes, no, no, no, you gotta have Dr. Roni I was like, and he patched her in
1
0:01:28
before we even had a chance to like talk about it, but I know he knows, so hello, Dr. Roni, healer to the masses and to very special people who will forever be grateful that you’ve kept them alive. Who are you?
2
0:01:43
Well, you know, I’ve been doing this for over 40 years. I literally believe I was born healing people. That’s why my father told me to go into nursing. I mean, he knew this. He saw it in me. So all my life, I’ve been a healer.
2
0:01:57
And half of my life, I just went to school, getting certifications and certification. I started as a nurse and I became a naturopath and now I became a healer to the stars and politicians and now I live on this island called Martha’s Vineyard. I love it. People fly in to see me privately most of the time. You know Martha’s Vineyard. You know a little bit about Martha’s Vineyard.
1
0:02:18
Yes, yes, it’s very special. Yeah, very special place. Absolutely. You’re gorgeous. You’re gorgeous by the way. Obviously you follow your own advice for health and wellness. You look like you’re like alive in your picture. You are making a very interesting point about how people at a very young age show signs of what they’re meant to do by the nature of what comes naturally.
1
0:02:40
When you were a little girl, now that you’re the healer to the stars, did you try and heal like animals, your dolls, like what were you doing as a kid?
2
0:02:50
I mean, I was like, you know, when the little babies would cry, I was just a little girl. And I would just go over there and just like, for some reason, my energy, I would rock them and I would like, you know, rub their foreheads. And I was like, so passionate. And so people saw that in me. I just did what my father told me to do, you know, become a healer, become a nurse.
2
0:03:10
But I just basically, that’s just who I am. That’s who I’ll always be. You know I have so many stories to tell you. I don’t even know what to tell you first.
1
0:03:20
Okay, well let me just set up how you should lead. Your quote on your website, it just sort of sums it up. If you give your body what it needs, it will work miracles for you. That’s it. And you somehow know, based on somebody’s condition, whether it’s cancer or weight loss, exactly what their body needs.
1
0:03:44
Now, how do you figure that out?
2
0:03:46
Well, when I was younger, I basically knew that the world was… We live in a world of plenty, but we’re starving. I learned that from my grandmother, because my grandmother wouldn’t open up a can, a bag, or a bottle. She wouldn’t own a can opener. Everything came from nature.
2
0:04:03
Everything was pure. Everything was basically if you couldn’t grow it yourself, you shouldn’t eat it. You can’t open up a can of preservatives and dyes, you know, red dye, yellow dye, all kinds of stuff that you get when you eat your food. And you want to repair your cellular space. You want to repair your body, your organs.
2
0:04:23
It just doesn’t happen like that. So we kill our own bodies by doing processed food. Now it’s ultra processed food. So we’re not getting better, we’re getting worse. So when
1
0:04:34
somebody comes to you or is introduced to you, obviously you have an incredible reputation. You know, I know you’ve been doing this for many, many years and obviously people in the know, know if something goes wrong with their bodies are coming to you. But for the average person, which I know you care about as well. Somehow you have been able to share your knowledge in a book that was a New York Times bestseller, 21 Pounds in 21 Days, and now you have a new book you’re working on, you told me quickly
1
0:04:59
on the phone, it’s called High Five, and it’s about the five things that men over 50, 80% of men over 50 will die from. What are those five things? Do you want to tell me and tell everybody?
2
0:05:10
Yeah, they’re very passionate in my heart because I’ve watched people die from it that’s unnecessary but the high fives are high blood pressure, high cholesterol, high sugar, high weight and high stress and we see it every day. I’m looking at it right now.
1
0:05:26
Yeah.
2
0:05:27
And it’s just bad.
1
0:05:29
Well when I ask somebody or when people talk about medications you know I’m always like oh I’m not on any medications like I’m some kind of you know unique spirit but most people I know, men in particular, over 50, will say, yeah, I take blood pressure medication, I take my diabetes medication, I take, you know, heart medication. Could your knowledge make them pill free if they were to follow you?
2
0:05:58
It’s like that’s what’s bad about this is that when you stop medication, your blood pressure back, your high blood pressure is back, your diabetes is back. But when you teach people from nature on how to eat the right things and how to eat according to not just their body type, but what their blood level says, who they are, then you can cure these things, right? And I think a lot of people don’t understand that. I mean, they hear me say that, but they don’t understand the process.
2
0:06:30
And I talk about going back to nature and living a cleaner life, but they don’t know what that means anymore.
1
0:06:37
We’ve gone so far. We’ve gone so far. People actually come and fly in to Martha’s Vineyard, take a boat or wherever they get there, and they go through something that you do there, which is what, some kind of retreat? I know it’s not cheap, but it’s seemingly like really works. So what is that about?
2
0:06:58
Well, it sort of grew into this. Like I have this very large house on Martha’s Vineyard and I built it because people would come and stay with me and wouldn’t leave. So I kept building sections on and sections on. It finally opened up. I’m not kidding you, from California, my friends when I live out there,
2
0:07:16
they would come like, you know, for like a weekend or something or a week and then I started doing treatments on them, then they wouldn’t leave. So finally I met, you know, James Tester and he was doing the same thing and he said, well, can you help me? He’s got to hire chefs and cooks all the time and I still can’t lose this weight. I gained it all back and he told me this large story about him and I just looked at him and I go, that’s so easy.
2
0:07:39
And you’re going to lose 21 pounds in 21 days. He said, lady, he just met me. He said, if I lose 21 pounds in 21 days, the world will know about you. He said, I’m not kidding you. And he was absolutely right. I had no idea that that was important because I had to remember all I cared about was healing people. All I cared about was these chronic illnesses. That was my background. But when I did this 21 pounds in 21 days book
2
0:08:06
that this publisher and James talked me into it, they were right. Now people come to me from all over the world, even out of the country in the country for different chronic illnesses. And I have a protocol for each and every one of them, but it’s always going to start with
1
0:08:22
who you are. See, it’s customized. It’s integrated. It’s who you are. And that’s what I think you are you’re a revolutionary Wellness guru man, oh man. Oh, man You have a lot of people still at your house and it won’t leave and then people who come to you with cancer And you know you mentioned fourth stage are these people in your home? And if yes, how do you handle the emotions of all this? Oh, oh my goodness, Debbie, this is, first of all, I’m not just a healer, I’m an empath. Oh, me too.
2
0:08:54
Yeah, and this is so hard for me.
1
0:08:56
Oh, man.
2
0:08:57
But that’s just who my life is like. I just met a little boy, Billy, you know, and he’s three years old and he’s just, you know, and I know his mother’s devastated because by the time she found me, they’ve already done more than 20 rounds of chemo and all kinds of things to this three-year-old and you know and I I’m sitting on this show with you right now knowing that he’s not going to make it and for me I lose sleep over stuff like that and so I wish that people will come to me like in the beginning when they’re first diagnosed. We’re getting there I
2
0:09:34
know one day naturopathic doctors and medical doctors and they’re going to be married in the same office I know that I hope so they they need to be you should have every naturopath married to a medical doctor and they should work together yeah I’m saving someone’s life because they can’t do it alone right so no I could have saved this baby if I was working with their doctor in the beginning and that’s
1
0:10:01
what I do huh my heart is broken for him for you and like you and I’m empaths on right now I’m feeling the pain of this conversation but you have this house that does you have this these emotions every day all day and people come but people leave feeling amazing for the most part except for the extraordinary tragic case you just brought up and then you’re just keep getting more people how do you just keep going? This is crazy fun.
2
0:10:27
I you my you I’m not kidding you. People don’t understand how I do it. My husband doesn’t understand it. My mother says slow down, calm down, relax. I said, Mom, I’m relaxing. What are you talking about? What do you mean? I don’t even know what that means. I’m not kidding you. Like if I go to the beach right now, I’m Martha’s Vineyard. I’m bored to death. Like I cannot lay on the beach knowing that there’s all these people that are dying of all these chronic illnesses and I’m laying on the beach. That’s just not who I am.
1
0:10:56
You’ve got to get up and get back in there, Dr. Ronnie. You’re barely down for a second.
2
0:11:03
I told my friend the other day, and she was there, she said, you’re going to have to calm down because I run up and down the stairs and I’ve got all this energy. I said, listen, if you ever see me just sitting down doing nothing for more than 10 minutes call 9-1-1.
5
0:11:18
That’s terrific.
1
0:11:19
Hey guys, if you’re just tuning in, this is Dr. Roni. She is a pioneer in the holistic wellness space. You say her name and you, you know, the word holistic is right next to it. Nourish diet detox guru. Am I saying this right? Nature path, am I saying that properly?
2
0:11:38
Yeah, natural path.
4
0:11:39
Natural path.
1
0:11:40
I met with Timmy Sabian who put together a book called The Nature Path. I met with Timmy Sabian who put together a book called The Nature Path. I met with Timmy Sabian who put together a book called The Nature Path. I wish I knew you sooner, but it’s not too late to know you. Thank gosh I met with Timmy Sabian who put you on the phone today. I have a quick question.
1
0:12:13
It comes from a personal experience, but it may help somebody else. I am both an ovarian and breast cancer survivor. Put that aside. I’ve had chemo twice, been bald twice. I’m very cute in wigs. Put that aside.
1
0:12:23
When I was in the last couple of years deciding that, you know, going back for follow-ups, They actually at MSK have an integrated medicine sort of affiliation that they let me have a conversation with and they recommended to me natural supplements that I went and purchased or bought at a pharmacy that was in there, but they’re not like saying that they recommend this. So I do want to just say to you that you’re right. I see it coming, the match between regular medicine and holistic medicine.
1
0:12:56
And people want to do more of it. But until they do at the hospitals, there is you. And I’m sorry it falls on you, Dr. Roni, but you just can’t lay down on the beach anymore. You just got to keep going and helping everybody. You are a blessing to the world. Tim Sabian, my buddy, calls you Mother Teresa.
1
0:13:12
He says, you don’t understand. I said, I’m getting it. I’m getting it. I’m honored to have met you today and I hope someday to meet you.
2
0:13:20
You will. I know you will.
1
0:13:23
You’re a doll.
3
0:13:24
I’m going to do what’s it.
1
0:13:25
Yeah. Bless you for all you do for everybody and I wish you more energy and power so you can keep doing it. Okay?
2
0:13:33
Oh, happy wellness Wednesday. It was a pleasure. Oh, happy wellness Wednesday. It was a pleasure.
1
0:13:37
Thank you. It was a pleasure meeting you
Transcribed with Cockatoo
