Ritu Saluja-Sharma

Ritu Saluja-Sharma MD is a double board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, and the founder of Head Heart Hands—a comprehensive, holistic wellness program for individuals and organizations. She is also a devoted mother and a passionate advocate for food-based health education.

After years of practicing Emergency Medicine on the frontlines of our healthcare system and seeing many of her patients suffering with diseases that could likely have been prevented, (and many which could potentially still be reversed), Dr Saluja-Sharma earned a second board certification in Lifestyle Medicine and created Head Heart Hands to help people prevent and reverse disease by targeting ROOT CAUSES.

While searching for ways to make her programs accessible to all, she expanded from individual coaching to working with corporations and school systems, offering her online and corporate programs to people of all demographics and education levels, to help participants lower their blood sugars, blood pressure, and cholesterol, increase their energy, improve their mood, decrease their pain, and improve their quality of life.

As more and more adults experienced incredible health transformations through her programs, they frequently shared how they wished they had this help when they were younger. Teachers and principals shared that they wished their students could learn the same tools and insights. Their experiences inspired her to expand her focus to children, with the goal of helping the next generation build strong, healthy foundations—starting when it matters most.

Through her book, companion workbook, and cookbook, she’s empowering a new generation to understand the power of food, build healthy mindsets, and fall in love with their bodies and the nourishment that fuels them. She is currently working to improve the health and nutrition curriculum in public schools and serves as an expert advisor on state-level curriculum standards.