Dr Lucia Stella

She is the specialist who carries out the cardiometabolic visits for patients on the Bioidentical Hormone Pathway: weight and waist circumference, blood pressure, lipid and glucose profile, in coordination with the doctor who looks after them.

A physician, she took her degree in Medicine and Surgery at the Università Politecnica delle Marche and completed her specialisation in Nutrition Science there: she is a nutrition physician. She is registered with the Ordine dei Medici Chirurghi e Odontoiatri di Ancona.

She is a research fellow at the Clinica Medica e Geriatrica of the IRCCS INRCA in Ancona, directed by Prof. Riccardo Sarzani, and contributes to the activities of the Ambulatorio di Medicina Cardiometabolica del Sovrappeso (cardiometabolic medicine clinic for overweight), which assesses cardiovascular risk and the metabolic complications linked to obesity and also looks after women in perimenopause and menopause. She sits on the executive board of the Marche section of the Società Italiana dell'Obesità.

She takes part in international clinical studies on obesity and in clinical research protocols on metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus and arterial hypertension: her publications include a pilot study comparing a ketogenic diet and a low-sodium Mediterranean diet in overweight patients with high blood pressure (Nutrients, 2025), a multicentre study on cardiac stress in type 2 diabetes (Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2024) and a paper on adipocentricity and GLP-1 receptor agonists (Cardiologia Ambulatoriale, 2025).

Prof. Riccardo Sarzani and Dr Stella work with Medyca to extend the assessment of the Bioidentical Hormone Pathway to metabolic health and cardiovascular risk.