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Fiber Is the New Sexy

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 5, 2013

What could be more sexy than a beautiful gut? All glistening and shiny, doing it’s job just right, not inflamed, not allergic, just all happy? Fiber takes you there: removes…

Mumford and Sons Raise My Testosterone!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 4, 2013

Did you see Mumford and Sons kill the Grammys? Cannot get enough of them. They balance my hormones, among other things. I’m more than a bit obsessed with Marcus Mumford…

Do You Hide Behind a Tunic?

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 3, 2013

    Reflecting today on my growing selection of organic tunics and what they represent psychically. Around the time that I turned 35, and met for the first time my…

5 Tips to Reclaim Your Thyroid Mojo

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 2, 2013

Today I’m reminding you of, and then manhandling 5 mojo-zappers. Five things that I often find are depleting the energy of vast numbers of patients in my integrative medicine practice.…

The Pusher as Exerciser: 10 Strategies that Help!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 1, 2013

In other words, are you hard core? Use whatever word that speaks to you most: fierce, badass, someone with a strong personal code? I bet you are similar to me.…

Royal Hormones

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 1, 2013

Kate is a Perfect Hormonal Specimen. Overly reductionistic? Perhaps. While I don’t have royal fever, I relished watching a video of Kate Middleton have her day in the limelight. OK,…

OneTaste and the OM Conference: Come Hang With Me and Nicole Daedone in San Francisco!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 23, 2013

Hey Everyone – it’s Dr. Sara with something you just might not want to miss!  My dear friend, Nicole Daedone, Founder of OneTaste, is putting on her first OM Conference August 9-11 in San…

A Wild Weekend: Hormone-Balancing Yoga & Farm-to-Table Lunch at Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas, CA

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 11, 2013

One of the perks of my job is that sometimes I get asked to do fabulous events with extremely talented people. One of those events is coming up this weekend…

Strike a Pose and Call Me in the Morning: 5 Ways Yoga Changed My Life

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 1, 2013

When I was in my thirties, I was working hard. I won’t tell you that I was working too hard, but I was working without sufficient balance. My day job…

Turn Your Insulin into Jillian Michaels (Part 2): Manage Your Blood Sugar

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 21, 2013

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to test your blood sugar. Measuring your blood sugar, especially your fasting blood sugar, gives you valuable insight into your insulin resistance…