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3 Simple Ways to Calm Your Mind and Find Peace

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 12, 2017
3 Simple Tools to Calm your Mind and Find Peace | Women's Health | Sara Gottfried M.D.

Over and over patients tell me they want peace and calmness in their life, but the highway of life keeps them moving. Meditation? Slowing down? Who has time to sit…

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What Stress Does to Your Hormones, Plus 3 PROVEN Stress Management Strategies

By Sara Gottfried, MD | March 17, 2015
Woman Having Chronic Stress and Cannot Sleep

Nothing wrecks your hormones faster than unmanaged stress. However, stress in and of itself is not a bad thing. A healthy dose of stress can motivate you to high levels…

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Green Your Hormones in 8 Easy Steps

By Sara Gottfried, MD | September 11, 2014
Woman Doing Yoga to Avoid Hormone Imbalance

Download my free Hormone Survival Guide below to get a jump start on greening your hormones. Are you feeling tired, moody or stressed? Did you know this could be a…

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7 Essential Steps in Resetting Your Body’s Natural Clock

By Robin Nielsen | August 26, 2014

Are you 35 years old but sometimes feel like you’re 95? While age is just a number, we do associate certain feelings, symptoms and diseases with different ages, and I…

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Injured? Stressed Out? Try Yin Yoga

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 7, 2014

I’m devoting this entire article to the joys of yoga. “Why?” you ask (as if you didn’t know that I’m a dedicated yoga teacher as well as a physician). There’s no…

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5 Ways to Treat Hormonal Headaches Naturally

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 19, 2014
5 Ways to Prevent and Cure Hormonal Headaches Naturally

Whether it’s a debilitating migraine or the dull throbbing from a stressful day, headaches have the ability to zap your energy, ruin your focus and turn your otherwise centered self…

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Dr. Sara’s Genius Bar: Top Influencers in Business & Lifestyle

By Sara Gottfried, MD | May 29, 2014
Dr. Sara’s Genius Bar: Top Influential People in Business & Lifestyle

You know these people. You’ve watched them on Oprah, seen their faces on the covers of their best-selling books, and perhaps even been lucky enough to attend one of their…

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Make Exercise Your Meditation Too!

By Katherine Dreyer | May 13, 2014
Make Exercising a Form of Meditating Too!

Meditate or exercise, why choose? Movement as a vehicle for deeper self-awareness has been a long-standing practice in many traditions such as Yoga, T’ai Chi, and Chi Gong. You can take…

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How to Manage PMS: The Key to Your Feminine Power

By Sara Avant Stover | April 29, 2014
How to Handle PMS- The Key to Your Girl Power

What can you do to help relieve PMS symptoms? The swollen breasts and bellies. Tears. Raging words erupting from tight throats—the ones we wish we could take back, but can’t.…

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Too Much of a Good Thing – Why Cortisol Can Make You Crazy (And How To Turn It Around)

By Sara Gottfried, MD | March 11, 2014
Too Much of a Good Thing – Why Cortisol Can Make You Crazy (And How To Turn It Around)

Let’s be honest: It’s entirely possible to have too much of a good thing. Whether it’s dark chocolate, wine, sunshine, or shoe shopping, a little takes the edge off –…

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“For the first time in my adult life I feel that I have gained control over food. I feel healthier, look better and have gained an interest in making sure that what I am putting into my body is the best it can be. And I lost 10 pounds in all the right places.”

– Janice Lunde, Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“Dr. Sara is the height of excellence! She is incredibly knowledgeable and gives very generously of her time. I feel so blessed to have been able to work with her.”

– Yvonne Varah

“You don’t have to settle for being stressed out, binging on sugar and chocolate, and aging prematurely. Stop blaming yourself and step into sacred action. It’s your birthright. You can have the joyous, mission-driven life you want, and Dr. Sara is here to show us how.”

– Marci Shimoff, New York Times Bestselling Author of Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason

“Dr. Gottfried offers powerful and effective tools for addressing the most difficult health issues facing women and men today. She is warm and kind and has so much experience to draw upon, it’s inspiring. Thank you Dr. S!”

– Cassandra Mick

“Dr. Sara Gottfried is a modern-day healer goddess if ever there was one, and she also happens to be a Harvard Medical School graduate and rigorous physician-scientist.”

– Christiane Northrup MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“Dr. Gottfried’s book and detox came at a time when I was ready to give in to old age. Hot flashes, low energy and libido, weight gain, increasing blood pressure and cholesterol levels were unacceptable to me. I now know that hormone levels and what I eat are a huge influence on how I feel and look. To now be able to control something that was out of control is empowering…”

Cheryl V., Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“My health coach told me about your book and I took the [hormone] test, and lo and behold, I found I was a mess, hormonally speaking. Now I’m getting on track and I love your videos and your book. I feel like I’m getting my life back again, when not long ago I truly thought I was losing it!”

-Tracy, Registered Nurse

“You don’t have to accept the hormonal hell of being tired, stressed, overweight, and never in the mood for sex as you grow older. In her fabulous new book, the brilliant Dr. Gottfried gives you an effective, easy-to-follow plan to balance your hormones and become lean, energetic, and loving life again. Stop settling and reclaim your sexy!”

–JJ Virgin, Author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy and The Virgin Diet

“I lost 10 lbs., reset my hormones and metabolism and eliminated my sugar cravings! I have also found that I respond to stress much differently, I feel it, notice it and move on from it. Stress no longer has a grip on me. Dr. Sara’s conference calls and detox information was invaluable. I am so grateful for this program. Thank you Dr. Sara!”

–Sophia, Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“The Hormone Cure is the playbook for your mojo, your mind, and your bootie. With every chapter I thought, ‘So THAT’s how that works.’ I wanted to call every girlfriend and give them the goods on how to glow… now and always.”

-Danielle LaPorte, Author of The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map

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Sara (Gottfried) Szal M.D.

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Author of 4 NYT bestsellers 📚
💥It's not your age that’s your enemy, it’s 💥It's not your age that’s your enemy, it’s the loss of function in your body. Five key factors make aging more pronounced after age 40. MUSCLE FACTOR ❌ Your metabolism slows down with age, which means you accumulate more fat and lose muscle. Aging begins in your muscles. ✅ Focus on preserving and building your muscle mass as you age past forty. BRAIN FACTOR ❌ Your neurons (nerve cells) lose speed and flexibility. Alcohol makes you foggier than it did, and you lose sleep. Connections between neurons, called synapses, are not what they used to be, so finding words may become an issue. The balance shifts toward more forgetting and less remembering ✅ Focus on keeping your brain regenerating and malleable (or “plastic”) as you get older. HORMONE FACTOR ❌ Your hormones change for the worse ✅ The right food, sleep, exercise, and support for detoxification can reverse many hormone problems associated with aging. GUT FACTOR ❌ Poor gut health can disrupt hormone balance, stress can poke holes in your gut and lead to food intolerances, and make you absorb nutrients poorly. ✅ With the right food and stress management, you can turn your microbiome around to decelerate your aging clock instead of speed it up TOXIC FAT FACTOR ❌ Toxins from the environment accumulate in your fat. Scientists call them gerontogens. They are similar to how carcinogens increase your risk of cancer, and they can work against you and cause premature aging. ✅ With the right support, we can go after what causes you to accumulate them. Have you read my book YOUNGER? It shows you how to disarm, prevent, and reverse these five factors and change the expression of genes that influence them. If you are tired of the sinking feeling that you are losing control over your weight, how you age, move, and sleep, it's time to discover how you can unlock your genes and live longer, stronger, and better than ever.
Next time, take the top off. Next time, take the top off.
Microbiome Rehab Where do you start to improve yo Microbiome Rehab Where do you start to improve your gut health? Not everyone can afford to do microbiome testing. But there are a lot of things that you can do short of microbiome testing. In my book, THE AUTOIMMUNE CURE I share the story of one patient diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Based on Rob Knight's data from the Human Gut Project, this patient decided to start making a vegetable smoothie. Every week he would go to the farmer's market and choose different fruits and vegetables. He chose 57 varieties. He would make a smoothie out of them, freeze it, and have about 4 ozs a day. Within a few months, he had completely reformed his microbiome. Now you don’t have to be that extreme, but having a smoothie that contains fresh veggies and some fruit about 3 times a week goes a long way in helping support a healthy microbiome. A while back, I gave a lecture on breast cancer where I shared how the intake of polyphenols (beneficial compounds found in plants) is an important predictor of future risk of breast cancer in your 50s or 60s+ A while back, I gave a lecture on breast cancer where I shared how the intake of polyphenols (beneficial compounds found in plants) are an important predictor of future risk of breast cancer in your 50s or 60s+ Regular vegetable intake (or veggie smoothie) could possibly change the arc for younger women if they paid attention to their intake of polyphenols, particularly in their teens and early 20s when good nutrition is often not high on the priority list. Link in bio to watch my conversation with Dr. Smeaton at Precision Analytics @dutchtest
Your mitochondria are the powerhouses inside your Your mitochondria are the powerhouses inside your cells. 👉When they work well, you work well. In my practice, about half of my patients have mitochondrial dysfunction, especially those over 40. Here are 6 ways to protect your mitochondria: 🔘 Keep blood sugar stable - wild fluctuations in blood sugar can damage mitochondria. Sugar, refined carbohydrates, and processed foods harm mitochondria. 🔘 Avoid mercury, usually found in fish, it gunks up your mitochondria. 🔘 Lower your alcohol consumption. Alcohol impairs mitochondrial function. 🔘 Regulate and manage your stress. Chronic stress and cortisol can cause oxidative damage to mitochondria in the gut. 🔘 Eat your broccoli. You find sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower. It boosts production of glutathione, and helps tune up mitochondria. Additionally, the same receptor on cells that environmental toxins use for their negative effects is also used by cruciferous vegetables. That means when you eat more cruciferous vegetables, you crowd out the bad environmental toxins and strengthen your mitochondria. 🔘 Supplementing with N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) and alpha lipoic acid may improve mitochondria function. Which one will you do today to protect your mitochondria?
I’ve become obsessed with what’s happening at I’ve become obsessed with what’s happening at the level of the mitochondria in our bodies. Mitochondria are the main source of energy inside of your 35 trillion cells and also generate reactive oxygen species within the cell. Here are the highlights of the mitochondria job description. 🔘 Mitochondria produce energy through chemical reactions. Mitochondria break down nutrients like glucose, fats, and proteins to create adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which is the energy currency for most cellular reactions. 🔘 Mitochondria support pregnancy. During pregnancy, mitochondria provide energy for the development of the embryo. 🔘 Mitochondria support insulin secretion. In beta cells of the pancreas, mitochondria play a role in the secretion of insulin in response to glucose. 🔘 In men, mitochondria support sperm movement. Mitochondria in sperm cells produce energy to help the sperm move. 🔘 Mitochondria contain their own DNA, which can affect processes across all 12 chromosomes in the nucleus. 🔘 Estrogen has many influences on mitochondrial activity, binds to estrogen receptors in mitochondria, and can influence production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) pathways. 🔘 Mitochondria influence longevity and health span. When mitochondria are not functioning properly, cells can become underpowered and lead to organ dysfunction and disease. You can read my latest article at the link in bio: Women, Estrogen, and Mitochondria: Sex Differences That May Affect Your Hormones, Energy, and Longevity Link in bio to watch my conversation with Dr. Smeaton @precisionanalytics
Mitochondria play a pivotal role in many aspects o Mitochondria play a pivotal role in many aspects of women's health, including hormone balance, cell function, and feeling like you are fully charged with power. Women have about 35 trillion cells in the body and mitochondria are the organelles inside of cells that produce energy through chemical reactions. They are known as the power source of the cell. They fuel trillions of chemical reactions each second. When your mitochondria are functioning well, your cells feel fully powered and you have the energy you need to accomplish the activities of daily living. Sadly, many women over 40 find that they do not have mitochondria that are functioning well. I have been obsessed with mitochondria since I wrote my book YOUNGER. Mitochondrial impairment is part of what accelerates the aging process. I’m going to be sharing more on what happens to your mitochondria as you age, sex differences in mitochondria, and the relationship between them and your hormones. Plus what you can do to rev up your mitochondria. To get started, you can read my latest article: Women, Estrogen, and Mitochondria: Sex Differences That May Affect Your Hormones, Energy, and Longevity Follow the link in my bio or head to SaraSzalMD.com to read
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