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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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How to Prevent and Cure Seasonal Allergies

By Sara Gottfried, MD | April 10, 2014
How to Avoid and Cure Seasonal Allergies

From the sniffling and sneezing to the red eyes and itchy nose, allergies rank high on the health misery scale. Whether you flare up from time to time or live…

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3 Tips for Staying Healthy When There’s a Bun in the Oven (Or Soon to Be One!)

By Sara Gottfried, MD | April 3, 2014
3 Ways for Staying Healthy Before and During Pregnancy

If you ask any newly pregnant woman if she prefers a boy or a girl, you’re bound to hear one resounding statement: I just want a healthy baby. Every soon-to-be…

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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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How Oysters Rock Your Hormones

By Sara Gottfried, MD | March 6, 2014
How Oysters Rock Your Hormones

I just spent a few days with my older daughter in a remote area near Point Reyes National Seashore – one of our national parks. We hiked each day, attended…

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Biohack Your Health to Improve Your Mood, Sleep, and Exercise!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | January 23, 2014

Want to improve your health? Become a hacker. A biohacker, that is.   Bio-what? Don’t let the term scare you. Biohacking is an empowering approach to health care for everyone. It…

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5 Things You Can Do Right Now to Boost Your Vitality

By Pedram Shojai OMD | December 17, 2013 | 1

People are all over the place trying to scrounge up some extra energy to get through their days. From fad diets to personal trainers to those weird “quantum” bracelets people…

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7 Ways to Reverse Cellular Aging and Get the Body and Life You Most Want – Part 1

By Sara Gottfried, MD | November 26, 2013 | 1
How to Get the Body and Life You Want With Ways to Reverse Cellular Aging Part 1

My soul brother, colleague, and Oriental Medical Doctor, Pedram Shojai, and I recently took on the topic of cellular aging and how to slow it down when life is too…

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Keepin' It Real: Bolinas for Holiday

By Sara Gottfried, MD | September 24, 2013

Signing off for a week of reading, doodling, strolling, yoga, meditating, cooking, writing, and, oh yeah, hanging out with my kids and DH. Guess where I am? Thinking I need…

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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

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– 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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Are you recovering from the Thanksgiving excess? T Are you recovering from the Thanksgiving excess? Try these 7 steps to detox and love your liver before the end-of-year celebrations begin. 🔘Choose organic. Rid your diet of the obvious toxins from pesticides. Choose non-GMO foods, organic fruits and veggies, and hormone-free meat. 🔘Eat your broccoli. The cruciferous family of vegetables— broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower— contain sulforaphane, which helps to improve detoxification pathways. The same receptor on cells that environmental toxins use for their negative effects is also used by cruciferous vegetables. When you eat more of them, you crowd out the bad environmental toxins and strengthen your mitochondria. 🔘Boost your glutathione. Glutathione is the queen of detoxifiers in the body. It protects cells by cleaning up excess free radicals. ◾Eat more cruciferous vegetables discussed above to help improve glutathione levels. ◾Add allium vegetables (onions, garlic, leeks) to your daily meals. They help you make more glutathione. ◾Drink more green tea. Green tea has been shown to induce glutathione production. 🔘Detox with yoga. Exercising mildly and moderately, with calm breathing helps glutathione levels. Try yoga. Yoga has been shown to raise antioxidants like glutathione. 🔘Supplement. Liposomal glutathione or the precursor, N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), is shown to lower inflammation and mercury levels.4 NAC has an excellent safety record. 🔘Take regular saunas. Not only are saunas a great way to help remove heavy metals, but saunas can increase longevity. In a study published in JAMA, researchers found that men who enjoyed a sauna four to seven times per year had a 40 percent drop in mortality of all causes! Sit in a sauna 4 to 7 days/week for 20 to 60 minutes. Go to your local gym or consider investing in a home sauna. Dry saunas have the most evidence that they help you age well, but infrared saunas are not far behind—and what I use most often. 🔘Reduce alcohol. Out of all the toxins that the liver is busy processing, alcohol moves to the front of the toxin line, no matter what. By reducing alcohol consumption to a minimum, you free up your liver to focus on other toxins.
The holidays used to be a difficult time for me: s The holidays used to be a difficult time for me: stress, deadlines, holiday parties, travel, extended family. It was more challenging to eat the foods that nourish and fuel me best. As someone with disordered eating in the past, the holidays were full of land mines. I felt like I would look at stuffing or mashed potatoes or Yorkshire pudding and get inflamed. Then I started setting boundaries and using wearables to create guardrails on my behavior, such as with sleep, exercise, and glucose. A continuous glucose monitor (CGM) gives you neutral information about how your body is utilizing glucose. CGMs are now available over the counter. Maybe add it to your holidays wishlist? #stress #thanksgiving #christmas #holidays #insulin #insulinresistance #cortisol #prediabetes #diabetes #metabolicdysfunction #metabolism #perimenopause #menopause #hormones #bioidentical hormones #estrogen #progesterone
4 out of 5 people with autoimmune disease are wome 4 out of 5 people with autoimmune disease are women. There are many reasons why rates of autoimmune disease are higher in women, including hormonal, genetic, environmental, lifestyle, and behavioral factors. You can watch or listen to my conversation with @iman__hasan on her @biohack_it podcast as we unravel the complex connections between autoimmune diseases, trauma, and hormonal health. Follow the link in my bio
What’s in your cooking pan? Nonstick pans may b What’s in your cooking pan? Nonstick pans may be associated with health problems, depending on the chemicals used. The FDA approved teflon for use in cooking applications in the 1960s. Teflon contains multiple plastics including perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). PFAS, which includes another chemical called polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), are known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down naturally. They are found in soil, water, and even our about 98% of blood tested, and are linked to harmful health effects, including cancer. PTFE exposure was significantly associated with decreased semen quality (Zhang, 2024, PMID: 39342804). PFOA is banned in many countries, including the United States as of 2014. In 2023, the US banned “intentional addition of PFAS chemicals to food packaging.” That begs the question: what cooking pans do you have in your kitchen and how old are they? Do you know that they are free of potentially harmful toxins? You can reduce your exposure to toxins like PTFE by swapping out your pans. I changed all of my pans over to cast iron skillets, Caraway, ScanPan, GreenPan, and Le Creuset. In 2023, 12 states began restricting or banning PFAS products, including Maine, which banned the manufacture and sale of all PFAS products. Minnesota recently signed a law that bans use of PFAS in certain products, including cookware, dental floss, and menstrual products. PFOA is associated with health issues like increased cholesterol, developmental issues in children, and potential links to certain cancers, especially with prolonged exposure. While most modern Teflon products no longer contain PFOA, they do contain other chemicals like PTFE. Sometimes one toxin is replaced by another with a similar profile and presumed innocent until proven harmful. In my book WOMEN FOOD AND HORMONES, I describe my pan choice and why. Zhang C, et al. Association of mixed exposure to microplastics with sperm dysfunction: a multi-site study in China. EBioMedicine. 2024 Oct;108:105369. PMID: 39342804. https://www.fda.gov/food/process-contaminants-food/authorized-uses-pfas-food-contact-applications
What’s your score? 1-2 is considered hard and in What’s your score? 1-2 is considered hard and indicative of constipation, while types 6 and 7 are loose and may indicate diarrhea. Types 3, 4, and 5 are generally considered the most typical, and 4 is the ideal 💩
Been to Tulum? Quick trip con mi amiga Jen Landa M Been to Tulum? Quick trip con mi amiga Jen Landa MD to teach about las hormonas.
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