The Secret to Balancing Your Hormones & Burning Body Fat | Dr. Sara Gottfried
Episode 453
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/drsaragottfried453
Dr. Sara Gottfried (IG: @saragottfriedmd) is a hormone expert, a Harvard-educated physician-scientist, and a New York Times bestselling author. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine.
Today we're discussing Sara's latest book... Women, Food, and Hormones.
If you're a woman looking to balance your hormones so you can lose excess weight and feel better - this interview is for you. Don't worry, lots in here for the men too.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The truth about Women, Food, and Hormones
- What happens when your hormones are out of whack?
- Test recommendations to assess your hormones
- The 4-week protocol to balance hormones
- Medicine for the individual
- Reverse the epidemic of people with metabolic dysfunction
- Detoxification is the first pillar of the Sara's protocol
- Sweating helps you detox
- Supplements that enhance detoxification
- The problem with classic keto for women
- How to adapt the ketogenic diet for women
- Sara's typical meal which is 60-70% fat
- Nutritional ketosis is healthy
- The ketogenic diet lowers insulin
- The keto adaptation phase
- MCT oil helps reduce cravings
- How to use MCT oil daily
- Sara's morning routine & meditation practice
- Extending your intermittent fasting window
- Does coffee break your fast?
- Practice 1/3 cardio & 2/3 strength training
- Your hormones depend on getting good sleep
- Bedtime rituals to help achieve better REM sleep
- Trauma is a hormone disrupter
- The rise of psychedelic medicine to treat mental health
- What's your ACE score?
- Autoimmunity and trauma
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Related links:
Dr. Sara Gottfried - Women, Food, and Hormones (book)
Dr. Sara Gottfried's website
Follow Dr. Sara Gottfried on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok
Dr. Sara Gottfried (books)
Listen to Dr. Sara Gottfried previously on TUHP (episode #144, #164, and #294)
Dr. David Ludwig - The Case for a Low-Carb Diet is Stronger Than Ever (article)
Lisa Mosconi (books)
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago