Podcasts about hormone cure

Girls begin going through puberty as early as 8 years old. From the moment you become aware of your body and people begin commenting on your changes, shame, discomfort, and confusion begin to settle in. While we all settle into our bodies in different ways and at different ages, the harsh reality is that 53% of American girls are not happy with their bodies by 13 years of age and by 17 the amount of unhappy girls grows to 78%! Behind the onslaught of body image issues and societal pressures that mark the barometer of where you fall on the ‘acceptance meter,' are a mounting number of quietly misdiagnosed hormonal issues. Dr. Sara Gottefried is a Harvard and M.I.T. graduate, medical physician, and NY Times bestselling author of, The Hormone Cure. She shines light on the issues women are having with being properly diagnosed, treated and even heard on health issues that have been sold as not being related. As females, the number of factors that impact our hormones, our moods, our ability to function and feel like we have worth and value is mind-blowing. [Original air date: 10-13-21]. SHOW NOTES: Misconceptions | Ways women can take ownership of their health and transparent risks [0:51] Testosterone | Why testosterone can cause problems with confidence and empowerment [4:15] Precision Medicine | How it starts with diet, lifestyle, & nutrition observed with wearables [13:34] Average Treatment | Dr. Gottfried shares reality of how medicine for the average works [16:58] After 40 | How hormonal changes affect women and allows us to speak our truth more [20:35] Food Plan | How to use elimination diet to assess how food is impacting your health, [24:15] Body Messages | Stop ignoring the messages your body is sending you [38:33] Antibiotics | The havoc antibiotics caused Dr. Gottfried's microbiome, changing it by 87% [43:28] Feeling Shame | How shame is holding you back from being honest about your health [46:29] Confidence | Feeling okay with challenging your doctor and getting hormones checked [52:38] Gut Related | Dr Gottfried explains why gut health has everything to do with estrogen [57:10] Nutrigenomics | How genetics predict food and nutrient response to gluten, salt, caffeine [58:30] FOLLOW LISA: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisabilyeu/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lisabilyeu YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/womenofimpact Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lisa_bilyeu?lang=en LISTEN AD FREE + BONUS EPISODES on APPLE PODCASTS: apple.co/womenofimpact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Angela presents once more, her most popular episode of 2024, in which she talks to the remarkable Dr Sara Gottfried, about a wide-ranging array of aspects impacting women's health, including hormones, perimenopause, and postpartum depression. Dr. Sara highlights the impact of hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause, emphasising the importance of understanding triggers and dysregulation. She also delves into the effects of stress, immune system changes, and metabolic shifts during this transition. The conversation touches on topics like mitochondrial function, hormone therapy, PCOS, and postpartum depression, exploring both biological and environmental factors that contribute to women's health challenges. KEY TAKEAWAYS Hormonal fluctuations during perimenopause and postpartum can lead to various symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, and depression. Understanding these changes and seeking support can help manage these transitions effectively. Monitoring mitochondrial function, especially in women over 40, can help address issues like fatigue and energy depletion. Strategies like interval training and red light therapy can help stimulate mitochondria and improve energy levels. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition with various phenotypes and metabolic implications. Understanding individual symptoms and addressing them through lifestyle changes, exercise, and proper nutrition can help manage PCOS effectively. Postpartum depression can be influenced by hormonal changes, lack of support, sleep deprivation, and psychological stress. Identifying risk factors like genetic predispositions, inflammation, and nutrient deficiencies can help in early intervention and management. BEST MOMENTS "I think the pandemic definitely changed our biology, mostly, not for the better." "I feel like perimenopause and menopause needs to be rebranded. We need to be a lot more honest about some of these changes that are happening." "I think it's really important to understand that postpartum thyroiditis, development of autoimmunity is really common." "I did have quite a dominant father and I was a real daddy's girl but I also wonder whether familial position plays a part in this." VALUABLE RESOURCES Get a free snapshot of your health and personalised report at www.yourtotalhealthcheck.com Join The High Performance Health Community Dr Sara Gottfried - https://www.saragottfriedmd.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Sara Gottfried MD, is a scientist, researcher, Harvard – educated medical doctor with 25 years of experience, and author of four New York Times bestselling books. Through her practise, Dr Gottfried treats people with a host of conditions, and educates about hormone balance, metabolic health and the interaction between food and your metabolism. From the Harvard and MIT-educated physician, and New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet and Younger, comes a brand new book on the impact of trauma on your body and immune system – and what you can do to heal. Up to 80 per cent of patients with autoimmune disease experienced significant emotional distress before getting sick. In other words, trauma and autoimmune disease are intimately linked, and Dr Gottfried shows us how. A leading voice in the autoimmune and women’s health space, Dr Gottfried’s insights into the gut, women’s health and hormones, and trauma as it pertains to autoimmune illness is essential reading Conventional medicine falls short when it comes to both diagnosing and treating autoimmune disease. Many people suffer from mysterious symptoms like severe fatigue, brain fog, aches and pains, feelings of tingling and numbness, stubborn weight gain, abdominal pain, digestive problems, hair loss, insomnia, and even anxiety, and don't realize their immune system is at the root of their symptoms. In her precision medicine practice, Dr Gottfried noticed a seemingly unusual pattern: many of her patients who suffer from autoimmune disease and symptoms have a history of trauma. Dr Gottfried has created a powerful programme designed to break the vicious cycle of autoimmune disease, reset your immune system and restore your health, with advice on diet, sleep, supplements, breathwork, microbiome restoration, somatic therapy and much more. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Affiliate Disclaimer: Note this description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. 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In the second part of a very special two-part conversation, Angela talks once more to the remarkable Dr Sara Gottfried, an expert in hormones and autoimmunity, about the alarming rise in autoimmune conditions, particularly among women and adolescents. Dr. Sara delves into the connection between trauma, stress, and the development of autoimmune diseases, shedding light on the impact of unresolved stress responses on the body's immune, neurological, and endocrine systems. The conversation also explores the role of self-love, psychedelics like MDMA and psilocybin, and ketamine in treating mental health issues and trauma-related conditions KEY TAKEAWAYS The prevalence of autoimmunity is high, with one in three individuals having an autoimmune condition Rates of autoimmunity are escalating, especially in men and adolescents, with a significant number showing antibodies against their own cells. While women are traditionally more vulnerable to autoimmune diseases, recent observations suggest an increase in anti-nuclear antibodies in men, indicating a shift in susceptibility. Trauma, especially in women who experience more trauma than men, is a significant trigger for autoimmunity, with unresolved stress responses contributing to dysregulation. Psychedelic-assisted therapy, including substances like MDMA and psilocybin, shows promise in addressing trauma, depression, and autoimmune conditions, offering a new approach to mental health treatment. BEST MOMENTS "We think that there's differences in terms of gender, those are sex-based differences, but there's also gender-based differences." "It's a more generally feminine approach to a stress response. Now, if you take those who are born male who do more fight flight, they are using big muscle groups to fight, or to run, and there's a way that that mobilizes the stress response and helps them recover fast." "It's really fundamental. Yeah, you know, if you do an adverse childhood experiences score, if you do the ACE questionnaire, there's a lot of things that aren't asked in that questionnaire” "And MDMA opens you up to more kind of like love experiences, experiences of love, right? And joy." VALUABLE RESOURCES Get a free snapshot of your health and personalised report at www.yourtotalhealthcheck.com Join The High Performance Health CommunityFree Fasting Guide - www.angelafosterperformance.com/fastingPodcast Shownotes - www.angelafosterperformance.com/podcasts AG1 Special Offer - https://www.drinkag1.com/angelafoster  Dr Sara Gottfried - https://www.saragottfriedmd.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Sara Gottfried MD, is a scientist, researcher, Harvard – educated medical doctor with 25 years of experience, and author of four New York Times bestselling books. Through her practise, Dr Gottfried treats people with a host of conditions, and educates about hormone balance, metabolic health and the interaction between food and your metabolism. From the Harvard and MIT-educated physician, and New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet and Younger, comes a brand new book on the impact of trauma on your body and immune system – and what you can do to heal. Up to 80 per cent of patients with autoimmune disease experienced significant emotional distress before getting sick. In other words, trauma and autoimmune disease are intimately linked, and Dr Gottfried shows us how. A leading voice in the autoimmune and women's health space, Dr Gottfried's insights into the gut, women's health and hormones, and trauma as it pertains to autoimmune illness is essential reading Conventional medicine falls short when it comes to both diagnosing and treating autoimmune disease. Many people suffer from mysterious symptoms like severe fatigue, brain fog, aches and pains, feelings of tingling and numbness, stubborn weight gain, abdominal pain, digestive problems, hair loss, insomnia, and even anxiety, and don't realize their immune system is at the root of their symptoms. In her precision medicine practice, Dr Gottfried noticed a seemingly unusual pattern: many of her patients who suffer from autoimmune disease and symptoms have a history of trauma. Dr Gottfried has created a powerful programme designed to break the vicious cycle of autoimmune disease, reset your immune system and restore your health, with advice on diet, sleep, supplements, breathwork, microbiome restoration, somatic therapy and much more. ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster is an award winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Speaker and Host of the High Performance Health podcast. A former Corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela has been featured in various media including Huff Post, Runners world, The Health Optimisation Summit, BrainTap, The Women's Biohacking Conference, Livestrong & Natural Health Magazine. Angela is the creator of BioSyncing®️ a blueprint for ambitious entrepreneurial women to biohack their health so they can 10X how they show up in their business and their family without burning out. Angela's BioSyncing®️ Blueprint is currently closed. Click here to get on the waitlist. The High Performance Health Podcast is a top rated global podcast. Each week, Angela brings you a new insight, biohack or high performance habit to help you unlock optimal health, longevity and higher performance. Hit the follow button to make sure you get notified each time Angela releases a new episode. 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In the first part of a very special two-part conversation, Angela talks to the remarkable Dr Sara Gottfried, about a wide-ranging array of aspects impacting women's health, including hormones, perimenopause, and postpartum depression. Dr. Sara highlights the impact of hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause, emphasising the importance of understanding triggers and dysregulation. She also delves into the effects of stress, immune system changes, and metabolic shifts during this transition. The conversation touches on topics like mitochondrial function, hormone therapy, PCOS, and postpartum depression, exploring both biological and environmental factors that contribute to women's health challenges. KEY TAKEAWAYS Hormonal fluctuations during perimenopause and postpartum can lead to various symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, and depression. Understanding these changes and seeking support can help manage these transitions effectively. Monitoring mitochondrial function, especially in women over 40, can help address issues like fatigue and energy depletion. Strategies like interval training and red light therapy can help stimulate mitochondria and improve energy levels. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex condition with various phenotypes and metabolic implications. Understanding individual symptoms and addressing them through lifestyle changes, exercise, and proper nutrition can help manage PCOS effectively. Postpartum depression can be influenced by hormonal changes, lack of support, sleep deprivation, and psychological stress. Identifying risk factors like genetic predispositions, inflammation, and nutrient deficiencies can help in early intervention and management. BEST MOMENTS "I think the pandemic definitely changed our biology, mostly, not for the better." "I feel like perimenopause and menopause needs to be rebranded. We need to be a lot more honest about some of these changes that are happening." "I think it's really important to understand that postpartum thyroiditis, development of autoimmunity is really common." "I did have quite a dominant father and I was a real daddy's girl but I also wonder whether familial position plays a part in this." VALUABLE RESOURCES Get a free snapshot of your health and personalised report at www.yourtotalhealthcheck.com Join The High Performance Health CommunityFree Fasting Guide - www.angelafosterperformance.com/fastingPodcast Shownotes - www.angelafosterperformance.com/podcasts AG1 Special Offer - https://www.drinkag1.com/angelafoster  Dr Sara Gottfried - https://www.saragottfriedmd.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Sara Gottfried MD, is a scientist, researcher, Harvard – educated medical doctor with 25 years of experience, and author of four New York Times bestselling books. Through her practise, Dr Gottfried treats people with a host of conditions, and educates about hormone balance, metabolic health and the interaction between food and your metabolism. From the Harvard and MIT-educated physician, and New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet and Younger, comes a brand new book on the impact of trauma on your body and immune system – and what you can do to heal. Up to 80 per cent of patients with autoimmune disease experienced significant emotional distress before getting sick. In other words, trauma and autoimmune disease are intimately linked, and Dr Gottfried shows us how. A leading voice in the autoimmune and women's health space, Dr Gottfried's insights into the gut, women's health and hormones, and trauma as it pertains to autoimmune illness is essential reading Conventional medicine falls short when it comes to both diagnosing and treating autoimmune disease. Many people suffer from mysterious symptoms like severe fatigue, brain fog, aches and pains, feelings of tingling and numbness, stubborn weight gain, abdominal pain, digestive problems, hair loss, insomnia, and even anxiety, and don't realize their immune system is at the root of their symptoms. In her precision medicine practice, Dr Gottfried noticed a seemingly unusual pattern: many of her patients who suffer from autoimmune disease and symptoms have a history of trauma. Dr Gottfried has created a powerful programme designed to break the vicious cycle of autoimmune disease, reset your immune system and restore your health, with advice on diet, sleep, supplements, breathwork, microbiome restoration, somatic therapy and much more. ABOUT THE HOST Angela Foster is an award winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Speaker and Host of the High Performance Health podcast. A former Corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela has been featured in various media including Huff Post, Runners world, The Health Optimisation Summit, BrainTap, The Women's Biohacking Conference, Livestrong & Natural Health Magazine. Angela is the creator of BioSyncing®️ a blueprint for ambitious entrepreneurial women to biohack their health so they can 10X how they show up in their business and their family without burning out. Angela's BioSyncing®️ Blueprint is currently closed. Click here to get on the waitlist. The High Performance Health Podcast is a top rated global podcast. Each week, Angela brings you a new insight, biohack or high performance habit to help you unlock optimal health, longevity and higher performance. Hit the follow button to make sure you get notified each time Angela releases a new episode. CONTACT DETAILS Instagram Facebook LinkedIn Affiliate Disclaimer: Note this description contains affiliate links that allow you to find the items mentioned in this video and support the channel at no cost to you. While this channel may earn minimal sums when the viewer uses the links, the viewer is under no obligation to use these links. Thank you for supporting the show! Disclaimer: The High Performance Health Podcast is for general information purposes only and do not constitute the practice of professional or coaching advice and no client relationship is formed. The use of information on this podcast, or materials linked from this podcast is at the user's own risk. The content of this podcast is not intended to be a substitute for medical or other professional advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Users should seek the assistance of their medical doctor or other health care professional for before taking any steps to implement any of the items discussed in this podcast.

Did you know that 50 million Americans have some form of dysregulated immune system? But here's the catch - you may not even realize that you are one of them. Perhaps you've been given a diagnosis that you don't fully understand or have been told that you have an autoimmune disorder. The truth is, it's not just a medical issue, it's also an emotional one. In this Language of Love Conversation, I'm excited to be joined by Dr. Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-educated medical doctor, scientist, researcher, and author of four New York Times best-selling books.  We dive into the connections between trauma, autoimmune diseases, and how our bodies keep everything in check. We are chatting about how trauma can throw our systems out of whack, messing with our immune system and sometimes leading to autoimmune issues. Dr. Gottfried is here to shed light on why catching these autoimmune diseases early is so crucial, especially when the signs can be pretty vague. In this conversation, we break down: The connection between trauma and dysregulation in the body The pine system and its role in responding to trauma Understanding autoimmune diseases and the immune system Potential treatments for autoimmune conditions To learn more about Dr. Gottfried's latest projects and to read her latest book, Hormone Cure, visit her website. Explore the connections between trauma, autoimmune diseases, and how our bodies keep everything in check. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's guest, Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, is calling for a revolution in women's health. Our culture is not set up to support female biology and it shows. The rates of depression, insomnia, Alzheimer's and autoimmunity in women are staggering—it's beyond time to turn this around. We meet at dawn…In this episode you'll learn: * The leading cause of hormone imbalances* How our culture is making women sick* The outsized impacts of trauma on women's health* What psychedelics offer for healing on all levels* How to reclaim your health as a woman* And more…Sara Szal Gottfried, MD, is a physician scientist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past two decades, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients, and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients' conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Dr. Gottfried's research focus is metabolic phenotyping. Her bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, Younger, Women Food and Hormones, and her new book, The Autoimmune Cure.This episode is brought to you by beeya: * Learn more about beeya's seed cycling bundle at https://beeyawellness.com/free to find out how to tackle hormonal imbalances. * Get $10 off your order by using promo code BEHINDHEREMPIRE10Follow Yasmin: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yasminknouri/* Stay updated & subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.behindherempire.com/Follow Dr. Sara: * Website: https://www.saragottfriedmd.com/* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saragottfriedmd/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

98% of people who suffer with autoimmunity are women. The leading cause of this shocking statistic is hormone irregulation linked to trauma. You don't have to have a massive traumatic event happen to you to experience trauma and the devastating effects it can lead to. Stress, long-term exhaustion and not being kind to our bodies can contribute to crippling emotional weight that can dysregulate our hormones.Sarah is joined by Dr Sara Gottfried to explore how we can assess our hormones, how to tackle trauma and speak about the amazing benefits of MDMA therapy. Other resources: Follow Sara on InstagramGet Sara's book: The Autoimmune CureLearn more at SaraGottfriedMD.comTimecodes:00:00 Intro02:14 The Three Areas of Health That Are Most Crucial For Women's Health04:30 Self Compassion for Ourselves06:57 Understanding the Hormonal Landscape14:36 The Hormonal Changes in a Woman's Body at Age 3617:18 Health Care For Pregnant Women vs Health Care for Non-Pregnant Women18:57 Your Doctor Has Dismissed You, What's Your Next Step?26:15 How Lifestyles and Trauma Affect Endocrine and Hormonal Systems29:37 Regulated and Dysregulated34:30 Getting back into Regulation and What That Means37:04 Activating Regulation through Environment and Senses41:22 85% of Women Suffer from Autoimmune Conditions and Measuring Trauma51:30 The Energetic Body and How To Become More Aligned With It55:20 Tapping into the Energy Flow in the Body, Chakras59:00 Acceptance and Awareness of Natural Energies Around Us, Connected and Intertwined1:03:22 Dr. Sara Gottfried's Book Helps Understand How Everything In Our Bodies Are intertwined and interconnected1:05:40 How does dysregulation show up for you?1:07:44 What does Live Well Be Well Mean to You?Thanks to my wonderful sponsors!******The Better Menopause | thebettermenopause.comThe secret to a better menopause lies in your gutUse code BEWELL for 25% !!***London Nootropics | Londonnootropics.comFind your flow with adaptogenic coffeeUse code LIVEWELLBEWELL for 20% off******Watch this episode on YouTubeFollow me, Sarah Ann Macklin on InstagramTo give your wellbeing journey that extra boost, try my 30 day ‘Reset My Health' courseAnd sign up to my newsletter hereJoin my inner circle here!

This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Bioptimizers, and Paleovalley. Contrary to popular belief, women cannot follow the same health and fitness protocols as men and expect the same results. Unlike men, women in their reproductive years have specific hormonal considerations, and their rise and fall throughout the month impact everything from energy to focus, mood, metabolism, and the ability to adapt to good-for-you stressors like exercise or fasting. Meanwhile, perimenopause and menopause pose a whole other list of considerations to keep women feeling well.In today's episode, I talk with Dr. Mindy Pelz and Dr. Sara Gottfried about why we need to prioritize teaching women about their hormones.Dr. Mindy Pelz is a renowned holistic health expert and one of the leading voices in educating women about their hormonal health. She has empowered hundreds of thousands of people around the world to tap into their bodies' innate healing abilities through her “5-Step Approach,” which uses fasting, personalized nutrition, stress management, chemical detoxification, and lifestyle changes to optimize health and slow the aging process.Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is called Women, Food, and Hormones.This episode is brought to you by Rupa Health, Bioptimizers, and Paleovalley.Access more than 3,000 specialty lab tests with Rupa Health. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com today.During the entire month of November, Bioptimizers is offering their biggest discount AND giving away amazing gifts with purchases. Just go to bioptimizers.com/hyman using code hyman10.Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off their entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:Dr. Mindy PelzDr. Mark HymanDr. Sara Gottfried Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As women approach their mid to late thirties, they often suffer symptoms that are ignored or dismissed by conventional medicine. Insomnia, weight gain, irritability, reduced memory, and brain fog are all symptoms that can drastically change the quality of life for women. Today's guest is here to show us that there is hope and that it doesn't have to be this way. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Sara Gottfried for a deep dive into women's health, specifically the changes that occur in perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Gottfried shares the symptoms women in these categories face and the science behind why they occur. She shows us the critical tests that need to be addressed, offers practical tips women can implement to address these changes and balance key hormones, and inspires women to empower themselves on their road to longevity. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is Women, Food, and Hormones.In this episode, Dhru and Dr. Gottfried dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):The metabolic crisis that women in their 40s go through (2:30 / 2:30)How conventional medicine often dismisses these symptoms 10:18 / 7:37) The top misconceptions or misunderstandings about the interplay between hormones (16:12 / 12:46)Common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause as they relate to aging (22:05 / 18:30)The environmental and lifestyle factors that impact women's hormones (31:40 / 26:20) The top 3 hormones to balance and correct: cortisol, estrogen, and thyroid (41:38 / 36:10)How Dr. Gottfried started her hormonal journey by testing her cortisol (51:10 / 47:00) Dealing with insomnia during perimenopause (1:03:20 / 57:54)Testing thyroid levels and the connection between thyroid and autoimmune disease (1:16:00 / 1:11:12)Bringing hormones in harmony (1:22:00 / 1:17:02)The key to feeling better by addressing glucose levels (1:33:00 / 1:28:10)The role of post-traumatic stress and the use of psychedelics (1:54:15 / 1:49:45)Dr. Gottfried's message of how it doesn't have to be this way (2:12:30 / 2:07:40)Also mentioned in this episode: The Charlie's Angels of Hormones graphicLevelsThis episode is brought to you by JOOVV, LMNT, and Armra Colostrum. Right now, Joovv is offering an exclusive offer on your first order. Head over to Joovv.com/dhru and apply my code DHRU.Right now, LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase. Head over to DrinkLMNT.com/dhru today.Receive 15% off your first order of Armra Colostrum at tryarmra.com/DHRU, or enter DHRU to get 15% off your first order. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr. Sara Gottfried – a pioneer in health, research, and education – has seen more than 25,000 patients over the past two decades. She's a physician scientist, who graduated from Harvard Medical School and MIT, and completed her Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Sign Up to Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠⁠https://levels.link/wnl⁠ Dr. Gottfried is the Director of Precision Medicine at The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, at Thomas Jefferson University, where she specializes in identifying the underlying causes of her patient's conditions to achieve lasting health transformation, not just symptom management. Dr. Gottfried has published five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, such as The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book has just been published, Women Food and Hormones. In this episode, Dr. Casey Means, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels, and Dr. Gottfried covered a number of topics from her new book. LINKS ⁠New insights from continuous glucose monitoring into the route to diabetes⁠ ⁠Proposed guidelines to evaluate scientific validity and evidence for genotype-based dietary advice⁠ ⁠Michael Snyder⁠ ⁠Marcus Institute of Integrative Health⁠ ⁠Sara Gottfried⁠ Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health. Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations with thought leaders about metabolic health.

If there's one thing we learn even less about than postpartum, it's menopause! This week on Mom Strength, Surabhi chats with menopause and midlife health coach, Samantha Montpetit-Huynh to discuss tips for dealing with menopause symptoms, how to embrace aging, as well as hormone replacement therapy (HRT).We discuss:Menopause & Perimenopause → 0:02:35Embracing Aging → 0:08:11Advice & Tips for Menopause → 0:11:48 What to Expect with Menopause → 0:19:40Hormones → 0:21:13Symptoms → 0:24:45Societal Pressures with Menopause → 0:35:22Coping with Menopause → 0:38:30Weight Loss → 0:45:37Meditation → 0:48:33Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace → 0:50:36Hormone Replacement Therapy → 0:52:32Additional Resources → 0:57:12.Samantha Montpetit-Huynh BioSamantha is founder of SamCoreTrainer where she coaches women 40+ with the most comprehensive online health management program for women during menopause and midlife. Samantha is a serial entrepreneur, media expert, speaker, teacher, mentor, course creator and author. She was featured on CBC's The National in January 2023 and more recently on CTV's Cityline in April 2023, talking about fitness in menopause with Tracy Moore. 

Samantha has been a recognized expert in her field for 2 decades and was awarded The Abundance 2019 Personal Trainer of the Year and CanfitPro's 2021, Specialty Presenter of the Year..Connect with Sam & Important Links:—Follow Sam on Instagram or Facebook @samcoretrainer—https://www.samcoretrainer.com/ —Book a free discovery call: https://calendly.com/samcore/30min—Books Sam recommends: Estrogen Matters, Estrogen Fix, The Hormone Cure.Connect with Surabhi:—Find Surabhi on Instagram or Facebook @thepassionatephysio—Website: https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca

Dr. Sara Gottfried, New York Times best-selling author of numerous books geared to empower women with the information they need to live healthier lives joins us to shed light on the relationship between our hormones and food. We discuss her most recent book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again. If you want to understand your hormones and how to be healthy, strong, and to create balance in your life – you are going to love this conversation! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/153. While on the show notes page, I'd love for you to join our community. You'll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You'll get a FREE copy of Michele's Book, Design a Life You Love.   WHAT WE DISCUSS: What is precision medicine and why it is way she practices medicine. How healthcare should focus more on personalization and bio-individuality, rather than focus on the population, which is the medicine of the average. Why women need to demand better care and ask doctors to look at root cause. Why we need to eat in a way that regulates our hormones, from insulin to estrogen. How anxiety and depression can be impacted by hormones being out of balance. Why classic keto doesn't work for many women. The Gottfried Protocol and how to approach eating for metabolic health. The important role testosterone plays in women's health. Dr. Gottfried's daily morning routine and one thing not to do to begin your day, and much more!   RESOURCES MENTIONED: Website: Dr. Gottfried's website with more resources Book: Women, Food, and Hormones – Book Instagram: Dr. Gottfried Integrative Practice: Dr. Gottfried Michele on Instagram   MORE ABOUT DR SARA GOTTFRIED: Sara Gottfried, MD is a board-certified physician, researcher, educator, and NYT bestselling author. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients' conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, functional, and precision medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health.Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her new book just came out in September 2021, called Women, Food, and Hormones. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com Thank you for listening to the show! If you enjoyed this interview, please take a moment to rate and review it on Apple podcasts. Your reviews are so appreciated! Not sure how to do it? Instructions are below. XO, Michele

Most diet plans were created by men for men, but women's bodies don't work the same way. Popular programs can actually make it harder for women to lose weight, because they can wreak havoc on a woman's complex and delicate hormonal system. New York Times best-selling author Dr. Sara Gottfried has spent her career demystifying hormones and helping patients improve their health more broadly with personalized medicine. In Women, Food, and Hormones, Dr. Gottfried presents a groundbreaking new plan that helps women balance their hormones so they can lose excess weight and feel better. Featuring hormonal detoxification combined with a ketogenic diet that is tailor-made for women, coupled with an intermittent fasting protocol and over 50 delicious and filling recipes, this book shares a fat-burning solution that gets results. SARA GOTTFRIED, MD, is a hormone expert, a Harvard-educated physician-scientist, and a clinical assistant professor in the department of integrative medicine and nutritional sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. She is the New York Times best-selling author of three previous books, including The Hormone Cure. She lives in Moraga, California.Get my new book 'The Path of an Eagle: How To Overcome & Lead After Being Knocked Down'.► AMAZON US► AMAZON AUS► AMAZON UKCONNECT WITH JAY & THE STORY BOX► INSTAGRAM ► TWITTER ► FACEBOOK ► WEBSITE Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/thestorybox. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food.Mainstream medicine often fails us when it comes to hormonal imbalances. Hormones aren't commonly tested, even when there is a high likelihood of an issue (like cortisol in our overly stressed culture). Since there are so many hormones that can become dysregulated, presenting with a wide variety of symptoms, many of the symptoms are written off to aging and never addressed. On today's mini-episode, Dhru takes a deep dive into the topic of hormonal imbalances with Dr. Sara Gottfried, along with what you can do to get them back on track. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is Women, Food, and Hormones.In this episode we dive into: -Common hormone imbalances that have become normalized in society -Signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances -The top three things to prioritize when addressing hormone imbalances-How to uncover the root cause of hormone imbalances-The top three mistakes when it comes to diet and how it impacts our hormones-The key pillars of The Gottfried ProtocolListen to the full episode here.For more on Dr. Sara Gottfried, follow her on Instagram @saragottfriedmd, Facebook @drgottfried, Twitter @gottfriedsara, YouTube @drgottfried, and through her website, saragottfriedmd.com. Get her book Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again, here.This episode is brought to you by InsideTracker and Gut Food.InsideTracker provides detailed nutrition and lifestyle guidance based on your individual needs. Right now, they're offering my podcast community 20% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU to get your discount and try it out for yourself.​​Gut Food uses the power of three critical gut-supporting components—prebiotics, probiotics, and polyphenols—and five ingredients at clinically validated dosages to help reduce inflammation, support the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, improve digestion and reduce bloating, and support mood and energy. Check it out at gutfood.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Sara Gottfried, New York Times best-selling author of numerous books geared to empower women with the information they need to live healthier lives joins us to shed light on the relationship between our hormones and food. We discuss her most recent book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again. If you want to understand your hormones and how to be healthy, strong, and to create balance in your life – you are going to love this conversation! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/183. While on the show notes page, I'd love for you to join our community. You'll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You'll get a FREE copy of Michele's Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ What is precision medicine and why it is way she practices medicine. 2️⃣ How healthcare should focus more on personalization and bio-individuality, rather than focus on the population, which is the medicine of the average. 3️⃣ Why women need to demand better care and ask doctors to look at root cause. 4️⃣ Why we need to eat in a way that regulates our hormones, from insulin to estrogen. 5️⃣ How anxiety and depression can be impacted by hormones being out of balance. 6️⃣ Why classic keto doesn't work for many women. 7️⃣ The Gottfried Protocol and how to approach eating for metabolic health. 8️⃣ The important role testosterone plays in women's health. 9️⃣ Dr. Gottfried's daily morning routine and one thing not to do to begin your day, and much more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Website: Dr. Gottfried's website with more resources Book: Women, Food, and Hormones – Book Instagram: Dr. Gottfried Integrative Practice: Dr. Gottfried Michele on Instagram MORE ABOUT DR SARA GOTTFRIED: Sara Gottfried, MD is a board-certified physician, researcher, educator, and NYT bestselling author. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients' conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, functional, and precision medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health.Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her new book just came out in September 2021, called Women, Food, and Hormones. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com Thank you for listening to the show!

This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Paleovalley. Seventy-five percent of women experience daily symptoms due to hormonal imbalances. Some of these symptoms are irritating, like insomnia, sugar cravings, fluid retention, moodiness, and headaches, while others can be more devastating, such as infertility. Often, many of these symptoms are written off as “normal” and just a part of a woman's cycle or transition into menopause, but the truth is that there are many things we can do to reverse them to live each day more comfortably. In today's episode, I talk with Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. Sara Gottfried about how many women's health issues can be resolved using a Functional Medicine approach. We discuss how PCOS, debilitating PMS, and other hormonal imbalances often stem from diet and exposure to environmental toxins. Dr. Elizabeth Boham is a physician and nutritionist who practices Functional Medicine at The UltraWellness Center in Lenox, MA. Through her practice and lecturing, she has helped thousands of people achieve their goals of optimum health and wellness. She witnesses the power of nutrition every day in her practice and is committed to training other physicians to utilize nutrition in healing. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based, integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books are The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is called Women, Food, and Hormones. This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens and Paleovalley.AG1 contains 75 high-quality vitamins, minerals, whole-food sourced superfoods, probiotics, and adaptogens to support your entire body. Right now, when you purchase AG1 from Athletic Greens, you will receive 10 FREE travel packs with your first purchase by visiting athleticgreens.com/hyman.Paleovalley is offering my listeners 15% off their entire first order. Just go to paleovalley.com/hyman to check out all their clean Paleo products and take advantage of this deal.Full-length episodes of these interviews can be found here:Dr. Elizabeth BohamDr. Sara GottfriedDr. Elizabeth Boham See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sara Gottfried, MD, is a hormone expert, a Harvard-educated physician-scientist, and a clinical assistant professor in the department of integrative medicine and nutritional sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University. She is the New York Times best-selling author of four books, including The Hormone Cure. She lives in Moraga, California. Topics covered in this episode: • A book about women, food & hormones. • How hormones affect our weight loss. • Hormones that are important for weight gain and weight loss. • How diets differ from men and women. • The lifecycle of a hormone. • Animal sources of protein that can help to support hormones without causing all the metabolic side effects. • The benefits of eating according to a Mediterranean diet. • How quickly do people start to lose weight with the Gottfried Protocol? • What is going on with our hormones across a lifespan that is changing our weight? • Does lack of sleep derail weight loss? Referenced in the episode: • The Lindsey Elmore Show Ep 68 | Treating people, not symptoms | Dr. Sara Gottfried To learn more about Sara Gottfried M.D. and her work, head over to www.saragottfriedmd.com IG @Saragottfriedmd @womenfoodhormones __________________________________________________________ Eaton Hemp Organic Hemp Food - Nature's most nutrient-dense superfood. Head to www.eatonhemp.com/lindseyelmoreshow and save 25% on all Eaton Hemp products… with a full money back guarantee! __________________________________________________________ Amare FundaMentals Pack – Includes: MentaBiotics, which are a combination of unique strains of probiotics, prebiotics, and phytobiotics that have been scientifically shown to improve mental wellness. MentaFocus, which has key phytonutrients clinically shown to support focus, mental sharpness, clarity, creativity, and cognitive functioning, and MentaSync, which optimizes the communication sync of chemical messengers between your brain and your gut. Head over to www.lindseyelmore.com/amarefundamentals ... save $10 and you'll also be given a free three-day Gut Reboot Plus as a one-time gift. __________________________________________________________ We hope you enjoyed this episode. Come check us out at www.lindseyelmore.com/podcast.

This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox.Most of us hear the term “metabolic health” and think it only applies to our ability to burn calories and manage our weight. And while those are certainly big pieces of metabolic health, it also impacts everything from our cardiovascular health to cognition, mood, infertility, and so much more. That's because our metabolism is actually our body's ability to create energy and this happens all over the body. If our energy production in the brain is hindered, we could have memory loss; if it's not functioning properly in muscle cells, we may see chronic pain—and the list goes on. In today's mini-episode, Dhru speaks with Dr. Casey Means and Dr. Sara Gottfried about how our metabolic health impacts our overall health, indicators of poor metabolic health, and how to improve metabolic flexibility. Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician, Chief Medical Officer and Co-founder of metabolic health company Levels, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and a Lecturer at Stanford University. Dr. Means has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Men's Health, Forbes, and more. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is Women, Food, and Hormones. Find Dhru's full-length conversation with Dr. Casey Means here: https://lnk.to/dhru-170/Find Dhru's full-length conversation with Dr. Sara Gottfried here: https://lnk.to/dhru-238/For more on Dhru Purohit, follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, and on YouTube @dhrupurohit. You can also text Dhru at (302) 200-5643.This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox.Wild-caught salmon is one of my favorite go-to's to get brain-supporting, anti-inflammatory fats and clean protein in my diet. ButcherBox only uses wild-caught, sustainably harvested, Alaskan salmon and will deliver it right to your door for an amazing price. Right now, ButcherBox is offering new members a great deal for the New Year! Sign up at ButcherBox.com/dhru, and you'll receive two pounds of FREE salmon in your first box. And for a limited time, ButcherBox is offering our listeners an additional $10 off. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dr. Sara Gottfried, New York Times best-selling author of numerous books geared to empower women with the information they need to live healthier lives joins us to shed light on the relationship between our hormones and food. We discuss her most recent book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again. If you want to understand your hormones and how to be healthy, strong, and to create balance in your life – you are going to love this conversation! All of the show notes can be found at thegoodlifecoach.com/162. While on the show notes page, I'd love for you to join our community. You'll receive more inspiration and tips to love yourself and your life. You'll get a FREE copy of Michele's Book, Design a Life You Love. WHAT WE DISCUSS: 1️⃣ What is precision medicine and why it is way she practices medicine. 2️⃣ How healthcare should focus more on personalization and bio-individuality, rather than focus on the population, which is the medicine of the average. 3️⃣ Why women need to demand better care and ask doctors to look at root cause. 4️⃣ Why we need to eat in a way that regulates our hormones, from insulin to estrogen. 5️⃣ How anxiety and depression can be impacted by hormones being out of balance. 6️⃣ Why classic keto doesn't work for many women. 7️⃣ The Gottfried Protocol and how to approach eating for metabolic health. 8️⃣ The important role testosterone plays in women's health. 9️⃣ Dr. Gottfried's daily morning routine and one thing not to do to begin your day, and much more! RESOURCES MENTIONED Website: Dr. Gottfried's website with more resources Book: Women, Food, and Hormones – Book Instagram: Dr. Gottfried Integrative Practice: Dr. Gottfried Michele on Instagram MORE ABOUT DR SARA GOTTFRIED: Sara Gottfried, MD is a board-certified physician, researcher, educator, and NYT bestselling author. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past 25 years, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients' conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, functional, and precision medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health.Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her new book just came out in September 2021, called Women, Food, and Hormones. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com

This episode is brought to you by BiOptimizers, Athletic Greens, and TUSHY.If you've experienced any of the symptoms of hormonal imbalance, you'd probably agree that they have a lot of power over how well we feel. But unfortunately, especially for women, the signs of hormonal imbalances are constantly being written off as “normal.” I'm here to tell you that they're not! Today, I'm talking with Dr. Sara Gottfried about why our hormones get out of whack and how to get them back in balance. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is called Women, Food, and Hormones.Here are more of the details from our interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): We need to stop normalizing women's hormonal issues (4:24 / 1:58)Weight gain and hormonal issues (8:40 / 4:50) Symptoms of hormonal imbalance (9:53 /6:43) How food affects hormone balance (10:41 / 7:26)Alcohol and hormones (14:54 / 9:42) Hormone balancing foods (15:46 / 12:45)The importance of metabolic flexibility (20:26 / 15:37) Cruciferous vegetables, soy, and hormonal health (22:33 / 17:41) Is a plant-based or vegan diet helpful for hormonal health? (29:33 / 24:54) Why muscle is so important for hormonal health (32:31 / 27:45)Find out more about Dr. Gottfried at https://www.saragottfriedmd.com and learn more about becoming a patient of Dr. Gottfried's Precision Medicine practice at https://marcusinstitute.jeffersonhealth.org/.Get Dr. Gottfried's book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amanda Leigh is a health, happiness and hair mineral analysis expert and the owner of The Sozo Method. Amanda has helped women since 2012 transform from the inside out through balancing their minerals, becoming emotionally fit, and doing the inner work to become the best versions of themselves. She has a background in women's wellness and fitness as both a health fitness coach, and an associate health and wellness director of the YMCA. With a BS in women's studies, CF Level One, Hormone Cure certification along with Hair Mineral Analysis and functional testing training she helps women balance their bodies, minds, and souls to be fully well. She prides herself on getting to the root of hormonal imbalance, gut infections and emotional chaos causing the issues our bodies are experiencing. This week's episode captures a conversation between Kari and our guest, Amanda Leigh.  Amanda is here to share and educate us about the minerals in our bodies and how imbalances in these crucial minerals may present. The ladies discuss the HTMA test and other testing modalities used to check mineral levels. Kari and Amanda talk about the under-appreciated mineral, copper, and the important role the mineral plays in our emotional, mental, and physical health. Connect with Amanda→

Check out our sponsors:  Athletic Greens: Go to https://athleticgreens.com/lisa and receive a FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase! Blinkist: Go to https://blinkist.com/woi Try it FREE for 7 days and save 25% off your new subscription. Girls begin going through puberty as early as 8 years old. From the moment you become aware of your body and people begin commenting on your changes, shame, discomfort, and confusion begin to settle in. While we all settle into our bodies in different ways and at different ages, the harsh reality is that 53% of American girls are not happy with their bodies by 13 years of age and by 17 the amount of unhappy girls grows to 78%! Behind the onslaught of body image issues and societal pressures that mark the barometer of where you fall on the ‘acceptance meter,' are a mounting number of quietly misdiagnosed hormonal issues. Dr. Sara Gottefried is a Harvard and M.I.T. graduate, medical physician, and NY Times bestselling author of, The Hormone Cure. She shines light on the issues women are having with being properly diagnosed, treated and even heard on health issues that have been sold as not being related. As females, the number of factors that impact our hormones, our moods, our ability to function and feel like we have worth and value is mind-blowing. Dr. Gottfried is sharing some of the issues, their sources, how to resolve them and most importantly how to speak up confidently for yourself. She's debunking myths about what's the best diet for you and misconceptions around the “man hormone” testosterone and why it's so critical for female health.   “Genetics loads the gun and food pulls the trigger”   SHOW NOTES:   Misconceptions | Ways women can take ownership of their health and transparent risks [0:51] Testosterone | Why testosterone can cause problems with confidence and empowerment [4:15] Hormones | Identifying hormonal issues, and why cortisol is a big concern to watch for [7:13] Precision Medicine | How it starts with diet, lifestyle, & nutrition observed with wearables [13:34] Average Treatment | Dr. Gottfried shares reality of how medicine for the average works [16:58] After 40 | How hormonal changes affect women and allows us to speak our truth more [20:35] Food Plan | How to use elimination diet to assess how food is impacting your health,  [24:15] Eating for Hormones | Connecting the dots between your food, hormones and mood [32:05] Body Messages | Stop ignoring the messages your body is sending you  [38:33] Antibiotics | The havoc antibiotics caused Dr. Gottfried's microbiome, changing it by 87% [43:28] Feeling Shame | How shame is holding you back from being honest about your health [46:29] Confidence | Feeling okay with challenging your doctor and getting hormones checked [52:38] Fertility Value | Women not given full evaluation and tests based on not wanting kids [54:52] Gut Related | Dr Gottfried explains why gut health has everything to do with estrogen [57:10] Nutrigenomics | How genetics predict food and nutrient response to gluten, salt, caffeine [58:30]   QUOTES:   “Whatever you're experiencing, is your truth, and you don't need a doctor to validate that for you.”  [2:35]   “When it comes to your hormones. Your food is the backbone of the hormones that you make.” [32:10]   “What is a perfect meal for you today might be different than 10 years ago might be different than five years from now.” [36:32]   “Women have such clear messages about what's going on in their body, and yet were invalidated when we bring them to our doctors.” [38:56]   “It is normal for women to be moody. I just want to normalize that right now, that is totally cool, like that is our superpower to use our moodiness to use our willingness to speak our truth...” [47:56]   “A big part of stepping into our power is not just not allowing a physician to disrespect you, but to not do it to yourself, like not reinforce the habit by putting up with it.” [54:11]   “Medicine is set up to reinforce fertility in women.” [55:34]   “Genetics is part of the story. Environment is a bigger part of the story. So, the way that we sometimes think of it is that genetics loads the gun, but environment pulls the trigger.” [1:01:27]   “So much It is under your control the choices you make with food, the time that you go to bed tonight, the amount of morning sun that you get the, the people that you feed yourself with…” [1:04:59]   Follow Sara Gottfried: Website: https://www.saragottfriedmd.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrGottfried Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saragottfriedmd/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrGottfried/ LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgottfried/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrGottfried

Our inspiration for Sara Gottfried is double. On the one hand there is this extraordinary physician scientist who loves searching for the truth in everything she does and on the other hand, an outstanding communicator that has been able to connect deeply with practitioners and patients along the way. Sara Gottfried MD is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. She has authored three New York Times bestselling books including The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger; and her new book WOMEN, FOOD, AND HORMONES has been just released. If you ever found marketing difficult, challenging, and discomforting, in today's episode, Sara will help you have another vision of it and understand marketing as what ultimately all practitioners should be doing. Learn the what and why of amplifying your message. Topics discussed in this episode: Sara's journey in functional medicine and the influence of her great grandmother in the beginning. How an early connection with a program in bioengineering helped her have a systems-based look at the human body. How decades of listening to women and really understanding some of their challenges shaped her career path. The importance of understanding women's health differently for each patient. The role of genetics as a blueprint for health. Why you need platforms to amplify your message beyond your own patients. Her new book 'Women, Food and Hormones': what inspired her to write it and what we can expect. Follow on social #womenfoodhormones

Dr. Sara Gottfried – a pioneer in health, research, and education – has seen more than 25,000 patients over the past two decades. She's a physician scientist, who graduated from Harvard Medical School and MIT, and completed her Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Gottfried is the Director of Precision Medicine at The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, at Thomas Jefferson University, where she specializes in identifying the underlying causes of her patient's conditions to achieve lasting health transformation, not just symptom management. Dr. Gottfried has published five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, such as The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book has just been published, Women Food and Hormones. In this episode, Dr. Casey Means, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels, and Dr. Gottfried covered a number of topics from her new book. LINKS New insights from continuous glucose monitoring into the route to diabetes Proposed guidelines to evaluate scientific validity and evidence for genotype-based dietary advice Michael Snyder Marcus Institute of Integrative Health Sara Gottfried Become a Levels Member – levelshealth.com Learn about Metabolic Health – levelshealth.com/blog Follow Levels on Social – @Levels on Instagram and Twitter

For full show notes, resources mentioned, and transcripts go to: www.drmindypelz.com/ep88/  To enroll in Dr. Mindy's Fasting membership go to: resetacademy.drmindypelz.com This episode is all about what food we should be eating to improve our hormonal balance. Plus, we talk about birth control, the carnivore diet, and psychedelics. Sara Gottfried MD is a board-certified gynecologist and physician scientist. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her new book coming out in September 2021 AND AVAILABLE NOW FOR PREORDER is called WOMEN, FOOD, AND HORMONES. Pick up your copy of Dr. Gottfried's new book on Amazon, B&N or wherever books are sold. Please see our medical disclaimer. 

Hormonal Imbalances Can Ruin Your Life, Here's How to Fix Them | This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker.Mainstream medicine often fails us when it comes to hormonal imbalances. Hormones aren't commonly tested, even when there is a high likelihood of an issue (like cortisol in our overly stressed culture). Since there are so many hormones that can become dysregulated, presenting with a wide variety of symptoms, many of the symptoms are written off to aging and never addressed. In this episode of The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru takes a deep dive into the topic of hormonal imbalances with Dr. Sara Gottfried, along with what you can do to get them back on track. Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified physician who graduated from Harvard and MIT. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and Functional Medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her three New York Times bestselling books include The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book is Women, Food, and Hormones. In this episode, we dive into: -Common hormone imbalances that have become normalized in society (7:25)-Signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances (11:35) -Dr. Gottfried's personal journey of learning how to balance her hormones (20:25) -The top 3 things to prioritize when addressing hormone imbalances (34:46) -Understanding the unique biology of women when it comes to balancing hormones (44:12) -How to uncover the root cause of hormone imbalances (50:10) -How chronic cardio negatively impacts cortisol levels (58:39) -The top 3 mistakes when it comes to diet and how it impacts our hormones (1:05:59)-How to improve metabolic flexibility (1:10:11) -The key pillars of The Gottfried Protocol (1:23:21) Also mentioned in this episode:-Breathing Zone App - https://breathing.zone/ -Perceived Stress Scale Test - https://www.bemindfulonline.com/test-your-stress -Continuous Glucose Monitors - -Levels - levels.link/dhru-January AI - https://january.ai-ZOE - https://joinzoe.com/-NutriSense - https://www.nutrisense.io/-Abbott - https://www.abbott.com/-Dexcom - https://www.dexcom.com/-Keto-Mojo (ketone and glucose monitor) - https://keto-mojo.com/ For more on Dr. Gottfried you can follow her on Instagram @saragottfriedmd, on Facebook @drgottfried, on Twitter @gottfriedsara, on YouTube @drgottfried, and through her website https://www.saragottfriedmd.com. Get her book Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again, at https://amzn.to/3lopln5. To learn more about becoming a patient in Dr. Gottfried's Precision Medicine practice, go to https://marcusinstitute.jeffersonhealth.org/For more on Dhru Purohit, be sure to follow him on Instagram @dhrupurohit, on Facebook @dhruxpurohit, on Twitter @dhrupurohit, and on YouTube @dhrupurohit. You can also text Dhru at (302) 200-5643 or click here https://my.community.com/dhrupurohit.Sign up for Dhru's Try This Newsletter - https://dhrupurohit.com/newsletter.Interested in joining The Dhru Purohit Podcast Facebook Community? Submit your request to join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2819627591487473/.This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker.It's really important to me to source my meat from a place I can trust. ButcherBox only partners with farmers and ranchers who believe in going above and beyond when it comes to caring for animals, the environment, and sustainability. For a limited time, new subscribers to ButcherBox will receive 2 lbs of 100% grass-fed, grass finished beef free in every box for the life of your subscription. To get this limited time offer go to ButcherBox.com/DHRU.InsideTracker looks at everything from metabolic and inflammatory markers to nutrients and hormones. It even tests your cortisol levels to help you better manage stress and you have the option to see how your inner age compares to your chronological age. Traditional lab tests can be hard to read on your own, but InsideTracker makes their results easy to understand and even provides tips on how to use food first for optimal nutrition. Right now, they're offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Kari Ferguson is the author of "The OCD Mormon" and "For and In Behalf Of" and creator of the blog, "Of Faith and Great Anxiety." She is a current member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and has served as Primary and Relief Society President.  Kari runs the bookstore Oh Hello Again (ohhelloagain.com) in Seattle. She received her MA in Communication, Culture and Society from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and her BS from Brigham Young University. Kari lives in Seattle, WA with her husband, two children, two bunnies, and giant puppy.   Kari's book https://amzn.to/30N5iF6, Vice Article https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qjzm/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-dirt-cleanliness-how-i-have-sex, Website https://www.faithandanxiety.com/   Full Transcript: 0:00:00.3 Narrator: Welcome to Improving Intimacy, a podcast to help single and married Latter-day Saints strengthen their family connections and marriages. Daniel A. Burgess is the host of Improving Intimacy. Daniel's a marriage and family therapist, father, husband, and author. Here's Daniel on this episode of Improving Intimacy.   [music]   0:00:28.6 Daniel A. Burgess: Welcome to another episode of Improving Intimacy. Today I'm excited to have a special guest with us, Kari Ferguson, who is the author of OCD Mormon. Oh, did I get the title right? The OCD Mormon. I'm curious, have you even been interested or wanting to change the title now with the whole name change? Or have you felt like, "No, I'm gonna accept this."? I'm curious about that title. What has been your thoughts?   0:00:57.7 Kari Ferguson: We published it and then... 'Cause that's what my blog was called before, and then they had the whole, "Don't call yourselves Mormons," and... I don't know. We were just like, "Oh, whatever," I guess. That was who I was known as, is that at that point I thought it was just... I don't know. [chuckle]   0:01:14.7 DB: In the...   0:01:15.6 KF: Yeah, it's good for my scrupulosity as well, in a weird way.   0:01:18.7 DB: That's what I was wondering.   0:01:19.6 KF: Yeah, because of... Yeah, I have to keep it that. I'm bucking against what the church tells me to do.   [chuckle]   0:01:28.1 DB: Yeah, this is your form of exposure therapy.   0:01:31.5 KF: Exactly.   0:01:32.2 DB: Okay, I gotta accept it.   0:01:34.0 KF: I can't change it, yeah. It's out there.   0:01:35.6 DB: Well, I'm excited. I've been thinking about this a lot, and you and I were talking offline just a minute ago about why didn't I find you until now? In fact, when did you publish the book? How long ago?   0:01:47.1 KF: It came out in September of 2017.   0:01:50.6 DB: Okay, so not too long ago.   0:01:52.6 KF: Yeah, it's about three, four years ago now, yeah.   0:01:55.4 DB: A friend of mine who... So for my audience who doesn't know, I actually deal with a large amount of anxiety, something I've actually been coming to terms with it, or rather discovering more over the most recent years here, and have been reaching out to some friends and family.   0:02:13.1 DB: I have made a good friend with someone and we were talking about this this morning about, "Let's write our story about this," and he's like, "Yeah, this is so triggering for us." And I don't know if I can, I've got myself into a good place. I'm curious, so let's start off there. We'll get into some of the meat here and I have some quotes from your book that I really, really valued. I wanna start off that way, what motivated you to write this book, especially as somebody who struggles with anxiety and putting your story out there.   0:02:47.5 KF: For sure.   0:02:50.2 DB: What made you decide to do that?   0:02:51.8 KF: Yeah, well, I've always been a writer, so that's how I emotionally process things, I guess. So just for me, that was the logical step I would say. But I went through, like I wrote in the book, I went through a really intense OCD breakdown, we'll say, without knowing what it was, and then I finally got help with the help of my husband and therapy and medication.   0:03:17.6 KF: And I made a friend at church who also has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and so we had been talking about it, and I just, I thought, "There are a lot of people in our religion who have anxiety, who have these problems, but we don't know what to call it. We don't know what it is, we don't even know that it's a mental illness really." And I thought, "I'm gonna start a blog just about that, about having this issue as a Latter-day Saint, and maybe I could help some people."   0:03:55.6 KF: Because for me, if I had known 10 years before, it would've been a lot easier if I had realized fully what it meant and how I could get help, it would have changed my whole married life and my mission and everything. So I thought, "I can use my skill that I have, my writing, in order to help other people."   0:04:14.2 KF: So I started the blog, I think it was in... I don't know, 2016, summer. And so I just did that and it got sort of popular, not huge or anything, not viral, but enough that I was like, "I could write a book about this." And so I started just in general, "Mental illness in Latter-day Saints."   0:04:39.1 KF: And then on Twitter, I had this friend who's an LDS author named Mette Harrison, and so she kinda was my mentor and helped me really form the book, and she's like, "No, you need to go into your story personally. Don't be general, don't talk about... That's too much, that's too broad, all mental illnesses in LDS faith." So she really was like, "No, focus in. This is what you're known for. Write about having OCD and your story."   0:05:09.7 KF: So I did, and yeah, Cedar Fort said, "Yeah, this is great." The person who read my submission had a sister I think with scrupulosity, and so she was like, "Yes, we need this in the church and in the discourse."   0:05:26.3 DB: Well, I wanna explore more, 'cause you made it sound so easy to get this written here, and I am confident even though I don't know your story in getting the book published, I'm assuming it wasn't that simple or easy. But let's define this for the audience here. We've said a couple of times this word "scrupulosity" and "OCD." Explain, what is OCD and what is scrupulosity? How are they the same and how are they different?   0:05:54.9 KF: Okay. OCD, obviously Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, so by nature you have these thoughts that keep coming, and then it leads you to do things in order to make yourself feel better. So for instance, you have a thought like, "My hands are dirty," and so you say, "Okay, well, I have to wash my hands," but then your brain says, "Oh, well, you didn't wash them well enough." And so then you have to keep washing your hands or you touch something and then, "Oh, your hands are dirty. You have to wash your hands again."   0:06:26.0 KF: So it's this kind of call and response where your brain is saying, "Oh, something's wrong, something's wrong," and then you physically... There's even mental OCD as well where they do mental compulsions, so it doesn't have to be a physical compulsion. But anything that you do to try and relieve these thoughts that you're having, if it's enough that it's causing you disturbance to your life, to your day, to your life, then it becomes OCD, where it's a disorder and you need... You should get treatment or help.   0:07:00.3 DB: It interferes with your life.   0:07:01.0 KF: Yeah, if it interferes with your life, exactly. And then scrupulosity specifically is a type of OCD. And that's something I didn't really know at first, was that there were different types of OCD. 'Cause people just throw around OCD so flippantly. Like, "Oh, I like to have books organized, I'm so OCD." But it's not an adjective. It's a disorder and it's serious.   0:07:23.3 KF: See, I didn't realise there were so many different types until I went to therapy, and people were telling all their different stories, and I was like, "Oh my gosh, all these things are OCD that I've had." [chuckle] But scrupulosity is religious OCD basically. And so it has to do with maybe worthiness or things like, "Oh, I'm not good enough" or, "Oh, I'm not worthy to go in the temple" or, "Oh, I shouldn't have said that thing." Anything that relates to our religious upbringing and our thoughts there.   0:07:53.8 DB: But wait a second, you just described empathy, right? I said something wrong, I may have hurt somebody's feelings.   0:08:04.2 KF: Yeah.   0:08:04.6 DB: What's the difference between empathy and...   0:08:09.0 KF: And repentance.   0:08:09.5 DB: And reasonableness, and repentance. So what's the difference? Help the listener know.   0:08:15.2 KF: Yeah, that's something my therapist and I talked about, and he was not... He's not LDS. But he said, "It's so hard with scrupulosity and people who deal with that, because a lot of times for them, it's like the therapist versus God." And who is gonna win that? Obviously, God is gonna win that. Right?   0:08:31.9 DB: Yes.   0:08:32.1 KF: For a religious person, you're gonna say, "No, this is like the Spirit telling me I'm doing something wrong and I need to repent." So it can be really difficult to say, "Okay, where is this line between this is a mental illness and it's telling me I'm doing everything wrong, and I actually am doing something wrong and I need to repent and change." So it's really difficult.   0:08:57.8 KF: For me, my OCD really started with scrupulosity back in college. And yeah, I just thought it was I'm having a "come to Jesus" moment and I'm realizing all these horrible things I'm doing wrong. And so I really, I beat myself up and I... So many issues. I couldn't be alone really, 'cause I was worried and my brain would just keep going and I would say, "I have to fast on this random Thursday because I need help," and nothing was helping.   0:09:27.3 KF: I would take a nap and I remember one time I had sleep paralysis, which I never had before, where you can't, your body can't move. "Is it something? This is not normal." And so, I don't know, I think I realized that then, that something wasn't normal, but I didn't actually get help until 10 years later. I did go on medication then.   0:09:48.3 DB: Wow.   0:09:48.4 KF: But yeah, I didn't really understand what it was, or the other things that it could cause. So it is really difficult. I think if you're... If you know, Mormons, we tend to know... Or LDS, sorry. We tend to know what is right and wrong. Right? And if you're really pushing yourself past the normal right and wrong...   0:10:11.0 KF: If you're worried about every single thing, and it's so bad to the point where you feel like you can't be alone, or that's all you think about, or you're so worried that God hates you. Or whatever, these are kind of warning signs that, you probably have a problem.   0:10:27.3 DB: Big time.   0:10:27.7 KF: And you should get help.   0:10:30.0 DB: Yes.   0:10:30.0 KF: Because it should not feel like that. God does not want you to feel like you're a terrible person all the time. That's not what Heavenly Father wants for us. So if you are feeling like that...   0:10:40.0 DB: That's an excellent...   0:10:41.2 KF: You'll be fine, yeah.   0:10:42.7 DB: Yeah, that's an excellent point, and I think it's... You're right, this is one of the most difficult things, mental health issues, to identify within our faith, because it's one of the few mental health struggles that we actually praise. So for example, we reinforce scrupulosity a lot in the church and we idolize people who have it.   0:11:11.1 DB: And we don't even know that they have it, or they may not even recognize they have it. Usually it's in the context of, "I study the Scripture for two hours a day. I pray for 30 minutes twice a day."   [chuckle]   0:11:22.6 KF: It's not healthy, really.   0:11:24.1 DB: No, it's not healthy, but yet it's the focus. When we see people like that, we admire them, we often say, "Wow, I wish I had that." Let me clarify, these are non-scholars, non-BYU professors, non-religious teachers. It's one thing to have a... Sorry.   0:11:44.1 KF: Yeah, exactly, exactly. And after realizing this, I read through the Book of Mormon, and I'm like, "Oh man, Jacob, I'm worried about Jacob." I feel like he probably had... He even says that he has, "My great anxiety of faith and great anxiety in my soul." I'm like, you feel bad for him, because they probably we're dealing with these things. Even Enos, praying all day and all night, like... I don't know. [chuckle] Maybe...   0:12:07.8 DB: I've even thought... I love that you bring that up because I've even thought about Nephi's prayer or his poem. It's, "O wretched man that I am." And I'm like, holy cow, this...   0:12:21.3 KF: Right? It's been around the whole time, we just didn't have the words to describe it. Even my therapist said, I think Martin Luther, they think had OCD, who began basically the whole Protestant Reformation. [chuckle] Which makes sense, he was very worried about everything. And so, I don't know. It's good and bad.   0:12:41.4 DB: It is.   0:12:42.6 KF: Yeah.   0:12:44.6 DB: It's a fine line, because clearly, there's nothing wrong with people who wanna study the Scriptures for two or three hours a day, and that's not, I'm not exaggerating.   0:12:55.0 KF: Yeah.   0:12:57.0 DB: But like going back to your earlier definition, it's when it interferes with your life. One of the measurements I use is if you place those concepts of perfection above your loved ones, and above your relationship with God, and you base your relationship with God off of those measurements, you may have scrupulosity.   0:13:23.7 KF: Yes, yes. No, I totally, I totally agree. And that's the point it gets to, and like I said, for me, I wish it had gotten... I realized that it was scrupulosity, and so the OCD didn't branch out into other areas of my life. Because it did. 'Cause OCD, if you get used to it in one way, it will try and get you in another way eventually.   0:13:46.5 DB: Yes.   0:13:47.2 KF: Yeah, I don't know. It's a tricky thing.   0:13:50.2 DB: Personally, I don't know if I would define myself having elements of scrupulosity, but as someone who does battle with anxiety and ADHD, my personality type is very different from what those we tend to admire in the church, somebody who, going back to that example of routine Scripture study. Now, I used to force myself and judge my worthiness based off of my ability to perform like somebody else, let's use the word neurotypical person.   0:14:29.6 DB: When I came to grips that my form of study and prayer takes on a very different look than somebody who's neurotypical, it was a breath of fresh air. And to be okay with that, the way I study, the way I pray, I felt closer to God immediately when I put off this... It gets me upset now, when I get people who bear their testimony, who says, "If you study the Scriptures the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning, you will be closer... " I go, "Nope, that's number one way to upset me and draw me further away from God."   [chuckle]   0:15:07.6 KF: Yes, everyone, it's so, that's so true. We all worship in different ways, and that I think that's meant to be, but we, for some reason in the church we're taught, "This is the way you do it." And so, yeah, for me it was like with the scrupulosity it was like, I felt so much duty, like my relationship with the church was really just like, "I have to do these things because this is what I've committed to do. And this is how you get to heaven."   0:15:33.8 KF: And so it was very like, this is my duty that I have to do this, if that makes sense? It wasn't so much out of love. I have testimony, but it wasn't like I'm doing this because I love the Savior, necessarily. The first and foremost was like, "Okay, this is what I have to do because this is what God expects me to do. And this is what I've covenanted with Him to do. And my family, I have an eternal family, they're relying on me to stay true," and all of these things.   0:16:00.3 KF: It was like all this pressure that you have to keep doing it in a certain way. But it's really unhealthy, and you get to a point where you're just like, "I can't, I can't anymore," and you have to realise maybe you don't have to accept every single calling, or maybe you don't have to be the perfect ministering sister or brother. Because I'm an introvert and it's hard for me to do certain things, but other things I can do really well.   0:16:30.5 KF: Even listening to general conference, I don't get much out of it, but reading it, I can. Where my husband is basically the opposite 'cause he has ADHD. So yeah, everyone is different, and it's fine. That's, we're made this way, it's not a sin to have mental illnesses or developmental...   0:16:47.4 DB: Differences.   0:16:48.2 KF: Differences of any kind. Yeah.   0:16:51.1 DB: So I'm gonna read off of page seven in your book. What was... It touched me to just... I struggle to put words into what I experience on this. Again, I may have some degree of scrupulosity, as I looked more and more inward, I don't think I fit the classic definition definitely, but again, it may be more of my anxiety and ADHD, just the differences in approach, but I loved what you said here on page seven.   0:17:22.4 DB: It says, "I spent evenings alone wanting to burst into tears but not feeling like it would do any good. I questioned why God would let me end up here alone. I wondered why I felt guilty and why I worried about every single thing. I was at a loss for what to do with myself. Uncertainty ate away at my sanity, and I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown at any second. Last year, I did, and it was a surprise because I have always coped."   0:18:01.3 DB: What I would have said well, with my anxiety, I think because ironically, my ADD allowed me to break free of rigidity, and I actually think I was blessed with ADHD, for that reason. I don't know if "blessed" is the right word, 'cause that's not fair to others, but it definitely allowed me to cope.   0:18:29.7 DB: I fortunately have a wife who is like, "Tell me, share with me," and I never felt like I could. It's like, "You really wanna know what's going on in here?" And as I shared, now she's like, Oh, this is what... " In fact, yesterday, Sunday, I was having a really bad day. And when we came home from church, we're going to church now, and I told her, I said, "I can't even be touched, I can't. This is, I'm feeling overwhelmed. I have to go isolate myself."   0:19:02.2 DB: And she goes, "Oh my goodness, I had no idea." This is how I've pretended for so long. Are you wanting me to share this with you? I have felt alone, even in the midst of the most beautiful support system, because I don't feel like people could relate to me. When I read that paragraph, it tells me you know exactly what that was like. Share with me. Well, I guess...   0:19:35.0 KF: Yeah, yeah, no...   0:19:37.8 DB: Let me formulate that question a little bit better here. You said earlier... Well, in general, you have so much insight right now about why you did things, and you wish you'd known this 10 years earlier.   0:19:53.7 KF: Yeah.   0:19:54.4 DB: But the truth of the matter, most people with scrupulosity will not receive that information.   0:20:00.3 KF: No.   0:20:00.6 DB: Do you feel... 'Cause as I look at this and I say, "If somebody told me 10, 15, 20 years ago, I would have said, 'What are you talking about?'"   0:20:09.4 KF: Right. Yeah, especially in college.   0:20:10.6 DB: Even with just anxiety.   0:20:12.0 KF: Yeah. Right.   0:20:12.9 DB: Do you feel like you would have listened to your... You, 10...   0:20:17.3 KF: No, no. Well, you know, it's interesting, when I was writing the book, I got out my old journals. I had journalled through college, basically. And so I was reading from this time period of when it went... When it went down, when it was really bad, like I wrote about there. And I was just reading like, "Oh my gosh."   0:20:38.1 KF: And then I read about how, I went back to BYU, I was doing an internship at the time in Seattle. And so I went back to BYU and went to the health center, so I was like, "I'm gonna... You know, I need to get help of some kind." My mum's a nurse, so she was like, "Just go to the health center and tell them." And I had written down in my journal, like, "I went to the health center and they told me I had obsessive compulsive disorder."   0:21:01.4 KF: And I was like, "What? I knew. They told me." So exactly, I was told, but it just like, it went over my head. They didn't really... They must not have explained or I wasn't ready to accept that that's what I had. I don't know, and that's how I got on medication, was that visit. But I literally, until I re-read it, that journal years later, I was like, "What? They told me. I didn't know." Literally, it didn't come to me. So that's your answer, they did tell me and I was like, "No, no, I'm not gonna listen."   0:21:37.0 DB: Yes...   0:21:37.4 KF: "I don't care." Yeah.   0:21:39.1 DB: So I guess, the next question is, this is what I... What I think is the most difficult aspect about this, is, one, being able to recognize that this is actually a problem.   0:21:49.4 KF: Right.   0:21:49.9 DB: We've reinforced this within our church culture to idolize admire and even encourage this type of behaviour, thinking it's good.   0:22:00.6 KF: Yeah.   0:22:01.7 DB: I get a lot of pushback when I identify this, especially around sexuality.   0:22:06.3 KF: Yes.   0:22:07.1 DB: Which is what I deal with the majority of the time, is, "Are you telling me not to listen to the prophets? Are you telling me to not be perfect?" How would you recommend, knowing what you know now, to talk and to... I realise we can't convince people, but...   0:22:27.0 KF: Right.   0:22:27.8 DB: What are your thoughts? How would you go about helping people recognize this?   0:22:32.1 KF: Yeah, you know, it is so hard. When I was writing the book and publishing it, I was really Society president at the time as well.   0:22:41.9 DB: It's alright.   0:22:42.7 KF: So it was like also I had this overwhelming calling. And so I was able to talk with a lot of sisters and realise like "Oh, they have mental health problems." And the ones who did and knew, they felt more comfortable talking to me because I was so open about my mental health issues. And so it was actually a benefit having that openness.   0:23:07.5 KF: So I don't know, it's, I think those of us who do have mental health issues need to be more open at church about it and more vocal about it. Because then those people who do have it, but maybe don't realise it, can start saying, "Oh, I recognize that in myself." Or, "Oh yeah, I've done that." And then you get that seed planted.   0:23:30.7 KF: And it does take years sometimes for people to be diagnosed with anxiety or OCD. Anxiety is more when people are like, "Oh yeah, I have anxiety." I don't know, everybody seems like they're willing to admit that. But yeah, I don't know, so for me, it's like...   0:23:47.0 DB: It's an acceptable mental health issue.   0:23:48.7 KF: It's an acceptable. Exactly. Where scrupulosity it's like, "No, that's good you're like that." So I think also church leadership, which they've done a lot better recently, really begins to say like, "Okay, this is an issue that we have," stating it and coming out and being really just, yeah, really transparent about it.   0:24:08.8 DB: And, "It's okay, and this is... We don't wanna be like this. We wanna get help. It's not good to be obsessed about being worthy or perfect." I think as the more the higher-ups start to talk about it more, it will become something that people are like, "Oh, okay." You know, and Elder Holland gave a great talk a couple of years ago about that.   0:24:32.4 DB: He's great.   0:24:32.7 KF: They've done Ensign articles about these things as well. So they are working on it, I feel like. We did a conference called Anxiety Disorders in Mormonism, shortly after the book was published, and that was great. I think we had church leadership there from some department, I don't know. So you know, kind of probably checking up on us, seeing like, "Are they really teaching good things?" But also I hope it helped them to realise that this is an issue.   0:25:00.4 DB: Oh, wow.   0:25:00.5 KF: And it was sold out this conference at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. This is something in the church that we need to talk about more. So yeah, I don't know.   0:25:09.3 DB: My goodness, yes. I think that's what's interesting here is... And I apologize, I think we're on a slight delay here, so I don't mean to be talking over you. You've published this book now three years ago, or four years ago, and this is the first time I'm hearing it.   0:25:30.5 KF: Right.   0:25:30.5 DB: And I'm a mental health professional. And to your point, I am surprised. I am absolutely baffled why you haven't been on... And this is not a criticism to my colleagues, but I am surprised that you haven't been on every mental health podcast in the LDS community. Being that this is such an important topic and it is related to anxiety, depression.   0:25:57.4 DB: Even if you don't have scrupulosity specifically, this is prevalent in the church. And so you're right, this needs to get out. And so if I could do my part. I agree with you. There's kind of a paradox, because as you said, and I 100% agree. The upper leadership need to be talking about it more. But that's also kind of fueling the problem. We're waiting for our leaders of authority to say, "This is what you need to do."   0:26:28.2 KF: It's true. And you know, there is this divide, I think, with a lot of church members. I did a book signing at a church book store in Washington after the book came out. I was sitting there and I have the books, and I heard someone walking by like, "Ugh, OCD Mormon." Like, "Oh, that doesn't matter. OCD doesn't matter" Yeah, I was like, "I'm right here." [chuckle]   0:26:53.1 KF: But it is one of the, specifically OCD is one that people don't really realise is a real mental health disorder. If that sounds... That sounds terrible, but it's true. Because we use this so flippantly, the "OCD" term. So I don't know. Yeah, it's really hard I think anxiety is an easier one, people will say, "Okay, yeah, you have anxiety."   0:27:14.4 KF: But all the mental illnesses is really are so co-morbid with each other where you can have one and the other. They kind of like to pair up and be friends, which is not fun. So yeah, I have OCD, but I also do have anxiety, generally. I've been having suicidal thoughts before because of all of these things. So they really, they all go hand in hand. And they can get so deep if you don't address them, and cause other problems and cause even like physical problems.   0:27:47.5 KF: One time, I thought I was having a heart attack after my breakdown in college. And so I had to go and do EKG testing. So I thought I was having heart attack.   0:27:57.8 DB: I've been there.   0:27:58.5 KF: Yeah, it's like if you're having these things, there's something wrong and let's get help, because it's available, and it's great. When I went to the BYU Health Center and they just gave me the medication. And there wasn't, as I remember, not really a discussion about other options. I think a lot of us do want just like, "Okay, give me the drugs, and I'll be fine." We don't wanna put in the work and put in the time.   0:28:25.8 KF: Because we're so busy too, in the church. We're so busy. We have all these callings, and we have our kids, and we have this, and the school, and all the jobs. And it's like, "When do I have time to go to a therapist? When am I gonna do that?" But it's so...   0:28:39.3 DB: We need an immediate solution.   0:28:41.4 KF: Yeah, we want the immediate solution. And the medication is great. It helps kind of take it down a notch, at least for me, and I don't know for you if you're on anything. But being in therapy just helps you understand why and what it really is, and how you can behaviourally take care of it and get better, and when it comes up in other areas, you recognize it more, than just taking a medication.   0:29:09.0 KF: It really, yeah, therapy is so important. And it's so hard to get, for some people. It's hard to find the right therapist. It's hard to get an appointment with a therapist. These are things that are also obstacles, that are huge, yeah.   0:29:22.3 DB: And one... And you addressed this in the book very well. I have so many questions. This is such an exciting topic for me, so let me organize my thoughts here. Because you brought up this and you talk about this in the book really well too. It's one thing to find a therapist and to find a therapist who really knows how to address this.   0:29:41.9 KF: Yes.   0:29:42.2 DB: But before... Before I ask that question, I wanna talk about the nuance around this. And one of the things that really prevents, I believe, prevents us from, at least in the church community, that... Recognizing we need help. Is, what we perceive is the spiritual... And I'm curious, 'cause I don't remember you talking about this in the book, or at least bringing it up, is what we perceive as the spiritual reward we get when we are following our scrupulosity.   0:30:15.8 DB: I often hear people will say, "Are you telling me this is a mental illness? When I read for two hours a day, I pray repetitiously. I feel closer to the Lord." That.   0:30:31.0 KF: Right. "You're telling me that's wrong?" Yeah.   0:30:34.2 DB: How do we... Is that something you experienced? And if you did, how did you address it?   0:30:40.9 KF: Yeah, it is something that is so hard. And I've been doing research for a different project about generational differences in worship. And so I was reading articles, and there's actually, they're doing experiments, and they actually use LDS people, which I thought was great for these experiments, about... Neuroscientists and neurologists are doing this, about how our brain reacts to religion. I read this article, it's called Your Brain on God. And this doctor...   0:31:13.3 DB: Great article out of University of Utah.   0:31:16.6 KF: Yeah, yeah, and just basically how our brain over, probably over the thousands of years since we came up with religion, our brains have become... Yeah, religion helps. It turns on different parts of our brain, like the responses for pleasure. Like cause and effect. We're like, "Oh yeah." So we pray and we feel better about it. And it's literally hard-wired into our brain to feel that way now with religious experiences. Especially for LDS people, apparently.   0:31:47.4 KF: So yeah, if you talk about God or something in the experiment, and you probably know as well as I do, but yeah, they were happier. And so it really is part of our brain. But it's just like a drug where you can get addicted to that in a way. And that sounds awful, right? Probably people will be like, "Oh, you can't say you're addicted to religion, it's not bad, it's good."   0:32:13.3 KF: But God also says moderation in all things, and for the average person, average LDS individual, I don't think He wants us praying two hours a day or reading two hours of Scriptures a day. There's so many... He wants us to be with our family and enjoying the Earth and being good examples out of our own home. So it's hard. It's really... [chuckle] I don't know if I answered any question. But it's hard, yeah.   0:32:39.4 DB: It is hard. You did. And actually, that research, I'm glad you brought it up because it's one that I've written about and we talked a lot about, you bring it up, it's like a drug. It actually shows something quite the opposite, and this is what I mean. We've been doing a lot of brain scans around people who are behaviourally addicted to pornography or these other things, forms of media.   0:33:08.5 DB: And they found that this brain response of studying the Scriptures and following the leaders or reading quotes from the prophets, lit up the brain in a similar way as those who look at porn. And so what we've been identifying, what some of the best researchers have been identifying, is there's something else going on that's beyond this chemical addiction.   0:33:32.4 DB: Which is not like a drug, actually. It's what we are creating in our belief system, what we're expecting to receive from it. And so, what we're identifying is we need to redefine how we experience those relationships. So I think you actually did answer the question, is I don't need to read three hours a day to have this feeling of closeness with the Lord. I can create this in a way that's pleasing to Him, in a way that's more appropriate for me.   0:34:09.3 KF: Right.   0:34:09.8 DB: Does that make sense?   0:34:10.8 KF: Yes, more is not always better, you know?   0:34:13.7 DB: Correct.   0:34:15.8 KF: Yeah, it's interesting, and I read this book, I'm trying to see if I have it here on myself. About George Albert Smith, with the prophet and how he, basically his... Youu know, he had mental illness, mental health problems, but they didn't really diagnose it 'cause he was back in the...   0:34:37.1 DB: I love this example.   0:34:38.6 KF: Yeah, and reading it, I was like, "Oh, he has anxiety obviously, and probably obsessive-compulsive disorder." And they tried to do ridiculous things to the poor man, like, "You have to live outside in the back cottage, "or all these just crazy things, "You have to take time off from being an apostle," and all of these things.   0:34:58.0 KF: And I just, it helped me feel better about my own problems 'cause I'm like, "Okay, even the prophet had this." And I think it allowed him to be more empathetic when he became prophet, he was prophet right after World War II. And so I think having those experiences and having the mental health problems that he did, I think it made him the prophet he needed to be for that time period, even though it was awful and he didn't have the correct treatment because they didn't have it then really.   0:35:29.5 KF: But to know like, "Okay, it can be a blessing in some ways," like you said. It could be awful too. And so it is awful, but it can help us learn empathy and learn different skills that the Lord can then use to help the Kingdom. I don't know.   0:35:49.0 DB: I believe it was George Albert Smith, 'cause as I was telling you offline, I've done such extensive research, sometimes stories cross, so I hope I'm remembering correctly, and I find it was a missed opportunity when we're studying him as a prophet, that they didn't include that in the material. And how he would actually isolate himself in California for months at a time, to escape it all and to recover. What a benefit that would be to here as a church community. I think... And I have no idea. I am...   [overlapping conversation]   0:36:22.1 KF: Needed to do that for his mental health. Yeah.   0:36:25.1 DB: Yes. And I don't wanna pretend I know what the leadership is thinking when they develop this material, but maybe my only guess is maybe they don't want us to have a negative light on George Albert Smith. But I don't know. I thought that would be... So when I teach that lesson that I sometimes get asked to teach, I make sure I include that. It's like, oh my goodness, isn't he more relatable now? Isn't it make you feel good?   0:36:53.8 KF: Yeah. I even think about Christ when He had to go and He would go up into the mountains and pray by Himself, I'm like, "Yeah, I relate to that needing to get away from all of the people and all the things going on around you, and just have the solitude." I'm like, "Yeah, I can relate to that." Or just being asleep in the boat and, "Go take care of it yourselves." [chuckle] Solve the problem on your own.   0:37:17.4 DB: Absolutely.   0:37:18.5 KF: I think it does, it humanizes everyone, these leaders. And just, you know, the thing is, it's sad, but like you said, there's such a negative perception of mental illness, not just in the church, but everywhere. And so end of therapy and things like that, and people think, "Well, I'm not being good enough, or I'm not praying enough if I'm depressed." If you're unhappy, you're just not being a good enough Latter-day Saints.   0:37:52.5 KF: And you hear that a lot, like, "You just have to pray it away, or fast more or pull up your bootstraps." And it's...   0:37:58.0 DB: Correct.   0:38:00.9 KF: That's not the right way to deal with this. I think it's hard to change that demographic of the church and of society, that thinks that like mental illness is a personal weaknesses. Because it's not. It's not a sin, it's not a weakness. It's a real thing, just like if you had cancer or if you had endometriosis or whatever. It's a real illness.   0:38:29.0 DB: But to your earlier point, I'm gonna come back to that other question, is when we do seek help... So let's step out of even the LDS community right now, let's talk about the medical community. So I'm putting the pieces together myself over the years and I had a nervous breakdown, oh, I don't remember the year now, it might have been around 2006 or 7, and I thought I was...   0:38:57.2 DB: So your story about heart attack hit home for me because I remember checking myself in, and thought I was dying. At that time, I was also 265 pounds, and so I thought I was prime heart attack whatever, and I checked myself in and they did all the tests and they're like, "You're fine."   0:39:19.6 DB: I said, "I am not fine." And they looked at me like I was crazy, like, "Get out of here." It felt like it was more just they were protecting themselves from liability to keep me there, and I was of course feeling a lot of shame like, "I don't understand. I am... " You can't even describe. People who have had a severe panic attack understand. And that's what it ended up being.   0:39:50.1 DB: But there was no... No one sat me down and said, "Look, what we believe is happening here and how we think we can help this... " I realise it was an emergency urgent care facility, but that also goes to the point. Our society, we're now in 2020, and even with me having a nervous breakdown last year in 2020, the help and the insight...   0:40:15.8 DB: And I'm a mental health therapist and I was struggling to identify what was happening, and it's always harder when it's happening to you, but to be able to identify it and to get the help, it's just like, "Here, take this Klonopin or whatever. Let's just calm you down and get you home."   0:40:33.6 DB: And then, as you talked about in the book, and this is where my next question is, is how? It's one thing to identify that you may have a problem and then another to find a therapist who really knows how to deal with this. And as a therapist, I struggle to find people who are adequately trained to refer people to. What was your process? And I know you brought it up a little bit in your book, but how did you find the right therapist for you?   0:41:06.8 KF: Yeah, luck, really. [chuckle] No, but...   0:41:10.3 DB: It's true.   0:41:11.2 KF: It's true, it's true. I was having this... At the time, it was contamination OCD, I got really bad. And my husband was like, "This is not normal. You need help." And I was like, "No, no, I'm fine, I can do... I am a strong person, I don't need help." And he was like, "No, you need help."   0:41:32.9 KF: So I was really blessed with a husband who was really supportive and had a family with mental illness, and so he could recognize this and not take "no" for an answer really. He was like, "No, you need help." So I was like... I was too involved or too emotionally upset to even call doctors.   0:41:55.6 KF: Which, a lot of people are at that point, when you're going through a breakdown, you can't. You're not like, "Okay, let me go research all the different doctors that I could go to." No, you're having a breakdown. So I was lucky, he started calling the doctors. It was to the point where he was even calling the in-care, yeah, people like, "Can she come in and stay there?" and they're like, "No, we're full," or, "Oh, no, we don't have any appointments for two months." And he's like, "This is not... We need something now."   0:42:23.1 KF: And so he called someone, a doctor in Seattle. We were living on an island in the Puget Sound at the time, near Seattle, but he called the doctor in Seattle and he's like, "My wife's having a really hard time with this," and he's like, "Well, we have a group session tonight that she could come to. And I have a cancellation the next day too for an appointment."   0:42:48.4 KF: So it was just totally random that he called this doctor that day at that time and the cancellation. So I was very lucky, I was very lucky. I went to the group and that's when I was like, "Oh yeah, this is what I have." And then, yeah, I went to him for the appointment and he told me, "Go to your GP, general doctor and get on medication for now, because it will help you in the meantime to calm down. And then we'll work on the therapy once you can... You're well enough that you can actually do the exposure therapy and do the things that you need to do."   0:43:32.3 KF: So I went to my other doctor, got on medication, then I went home for Christmas to my parent's house with our family. And I was suicidal, having suicidal thoughts because of everything.   0:43:46.1 DB: Yeah.   0:43:46.3 KF: So I was like, "I can't go back," to this island where we lived 'cause I was like, "It's dirty, and contamination." And so we flew home and drove to Portland and started looking at houses down there to move, because we were building a house on Vashon Island, but we were like, "We need something better in the meantime that's closer to therapy," because I didn't wanna take a ferry and then drive a half hour to go to the therapist every week. I was like, "That is a two-hour commute, it's too much."   0:44:18.3 KF: So we were lucky enough that we could do that, and we bought a house down near Portland. And so I came back to my therapist and I'm like, "We're moving," and he's like, "What? What are you doing?" I'm like, "No, we need to move, various reasons." And so he said, "Well, I have a friend down there, another therapist in Portland, and I will transfer you over there." And so I was like, "Oh, great." He's like, "He's me, but in Portland."   0:44:43.2 KF: So I was like, "Okay, that's fine, that's great." So I moved down there and I met with him, and he was great. He was like... We hit it off even better than I did with the one in Seattle. And I don't know, we just, I met with him every week at first and was able to make progress on the things that we're really bad. We started with the contamination, which is really the one that was awful for me.   0:45:05.6 KF: And then once that was kind of under control, then he looked and said, "Okay, now, what else? What else is the OCD touching?" And then we were able to go to the scrupulosity or the hitting around OCD, or whatever, there's all these different sub-types. But it was just a luck, and so I feel really lucky that I had that experience. It's been really hard to...   0:45:28.3 KF: Now, I didn't... I stopped going to see him once I was better, and I was like, "Oh, I'm doing so well with this whole behavioral therapy, I know what to do now, this is great." I'm like, "I'm gonna go off my medication, I'm not... I don't need to see my therapist very much, I know what I'm doing now." And I had a total breakdown while I was writing the book, total...   0:45:57.3 DB: Wow.   0:45:58.0 KF: Right back where I was basically. And I'm like, "What it's going on? I know what I'm supposed to do." Like you, you're a therapist, you're like, "I know the tools but I can't use them myself. What is going on?" And my friend that had to come and she checked me...   0:46:13.5 DB: Let me pause you for a second. Let me pause for a second, 'cause I think this is important to emphasize to those people who don't experience this, when they're trying to be loving and supportive, that there... One of the things I discovered, really quick, I understand all the concepts, techniques and tools with grounding with mindfulness, but when your brain gets into a place of ruminating, no amount of grounding, mindfulness, breathing techniques... Now, help.   0:46:47.6 DB: And I wanna say that with a caveat, I'm not saying that, "It's not gonna be helpful. Don't do it." You definitely do it. I'm not saying don't do it. But when you're loving network, your family, your support system is getting frustrating, saying, "Aren't you doing this?" Or, "You need to do this." I think it's important for them to remember, because it may help you and get you into a good place, it does help us, but it's not the solution, and it's probably not as effective as it may be for you. Is that your experience?   0:47:27.2 KF: Yeah, for me it was like, yeah, I knew what I should be doing, but I was like, "No." I think it was pride too. I don't wanna have to go back to the therapist and tell them I failed. I know what I should be doing, but I just I can't do it. My brain, it was just like, "No, no."   0:47:47.7 DB: So you couldn't even get there, your brain wouldn't even let you do it?   0:47:51.8 KF: Yeah. I had a friend, the friend who had OCD and that I mentioned earlier, and she was like, "I'm taking you to the hospital." Because I would tell her things about going on a walk, "I could just walk out into traffic right now, it wouldn't matter." She's like, "I'm taking it in to the hospital 'cause that is not normal thoughts to have."   0:48:12.8 KF: And so I went and they gave me some drugs. And then the next day I went to my doctor and got back on medication. No, it's hard, and I think it's... Even now, I'm not going to the therapist regularly, and I'm like, "Oh, I don't need to go to the therapist," but I should, I should. Not every week, but I should check in once a month or once every three months. The accountability is important.   0:48:44.1 KF: And that's what keeps me on track, I'm on medication again, still, and that's keeping me fine, but if something happened, something major, I would probably have another... I would probably go back to the same spot. It's really hard. It's a constant, it's a life-long...   0:49:03.2 DB: Understood.   0:49:04.1 KF: Yeah, and medication doesn't always work as well as it used to, and so you have to have these tools in your toolbox and recognize like, "Okay, I can't do this on my own."   0:49:17.2 DB: I wanna be respectful of your time. I have many thoughts and questions. Are you okay if we go beyond the hour?   0:49:22.9 KF: Yeah. It's fine.   0:49:24.6 DB: And what you don't really address in the book is how this affected your intimate relationship with your husband. And not just sexually, but connection in all of it. Are you comfortable in explaining that?   0:49:43.8 KF: For sure. I mean, I laugh because I remember these instances, and to me they were like, "Oh my gosh," like life and death. But now I'm like, "What was I doing?" But when I had the contamination OCD, he would take the laundry downstairs or something, let's say, and I always say, "You have to go wash your hands." He was like, "Why." 'Cause you touched a dirty laundry, and he was like, "I'm not gonna do that," and I'm like "then you're not gonna sleep in the bed tonight."   0:50:12.3 KF: And he's like, "What?" "No, you have to sleep on the couch unless you wash your hands." And he's like, "What are you talking about?" Things like that or even just touching, he would go by and pat me on the bum or something, and I'd be like, "What are you doing? Don't touch me, don't touch me there!" He was like "What? What's the problem?"   0:50:34.7 KF: These little things that are natural husband and wife things, I'm like, "Whoa!" I'm thinking, "This is wrong, this is... You're dirty, this is awful." And yeah, even sex, I was like, "Whoa, this is dirty. We can't." It was very like, we have to have it on a certain sheet, or have sex in a certain time, or what... I take off my garments, my underwear, I have to pull them and put them in a spot, put them on like a Kleenex 'cause they're dirty. And it really ruins the the moment.   0:51:09.3 KF: He used to be like, "Oh my gosh, what are you doing?" Or if you touch anything, you have to go wash your hands. Yeah, it really does affect your intimacy and your relationship with your spouse, because in your mind, you're like, "This is totally logical. And this is what I have to do to maintain my sanity." And to them, they're like, "What is going on? This is not okay."   0:51:34.7 KF: So yeah, it's really hard on spouses. And children too. I was like, "I'm not gonna color with my kids 'cause they touched the markers and maybe they didn't wash their hands after they went to the bathroom." So I'm not gonna color with them. Or I'm not gonna sit on the floor with them because the floor is dirty or... You know, just all of these things would factor into it. It changed my whole relationship with my whole family. Yeah.   0:52:00.1 DB: So with... Because my group is focused on intimacy specifically, what do you do now?   0:52:09.5 KF: Yeah.   0:52:11.2 DB: Do you feel like sex is now pleasurable for you, or? I guess I made an assumption. It sounds like sex was not a pleasurable experience before?   0:52:17.6 KF: No. No, it was kind of like a...   0:52:18.7 DB: Do you feel like it is now?   0:52:20.6 KF: You know, it's not totally better. I have tried to be better about it, but there's still... It becomes a habit when you do these things often enough. And so even without thinking about it, I'm like, "Okay, we're gonna move over to your side of the bed if we're gonna have sex, because I don't wanna get my side dirty." Like, still. [chuckle]   0:52:43.6 KF: And I try...   0:52:44.0 DB: I'm glad you can laugh about it.   0:52:45.6 KF: I try not to be obvious about it, but I'll scoot over or whatever. Or I'll be like... I'll look like where he puts the underwear when... [chuckle] Like, "Okay, is it in a good spot? Okay, we're good." Because we've talked about it. We were interviewed for Vice on this topic, OCD and Intimacy. So you can look that up.   0:53:10.7 DB: We'll include the link.   0:53:12.4 KF: It was really good, actually. He was in the conversation obviously. It was like couples therapy, just talking it out. And him saying, "Okay, this bothers me when you do this." And I was like, "Really?" So I think couples need to be able to open up to each other about that, about sex, and what are problems or issues that each person has, because it's really healthy actually.   0:53:37.8 KF: And I think we don't talk about it at church 'cause we're like, "That is a private thing. I'm Mormon and I can't do this and we can't talk about it. Or we can't use sex toys." Or whatever people think. Because we don't talk about it, we have all these assumptions of what we can and can't do, I think. Or should and shouldn't do. But really, is that even like a thing? I don't know.   0:54:02.1 KF: Like using sex toys, I was like, "I cannot. No, we don't do this." He's like, "No, it's fine." So these are things that we've had to work on and still work on, but talking about it and being open about it with some random stranger actually really helped us to come to terms and to be like, "Okay, you know, we need to be better at this. Or I need to be better at it and not let the OCD take over that." And be okay with having pleasure.   0:54:28.9 DB: Again?   0:54:30.6 KF: Yeah. With... You know, it's okay...   0:54:33.3 DB: Yes.   0:54:33.7 KF: If you feel good about this. Which for some reason I never did. Well, you know.   0:54:39.1 DB: You bring it up again.   0:54:40.6 KF: Yeah.   0:54:41.3 DB: Yeah, it's interesting because it's, again, the taboo and the somehow... Someone predefined we're not supposed to talk about certain things. Like my wife was just telling me she was at book club and they brought up Emily Nagoski, one of Emily Nagoski's books, which is great, about female pleasure. And one of the people says, "Let's do that for our book club." And she was excited, she says, "It's changed my relationship for the better."   0:55:09.3 DB: And the response... Again, I'm not criticizing anybody, I wasn't there, but the immediate, the automatic response was like, "No, gross, we don't talk about that thing." And it's like, oh, we're feeding the problem, we're feeding the problem. And we're not allowing ourselves to identify, "Well, I know I can have pleasure, but I'm not allowed to talk about it."   0:55:32.8 KF: Yeah.   0:55:33.1 DB: And if we don't talk about it, how do we learn about it? I mean, it's...   0:55:38.1 KF: How do we learn... How do we even know, yeah, what it is. What, yeah. No, exactly.   0:55:42.8 DB: Even like with sex toys, it's like, "Yes, absolutely." So has that been a helpful thing for you? Has incorporating tools, I like to call them sex tools. [chuckle] "Toys" makes it sound... Which, there's nothing with saying "toys".   0:56:00.1 KF: Yeah, no.   0:56:00.1 DB: But for therapeutic mind, it's like it's a tool, it's to help you. [chuckle]   0:56:02.5 KF: No, and it has. And just... My husband wasn't always active at church, and so I was not his first sexual partner, we'll say. And I was very worried about that at first. This is like, "I don't know anything about this, and I could be very bad and he would know." 'Cause I'm not the only person he's been with.   0:56:25.6 KF: So then I was also like, "Oh well, this is just because you weren't always active at church, so that's why it's okay to do... You think it's okay to do these things?" But no, it's fine. And yeah, the tools have been very helpful and... But it has taken me a while to be like okay with it, or to be okay with doing it myself...   0:56:47.5 DB: Yes.   0:56:49.0 KF: When he's... Things like that, having pleasure. Like, is it...   0:56:52.9 DB: Has that been helpful for you, allowing you to be in your own space and to...   0:56:58.0 KF: Yeah.   0:56:58.0 DB: Does that help manage your anxiety so that you don't feel like you're having to perform for anybody, just yourself?   0:57:04.1 KF: Yeah, yeah. You know, and I... Yeah, I always used to be like, "Okay, well," when he's done, then it's like, we're done. But now I'm like, "No, now it's my turn." And so we'll use the tool. And we'll use the tool, and it's...   0:57:16.6 DB: Toy is fine. [chuckle]   0:57:18.3 KF: You know, it really has helped to be like, "You know, this is... It's not just for him that this needs... This is for pleasure. I should also enjoy this." And it can be really stress-reducing as well for me, and not just a stressful occasion like, "Okay, I have to be good for him," and then he gets his pleasure, and then we're done. It's not just a one-way thing. We're not the tool, the women. We also deserve to have pleasure.   0:57:50.4 DB: Yes. Yes.   0:57:51.8 KF: That's something that took so long for me to realise. And also to even allow myself to get to that point of orgasm. My body was always just like, "No, no, no, no, no, no. I can't lose control," 'cause of my mental illness and my health. "I have to always be in control. I can't not know what's gonna happen." And so you had just to being able to let that go.   0:58:15.5 DB: The way you just phrased that there...   0:58:17.3 KF: Yeah.   0:58:17.9 DB: The way you just phrased that, "I can't let myself lose control." I have heard that from many, many women in counseling. That they feel like when they're on the verge of orgasm, they're losing control. I clearly can't identify as a woman in what you're experiencing. But that was a very triggering word or phrase for you.   0:58:41.5 DB: As I'm listening, I'm thinking, "Oh my goodness." And I wanna be careful, I don't wanna do a broad stroke of scrupulosity across everyone who may have experienced it that way. But that does sound like possibly a symptom of, "I'm losing control."   0:59:00.0 KF: Yeah.   0:59:00.1 DB: "What's gonna happen here?" What do you think?   0:59:02.5 KF: I think it is. I think... No, I think you're right. And I think, I don't know. Yeah, I was just like, "I can't... " It's very real even every time really. I'm like, "Okay." You have to make a decision like, "It's okay. It's okay to not be in control."   0:59:18.2 DB: Experience it.   0:59:18.5 KF: Experience it, yeah. And then you get past that, and you're like, "Oh, okay. This is what they're talking about." [chuckle] But if you don't get past that point, you never get past that point, and you don't realise what's on the other side of it. And so, yes, it's a huge thing, and it can be so good for women.   0:59:39.8 KF: I was reading a book about hormones for women. It's called the Hormone Cure, and it talks about that, too. That women need to have this time where they're just massaged there. It's really helpful actually for our mental health. I was like, "Oh, okay." And I was telling my husband, he's like, "I'll do that. That's great. Like I will help you with that whenever you want, we'll have our massage time."   1:00:09.9 KF: But just realizing it's not bad. I think so much in church we're taught like, "This is bad." Because just growing up, it's like, "It's bad, bad, bad, until you're married, and then it's great and fine. But we're not gonna talk about it, or what you do, or what it's supposed to feel like. At all."   1:00:21.7 DB: Exactly.   1:00:23.6 KF: It's not helping.   1:00:24.0 DB: A very good point.   1:00:24.9 KF: It's not helping to be like that. To have it be such a taboo, and then suddenly it's fine. Our brains can't really process that. It takes...   1:00:34.2 DB: That's... One of the hardest things for me to communicate with people who I'd only, I wouldn't diagnose as having scrupulosity. It's just a general, cultural belief is, "Once you get married, everything's okay. " No, it's not. The exception is not the rule. I'm not gonna throw a percentage out there, I have no idea. But I have yet to see that be the case where, "Yes, marriage is now, you get to... "   1:01:04.4 KF: Do it.   1:01:05.4 DB: "You understand your body, and you're experiencing the full benefits of it."   1:01:09.4 KF: No. No, not at all. Yeah, I'm like, "I don't know. I don't know what's down there." My husband's like, "What? What are you doing?" [chuckle]   1:01:18.4 DB: And you're not alone. We now have family discussions.   1:01:24.1 KF: Prudish.   1:01:24.7 DB: Yeah.   1:01:25.0 KF: Like, "I didn't know." Yeah.   1:01:28.6 DB: It's such a blessing, we have family discussion. Now I have three girls, and they're all married. And one of the most... Believe it or not, it's one of the most... What's the word I'm looking for? Not humble, but I'm proud. It feels so good when we're even at the dinner table, just us family, and we're talking about, in a very appropriate way but very open, about marital sex, and what it looks like, and how we can improve.   1:01:56.2 DB: We're not crossing boundaries or anything. Well, people might be listening who say, "You've already crossed a boundary." No, the fact that we can openly discuss, that is a good thing. That, "Oh, you know what, have you considered this? This may help." All of our bodies are different, and we go through phases.   1:02:12.7 DB: You talked about having an hysterectomy in your book. My wife has had a hysterectomy, that changes the body dramatically. What does sex look like after a hysterectomy? No one talks about that. And now, we do.   1:02:27.0 KF: We should, yeah. Because it's such an important part of our lives. And not in a gross way, but we think of it like, "Ooh." I know especially probably women who've grown up LDS, who are just like, "Ooh, you don't talk about that. That's not okay." Like you wife's book club like, "Ooh, no, we're not gonna do that." But...   1:02:48.7 DB: "I'll do it in private in my closet where no one sees me."   1:02:51.3 KF: Yeah, "I won't tell anyone."   1:02:52.4 DB: Maybe.   1:02:52.6 KF: Yeah, and I had a... My former sister-in-law, who's since divorced, but she was very open with these things. And so, after we got married, she's like, "Okay, what's gong on?" They let us use their hotel room right after we got married, before we went on our honeymoon. [chuckle]   1:03:09.4 KF: They're very...   1:03:10.3 DB: Cool.   1:03:10.8 KF: Very open. She's very open. So she's like, "Yeah, use the tools, this helps so much." And I was like, "What, we can? We're allowed to do that?" And she's like, "Yes." I'm like, "Okay." So just having people be open about it, really changed my view like, "Okay, other people are doing this, it's not just in the dark or sneaking around. You can't do this anymore."   1:03:32.4 DB: Absolutely. So I wanna be respectful of your time, and I have so many thoughts and questions. And maybe someday we'll have you back. I'm excited to hear the reception on this podcast. But the final question maybe I have for today is, this is a difficult experience, like we were talking at the beginning. How... First of all, how do recognize that this is an issue? And then, how can family best support us?   1:04:03.9 DB: What would you recommend that people can do? What is the best way to... I realise there's a broad experience here. One, being able to identify you have a problem. But let's take it from a place of... Well, you're welcome to go with it wherever you want, but I'm thinking specifically, how does a spouse help you now? How do they best support you?   1:04:28.8 KF: Yeah, that is, it's really difficult with OCD. First of all, they need to research it themselves and understand what's going on. If you're going to therapy, have them come with you to a session and talk to the therapist about, "Okay, what should I do in these situations?"   1:04:49.1 KF: Because we look to our spouses a lot of times for reassurance, which is a compulsion too. "Are my pants dirty? Can you look? Can you tell me if they're dirty or not?" And if they're like, "No, you're fine." "Okay I'm fine." For five minutes or something. And then you ask again, "Are you sure?" And as they provide that reassurance they're just really making the OCD worse. Even though we're like, "No, it feels better." It's really, it's not good.   1:05:16.2 DB: They're enabling it.   1:05:17.1 KF: It's enabling it, yeah. And they have to understand that that is... That is a bad thing to do. You think you're supporting your spouse, you're helping, you're helping them by saying, "No, you're okay, you're fine." But really that is, that is not what they should be doing, it seems counter-intuitive. I think if the spouse knows that also and doesn't say, "I'm not allowed to tell you." But, "What would your therapist say about that? What do you think... "   1:05:41.0 KF: We call him Dr. Bob, my therapist. "What would Dr. Bob say? Would he want me to tell you that?" I'm like, "Oh okay." "It's not that I don't love you, it's just this is for your own good." You have to stand up sometimes to the person who has OCD if you're the spouse. Which can be really difficult. But as long as they understand that that's what you're doing. [chuckle] You're not just being a jerk. That's important too.   1:06:08.2 DB: Do you have some sort of plan? Or did you... You both discuss possible solutions or approaches. You come up with it beforehand, so that doesn't feel so abrupt or whatever in the moment?   1:06:20.5 KF: Yeah.   1:06:20.8 DB: Okay.   1:06:21.3 KF: "Okay, I'm not gonna get you reassurance anymore." I'm like, "Okay. This is... It's your deal, you'll have to do this." And so yeah, just being really supportive. Supporting going to therapy. It can be hard. Especially if you have little kids. Who's gonna watch the kids? My husband was really supportive.   1:06:40.5 KF: Luckily he worked from home, so we were lucky. But he would sometimes... I was like, "Mum, come over and babysit." Or something when I had to go to therapy, because he knew it was important. Not demeaning your spouse for getting help, which I see sometimes. Husband's like, "Oh you don't need therapy."   1:06:56.6 DB: Oh absolutely.   1:06:58.2 KF: No support that. Support them getting the help that they need. Yeah, don't just say, "Oh stop. Just get better. Make yourself think what you're supposed to." You can't do that, you can't force yourself out of a mental illness. So I think just the support for spouses and parents. And knowledge. Like my mum, she read a book about how, supporting your loved one with OCD.   1:07:25.2 KF: What is his na

When our hormones are in balance we look, feel, and perform at our best. However, as we go through life, our hormones can shift and change causing a range of symptoms including fatigue, weight gain, and mood swings to name just a few. In today's episode, I'm joined by Dr. Sara Gottfried, a doctor who specializes in women's hormone health and is a three-time New York Times bestselling author of books I love, including "The Hormone Cure." We take a deep dive into how our hormones work and address 7 imbalances that are very common for women so you can better understand and address signs your body can be sending you. My biggest goal in today's episode is to provide you with this valuable information so you are empowered to advocate for your health care needs and can better navigate the sometimes dismissive messaging you may hear from unenlightened doctors. Enjoy the episode, and get all the notes, resources, and additional links here. Mentioned in this episode: The 4 Pillars of Health  Top 5 Ways to Beat Stress 30 Day Booty and Abs Challenge How to Sleep for a Leaner, Longer, Healthier Life 4 Steps to get Flat Abs and Burn Belly Fat Rock Your Life Dr. Sara Gottfried's Website Dr. Sara Gottfried's Books Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES score) COMPLETE SHOW NOTES PAGE

You're watching Conscious Evolution w/ Dr. Andrea Pennington Insight & inspiration on your journey of healing, awakening & achieving soulful success Andrea Pennington, MD, C.Ac., is an Integrative Medical Doctor, Acupuncturist & international bestselling author of The Real Self Love Handbook. This podcast explores the cross section of neuroscience, positive psychology, functional medicine and practical spirituality to empower you to consciously evolve. Dr. Andrea hosts deep conversations on building resilience, embracing self-love, healing past trauma and architecting an epic life. TODAY'S EPISODE The stress that we experience in life can cause 'weathering', or wear and tear on the body and mind. This is especially true in people who endure long periods of stress, such as caregivers of special needs children or sick elderly. They tend to have shorter telomeres and a greater incidence of premature age-related disease. Those are obvious examples. But what is less obvious, at least to white people, is that Black people live with continuous stress due to racism, and it impacts our health. In fact, weathering, the mean biological age minus mean chronological age, was found to be higher for Blacks in studies. Besides aging, there are health disparities among Blacks including cardiovascular, inflammatory, upper respiratory diseases, diabetes, and some cancers. What leads to these differences? Genetics? Behavior? Access to healthy food and lifestyle choices? Access to effective healthcare? All of this is discussed here including the social determinants of health, adverse childhood experiences and racism in healthcare. Curious to know whether you're at increased risk? Take this short quiz to ind out your ACE score free: ☞ https://bit.ly/GetYourACEScore Sara Gottfried MD is a wife, mom, healer, yoga teacher, and physician scientist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and MIT. She is a Board Certified OB/GYN doctor and the author of 3 New York Times bestselling books, including The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Dr. Gottfried practices precision medicine mostly via telehealth appointments. She is a biracial physician who lives with her husband and daughters in Berkeley, CA. You can find her online at SaraGottfriedMD.com. Powered by Restream https://restream.io/?ref=vJM6L #adversechildhoodexperiences #healingthetraumaofracisim  Dr. Andrea is also Managing Director of Make Your Mark Global Partners and the creator of Brand Who You Really Are: Hollywood Media Success System. Learn more at http://www.MakeYourMarkGlobal.com Check out Andrea's New SINGING TEDx is LIVE!

In this Episode: Are you moody?  Do you have low sex drive? Unexplained weight gain? Skin Issues? Today, we discuss hormones -- the different kinds of hormones and what it looks like when they go out of balance.  We also get into perimonopause and menopause and what to expect.  Hormones impact our sleep, digestion, blood pressure, libido, skin, and it goes on and on.  My intention is to have this information serve as a "hormones 101" so that you can have a foundational understanding of how they work in your body and impact health as many women don't have the basic information they need. *This is not intended to serve as medical advice and you should always consult with your own health care practitioner before making any changes to your health. I've invited on award winning naturopathic doctor, Dr. Michelle Wolford to educate us.  For nearly a decade, she has run a private multi disciplinary practice in San Diego treating children and adults for a variety of acute and chronic conditions all over the world.  She's been a guest speaker at Medical Schools, on several radio, blog spot and TV programs in addition to a guest writer for the Journal of Alternative Medicine.  All of the show notes will be at thegoodlifecoach.com/021.  This is an information packed episode that will hopefully provide some new awareness but as always - the intention is to solely provide information.  Key Takeaways: Our hormones regulate everything in our bodies.  It is important to manage our stress and take care of our bodies through nutrition and other means. Meditate for 10 minutes a day, breathe in fresh air, and do 40minutes of exercise 3-4 times a week. Dr. Wolford's 3 Best Tips: Use castor oil packs to detoxify your liver. Create a routine around when you go to sleep, wake up, and eat your meals.  The goal is consistency. Spend 30 minutes every day just for you - where you are unplugged from technology and just breathe. Resources Mentioned (Books + App) Where to find Dr. Wolford: DrMichelleWolford.com Book Michele recommended.  The Hormone Cure by Dr. Sara Gottfried Michele on IG This episode was sponsored by Design a Life You Love, A Woman's Guide to Living a Happier and More Fulfilled Life.  My book includes 52 inspirations, one for every week of the year, each with practical tips to guide you to self-love and success on your own terms. It's a short book that you can read in about an hour, but includes life lessons that will last a lifetime. Thank you for listening to the show!  Please be sure to share it with your friends who would benefit from this information.  Also be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast app to be a part of this community of strong, smart, and successful women.   Rate & Review: If you enjoyed this episode, would you please take a minute to review it on iTunes?  Your review helps me better understand what topics you most enjoyed.  It also helps others find this podcast so that they too can learn this actionable information. 1. Click link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-good-life-coach/id1441612098?mt=2 2. Click “View in iTunes” button 3. Click “Subscribe” button 4. Click “Ratings and Reviews” text 5. Click to rate and leave short review and you're done!

Dr. Sara Gottfried M.D. is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker, and author of three New York Times bestselling books, “The Hormone Cure,” “The Hormone Reset Diet,”and her new book is “Brain Body Diet: 40 Days to a Lean, Calm, Energized, and Happy Self.” For the past 20 years, Dr. Gottfried has been dedicated to helping women feel at home in their bodies. We discuss hormones, thyroid and living our best lives!

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In this episode we have the brilliant Dr. Sara Gottfried. Dr. Sara speaks from the heart when she discusses how her own experience with hormonal imbalance led her on an impassioned journey to find answers for herself and all women. “We don't come with an operating manual” and so she set out to write a ...

# Summary: In Episode #219 Ari and Nick share an interview with Sara Gottfried, author of The Hormone Cure. Listen in to hear about how hormone levels affect your mood, health, and energy - and how you can leverage your hormones to improve your life. Time-stamped Show Notes - 03:30 - Nick's latest project has involved using the development platform of [Zapier](https://zapier.com/) - 05:40 - The Less Doing bootcamp has some exciting changes coming up - sign up to the Less Doing newsletter to find out more - 06:45 - The flat rate for VA services is now $129 each month, including 5 free hours - 07:40 - When you sign up for VA services, you'll gain unlimited free calls to our Less Doing service - 09:15 - Interview with [Sara Gottfried](http://www.saragottfriedmd.com/) - 09:50 - Hormones are extremely significant in our lives - 10:20 - “Stress is the small hinge that swings big doors” - 10:57 - If you're stressed all the time, your stress hormones will be in overproduction - 12:05 - “Testosterone is important. It's not just linked to sex drive, it's linked to all kinds of energy.” - 13:45 - Many hormones act as neurotransmitters as well as carrying messages to different parts of your body - 15:10 - “The body does best when it's nudged, not shoved” - 16:10 - The steps (in order of severity) to improving hormone balance: - Changing how you eat, move, think and supplement - Take proven botanical therapies in the short term - Bio-identical hormones, in small doses and in the short term - 18:03 - Addressing root causes is essential to developing robust health - 19:40 - There are plenty of ways to get your hormones in balance without using bio-identical hormones - 21:00 - When's the best time to do a base case for hormone levels? - 24:00 - How about ageing? What are ideal hormone levels as you get older? - 25:30 - Everyone's bodies are adjusted to different levels - 26:50 - How does sex affect hormone levels? - 27:50 - Orgasm raises testosterone and reduces cortisol in both men and women - 29:55 - It also helps to balance the thyroid - 31:00 - In Daoist philosophy, there is a focus on sexual plateaus rather than sudden climaxes - 34:00 - Women are used to squeezing a lot of benefit from a small amount of oxytocin - 34:50 - What foods are good for helping to balance hormones? - 35:30 - Napa cabbage and crustaceans are great for balancing zinc and copper - 36:00 - Cutting sugar is one of the best steps you can take to balancing your hormones - 38:00 - Find more information at [The Hormone Cure](http://www.amazon.com/Hormone-Cure-Vitality-Naturally-Gottfried/dp/1451666942) Resources Mentioned: - [CodeGophers](https://codegophers.com/) - Programming tasks completed in 48 hours - [The Hormone Cure](http://www.amazon.com/Hormone-Cure-Vitality-Naturally-Gottfried/dp/1451666942) - Sara's Book Sponsored By: [FreshBooks](https://www.freshbooks.com/) – FreshBooks helps you simplify your accounting. Generate invoices automatically, follow up clients, and cut your accounting time to just a few minutes. Get a 30 day free trial by using the code LESSDOING at [www.freshbooks.com/lessdoing](https://www.freshbooks.com/lessdoing) Text DOLESS to 33733 to sign up for the Less Doing Newsletter Credits - Original Music provided by [Felix Bird](http://2014.felixbird.com/) - Audio Production by [Chris Mottram](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/christopher-mottram/96/b12/708) - Show Notes provided by [Mallard Creatives](http://www.mallardcreatives.com/Testimonials) ------- [Get the FREE Optimize, Automate, Outsource Blueprint here.](https://go.lessdoing.com/blueprint?utm_campaign=blueprint-ari&utm_medium=link&utm_source=podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lessdoing/message

What if you could reset your metabolism in just three days? You may have already heard of my good friend, Harvard-educated doc, and bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried MD. If you haven't, she is about to change your life. Dr. Sara is an expert who understands that hormonal imbalances are behind your belly fat and low energy. She has a brand new book that can reset your metabolism, rebuild your confidence, and end your emotional roller coaster ride in just three weeks—yes, 21 days. In celebration of her new book The Hormone Reset Diet, Dr. Sara is giving away 11,000 complimentary copies. This new book is a life changer—it features a weight loss plan so well crafted that you'll never make another overly ambitious, unattainable resolution to lose weight again. Best of all, this book will start a new and fresh conversation with yourself, and get your hormones to fire correctly again. We used to think, like Dr. Sara did when she started medical school in 1989, that weight loss was about exercising more and eating less. Turns out the truth is hormonal: Your hormones dictate what your body does with food. To burn fat, you need to reset your hormones. Click here to receive your FREE copy of The Hormone Reset Diet and discover: How the foods and beverages you consume every day can directly influence hormone levels and, in turn, throw them out of whack. Why resetting your hormones 2-4 times per year can help you help you solve key health issues like food addiction, lousy sleep, and overstress. How to go from frazzled, fat and frumpy to calm, balanced and beautiful at every age (hint: it starts with resetting estrogen!) The free books are going quickly, so get yours right now (and get ready to feel like yourself again in no time). Just help with shipping and handling – the rest is a gift from Dr. Sara and her team. It's time to say goodbye to diet drama. Get your free copy of The Hormone Reset Diet, while supplies last. P.S. Here's a personal message from Dr. Sara that I wanted you to read. When women hit 40+, they often gain weight (particularly around the midsection), become more sluggish, and begin thinking they can't possibly look and feel the way they did in their twenties or thirties. Instead, they start disrespecting their bodies and, in turn, make poor decisions (i.e., choosing cookies over kale; pouring one too many glasses of red wine at dinner, etc.) These poor decisions snowball into misfiring hormones and a broken metabolism. It's no wonder you feel brittle, cranky, and unhappy! As a gynecologist who has worked with female patients for years, (and after decades of my own attempts at weight loss), I wanted to change this crazy pattern for good. I did a deep dive into the latest research and studied the direct link between the foods you eat and the seven key hormones that govern every aspect of fat loss. That led me to create a prescriptive, three-week plan to bring your body and your hormones back into balance. By following the protocols that I lay out in the book, you can lose up to 15 pounds in 21 days. And don't worry: I won't leave you at the weight-loss altar. The book contains plenty of research-based advice to help you sustain your loss over time, so you can feel healthy, juicy, and vital every single day. Are you ready to turn back the clock on the way you look and feel? Take it from a Harvard medical doctor, yoga instructor & lifelong seeker of knowledge & power: this book going to make your life so much better. I'm so excited to share it with you for free (while supplies last). Get your copy here. Meet Dr. Sara Gottfried: SARA GOTTFRIED, M.D. is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure. After graduating from the physician-scientist training program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, Dr. Gottfried completed her residency at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a board-certified gynecologist who teaches natural hormone balancing in her novel online programs so that women can lose weight, detoxify, and feel great. Dr. Gottfried lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two daughters. Visit her online at www.SaraGottfriedMD.com.

Dr. Anna Cabeca with Dr. Amy Myers discuss her new book The Autoimmune Solution. We discussed the common underlying link to autoimmune diseases including: MS Lupus psoriasis and Graves disease. Dr. Myers reviews with us her "4 pillars of health" approach she takes successfully with her clients. We discussed toxins in skin products. Listen in for many pearls and a great resource for you and loved ones! Get free bonuses from Dr. Myers at: http://www.amymyersmd.com/AutoimmuneSolutionBook You don't want to miss this! About Amy Myers, MD Dr. Amy Myers is a specialist in autoimmune diseases whose career was set in motion by her own experience dealing with autoimmune issues. Myers graduated cum laude from the Honors College at the University of South Carolina, attended medical school at Louisiana State University Health Science Center, and completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Maryland. She founded the nationally renowned functional medicine center, Austin UltraHealth, and currently serves as its Medical Director. Link to book: http://amymyersmd.com/AutoimmuneSolutionBook/ What if you could reset your metabolism in just three days? You may have already heard of my good friend, Harvard-educated doc, and bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried MD. If you haven't, she is about to change your life. Dr. Sara is an expert who understands that hormonal imbalances are behind your belly fat and low energy. She has a brand new book that can reset your metabolism, rebuild your confidence, and end your emotional roller coaster ride in just three weeks—yes, 21 days. In celebration of her new book The Hormone Reset Diet, Dr. Sara is giving away 11,000 complimentary copies. This new book is a life changer—it features a weight loss plan so well crafted that you'll never make another overly ambitious, unattainable resolution to lose weight again. Best of all, this book will start a new and fresh conversation with yourself, and get your hormones to fire correctly again. We used to think, like Dr. Sara did when she started medical school in 1989, that weight loss was about exercising more and eating less. Turns out the truth is hormonal: Your hormones dictate what your body does with food. To burn fat, you need to reset your hormones. Click here to receive your FREE copy of The Hormone Reset Diet and discover: How the foods and beverages you consume every day can directly influence hormone levels and, in turn, throw them out of whack. Why resetting your hormones 2-4 times per year can help you help you solve key health issues like food addiction, lousy sleep, and overstress. How to go from frazzled, fat and frumpy to calm, balanced and beautiful at every age (hint: it starts with resetting estrogen!) The free books are going quickly, so get yours right now (and get ready to feel like yourself again in no time). Just help with shipping and handling – the rest is a gift from Dr. Sara and her team. It's time to say goodbye to diet drama. Get your free copy of The Hormone Reset Diet, while supplies last. P.S. Here's a personal message from Dr. Sara that I wanted you to read. When women hit 40+, they often gain weight (particularly around the midsection), become more sluggish, and begin thinking they can't possibly look and feel the way they did in their twenties or thirties. Instead, they start disrespecting their bodies and, in turn, make poor decisions (i.e., choosing cookies over kale; pouring one too many glasses of red wine at dinner, etc.) These poor decisions snowball into misfiring hormones and a broken metabolism. It's no wonder you feel brittle, cranky, and unhappy! As a gynecologist who has worked with female patients for years, (and after decades of my own attempts at weight loss), I wanted to change this crazy pattern for good. I did a deep dive into the latest research and studied the direct link between the foods you eat and the seven key hormones that govern every aspect of fat loss. That led me to create a prescriptive, three-week plan to bring your body and your hormones back into balance. By following the protocols that I lay out in the book, you can lose up to 15 pounds in 21 days. And don't worry: I won't leave you at the weight-loss altar. The book contains plenty of research-based advice to help you sustain your loss over time, so you can feel healthy, juicy, and vital every single day. Are you ready to turn back the clock on the way you look and feel? Take it from a Harvard medical doctor, yoga instructor & lifelong seeker of knowledge & power: this book going to make your life so much better. I'm so excited to share it with you for free (while supplies last). Get your copy here. Meet Dr. Sara Gottfried: SARA GOTTFRIED, M.D. is the New York Times bestselling author of The Hormone Cure. After graduating from the physician-scientist training program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, Dr. Gottfried completed her residency at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a board-certified gynecologist who teaches natural hormone balancing in her novel online programs so that women can lose weight, detoxify, and feel great. Dr. Gottfried lives in Berkeley, CA with her husband and two daughters. Visit her online at www.SaraGottfriedMD.com.

Season 1: MAPP Gathering Interviews This season is a series of interviews from national experts, world-renowned researchers and luminaries about living the reality of Motherhood, Ambition, Passion and Purpose. Dr. Sara Gottfried practices precision, functional and integrative medicine. She is a bestselling author of multiple books including The Hormone Cure.

When you understand these hormonal changes, it creates grace in a relationship. - Dr. Sara Gottfried Are you tired of not knowing how to cope with your woman's hormonal cycles? Of not knowing when she'll go from zero to crazy in .002 seconds? And what about your own hormones - can you manage them yourself so that you don't feel tired and achy when you get up in the morning and grumpy when you come home at the end of the day? Our guest for today's show says yes to all of those questions. Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of The Hormone Cure, is a Harvard-trained medical doctor, wife, mother and yogini. And she's here to give us the scoop on male and female hormones. MORE ABOUT THIS SHOW: Dr. Sara is, as she puts it, board-certified in everything that can go wrong with a woman's body. She knows firsthand what it's like when hormones go haywire and it was her own personal experience that led her into deeper discovery on the topic. After sorting out her own hormonal imbalances, Dr. Sara decided to specialize in helping others do the same with their hormone levels. Today she treats both men and women. She's also written a book on how to properly treat hormone imbalances and in this episode she shares much of her knowledge, her personal experiences and a lot of "how to" advice on all things hormones. The finer details of this show include: The three words to say to your woman when she's complaining. What is adrenal burnout? What common birth control method can shrink the clitoris by as much as 20%? What's the hormonal cause of Grumpy Old Man Syndrome? What is tilt and why does it ruin many relationships? And so much more! Dr. Sara and I dive deep into these topics and many more. We talk about the importance of knowing your woman's hormonal cycle and how to cope with her different needs at different times of the month. For example, there are certain times when your woman will benefit more from getting together with her friends than she will from being with you. Dr. Sara tells us how to know when your woman needs her friends and when she needs you. We also talk about the three main hormones for men and women. They are different (naturally) and Dr. Sara explores each. For men, the top three are called "The Three Amigos" and they are testosterone, cortisol and thyroid. For the ladies, she dubbed their top three hormones "Charlie's Angels". They are estrogen, cortisol and thyroid. She tells us why each hormone is important to their respective gender, how to know if any of the big three hormones are off-balance and what you can do to reset them to normal, healthy levels if needed. She also explains why you should get them checked regularly, at least every six months. We also discuss the subject of tilt: what it is, why it happens and what to do about it. Tilt is when our nervous system gets overwhelmed. Tilt has a major impact on our overall personal health and also on the health of our relationships. Dr. Sara gives us symptoms to look for when questioning whether we're in tilt or not and how to cope if we are and how to help our woman cope if she is. And two other topics I made sure we touched on are the importance of orgasms in hormonal health and the three types of girls you should run from! Dr. Sara weighs in on both. We packed SO much into this episode of The Art of Charm! I think Dr. Sara and I could've talked for a few more hours; she was an amazing guest with a fountain of knowledge. I really appreciate how generously she shared her time and her wisdom; I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed interviewing her! Resources from this episode: Dr. Sara's web site Dr. Sara on Twitter Dr. Leake on The Art of Charm OneTaste Andrew Weil, MD Imago Relationships Canary Club WellnessFX You'll also like: -The Art of Charm Toolbox -Best of The Art of Charm Podcast   HELP US SPREAD THE WORD! If you dug this episode, please subscribe in iTunes and write us a review! This is what helps us stand out from all the fluff out there. FEEDBACK + PROMOTION Hit us up with your comments and guest suggestions. We read EVERYTHING. Download the FREE AoC app for iPhone Email jordanh@theartofcharm.com Give us a call at 888.413.7177 Stay Charming!

David Gottfried is considered the father of the green movement, having founded the Green Building Council in 1993 which then expanded to over 100 countries with the Global Green Building Council.  You may have seen the “LEED” plaque on the side of a building?  That's the green rating system that David helped develop. David is also married to an incredible leader in the wellness field, my friend and author of “The Hormone Cure,” Dr. Sara Gottfried.  While his wife looks inward toward healing the body, David has spent his amazing life looking outward-- trying to heal the planet. In this show, David and I get a chance to talk about his new book, “Explosion Green.”  It's really a twenty-year memoir about a character… who happens to be David… on his quest to green the planet.  We also touch on a topic that sounds like science fiction, but is truly an essential component of healing ourselves and the planet:  Rewiring the brain for survival in the 22nd century. Here are a few highlights of the show: How healing your body leads to healing the planet. What drives even the greenest environmentalist to want a bigger house and a faster car? Why our survival instincts are killing us. Simple ways we can start living intentionally. The “bottom line” of being green. SHOW NOTES: David Gottfried is the father of the green movement, having founded both the U.S. and Global Green building Councils.  This GBC movement has reduced global warming and our eco-footprint more than any other organization in the world. David has a different perspective on the way the world works.  The pendulum is swinging in both the health and the sustainability movements.  According to David, the direction of the health movement is essential to what he refers to as the ecological triple bottom line:  planet, economy, and society. His relationship with Sara helped him realize that the third leg of the stool was somewhat absent in his approach.  To understand the societal component, he had to focus on how the people inside the green buildings were living.  “If you are toxic, what good is a LEED Platinum, net-zero home?” Sara got David looking at food, stress, anger, meditation and neuroscience to manage his own health.  But it's all interrelated:  David feels that what the green movement can bring to the individual is hope. David believes that he is here as a change agent, that he was tagged for a higher purpose.  There's a saying in Judaism:  Tikkun Olam, to heal the world.  It's our purpose to put the divine light back into the leaky vessel. How can focusing on our own health change the world?  Health and wellness isn't necessarily about getting ripped abs, although it can start there.  Once you approach health from a place of divine intent (you find your “why”), you start to believe in real food, in permaculture and local food.  You eat grazed meat and organic produce.  You become empowered by your natural intelligence.  That intent followed by those practices obviously have an impact on the environment. Where are we going in terms of the brain and the environment?  Back in the 1950's, Buckminster Fuller declared that technology had arrived, and that the have-nots could finally have.  So, why don't we all have?  It has to do with the wiring of our brains. “We are still harming nature, other species and each other.  We've got to wake up.”  But perhaps we can't do that without updating our brain's operating system. David started wondering why he still jumped for his bat when he heard noises in his house at night, or why he got road rage when another driver cut him off in traffic.  Well, it has to do with the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that says, “I'm a hunter.  I have to provide for my family and protect them.”  You can't come home after a hunt without food. As a result of this thought process, David came out with the E Revolution.  It's about taking the term human (to err is to be human) and adding an e:  humane.   He started wondering if eco-greens could work with health experts to look at rewiring our brains.  Can we change the wiring of our survival instincts that were necessary hundreds of thousands of years ago, but are actually killing us now?  What does that new operating system look like and how can we install it? How can we stack the deck when it comes to sustainability? The first step is to check your ego at the door.  We have to switch to a humane operating system which means being human to your own body and being humane to other people. Live with intentionality.  We all do things like buy homes, redecorate, paint, renovate, consumer energy, produce waste, use water, and use transportation.  There are small things to do that move toward positive change, such as: Buy paint without VOC's. Don't buy cheap furniture that smells like chemicals for months. Use carpeting that doesn't require toxic glues. Keep in mind, if something smells, it's probably bad for you. Take your shoes off at the front door.  Why? So you don't track in all of the environmental toxins. Tighten up your home's insulation:  Blow insulation in to attics, crawl spaces, and walls. Install good quality windows. Buy Energy Star appliances. Install low-flow faucets, shower heads, and toilets. Collect water in rain barrels for landscaping. Drive less and buy fuel efficient cars. Buy quality products. Obviously, true change requires a monumental shift in our behavior.  Is that shift a slow burn or one big push?  You can actually map the shift.  Paul Hawken wrote a book called “Blessed Unrest” that mapped the world's eco grass-roots initiatives.  He stopped counting when he reached one million.  But it's going to take a combination of things from ordinances for green building, to tax policy, to support for organic and local farmers. We have to shift into thinking, “If it's not green, it's not valuable.”  We need to change the mindset of the public into thinking that if something is unhealthy, it shouldn't make money.  If it depletes the soil, if it causes birth defects, if it sucks up our rapidly disappearing aquifers, if it makes us sick… it shouldn't be purchased. “Cheap” can be the most expensive thing you ever do.  One small example is in the cords I buy for my guitars and amps.  You can buy them for a couple of bucks on the internet.  But here's what happens:  They buzz and blow up in the middle of a show.  Then I have to replace them.  Then I get stressed out and ticked off, and I have to go and replace the cords.  After a few cycles of this, I could have just bought a $30 good quality cord to begin with.  Now I buy quality because it saves me money in the long run, it saves the stress, and it saves the environment because those many cheap cords aren't hitting the landfill.  The same goes for appliances, electronics, clothing, and the list goes on. Look at what you do with the dollars you're spending.  What is the eco-footprint of the things you're doing?  Plant seeds that will grow good in the world.  Learn lessons from your mistakes, because lessons are the juice of life. Check out David's new book, “Explosion Green!”  It will teach you an incredible amount about being green through story, and a healthy dose of self-deprecation. You can check out more on the Green Building Council at usgbc.org and worldgbc.org.  

David Gottfried is considered the father of the green movement, having founded the Green Building Council in 1993 which then expanded to over 100 countries with the Global Green Building Council.  You may have seen the “LEED” plaque on the side of a building?  That's the green rating system that David helped develop. David is also married to an incredible leader in the wellness field, my friend and author of “The Hormone Cure,” Dr. Sara Gottfried.  While his wife looks inward toward healing the body, David has spent his amazing life looking outward-- trying to heal the planet. In this show, David and I get a chance to talk about his new book, “Explosion Green.”  It's really a twenty-year memoir about a character… who happens to be David… on his quest to green the planet.  We also touch on a topic that sounds like science fiction, but is truly an essential component of healing ourselves and the planet:  Rewiring the brain for survival in the 22nd century. Here are a few highlights of the show: How healing your body leads to healing the planet. What drives even the greenest environmentalist to want a bigger house and a faster car? Why our survival instincts are killing us. Simple ways we can start living intentionally. The “bottom line” of being green. SHOW NOTES: David Gottfried is the father of the green movement, having founded both the U.S. and Global Green building Councils.  This GBC movement has reduced global warming and our eco-footprint more than any other organization in the world. David has a different perspective on the way the world works.  The pendulum is swinging in both the health and the sustainability movements.  According to David, the direction of the health movement is essential to what he refers to as the ecological triple bottom line:  planet, economy, and society. His relationship with Sara helped him realize that the third leg of the stool was somewhat absent in his approach.  To understand the societal component, he had to focus on how the people inside the green buildings were living.  “If you are toxic, what good is a LEED Platinum, net-zero home?” Sara got David looking at food, stress, anger, meditation and neuroscience to manage his own health.  But it's all interrelated:  David feels that what the green movement can bring to the individual is hope. David believes that he is here as a change agent, that he was tagged for a higher purpose.  There's a saying in Judaism:  Tikkun Olam, to heal the world.  It's our purpose to put the divine light back into the leaky vessel. How can focusing on our own health change the world?  Health and wellness isn't necessarily about getting ripped abs, although it can start there.  Once you approach health from a place of divine intent (you find your “why”), you start to believe in real food, in permaculture and local food.  You eat grazed meat and organic produce.  You become empowered by your natural intelligence.  That intent followed by those practices obviously have an impact on the environment. Where are we going in terms of the brain and the environment?  Back in the 1950's, Buckminster Fuller declared that technology had arrived, and that the have-nots could finally have.  So, why don't we all have?  It has to do with the wiring of our brains. “We are still harming nature, other species and each other.  We've got to wake up.”  But perhaps we can't do that without updating our brain's operating system. David started wondering why he still jumped for his bat when he heard noises in his house at night, or why he got road rage when another driver cut him off in traffic.  Well, it has to do with the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that says, “I'm a hunter.  I have to provide for my family and protect them.”  You can't come home after a hunt without food. As a result of this thought process, David came out with the E Revolution.  It's about taking the term human (to err is to be human) and adding an e:  humane.   He started wondering if eco-greens could work with health experts to look at rewiring our brains.  Can we change the wiring of our survival instincts that were necessary hundreds of thousands of years ago, but are actually killing us now?  What does that new operating system look like and how can we install it? How can we stack the deck when it comes to sustainability? The first step is to check your ego at the door.  We have to switch to a humane operating system which means being human to your own body and being humane to other people. Live with intentionality.  We all do things like buy homes, redecorate, paint, renovate, consumer energy, produce waste, use water, and use transportation.  There are small things to do that move toward positive change, such as: Buy paint without VOC's. Don't buy cheap furniture that smells like chemicals for months. Use carpeting that doesn't require toxic glues. Keep in mind, if something smells, it's probably bad for you. Take your shoes off at the front door.  Why? So you don't track in all of the environmental toxins. Tighten up your home's insulation:  Blow insulation in to attics, crawl spaces, and walls. Install good quality windows. Buy Energy Star appliances. Install low-flow faucets, shower heads, and toilets. Collect water in rain barrels for landscaping. Drive less and buy fuel efficient cars. Buy quality products. Obviously, true change requires a monumental shift in our behavior.  Is that shift a slow burn or one big push?  You can actually map the shift.  Paul Hawken wrote a book called “Blessed Unrest” that mapped the world's eco grass-roots initiatives.  He stopped counting when he reached one million.  But it's going to take a combination of things from ordinances for green building, to tax policy, to support for organic and local farmers. We have to shift into thinking, “If it's not green, it's not valuable.”  We need to change the mindset of the public into thinking that if something is unhealthy, it shouldn't make money.  If it depletes the soil, if it causes birth defects, if it sucks up our rapidly disappearing aquifers, if it makes us sick… it shouldn't be purchased. “Cheap” can be the most expensive thing you ever do.  One small example is in the cords I buy for my guitars and amps.  You can buy them for a couple of bucks on the internet.  But here's what happens:  They buzz and blow up in the middle of a show.  Then I have to replace them.  Then I get stressed out and ticked off, and I have to go and replace the cords.  After a few cycles of this, I could have just bought a $30 good quality cord to begin with.  Now I buy quality because it saves me money in the long run, it saves the stress, and it saves the environment because those many cheap cords aren't hitting the landfill.  The same goes for appliances, electronics, clothing, and the list goes on. Look at what you do with the dollars you're spending.  What is the eco-footprint of the things you're doing?  Plant seeds that will grow good in the world.  Learn lessons from your mistakes, because lessons are the juice of life. Check out David's new book, “Explosion Green!”  It will teach you an incredible amount about being green through story, and a healthy dose of self-deprecation. You can check out more on the Green Building Council at usgbc.org and worldgbc.org.  

On today's Fat-Burning Man Show, we have a returning guest expert Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of The Hormone Cure. On this show, Dr. Sara talks about carbs! Why low-carb can sometimes be too low, and why most of the fatloss information out there is wrong. Quickie Update This week, I'll be speaking at PaleoFX, one of America's largest and most notable wellness symposiums that promotes the ancestral approach to eating and health. This convention is jam-packed with speakers and rockstars like Jonathan Bailor, Dave Asprey, Robb Wolf, Chris Kresser, Mark Sisson, Dr. Terry Wahls, Stefani Ruper, and loads more. It's a bona fide Paleo who's who. I'll be hosting a panel with Mark Sisson and Robb Wolf, Jonathan Bailor is coming over to my place to shoot a few videos, and there will be more than a few "surprises." If you're coming to PaleoFX in person, please swing by and say hello! Jonathan Bailor, bestselling author of The Calorie Myth, is coming by the house and we're going to have a feast. We're also going to be filming even more cuts for our upcoming video course called "Fat Loss Masterclass." We're launching soon (or if you're listening to this "in the future," then you can check it out it) at FatLossMasterClass.com. Much more to come about Fat Loss Masterclass and other fun projects. In this show with Dr. Sara, we chat about: Why most fat loss information you hear is wrong What you need to know about going "too low carb" Why 150 carbs a day might make you fat OR skinny How Sara is hacking her cortisol that came from writing too many awesome books Enjoy the show. [powerpress channel="podcast"]   [ois skin="Postage"]

On today's Fat-Burning Man Show, we have a returning guest expert Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of The Hormone Cure. On this show, Dr. Sara talks about carbs! Why low-carb can sometimes be too low, and why most of the fatloss information out there is wrong. Quickie Update This week, I'll be speaking at PaleoFX, one of America's largest and most notable wellness symposiums that promotes the ancestral approach to eating and health. This convention is jam-packed with speakers and rockstars like Jonathan Bailor, Dave Asprey, Robb Wolf, Chris Kresser, Mark Sisson, Dr. Terry Wahls, Stefani Ruper, and loads more. It's a bona fide Paleo who's who. I'll be hosting a panel with Mark Sisson and Robb Wolf, Jonathan Bailor is coming over to my place to shoot a few videos, and there will be more than a few "surprises." If you're coming to PaleoFX in person, please swing by and say hello! Jonathan Bailor, bestselling author of The Calorie Myth, is coming by the house and we're going to have a feast. We're also going to be filming even more cuts for our upcoming video course called "Fat Loss Masterclass." We're launching soon (or if you're listening to this "in the future," then you can check it out it) at FatLossMasterClass.com. Much more to come about Fat Loss Masterclass and other fun projects. In this show with Dr. Sara, we chat about: Why most fat loss information you hear is wrong What you need to know about going "too low carb" Why 150 carbs a day might make you fat OR skinny How Sara is hacking her cortisol that came from writing too many awesome books Enjoy the show. [powerpress channel="podcast"]   [ois skin="Postage"]

Special Guest Dr. Sara Gottfried Are you struggling to sleep through the night? Low energy and even lower sex drive? Join me “on the couch” with my good friend and amazing practitioner, Dr. Sara Gottfried. Sara will be sharing how women can figure out if their hormones are in chaos and important tips for natural hormone balance. This is a candid, personal and informative conversation you won't want to miss. Meet Dr. Gottfried Dr. Sara Gottfried M.D. is a Harvard-educated physician, speaker, yoga teacher, and author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality with The Gottfried Protocol (Simon & Schuster, 2014). For the past 20 years, Dr. Gottfried has been dedicated to practicing and helping women feel back home in their bodies. After graduating from the physician-scientist training program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, Dr. Gottfried completed her residency at the University of California at San Francisco, where she still teaches medical students. She is board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and offers novel group health coaching on the issues that plague women most – low energy, weight gain, low sex drive, and moodiness – through her online learning center at http://www.saragottfriedmd.com.

Back by popular demand this week is Dr. Sara Gottfried, author of The Hormone Cure. Last time she was on the show we covered how hormones affect women. After receiving a ton of positive feedback, she is back again with a show for the guys. Just one more quick reminder about my 2-day LIVE, online-course with CreativeLIVE. I'll be dropping truth bombs about fat-burning, muscle-building, biohacking, and my special guests include George Bryant, Dave Asprey, and even Dr. Sara herself! Be sure to sign-up in advance to be able to watch for FREE while it's live. Alright, on today's show we talk about: How to raise testosterone (hint: orgasm!). The art of biohacking. Why cholesterol is good for you. And tons more...