164: Dr. Sara Gottfried - The Hormone Cure • Prepare For Menopause • The Importance Of Carbs
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Sara Gottfried is a wife, mother, friend, scholar, seeker, yoga teacher, and Harvard-trained medical doctor with over 20 years of experience. She’s the author of the New York Times bestselling books The Hormone Cure and The Hormone Reset Diet, which are the focus of this interview. Sara also wrote the book Younger, which we dug into during of our previous chat with her.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Sara's great grandmother Mud
- Sara was a hormonal hot mess in her 30s
- The impact of the birth control pill on your hormones
- The hormonal Charlie's Angels
- The 3 main jobs of cortisol
- Chronic cardio (eg. running) raises your cortisol
- 90% of doctors are addicted to caffeine
- The adrenal glands are important for maintaining homeostasis
- The purpose of yoga is to still the fluctuations of the mind
- Sara's omega-3 evolution
- Carbs are important, too
- Reset your thyroid gland by going grain-free
- Is there a connection between weight loss resistance and grains?
- 7 hormones that could be influencing your weight
- Men and women can both experience estrogen dominance
- Sara bashes paleo?!?
- What is your estrobolome?
- CAFO vs. grass-fed meat
- Menopause... prepare for it
- Chasteberry can help with PMS
- Maca is great for anxiety, depression, and low libido for women in perimenopause
- Decrease hot flashes by 43% using your breath
- Estrogen dominance tends to be at the root of endometriosis
- A single bout of strength training improves your memory
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Related links:
Dr. Sara Gottfried - The Hormone Cure (book)
Follow Dr. Sara Gottfried on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Sara Gottfried - The Hormone Reset Diet (book)
Dr. Sara Gottfried - Younger (book)
Listen to our previous interview with Dr. Sara Gottfried (episode #144)
Dr. David Perlmutter - Grain Brain (book)
Related episodes:
294: Dr. Sara Gottfried – Brain Body Diet, Start To Surrender, Reset With Intermittent Fasting
289: Dr. David Perlmutter – Brain Maker • Reconnecting With Nature • Exercise Impacts The Microbiome
273: Dr. David Perlmutter – Grain Brain • Cholesterol Is Your Friend • What Is Keto Cycling?
258: Samantha Gladish – Healing Hashimoto’s • Coming Off The Pill • Tracking Your Cycle
073: Dr. Christiane Northrup – Become Ageless | Heal Your Body With Words | Embrace Menopause
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| 0:00.0 | But what's more important than even a population-based study is the N-of-one experiments where you find out what's true for you, |
| 0:07.6 | creating a clean slate, a clean canvas, so that you can really understand how foods affect you. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello and |
| 0:23.7 | welcome to the ultimate health podcast episode 164 |
| 0:24.2 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:29.9 | This week we have Dr Sarah Gottfried back on the show. She's a wife, mother, friend, scholar, |
| 0:36.4 | seeker, yoga teacher, and Harvard-trained medical doctor with over 20 years of experience. |
| 0:42.0 | She's the author of the New York Times best-selling book. with over 20 years of experience. |
| 0:42.6 | She's the author of the New York Times best-selling books, |
| 0:45.1 | The hormone cure and the hormone reset diet, |
| 0:48.0 | and we focused in on the hormone topic on today's interview. |
| 0:52.0 | Some of you hardcore listeners might remember we had her on the show already |
| 0:55.8 | back on episode 144 talking about her book, her new book at that time, |
| 1:00.4 | younger. |
| 1:01.4 | We just had such a great chat. We're going to put a link in the |
| 1:03.5 | show notes to that episode or you can go to ultimate health podcast.com |
| 1:07.8 | slash 144 to check it out. We highly recommend you do that after listening to the |
| 1:12.4 | new one. |
| 1:13.0 | So I'm super excited about today's show because our audience, you guys, have been asking us to get an expert in to talk about hormones |
| 1:20.3 | and there's no one better than Dr. Sarah Gott Reed. |
| 1:23.0 | So we cover so many different things in this show and I'm so excited for you guys to listen. |
| 1:27.0 | So on that note, what we get into on today's show, |
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