#238: Hormonal Imbalances Can Ruin Your Life, Here’s How to Fix Them with Dr. Sara Gottfried

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 104 minutes

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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/ Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter - https://dhrupurohit.com/newsletter. This episode is brought to you by ButcherBox and InsideTracker. 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. Right now, they’re offering my podcast community 25% off. Just go to insidetracker.com/DHRU. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	But the truth is correcting your hormone at balances is so much easier than living with your
0:07.2	hormones being out of balance. So the way that you correct them is so much less work than the
0:13.9	struggle that de-least struggle when your hormones are not in balance. Everyone droop out here,
0:18.9	question for you. Do you have extra belly fat around your waist? Is your hair falling out? What
0:24.5	feels like earlier or in places that it shouldn't be falling out? Do you have sleepless nights or
0:29.8	breast tenderness or is your period irregular? Is your symptoms of PMS super strong? Well,
0:38.2	if you can relate to any of these questions or answered yes, these are signs that you might have
0:43.2	a hormonal imbalance. And today's guest, Dr. Sarah Godfrey, has an important reminder for you. She
0:48.8	says, I can tell you, without a doubt, you cannot achieve true health without achieving
0:54.8	hormonal health and balance. Today's interview is about this topic. If you suspect that you have
1:00.3	a hormonal imbalance, you want to pay attention. Stay tuned for a fascinating conversation.
1:05.7	This episode is sponsored by Butcherbox. So I've tried a lot of different diets. And the one that I
1:11.6	found that feels the best for my body is my friend Dr. Mark Hyman's Pagan Diet. I actually look at
1:17.5	this as more of a balanced and nutrient focused lifestyle than an actual diet. Part of the Pagan
1:22.0	approach is incorporating small amounts of high quality animal protein. A little goes a long way,
1:27.4	and it's all about quality over quantity, which is why Mark uses the term condom meat to explain how
1:34.1	to eat meat without making it the star of the meal necessarily. When it comes to enjoying red meat
1:39.4	like beef, it's super important to always choose a 100% grass-fed beef for optimal nutrient density.
1:47.1	I always keep some grass-fed beef around in my freezer from Butcherbox on hand,
1:51.3	because it comes from farms that allow cattle to roam on pastures, and it lasts in the freezer for
1:57.3	months. Whenever I have time to do some meal prep, I love using grass-fed ground beef with tons of
2:03.6	veggies to make a huge batch of paleo chili that I can use throughout the week. It's really
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