326. Why Metabolic Dysfunction Kills with Dr. Sara Gottfried

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

In her 30s, Dr. Sara Gottfried’s metabolic function was closer to that of a woman in her 50s. After applying functional medicine principles to herself, within six weeks she had fixed the root cause of her discomfort, reversed her prediabetes, and lost more than 20 pounds. In this episode, Dr. Gottfried and Jeff deep dive into metabolism and why metabolic dysfunction is the upstream cause of 9 out of the top 10 killers in the U.S. today.

In this episode we cover:
0:06:25 Intro
0:10:07 Metabolism
0:10:48 Metabolic Dysfunction
0:11:56 Measuring Metabolic Health
0:13:24 Continuous Glucose Monitors
0:18:03 Insulin Resistance 0:21:32 Glucose
0:26:34 Symptoms of Improper Glucose Function
0:32:09 Alzheimer's Disease
0:35:55 Unwanted Pharmaceutical Side Effects
0:37:36 Hormones and Cholesterol
0:40:12 Tests to Gauge Metabolic Health
0:48:50 Ketogenic Diet
0:51:53 Microbiome
0:54:26 Testosterone Advantage
0:55:57 Carbs vs Net Carbs
0:57:44 Clean Keto
0:59:07 Saturated Fat
1:00:01 Bioindividuality
1:02:23 Ketosis
1:05:11 Metabolic Crisis in Women
1:05:41 Fasting
1:06:51 Cold Therapy and Hydrotherapy
1:08:02 Hormesis
1:08:45 Human Growth Hormone
1:12:46 Testosterone in Women
1:15:55 Eating Out
1:17:54 Leptin and Ghrelin
1:21:04 Biological Advantages in Women
1:24:14 Trauma
1:31:11 Gut-Brain Axis

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Commune. This is Jeff Krasno. Our mission is to spread the ideas and practices of the world's greatest teachers.
0:14.8	We do that through online courses, a weekly newsletter, and this podcast. On the show, I excavate perennial spiritual questions,
0:23.6	like what is consciousness, what is the nature of reality? How do we live with purpose?
0:29.6	Reality is infinite. We experience a narrow bandwidth of it unless we transcend our senses through meditation.
0:40.3	We delve into practices and modalities that can heal trauma and help us thrive.
0:45.3	Mastering the art and the science of forgiveness is necessary to move through life.
0:51.3	A miracle is a shift in perception from fear to love.
0:55.0	We explore the spiritual traditions that help us acknowledge that we are all connected
1:01.0	by a power greater than us.
1:03.0	We are all indeed individuals, yet we need to find collective and communal solutions.
1:09.0	We build a sturdy bridge between personal wellness and societal well-being.
1:14.4	It's only when you get people who are pursuing their dreams, living their truth, and feeling
1:17.9	good, that we can actually move the needle of society forward.
1:22.1	To learn about our courses, our community, and everything we do, visit us at onecommon.com.
1:33.6	Welcome to the Commian podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Okay, today on the podcast I welcome Dr. Sarah Godfried.
1:48.6	Sarah is a physician scientist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, fine institutions, and completed her residency at the University of California at San Francisco.
2:03.3	Over the past two decades, Dr. Godfrey has seen more than 25,000 patients and specializes in
2:12.2	identifying the underlying cause of her patient's conditions in order to achieve true and lasting health transformation,
2:22.1	not just symptom management.
2:24.9	She is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including Women, Food, and Hormones,
2:30.7	a four-week plan to achieve hormonal balance, lose weight, and feel like yourself
2:36.8	again. And in her 30s, advanced testing showed that Sarah was 20 years older than her chronological age.
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