Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Today I am thrilled to feature yet another episode

in our series on the Commune podcast called Ask Dr. G.

So we are consistently in receipt of fascinating questions from our commune community

regarding health and well-being.

And I simply cannot imagine anyone better in the world to answer these inquiries than my

friend, Dr. Sarah Godfrey, who Dr. G. is a Harvard-educated

physician, researcher, and educator. She received the moniker of Dr. G. from the Philadelphia

76ers, for whom she serves as health coach. She has led many common courses on the topics of

perimenopause and menopause.

And happily, we seem relatively successful in luring her to commune to Panga on a regular basis

where she is leading retreats, often with my better three quarters, Skyler Grant.

So you can be part of the conversation and submit a question at Onecommune.com

slash ask Dr. G. To learn more from Sarah Godfried, you can watch her free commune masterclass,

women, food, and hormones at Onecommon.com slash menopause. We're so grateful to those of you who write us

reviews on Apple Podcasts that we created a special offer just for you, 30 days of free

commune membership. That's all access for an entire month to scroll down to the review

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With a screenshot of said review, preferably a good one, to receive your free all access for 30 days.

Today's episode is the first installment of a two-parter where Dr. G and I discuss healthy adaptive stress responses

versus unhealthy maladaptive responses to stress. We explore the interconnectedness of stress,

trauma, and physiological and psychological health, and how measuring biomarkers like cortisol and heart rate

variability offer insights into how the body responds to stress and can also guide interventions

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