Dr. Amy Shah: Fix Your Hormone Health and Stay Energized While Building a Business | Health and Wellness | E389

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

YAP Media Network | Hala Taha

Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Despite being a highly trained health and wellness expert, Dr. Amy Shah struggled with burnout, brain fog, hormonal imbalance, and low energy. Shockingly, traditional medicine offered no real answers. Determined to find solutions, she began rebuilding her health through science-backed nutrition and lifestyle changes. The results were so profound that she stepped away from her clinical practice after more than 15 years to share what truly works in her new book, Hormone Havoc. In this episode, Dr. Amy reveals practical wellness strategies to balance hormones, restore energy, and optimize physical and mental health, so entrepreneurs can perform at their best. In this episode, Hala and Dr. Amy will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (02:29) Dr. Amy’s Burnout to Wellness Journey (07:46) Hunger vs. Cravings Explained (15:32) How Gut Health Powers Your Energy (19:41) What Is Cortisol and Why Does It Matter? (24:22) Reducing Inflammation and Environmental Toxins (28:44) The 30-30-3 Framework for Optimal Health (32:49) Ranking the Best Energy-Boosting Habits (39:35) Building a Wellness Brand on Social Media (49:55) Finding Your Path Through Better Health Dr. Amy is a double board-certified physician and nutritionist specializing in the gut-brain connection, women’s health, nutrition, and fitness medicine. Trained at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell, she has become one of the most trusted voices in modern wellness, with nearly two million Instagram followers. Dr. Amy is also a bestselling author, and her latest book, Hormone Havoc, is a practical guide to helping people regain control of their hormones, physical health, and mental well-being. Sponsored By: Indeed - Get a $75 sponsored job credit to boost your job's visibility at Indeed.com/profiting Shopify - Start your $1/month trial at Shopify.com/profiting. Spectrum Business - Keep your business connected seamlessly with fast, reliable Internet, Phone, TV, and Mobile services. Visit https://spectrum.com/Business to learn more. Northwest Registered Agent - Build your brand and get your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes at northwestregisteredagent.com/paidyap Framer - Publish beautiful and production-ready websites. Go to Framer.com/profiting and get 30% off their Framer Pro annual plan. Quo - Run your business communications the smart way. Try Quo for free, plus get 20% off your first 6 months when you go to quo.com/profiting Experian - Manage and cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reduce your bills. Get started now with the Experian App and let your Big Financial Friend do the work for you. See experian.com for details. Bitdefender - Start protecting your business today with Bitdefender Ultimate Small Business Security. Get 30% off your plan at bitdefender.com/profiting Intuit - Start paying bills the smart way, not the hard way. Learn more at QuickBooks.com/billpay Resources Mentioned: Dr. Amy's Website: amymdwellness.com Dr. Amy's Instagram: instagram.com/dramyshah Dr. Amy's Book, Hormone Havoc: bit.ly/HormoneHavoc Active Deals - youngandprofiting.com/deals Key YAP Links Reviews - ratethispodcast.com/yap YouTube - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting Newsletter - youngandprofiting.co/newsletter LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ Social + Podcast Services: yapmedia.com Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com/episodes-new Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Podcast, Business, Business Podcast, Self Improvement, Self-Improvement, Personal Development, Starting a Business, Strategy, Investing, Sales, Selling, Psychology, Productivity, Entrepreneurs, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Marketing, Negotiation, Money, Finance, Side Hustle, Startup, Mental Health, Career, Leadership, Mindset, Health, Growth Mindset, Biohacking, Motivation, Manifestation, Brain Health, Life Balance, Self-Healing, Positivity, Happiness, Sleep, Diet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We live in this world that has ignored our health for so long, and it's showing the effects.
0:06.0	Our circadian rhythms are disrupted.
0:08.0	Our food is ultra-processed, and then the products we're using are adding to the toxic load in our bodies.
0:14.0	Dr. Amy Shaw, a double board certified MD trained at Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell.
0:19.0	She's here to break down the real reasons behind
0:21.7	burnout, brain fog, cravings, and hormonal imbalance, and the simple science-backed habits that
0:26.9	will help you reset your system and redeem your clarity. I was living this, like, very extremely
0:32.6	hustle culture life where I wasn't sleeping well, I wasn't eating well, I was trying to do it all.
0:37.8	I hated the work that I was doing.
0:40.3	I know something inside of me is telling me
0:42.9	to go a different route.
0:44.9	A lot of people think energy just isn't the brain,
0:47.6	but your gut is the center of your energy.
0:51.1	It's really important that you eat well.
0:52.8	How would you recommend that we figure out
0:54.5	what we should actually eat? Because there's so many recommendations out there. Pella, I'm going to give
0:59.1	you a framework that's going to change nutrition. Okay, it's circadian rhythms run 80% of our bodies
1:05.9	processes. And we completely in today's world ignore circadian rhythms.
1:16.8	If you can figure out how to sleep and get light in the right times, it's going to make the biggest difference in her energy.
1:18.2	What's one or two things people can do to immediately improve their energy?
1:22.2	One of the biggest things that has helped me in my life and I recommend to people is...
1:34.0	Yeah, fam, are you always so effing tired or so effing hungry even after you've just eaten?
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