Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. As we enter into our sixth year of the

commune podcast, we are republishing some of our most popular interviews with teachers who now have full-length

courses on the commune course platform. So this interview with Dr. Sarah Gottfried was first

recorded in 2022. Sarah is a physician and scientist who specializes in identifying the underlying

cause of her patient's conditions in order to achieve

true and lasting health transformation, not just symptom management.

She is the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including Women, Food, and Hormones,

a four-week plan to achieve hormonal balance, lose weight,

and feel like yourself again. In her 30s, advanced testing showed that Sarah was 20 years

older than her chronological age, so she went to her own doctor who told her to take

prozac, ibuprofen, and birth control pills.

Fortunately, she decided to apply her own functional medicine training on herself,

and within six weeks she reversed her pre-diabetes and lost more than 20 pounds.

In this conversation, Sarah and I take a deep dive into metabolic dysfunction, which is the

upstream cause of nine out of the 10 top killers in the United States. We explore the metabolic

role of hormones, specifically cortisol and insulin, and unpack the hormonal differences

between men and women.

We talk about ketones, ketosis, and the ketogenic diet, and we discuss a Godfrey protocol,

a modified version of keto designed specifically for women.

Sarah also outlined a number of self-administered tests that you can take to gauge your

metabolic flexibility. Finally, we talk about the physiological effects of intermittent fasting

and how trauma can impact metabolic health. If you like what you hear in today's interview,

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