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Answer to Your Questions Monday 1/23/12 at 8am P/11am E (or get the recording)
Last minute Sally here. We had so many burning questions from the last few telejams that I decided on an impromptu live Q&A on Monday. That’s in 2 days. Sign up here to join us live OR post your question here or email it to us and I’ll get all I can cram into…
Not Your Mother's Thyroid Talk: Think Different About Your Thyroid Health
Slow food? Love it. Slow sex? You know it. Slow thyroid? A show stopper. You cannot realize your full potential in the world if your thyroid is working against you. Is this you? You’ve packed on a few pounds and can’t seem to get them off. You look at a piece of cake and it…
My Top 5 Hormone Superheroes: My Genius Bar. My Peeps. My Go-To’s.
Here are the Best of Class in Hormonal Health, Peace + Love. Thought leaders, change agents, supersmartypants, Malcomb-Gladwell-types of women’s health and longevity, nutritional radicals, early adoptors, cultural creatives, and, oh YES! the Voice of Reason (guess who!). The folks I go to when I have a question, and Pubmed came up dry. Wanted to…
7 Tips to Boost Metabolism: Reset Your Internal Chem Lab
One size fits all dieting fails 98% of the time. The alternative? I’ve got 3 options that work, that have helped thousands of my patients lose pounds and keep ’em off over the past 10 years. One is the genotype-appropriate food plan. Eating how you were meant to eat based on your genes. No more…
Track Equanimity + Adjust Sooner in 2012
Peace. Stress hormones, particularly the queen of ‘em, cortisol, normalizes. Briefly. Not too high. Not too low. Tank full, even overflowing, and it’s the overflow I give to others—my family and friends, my clients, my book. When I’m in my equanimitous zone, I have time to meditate each morning for 20 minutes, to write, to…
Holiday Hormones: Harvard MD Teaches You How to Surf 'Em
It’s the end of the year. Are you depleted? Burned out? Gaining weight over the holidays? Asexual? How much is it worth for you to shift in 2012 to vital, sexy & thin again? I’m Dr. Sara Gottfried, the integrative physician who coaches depleted women with slow metabolism to feel energized, buoyant, joyous and lithe…
China Dispatch #2: Chinese Originated Bioidentical Hormones in 1025 AD
Did you know that the Chinese were the first to create, compound, document and prescribe bioidentical hormones to replace what’s lost due to aging? Certainly not me, yet I am not surprised to learn of this–as my interviewee last week, fourth-generation Chinese Doctor 刘英山 Liu Ying Shan, tells me that the main tenet of Traditional Chinese…
China Dispatch #1: "Too much pressure. Too much stress." Followed by an extraordinary night of sleep.
“Hell, Yes.” That was my response when my husband, David Gottfried, founder of the US Green Building Council and LEED, was asked to give a speech at a green conference in Shenzhen, the “Silicon Valley” of China near Hong Kong, and David asked if we should go. I had visions of interviewing Traditional Chinese…