Posts by Sara Szal MD
The Wahls Protocol – Dr. Sara’s Book Club #11
If you’re an avid reader of mine, by now you’re familiar with the fact that the food we eat has an overwhelming impact on our health. Food choices directly affect energy levels, mood, proper organ function and even life expectancy and incidence of disease. Seems pretty intuitive, right? Even so, in the age of modern…
Read More3 Tips for Staying Healthy When There’s a Bun in the Oven (Or Soon to Be One!)
If you ask any newly pregnant woman if she prefers a boy or a girl, you’re bound to hear one resounding statement: I just want a healthy baby. Every soon-to-be mama wants her baby to be as nourished and well protected as possible, and this requires the mother’s own health be in tip-top shape during…
Read MoreHow to Rock the Hay-bale: My First Fashion Show for Fibershed A.K.A. The 150-Mile Wardrobe
Recently, I walked my first runway. No, it wasn’t New York Fashion Week. It was a straw-bale runway in rural Point Reyes Station, CA. Does that challenge your idea of fashion? Make you rethink glamour? That’s the point. That’s why eco-visionary and author Rebecca Burgess asked friends in the fledgling eco-fashion realm to design some foxy togs…
Read MoreFood Addiction (Part 1): The Science Behind the Syndrome
Are you addicted to food? Take my free food addiction quiz and find out. Maybe you have a happy relationship with food. Beyond eating for survival, you enjoy food in moderation and know that it provides nutrition, joy, and health. When you’re normal, food is neutral. For some people, though, food is an obsession that dominates…
Read More6 Tips for Loving Your Gut and Healing Digestive Problems Naturally
Your gut doesn’t lie. It gives you that “gut reaction” when something isn’t quite right; it growls when you’re hungry; and a stomach upset is sometimes the first symptom of something amiss in your body. Indeed, your gut may be the most forthcoming part of your body, unable to mask the symptoms when something is…
Read MoreHair Loss, Hormones and How to Regain Your Luscious Locks
If there’s one thing in the world that a woman takes seriously, it’s her hair. We cut it, we style it, we love it, we loathe it. Let’s be honest – good hair makes us feel confident and sexy. So what’s a girl to do when those lovely locks start shedding? After giving birth, reaching…
Read MoreThe Earth Beneath Your Feet (Part 1): Why Going Barefoot May Boost Your Health and Beauty (and Dirt Just Might Act as a Giant Antioxidant)
Are you ready to get healthier and love up those ever-challenged adrenal glands by trying something new, old, and easy called earthing? I’m all about easy. And free? Who isn’t totally into that? Kick off your shoes. It’s that simple. This health and beauty treatment is as old as dirt. In fact, it is dirt.…
Read MoreWhy Treating Your Body Like a Cell Phone Will Get Your Hormones in Balance
What’s the difference between a woman who’s frumpy and frazzled and one who’s healthy and energized? The second one clearly has Charlie’s Angels on her side. No, I’m not talking about Sabrina, Jill and Kelly – those butt-kicking babes with the great body suits. I’m talking about the Charlie’s Angels of hormones: Cortisol, Thyroid and…
Read MoreBiohacking Your Way to Better Sleep
In the same way that a computer hacker can reprogram an operating system to work differently, you can do the same thing to your own body. It’s called biohacking, baby, and it’s all the rage right now. Now if your first thought was, “bio….huh?” you’re not alone. It’s a somewhat nerdy concept probably made even…
Read MoreWant to Lose Weight? Evaluate Your Hormones
Last year, the American Medical Association did something that will change the way we look at diet and exercise forever: they classified obesity as a disease. Whatever you call it, the fact remains that our culture is getting fatter and fatter as the years go by. I’m not saying this to be rude or insensitive…
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