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What Nutrient-Dense Food, Exercise + Orgasm Have In Common
Today I was on a telejam with my new friend, Alexandra Jamieson, who is the nutritionista in the award-winning film, Super Size Me, author and a brilliant certified health and nutrition coach who makes complex subjects like food biochemistry both fascinating and understandable. We were talking the nutrient-dense foods that boost metabolism, get your metabolism right-sized…
Read MoreMy Memory Sucks! Dr. Sara's Top 3 Tips (+ 1 from Tim Ferriss)
Memory is your ability to store, retain, and recall information at will. But sometimes, if you’re like me at age 44, you send the signal and… nothing happens. Blank. I got nothin’. As a recovering stressoholic, I’ve learned that we have a very cool part of our brain called the hippocampus that is the boss…
Read MoreMy 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…
Read More7 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…
Read MoreTrack 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…
Read MoreHoliday 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…
Read MoreChina 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…
Read MoreEnergy of Desire: How Overproviding Gets in the Way
Guest post by Rosie Vega This week we’ve been focusing on how to integrate all we’ve learned in Mission Ignition. But my mind is still being blown by all I’ve learned so far. Some concepts are deceptively simple: get more sleep, breathe, listen to your body, ask for what you want. But these core directives…
Read MoreDr. Sara's Top 8 Hormone Tests: Find Your Blind Spots + Track Your Progress
If you read O Magazine as avidly as I, you know that December features a story on the quantified self, called Beyond Measure. Author Catherine Price describes the Hawthorne Effect, which is the phenomenon that we behave differently when watched, or put another way: when your yoga teacher gazes at you in class, your…
Read MoreStop the World — I Want to Get Off
By Guest Writer Rosie Vega A now largely forgotten 1961 Broadway show, “Stop the World—I Want to Get Off,” is more memorable for its title, which became a pop culture catch phrase for a while, than the musical itself. According to Broadway insider Oscar Levant, the creators took it from a graffito scrawled on a…
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