FAQs
Who is Sara Szal MD?
Sara Szal, MD, is a physician, researcher, educator, mother, and author working where physiology and hormones meet the mind. Harvard- and MIT-trained, she pairs modern therapeutics with upstream tools such as continuous glucose monitoring, microbiome analysis, and metabolomics to address root causes. The author of four New York Times bestsellers, including The Autoimmune Cure, she serves as Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University and Director of Precision Medicine and Longevity at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Her focus is using personalized data to map the links between hormones, stress biology, brain and mental health.
How can I book a precision medicine consultation?
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A Note on How I Use AI
I write my books and articles, and I use AI tools trained on my own books and past essays to help me draft, edit, and publish faster.
I do not hide this. I also will not pretend otherwise to satisfy a detector score.
The judgment is mine. The citations are verified before anything goes out under my name. The cultural arguments, patient stories, conceptual models, and conviction behind them come from years in an exam room. What the tools do is offer speed, not substance: they help me get a draft onto the page faster with scientific evidence and endnotes and catch what needs fixing before you read it.
If that changes how you read my work, I would rather you know it than wonder. Thank you for being here.