First the bold news: I hacked my growth hormone with exercise and raised it 53%. Results just in: I rocked my growth hormone from a respectable level of 219 last year to 334 ng/ml. Even with my agro lifestyle of completing my book with Simon & Schuster, running my integrative medicine practice full time, and trying… [Continue Reading]
Darlings, first the good news. You have a choice about how estrogen works for or against you in your body. The bad news is that the latest, best evidence shows that 3 or more servings of alcohol per week may increase your risk of breast cancer quite seriously. Three. Per week. Most women I know… [Continue Reading]
There, I admit it. It’s time to get brutally honest. After all, I’m in my forties, perimenopausal, and the best part about it is the newfound clarity, the lift of the hormonal veil–regarding the endless accommodation, the people-pleasing, the half-hearted enthusiasm for things you don’t really enjoy but you do them anyway. Such… [Continue Reading]
I am so very blessed. Here’s why. 7 Women. One Year. These 7 women have vaulted me to places I never thought possible in the past year, from the Fire Starter Sessions with Danielle Laporte (did her book, then did a live Fire Starter, and, WOW, life shifted to technicolor in so many delovely and… [Continue Reading]
In Portland last week, I was immensely enjoying dinner with my sister, her 11-month baby, and my elder daughter, now officially a ‘tween. We were having a magical time, hanging out at a hip Portlandia-esque natural foods restaurant called Blossoming Lotus, when the talk turned South. We were chatting about middle school, and the topic… [Continue Reading]
Last week I turned 45 and received an extravagant gift: an interview with my favorite rockstar of yoga, Ana T. Forrest. Ana Forrest is not your typical international yoga rockstar. In fact, she’d probably correct me if I called her a rock star, and insist that she is a modern Medicine woman. (Actually, as I get… [Continue Reading]
What’s your Greater Purpose when it comes to your health? What myths have you busted on your path to robust health? (Show me yours and I’ll show you mine.) Transparency Heals Perhaps you’ve noticed this too. The more honest I get about what I most desire, what I most feel and need, about the ways in which I overprovide, and… [Continue Reading]
Last fall I had an epiphany. I was talking to Ellen Heed, the genre-bending anatomy teacher for Ana Forrest’s Yoga Teacher Training, about how we, as women, have to take responsibility for the fact that we are neurologically programmed for pleasure. Here’s the epiphany: our pleasure wiring is a use-it-or-lose-it situation. If you don’t use… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
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… [Continue Reading]
