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Mumford and Sons Raise My Testosterone!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 4, 2013

Did you see Mumford and Sons kill the Grammys? Cannot get enough of them. They balance my hormones, among other things. I’m more than a bit obsessed with Marcus Mumford…

Do You Hide Behind a Tunic?

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 3, 2013

    Reflecting today on my growing selection of organic tunics and what they represent psychically. Around the time that I turned 35, and met for the first time my…

5 Tips to Reclaim Your Thyroid Mojo

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 2, 2013

Today I’m reminding you of, and then manhandling 5 mojo-zappers. Five things that I often find are depleting the energy of vast numbers of patients in my integrative medicine practice.…

The Pusher as Exerciser: 10 Strategies that Help!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 1, 2013

In other words, are you hard core? Use whatever word that speaks to you most: fierce, badass, someone with a strong personal code? I bet you are similar to me.…

Royal Hormones

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 1, 2013

Kate is a Perfect Hormonal Specimen. Overly reductionistic? Perhaps. While I don’t have royal fever, I relished watching a video of Kate Middleton have her day in the limelight. OK,…

OneTaste and the OM Conference: Come Hang With Me and Nicole Daedone in San Francisco!

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 23, 2013

Hey Everyone – it’s Dr. Sara with something you just might not want to miss!  My dear friend, Nicole Daedone, Founder of OneTaste, is putting on her first OM Conference August 9-11 in San…

A Wild Weekend: Hormone-Balancing Yoga & Farm-to-Table Lunch at Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas, CA

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 11, 2013

One of the perks of my job is that sometimes I get asked to do fabulous events with extremely talented people. One of those events is coming up this weekend…

Strike a Pose and Call Me in the Morning: 5 Ways Yoga Changed My Life

By Sara Gottfried, MD | July 1, 2013

When I was in my thirties, I was working hard. I won’t tell you that I was working too hard, but I was working without sufficient balance. My day job…

Turn Your Insulin into Jillian Michaels (Part 2): Manage Your Blood Sugar

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 21, 2013

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to test your blood sugar. Measuring your blood sugar, especially your fasting blood sugar, gives you valuable insight into your insulin resistance…

I'm Giving Away 10 Books on Good Reads

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 4, 2013

Thrilled to announce that I’m giving away my New York Times bestselling book to folks who enter to win one of the 10 copies I’m giving away. I’d love to…