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Sara Gottfried MD
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  • About Dr Sara
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  • Books
    • Women, Food, and Hormones
    • Younger
    • Brain Body Diet
    • Hormone Reset Diet
    • The Hormone Cure
  • Upcoming Events
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    • Women’s Health
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    • Weight Loss
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Meditation

Kickstarting Health in the Gottfried Home: Our Morning Rituals

By Dr. Sara and David Gottfried | December 11, 2017

Do you race out of bed to get your morning caffeine, or do you meditate quietly for thirty minutes? Do you take the time to eat a nutritious breakfast, or…

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3 Simple Ways to Calm Your Mind and Find Peace

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 12, 2017
3 Simple Tools to Calm your Mind and Find Peace | Women's Health | Sara Gottfried M.D.

Over and over patients tell me they want peace and calmness in their life, but the highway of life keeps them moving. Meditation? Slowing down? Who has time to sit…

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De-Stress to Look Younger: Top Health Apps That Beat Plastic Surgery

By Sara Gottfried, MD | March 13, 2017

Cathy fit an all-too-typical patient profile: beyond stressed, cursing at the bathroom scale, and spending far too much money on toxic beauty products. During our second visit, Cathy complained that…

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What Stress Does to Your Hormones, Plus 3 PROVEN Stress Management Strategies

By Sara Gottfried, MD | March 17, 2015
Woman Having Chronic Stress and Cannot Sleep

Nothing wrecks your hormones faster than unmanaged stress. However, stress in and of itself is not a bad thing. A healthy dose of stress can motivate you to high levels…

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Green Your Hormones in 8 Easy Steps

By Sara Gottfried, MD | September 11, 2014
Woman Doing Yoga to Avoid Hormone Imbalance

Download my free Hormone Survival Guide below to get a jump start on greening your hormones. Are you feeling tired, moody or stressed? Did you know this could be a…

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7 Essential Steps in Resetting Your Body’s Natural Clock

By Robin Nielsen | August 26, 2014

Are you 35 years old but sometimes feel like you’re 95? While age is just a number, we do associate certain feelings, symptoms and diseases with different ages, and I…

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Injured? Stressed Out? Try Yin Yoga

By Sara Gottfried, MD | August 7, 2014

I’m devoting this entire article to the joys of yoga. “Why?” you ask (as if you didn’t know that I’m a dedicated yoga teacher as well as a physician). There’s no…

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5 Ways to Treat Hormonal Headaches Naturally

By Sara Gottfried, MD | June 19, 2014
5 Ways to Prevent and Cure Hormonal Headaches Naturally

Whether it’s a debilitating migraine or the dull throbbing from a stressful day, headaches have the ability to zap your energy, ruin your focus and turn your otherwise centered self…

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Dr. Sara’s Genius Bar: Top Influencers in Business & Lifestyle

By Sara Gottfried, MD | May 29, 2014
Dr. Sara’s Genius Bar: Top Influential People in Business & Lifestyle

You know these people. You’ve watched them on Oprah, seen their faces on the covers of their best-selling books, and perhaps even been lucky enough to attend one of their…

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Make Exercise Your Meditation Too!

By Katherine Dreyer | May 13, 2014
Make Exercising a Form of Meditating Too!

Meditate or exercise, why choose? Movement as a vehicle for deeper self-awareness has been a long-standing practice in many traditions such as Yoga, T’ai Chi, and Chi Gong. You can take…

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PRAISE

“For the first time in my adult life I feel that I have gained control over food. I feel healthier, look better and have gained an interest in making sure that what I am putting into my body is the best it can be. And I lost 10 pounds in all the right places.”

– Janice Lunde, Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“Dr. Sara is the height of excellence! She is incredibly knowledgeable and gives very generously of her time. I feel so blessed to have been able to work with her.”

– Yvonne Varah

“You don’t have to settle for being stressed out, binging on sugar and chocolate, and aging prematurely. Stop blaming yourself and step into sacred action. It’s your birthright. You can have the joyous, mission-driven life you want, and Dr. Sara is here to show us how.”

– Marci Shimoff, New York Times Bestselling Author of Happy for No Reason and Love for No Reason

“Dr. Gottfried offers powerful and effective tools for addressing the most difficult health issues facing women and men today. She is warm and kind and has so much experience to draw upon, it’s inspiring. Thank you Dr. S!”

– Cassandra Mick

“Dr. Sara Gottfried is a modern-day healer goddess if ever there was one, and she also happens to be a Harvard Medical School graduate and rigorous physician-scientist.”

– Christiane Northrup MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“Dr. Gottfried’s book and detox came at a time when I was ready to give in to old age. Hot flashes, low energy and libido, weight gain, increasing blood pressure and cholesterol levels were unacceptable to me. I now know that hormone levels and what I eat are a huge influence on how I feel and look. To now be able to control something that was out of control is empowering…”

Cheryl V., Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“My health coach told me about your book and I took the [hormone] test, and lo and behold, I found I was a mess, hormonally speaking. Now I’m getting on track and I love your videos and your book. I feel like I’m getting my life back again, when not long ago I truly thought I was losing it!”

-Tracy, Registered Nurse

“You don’t have to accept the hormonal hell of being tired, stressed, overweight, and never in the mood for sex as you grow older. In her fabulous new book, the brilliant Dr. Gottfried gives you an effective, easy-to-follow plan to balance your hormones and become lean, energetic, and loving life again. Stop settling and reclaim your sexy!”

–JJ Virgin, Author of Six Weeks to Sleeveless and Sexy and The Virgin Diet

“I lost 10 lbs., reset my hormones and metabolism and eliminated my sugar cravings! I have also found that I respond to stress much differently, I feel it, notice it and move on from it. Stress no longer has a grip on me. Dr. Sara’s conference calls and detox information was invaluable. I am so grateful for this program. Thank you Dr. Sara!”

–Sophia, Dr. Sara’s Detox Challenge Participant

“The Hormone Cure is the playbook for your mojo, your mind, and your bootie. With every chapter I thought, ‘So THAT’s how that works.’ I wanted to call every girlfriend and give them the goods on how to glow… now and always.”

-Danielle LaPorte, Author of The Fire Starter Sessions and The Desire Map

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The gut/brain connection is critically important t The gut/brain connection is critically important to your sound mind. Your gut contains 100 trillion bugs that influence your well-being in various ways. The DNA belonging to these bugs, your microbiome, is involved in most if not all biological processes, including memory. Taken further, when the microbiome of a healthy person is compared with that of a person with memory impairment, there are changes in the bacteria, including Bacteroidetes, Firmicutes, Proteobacteria, and Verrucomicrobia (Manderino, 2017). These phyla (division or grouping) of bacteria correlated with cognitive test performance. Why? Well, when your gut wall is leaky, your blood-brain barrier becomes leaky. On a molecular level, the tight junctions between cells loosen, and the process of intestinal permeability is regulated by proteins (like zonulin and occludin) produced in the gut. Inflammation spreads from the body to the brain, and memory can suffer. As you age, the composition of the gut microbiota changes in the direction of less diversity and fewer good bacteria. You harbor more gram-negative bacteria, which secrete the dreaded lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and create inflammation in the gut that can travel to the brain. All these changes in gut microbiota can alter blood-brain barrier permeability. To sum up: the poor state of your gut can rob you of memory and a sense of calm. What can you do to improve the gut-brain connection? ▪Reduce or avoid refined sugar altogether. ▪Consume good fats like coconut oil, olive oil, olives, avocados, nuts. ▪Increase your fiber intake as this prevents dysbiosis ▪Eat prebiotic food such as sauerkraut or kimchee ▪Exercise on a regular basis as physical activity improves brain function. ▪Practice meditation for 10 minutes a day ▪Get more rest. When you don’t get enough sleep, inflammation rises in the brain Like, save, and share😍 #memorycare #memorybooster #cognitive #cognitivescience #cognitivefunction #cognitiveneuroscience #cognitivehealth #cognitiveperformance #cognitivedecline #memoryloss #dementia #dementiaawareness #dementiasupport #alzheimersawareness #alzheimers #brainbodydiet
Subscribers, heard a great lecture on biohacking h Subscribers, heard a great lecture on biohacking healthspan and wondering what exercise you will get today? What’s your favorite way to move your body?
Beloved Subscribers, I made this cheeseboard yeste Beloved Subscribers, I made this cheeseboard yesterday with @srimudolife cashew cheese and realized I like this cheese better than regular cheese. What healthy and nutritious foods have you recently discovered? Note: This post is for subscribers only. 😍
The answer to health is not found in a pill bottle The answer to health is not found in a pill bottle. Agree? Drop a ❤️
Here I am at UCSF in my 40s trying to demystify th Here I am at UCSF in my 40s trying to demystify the three main hormones that most influence women… Estrogen, Cortisol, and Thyroid Do you agree that modern women are facing an epidemic of neurohormonal difficulties? #womemshealth #hormones #estrogen #postpartum #perimenopause #menopause #nutrition #bioidenticalhormones
Normally, the mind and brain age gradually, if at Normally, the mind and brain age gradually, if at all, in the absence of injury and disease. When you take care of your brain, vocabulary and language skills can actually increase with age. I know that the math of a healthy brain involves a better balance between inputs (like drinking green smoothies and meditating) and outputs (such as prioritizing sleep, preventing leaky gut, and even keeping mitochondria in top shape). Processing speed tends to slow, and memory becomes weaker in the aging brain. You can prevent deteriorating memory and dementia through regular physical exercise, learning and education, and repairing your gut. You want your hippocampus— the section of your brain that serves as the center of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system— to be lush and connected, like a dense fern growing in a tropical rainforest. Many factors affect the health of your brain and mind including inflammation, hormone imbalances and toxins. Other culprits include poor sleep, lack of stimulation, lack of community, and a poor microbiome. Let’s start with five basics to improve brain health and function: 1️⃣Sleep seven to eight and a half hours per night, and nap if you get less. Sleep prods the glymphatic system to remove waste and cleanse damaging and toxic molecules associated with neurodegeneration (aka brain decay). It works best when you’re sleeping on your side. 2️⃣Exercise four to six days per week for at least thirty to forty minutes at a moderate pace, working in several high-intensity intervals, in order to raise BDNF, prompt neurogenesis, and lower blood sugar. 3️⃣Floss twice per day and brush three times, with an electric toothbrush, if you can. Good dental hygiene prevents cognitive decline. 3️⃣Improve mitochondrial function by eating more vegetables to fill your antioxidant stores, avoiding refined carbohydrates, and intermittently fasting to activate longevity genes. 5️⃣Take vitamin D3 and fish oil each day. Like, save, and share😍 #brainbodydiet
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