453: The Secret to Balancing Your Hormones & Burning Body Fat | Dr. Sara Gottfried

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Dr. Sara Gottfried (IG: @saragottfriedmd) is a hormone expert, a Harvard-educated physician-scientist, and a New York Times bestselling author. She practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine.

Today we’re discussing Sara's latest book... Women, Food, and Hormones.

If you’re a woman looking to balance your hormones so you can lose excess weight and feel better - this interview is for you. Don’t worry, lots in here for the men too.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The truth about Women, Food, and Hormones
• What happens when your hormones are out of whack?
• Test recommendations to assess your hormones
• The 4-week protocol to balance hormones
• Medicine for the individual
• Reverse the epidemic of people with metabolic dysfunction
• Detoxification is the first pillar of the Sara's protocol
• Sweating helps you detox
• Supplements that enhance detoxification
• The problem with classic keto for women
• How to adapt the ketogenic diet for women
• Sara’s typical meal which is 60-70% fat
• Nutritional ketosis is healthy
• The ketogenic diet lowers insulin
• The keto adaptation phase
• MCT oil helps reduce cravings
• How to use MCT oil daily
• Sara’s morning routine & meditation practice
• Extending your intermittent fasting window
• Does coffee break your fast?
• Practice 1/3 cardio & 2/3 strength training
• Your hormones depend on getting good sleep
• Bedtime rituals to help achieve better REM sleep
• Trauma is a hormone disrupter
• The rise of psychedelic medicine to treat mental health
• What’s your ACE score?
• Autoimmunity and trauma

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