How Women Can Heal Autoimmunity & Hormones in a Culture That Makes Us Sick with Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried

Today’s guest, Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, is calling for a revolution in women’s health. Our culture is not set up to support female biology and it shows. The rates of depression, insomnia, Alzheimer’s and autoimmunity in women are staggering—it’s beyond time to turn this around. We meet at dawn…


In this episode you’ll learn: 

* The leading cause of hormone imbalances

* How our culture is making women sick

* The outsized impacts of trauma on women’s health

* What psychedelics offer for healing on all levels

* How to reclaim your health as a woman

* And more…


Sara Szal Gottfried, MD, is a physician scientist who graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at the University of California at San Francisco. Over the past two decades, Dr. Gottfried has seen more than 25,000 patients, and specializes in identifying the underlying cause of her patients’ conditions to achieve true and lasting health transformations, not just symptom management.


Dr. Gottfried is a global keynote speaker who practices evidence-based integrative, precision, and functional medicine. She is Clinical Assistant Professor in Dept. of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, and Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health. Dr. Gottfried’s research focus is metabolic phenotyping. Her bestselling books include: The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, Younger, Women Food and Hormones, and her new book, The Autoimmune Cure.


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