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Sara Gottfried

  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    Believe it or not, most problems, including hormone imbalance, can be largely relieved through lifestyle changes alone.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    She practices what is known as “functional” or integrative medicine, which works to optimize the minute-to-minute processes and functions of the body before diagnosable diseases develop.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    perimenopausal years as the big wake-up call—a time when we reach a crossroads in our lives. Everything that is no longer working has to be addressed and left behind! One road says Die; the other says Grow.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    easier to rebalance your hormones than to live with the misery of hormonal imbalance.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    Diane began a new way of eating (no gluten or sugar for three months) and targeted exercise that
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    lowered her cortisol rather than raised it (studies show that running raises cortisol levels). She set aside fifteen minutes each day for conscious de-stressing, in this case relaxing yoga, and we mended her hormonal imbalance with three supplements: fish oil, phosphatidylserine, and rhodiola.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    grew to understand that an entire world of prevention, healing, and repair exists through nutrition and lifestyle; that the answers to health challenges cannot be found solely in a bottle of prescription pills; that eating whole foods is the foundation of robust health; that regular exercise and contemplative practice can keep your body humming.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    Who knows, maybe you too will dance at your great-granddaughter’s wedding.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    And I discovered what millions of other women face: my hormones were seriously off kilter. I was a frazzled new mom, harried wife, and busy doctor, with significant imbalances in my estrogen, progesterone, thyroid, and cortisol levels.
  • Danya Chaikelhas quoted10 months ago
    But rather than masking the symptoms of my hormone issues, as I had been taught to do (usually with a birth control pill or antidepressant), I wanted to seek the root causes.
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