Dr. Sara Gottfried – a pioneer in health, research, and education – has seen more than 25,000 patients over the past two decades. She's a physician scientist, who graduated from Harvard Medical School and MIT, and completed her Residency at the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Gottfried is the Director of Precision Medicine at The Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, at Thomas Jefferson University, where she specializes in identifying the underlying causes of her patient's conditions to achieve lasting health transformation, not just symptom management.
Dr. Gottfried has published five books, including multiple New York Times bestsellers, such as The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Her latest book has just been published, Women Food and Hormones.
In this episode, Dr. Casey Means, Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Levels, and Dr. Gottfried covered a number of topics from her new book.
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New insights from continuous glucose monitoring into the route to diabetes
Proposed guidelines to evaluate scientific validity and evidence for genotype-based dietary advice
Michael Snyder
Marcus Institute of Integrative Health
Sara Gottfried

(04:11) - The vital role of metabolism
(08:15) - Metabolic data should be democratized
(11:12) - Women and the keto diet
(12:50) - Women are considered "too complicated"
(18:38) - Every person needs a unique diet
(22:40) - Diet shouldn't be like politics
(26:53) - The ideal fasting length
(33:22) - The role of testosterone
(40:02) - Physicians should not be gatekeepers to health
(01:02:40) - The relationship between genes and our environment
Transcripts & Show Notes
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