Hi Dear Friend,
This week I’m thrilled to introduce you to Dr. Sara Gottfried (in case you didn’t already know about this women’s health champion!). Over the past year, Sara has become a friend and mentor of mine. Before I met Sara, I didn’t fully understand how much stress could throw off my hormone balance and affect my overall health. And I’m guessing that some of my readers are in the same boat. That’s why I filmed this interview for you. I hope our conversation empowers and helps you as much as it’s helped me.
Watch my interview with Dr. Sara Gottfried above or download it here and listen on the go. Note: To download the mp3 file right click (or Ctrl+Click on a Mac) on the link and “Save Link As” to save it to your computer.
Why am I blown away by Sara’s work?
For starters, she’s a Harvard-educated physician, board certified gynecologist, speaker, yoga teacher, wife, and mom of two daughters. She’s also the kind of doctor that makes me cheer—a practitioner who’s getting to the root causes of health issues impacting millions of women. And she’s not throwing pills at her patients’ problems. Instead, Sara is teaching us how to address these challenges with an integrative approach. You know, all the stuff we love at KrisCarr.com—diet, lifestyle, holistic mental and emotional therapies and supplements.
I recently read Sara’s new best-selling book, The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive, and Vitality with The Gottfried Protocol and it really helped my daily wellness plan. With a couple tests and a few simple adjustments, I’m seeing major improvements in my energy levels, which had been less than ideal for a while. In this interview, Sara and I delve into a huge topic for most of us—stress!
Here’s a peek at the questions we covered:
- What’s runaway stress and how does it impact our hormones and health? Take Sara’s free quiz to begin exploring your hormonal health.
- What are some practical ways we can overcome runaway stress? Sara and I share our personal strategies (Sara loves the Inner Balance app).
- What’s the link between cortisol and challenges like depression, moodiness, chronic disease or gaining weight? Find out how Sara and I have measured and improved our cortisol levels.
- What’s public enemy #1 of our well-being? We all need to be aware of this priority and keep it in the forefront of our minds each day…
- What foods reduce stress in the body? You could easily start adding these foods to your diet today.
- How do carbohydrates impact our hormonal health and stress levels? Hint: they’re not your nemesis.
- For a green juice drinking yoga mama in our audience who’s rocking some of these tips already, what’s she NOT thinking about or addressing? You don’t want to miss Sara’s insider tips!
Watch the video above or download it here and listen later. For more information on Sara, her free resources, programs and books, visit her website. Note: To download the mp3 file right click (or Ctrl+Click on a Mac) on the link and “Save Link As” to save it to your computer.
Your turn: I really want to hear about what you’re struggling with when it comes to stress, hormones & your well-being. Comment below with your insights & tips.
Peace & happy hormones,
Loved the interview and the bling dashboard for the yoga mum, green juices chic’s, discovering that my hormones are going a bit crazy right now.
I like that you took it further than stay off carbs, de stress and go deeper and start listening to your body which is exactly where I am at, and still searching for my way out of the swamp. getting that crazy muffin top and so tired…. thanks
Motivating in a peacful way.
Lots of love.
Fiona in France
I have never ever heard such crap in all my life!! WTF are you talking about? You don’t know! Nebulous pseudoscience!
Big thank you to Kris for this interview 🙂
Two of the women I admire and trust most together? YES! I learned so much and will be watching this again. Thank you thank you! I vote for a regular collaboration 🙂
love and gratitude!
Thank you! Very helpful and insightful. Love you both!
Where can we get the cortisol saliva test? Through a Dr or can we do it on our own?
Wow, I cried! THANK YOU! at last I know what I have been trying to deal with for the last 4 years, and especially the last few months is hormonal! well I know I am menopausal but the info on cortisol explains soo much! did the quiz, bought the book and I am using dowsing to check my levels and tapping (thanks Nick Ortner!), and yoga to help …(legs up the wardrobe is so sexy!…AND they really work to reduce stress and the high cortisol levels, but I know I have to keep at it. oh and relaxxxx ( check out OM ing too!!)
So glad you found Dr. Gottfried. I am so excited to learn more. Several of my friends are struggling with hormone issues. I hope to find out more and educate everyone so we can ALL feel better! 🙂
Sara mentioned her body doesn’t test for inflammation using homocysteine or C reactive protien. If I heard it right, if I had stage 4 cancer NHL and my CRP was ‘normal’… does that mean that could be the case for me? Been in remission 4 years but have many of same problems as before ie. chronic fatigue, overweight, anxiety, IBS etc. which are all usually signs that inflamation is a big ‘problem’ yet CRP is still testing fine. She made reference that she gets some other test …. what test is it? How does it indicate ‘inflamation’. Thanks for this interview. Look forward to seeing more like it in the future.
I am interested in the mention of alternative inflammation markers to homocysteine and c-reactive protein. Would love to hear more on this!
Thank you for posting this interview, it was so informative and cortisol is something new to me entirely. I am a 38 year old vegan and take very few supplements. I do however take flax oil and I noticed you didn’t mention it as a valuable source of omega 3s. Is this worth taking and if so how much do you recommend? I would appreciate your feedback. Thank you so much for all that you do, you are truly an inspiration!
Such a positive and empowering interview! Thank you so much for sharing this vital information. I’ve recently struggled through some thyroid and adrenal issues of my own and thought and though it is better, there is still more work to do. Really excited to put this new info into action.
thanks again for bringing it home to me. I awoke this am soo stressed. Perfect timing.
you inspire me.
health & happiness
Very interesting to me but now that I have reached menopause I wonder if a lot of these suggestions different for me now. I see a ND who has helped me regulate my thyroid and has given me a supplement called cortisol manager with ashwagandha 250mg and magnolia blend 225mg which I take twice a day. I deal with OA and fatigue a lot and try to stick to a healthy antiinflammatory diet for a couple years now. Never had the four point test but wonder if I should as I feel depleted a lot. I see my regular PCP for usual bloodwork which are fine as well. I am your typical slightly overweight 58 year old but want my oomph back! Any other suggestions?
I have only watched a quarter of the video but plan to finish. I am concerned if my iced coffee habit is raising my cortisol. I am a petite person but I have ‘obese’ looking arms and a little belly. I never thought of having a cortisol test, now I want to run out and get one!
I’d love to hear which fish oil you recommend. I am a certified holistic health coach and recommend Carlsons Omega 3 Liquid Fish Oil to my clients at 3 grams daily. I’ve found it to be a great product but am always open to better options. Thank you for all that you do! Such an inspiration.
An amazing vegan option supplement to provide all that you need to obain your omegas/EFAs.
Optomega – organic blend, all natural vegetarian product produced from certified organic unrefined cold pressed flax seeds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and extra virgin olive oil. Excellent source to give your body the EFAs it needs and balance your intake of omega-3 and 6 fatty acids.
http://shop.usana.com/shop/cart/ProductDetails?ProductID=127.020102#.U3UAT16BMTM
Happy to provide further info/insight.
Great interview. Thanks so much. So much to think about regarding our hormones and stress and how to keep things in check. It`s so interesting observing the body react to different types of stresses. Its so important to listen our bodies and the messages we receive.
Yay to green juice and dark chocolate!! 🙂
Thanks so much to both of you for an inspiring video – you are both so beautiful and sexy, and your honesty and openness is so refreshing. Thanks for helping me on my journey to be more self aware, happier and healthier!
Hello you two beauties, 🙂 and thanks for this hormone-test:
I knew that I was low on progesterone and that I have Hashimoto’s (I have been taking t4 for a long time). I had started to see the connection between Hashimoto’s (or any autoimmune disease?), low vitamin d, low selenium, low iron and… gluten! Yesterday was my first gluten-fee day and the hormone quiz test-results recommended again to go gluten-fee. Thanks for confirming the decision to go gluten-free for some time (two months?)! I will see whether I’m really gluten-sensitive or not. Another positive aspect: the recommendation to eat dark chocolate. I am addicted to 100% cocoa. Now I feel even better about it. Maybe my addiction is the reason I don’t think I need to worry about my cortisol 😉 (test said it was fine too). Yoga definitely helps too. I practice very short sessions but every day.