Speaker 1: I saw a lot of women I called them Mike
Speaker 1: Keto refugees who are coming to my practice, and they
Speaker 1: went on Keto maybe with a male coworker or a partner,
Speaker 1: and had a similar experience to me. But they also
Speaker 1: noticed they weren't sleeping as well, they weren't deriving some
Speaker 1: of those benefits that men experience on Keyo, And so
Speaker 1: that got me to figure out, Okay, how do we
Speaker 1: work around this, how do we get this to work
Speaker 1: for women too? That was Dr Sarah Godfried, scientist, researcher,
Speaker 1: and best selling author talking about how she developed a
Speaker 1: healthy eating plan that works for women. Now. Dr Sarah,
Speaker 1: as she likes to be called, has an innovative, amazingly
Speaker 1: effective approach to women's health, an approach that can help
Speaker 1: women deal with stress, get more energy, and even achieve
Speaker 1: our healthiest way in an enjoyable way. I am Kim
Speaker 1: Azarelli and this is Santego's one dred women to hear. Today,
Speaker 1: we're bringing you the second episode of a special two
Speaker 1: part conversation with Dr Sarah Godfried on women's health. In
Speaker 1: our previous episode with Dr Sarah, we learned why women's
Speaker 1: physiology is different from men's and what that means for
Speaker 1: our health. And we learned that a healthy metabolism is
Speaker 1: the key to a healthy life. Now, just in time
Speaker 1: to get the new year off to a great start,
Speaker 1: Dr Sarah takes us through her approach to women's health,
Speaker 1: what she calls the Godfried Protocol. We'll learn why the
Speaker 1: protocol works so well for women, how to do it,
Speaker 1: and how it can make a difference for you. Dr Sarah,
Speaker 1: great to have you back on the show. Thanks. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we've gotten to know each other a little bit over
Speaker 1: the past several months, and I probably have watched many
Speaker 1: of your videos and Phil, I know you very well
Speaker 1: and have read your book and started on what you
Speaker 1: called the Godfried Protocol, which is a four week plan
Speaker 1: that you've layed out really well in your new book, Women,
Speaker 1: Food and Hormones. And I just want to say it's working.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely working. Yeah, that's how I feel. I
Speaker 1: feel like I have I don't know so many good
Speaker 1: things have happened. In fact, this is just anecdotal, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick with it. Someone who lives in
Speaker 1: my building stopped me on the street yesterday. Actually, we
Speaker 1: ranch each other in the elevator he saw me on
Speaker 1: the street and he said, you know, Kim. I was
Speaker 1: gonna stop and say hello, but then I thought, no,
Speaker 1: that woman looks too young to be Kim. And I've
Speaker 1: actually lost quite a bit of weight, but I think
Speaker 1: feeling more importantly, I just have a lot more energy,
Speaker 1: and I feel like this protocol is really like the answer.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm becoming a little bit of a proselytizer
Speaker 1: because everywhere I go, I'm like, well, what's your feeding window?
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, what are your net carbs? And
Speaker 1: so I think we need to tell the world about
Speaker 1: the protocol so that I'm not just talking to myself, um,
Speaker 1: and that people understand all this vocabulary. But Sarah, you
Speaker 1: wrote this with a very specific goal in mind, which
Speaker 1: is you've done the research, You've lived the research, and
Speaker 1: you do believe that there is a difference between men
Speaker 1: and women, and we all know that there is in
Speaker 1: terms of hormonal changes in biology, and you've put together
Speaker 1: what I think is a pretty genius protocol. So how
Speaker 1: did you come on this realization that there was a
Speaker 1: true difference between what men and women needed in this
Speaker 1: in this type of in this type of I don't
Speaker 1: want to call it diet because it's not a diet,
Speaker 1: it's a lifestyle. Well, I would say, first, my entire
Speaker 1: career has been devoted to sex differences, not for the
Speaker 1: purpose of one up being or one downing one gender
Speaker 1: or another, but really for the purpose of understanding both
Speaker 1: men and women. So this came full circle for me
Speaker 1: about five years ago when I went on a key
Speaker 1: to genetic diet with my husband. He rapidly dropped about
Speaker 1: twenty pounds. I had some initial success, and then it backfired.
Speaker 1: It stopped working. I actually gained weight, and that's what
Speaker 1: got me on this path of looking at Okay, we
Speaker 1: know there's sex differences, we know there's gender differences when
Speaker 1: it comes to medical all of health. Let's go a
Speaker 1: little deeper. Let's understand why, especially the classic ketogenic diet
Speaker 1: was not working for me and was not working for
Speaker 1: frankly hundreds of women in my practice. So that got
Speaker 1: me on this path to look at things like the
Speaker 1: testosterone advantage. We know, for instance, that women have ten
Speaker 1: to twenty times less testosterone than men, and yet it's
Speaker 1: still our most prevalent hormone. So it's a hormone that
Speaker 1: we really need to be managing and tracking. It's responsible
Speaker 1: not just for sex drive and muscle mass, but also
Speaker 1: confidence and agency. And so that was one of the
Speaker 1: first pieces was looking at some of these hormonal sex
Speaker 1: differences that were responsible for this difference that I saw
Speaker 1: with my husband, and there's a long list of them.
Speaker 1: You know. One is that because men have more testosterone,
Speaker 1: they have more lean body mass about more than women.
Speaker 1: They've got lower fat mass. We think women need more
Speaker 1: fat mass to make hormones because fat is the backbone
Speaker 1: of the hormones that you make. There's many other differences.
Speaker 1: Estrogen can sometimes get in the way of success with
Speaker 1: a ketogenic diet. We also, I believe women may need
Speaker 1: more carbohydrates for the production of serotonin. So serotonin, as
Speaker 1: many no is that neurotransmitter that's responsible for sleep, mood, appetite,
Speaker 1: and carbohydrates helped to raise serotonin. So I saw a
Speaker 1: lot of women I call them Mike Keto refugees who
Speaker 1: are coming to my practice, and they went on Keto
Speaker 1: maybe with a male coworker or a partner, and had
Speaker 1: a similar experience to me. But they also noticed they
Speaker 1: weren't sleeping as well, they weren't deriving some of those
Speaker 1: benefits that men experience on keto, and so that got
Speaker 1: me to to figure out, Okay, how do we work
Speaker 1: around this, How do we get this to work for
Speaker 1: women too? You know, so interesting, Like, there's so many
Speaker 1: things that you've already said that I believe are sort
Speaker 1: of myths that are really things that I'm learning by
Speaker 1: talking to you and reading your work and and the research.
Speaker 1: You know, this idea that first of all, that fat
Speaker 1: is bad, you know, is always something that I think
Speaker 1: you've kind of educated me on, and this type of
Speaker 1: research has educated me on. Also the testosterone myth that
Speaker 1: you know, testosterones a guy's thing. I think that's really
Speaker 1: interesting what you just said, and I'd love to learn
Speaker 1: more about that. And then also the relationship with carbs.
Speaker 1: So I hope we get into all three of those
Speaker 1: as you talk to us about the protocol. Yeah, I'd
Speaker 1: say the myth about fat being bad is one that
Speaker 1: just will not die. We have so much data now,
Speaker 1: you know, over the past few decades really showing that
Speaker 1: fat is essential. You know, your brain is fat. When
Speaker 1: you eat fat, it helps you feel more satisfied in
Speaker 1: terms of um appetite. It's also, as I mentioned, the backbone,
Speaker 1: especially of sex form like estrogen, progesterone, testosterone d t A.
Speaker 1: So we really need fat to function. The question is
Speaker 1: how do you personalize the amount of fat. So when
Speaker 1: I was in medical school and Kim, this was a
Speaker 1: very long time ago. So when I was in medical school,
Speaker 1: I went off of fat, I did plant based diet,
Speaker 1: and my hormones became a hot mess because my estrogen dropped,
Speaker 1: my breast got smaller, my mood was worse, my cholesterol
Speaker 1: dropped significantly. We know that's a marker of depression. So
Speaker 1: I really believe that we need to have these food
Speaker 1: groups and we've got to figure out, Okay, what's the
Speaker 1: right dose of carbs, what's the right dose of fat,
Speaker 1: what's the right dose of protein, so that you really
Speaker 1: have that metabolic health that we're after, right, Because I mean,
Speaker 1: the popular culture has avoid fat skim scam, scam again,
Speaker 1: this equation of like fat, that you're going to be
Speaker 1: fat well, and it hasn't worked. It's been a failed experiment.
Speaker 1: You know, as we have eaten more carbhydrates, especially refined carbs,
Speaker 1: what's happened is that we've got a higher and higher
Speaker 1: incidence of diabetes, we know that somewhere around eighty eight
Speaker 1: percent of the US population is metabolically unhealthy. Many of
Speaker 1: them don't even know it, and so this advice that
Speaker 1: came down through the nineteen seventies and eighties to cut
Speaker 1: back on fat really has has been a misfire. It
Speaker 1: just hasn't worked. And so a more balanced approach I
Speaker 1: think is the way to go. But for many women,
Speaker 1: as they become more balanced, they need to have a
Speaker 1: therapeutic pulse the way that I described it in the book.
Speaker 1: So that's really how I developed the GT Freed Protocol
Speaker 1: to help women do this four week pulse where they
Speaker 1: can really personalize how much of each of these macronutrients carbs, protein,
Speaker 1: fat are the best for them. Senecas one hundred women
Speaker 1: to hear will be back after this short break. So
Speaker 1: take us through how it works. What is the protocol
Speaker 1: and why do you set it at four weeks? I
Speaker 1: set it at four weeks because I think it's doable.
Speaker 1: I also think that when you stay in keytos is longer,
Speaker 1: there's some risks in terms of your cholesterol as well
Speaker 1: as your level of inflammation, and so I think four
Speaker 1: weeks is a pulse that is manageable. The first part
Speaker 1: of the protocol, the first pillar is detoxification, and I
Speaker 1: give folks about a week to get into a state
Speaker 1: of open detoxification pathways. I think that's really important, especially
Speaker 1: to flip that switch between burning carbs, which many of
Speaker 1: u so are stuck in I was in my thirties
Speaker 1: and forties, to burning fat, which is really the goal
Speaker 1: with ketosis. So that first part is detoxification. I want
Speaker 1: women to be pooping every single morning. I want to
Speaker 1: really increase the amount of vegetables. I think we can
Speaker 1: all agree that that's healthy. That's the crisipperus vegetables, broccoli, hauliflower,
Speaker 1: russell sprouts, radishes, et cetera, as well as the alien vegetables.
Speaker 1: So that includes onion, scarlet, gleak, the methylating vegetables, as
Speaker 1: are the ones that help you inactivate certain hormones like estrogen,
Speaker 1: and that includes the dark green leafies. So detoxification is
Speaker 1: the first part. I see in my practice all the
Speaker 1: time that women just don't have their detox pathways open.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because they're having a glass or two of
Speaker 1: wine every night, or they're over the age of forty
Speaker 1: and things just slow down. You know, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of women notice that as hangovers hitting a little
Speaker 1: bit harder, affecting their sleep more, and so we've got
Speaker 1: to help out the liver. So that's the first part
Speaker 1: of the protocol. Then you move into nutritional ketosis, where
Speaker 1: you're eating with the macronutrient ratio that I found to
Speaker 1: be the most effective for women. That includes sixty to
Speaker 1: sevent of your total calories each day from fat, mostly
Speaker 1: plant based fat. So there was just a study published
Speaker 1: by David Ludwig at Harvard showing that if you keep
Speaker 1: your total saturated fat per day at or less, that's
Speaker 1: asssitated with the best cardio metabolic function going forward. So
Speaker 1: sixty your total calories from fat, a portion of that
Speaker 1: from saturated fat if you'd like to eat animal fat,
Speaker 1: of your calories from protein, that's a moderate protein diet.
Speaker 1: And then about the remainder so ten of your calories
Speaker 1: from carbohydrates. But those carbs really need to come from vegetables.
Speaker 1: And what I advise is that you simplify this by
Speaker 1: focusing on net carbs, so less than twenty net carbs
Speaker 1: per day, and that allows you to get the fiber
Speaker 1: that you need to support your hormones as well as
Speaker 1: as to support the benevolent microbes that are in your gut.
Speaker 1: So that's the second pillar. The third pillar is intermittent
Speaker 1: fasting because that really allows people to eat more carbhydrates.
Speaker 1: So it kind of depends on what some of your
Speaker 1: issues are how long that window should be. I love
Speaker 1: that you mentioned, you know, those new parlance that you've
Speaker 1: been using, like with your feeding window. You know, generally
Speaker 1: what I like is for people to start with about
Speaker 1: a fourteen hour overnight fast and then a ten hour
Speaker 1: feeding window. Yeah, that that really worked for me. I
Speaker 1: mean I started actually with sixt eight, but I then
Speaker 1: I read in your book or maybe in one of
Speaker 1: our conversations that you know, women don't need to kind
Speaker 1: of shock the system. It's better to kind of ease
Speaker 1: into it. And so I'm switched to a four teen ten,
Speaker 1: which is very doable. And and I have to say
Speaker 1: that now I'm not really hungry before that, and I
Speaker 1: feel weird eating after that, like it doesn't occur to me.
Speaker 1: So I feel like my body really appreciates it, actually,
Speaker 1: and I think that's one thing that I'm learning from
Speaker 1: this whole experience, which I again I won't call a
Speaker 1: diet and I would love to talk to about diet culture,
Speaker 1: but you know this lifestyle, like, I feel like my
Speaker 1: body is happier in this mode, so it doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like I'm being deprived. I feel actually the opposite. That's
Speaker 1: certainly part of the benefit of this protocol. You know,
Speaker 1: it's designed to get you into ketosis so that you
Speaker 1: have the flexibility to switch your metabolism from burning carbs
Speaker 1: to burning fat. And the analogy that I often use
Speaker 1: to describe this as similar to a prius where you
Speaker 1: can flip the switch between burning electricity or burning gas
Speaker 1: depending on what type of fuel is available. So the
Speaker 1: body is really designed to do this from Stone Age times,
Speaker 1: and many of us just with the availability of food,
Speaker 1: especially the the ease of carbohydrates and the deliciousness of carbydrates,
Speaker 1: we tend to overdo it and get too high a
Speaker 1: dose of carbs, and that's really what gets us into trouble.
Speaker 1: But once you flip that switch, as you have done Kim,
Speaker 1: and you start burning fat, then you have key tones
Speaker 1: in your body, in your bloodstream, also in your breath
Speaker 1: and in your urine. And those key tones are not
Speaker 1: just a marker of how successful you are on this
Speaker 1: God Freed protocol. But they're also a signaling molecule, so
Speaker 1: they reduce inflammation, they help you with being less puffy,
Speaker 1: they help you get rid of excess fluid. A lot
Speaker 1: of us have fluid retention starting in our forties and fifties,
Speaker 1: so this is a major downstream benefit of the keytogenic diet.
Speaker 1: And then you also mentioned energy. I think that's a
Speaker 1: really important piece to highlight, because keytons are super energizing.
Speaker 1: They give us focus and concentration and mental acuity. They
Speaker 1: help us with appetite suppression, and that's part of the
Speaker 1: reason why I think this approach is so successful for
Speaker 1: so many women. I mean it's successful for men too,
Speaker 1: but for women in particular. There's a way that I
Speaker 1: think our culture makes us hungry, makes us hungry for more,
Speaker 1: makes us hungry for equality, makes us hungry for soothing,
Speaker 1: makes us hungry for greater solace. And what I find
Speaker 1: is that those keytones really help with satiety, with feeling
Speaker 1: like Okay, I'm at the end of my eating window.
Speaker 1: I finished my meal, I'm done, I'm good. I can
Speaker 1: go focus on other things without food thoughts kind of
Speaker 1: driving me for hours each day. Yeah, I have to
Speaker 1: say that, like my guilt level around food is pretty gone.
Speaker 1: Like I don't feel guilty about you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Because usually you're like, oh, that was fattening or that
Speaker 1: wasn't so healthy, or you know, like there's always some
Speaker 1: after effect, and I have to say, like, because I'm
Speaker 1: sticking to the protocol, I'm like, well, this is great
Speaker 1: like olive oil, yes, avocado, as much as you like,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, so the stuff that
Speaker 1: I'm eating is good for you, and it happens to
Speaker 1: be stuff I like. So I feel I don't feel
Speaker 1: that same feeling of like, I mean, I don't want
Speaker 1: to put down any particular diet plan, but like you know,
Speaker 1: when you're on a plan and you feel like you're checking,
Speaker 1: you're always like did I stick to it? Did I
Speaker 1: stick to it? Am I sticking to it? I don't
Speaker 1: feel that way with this. I feel like, oh, wow,
Speaker 1: like this is complete freedom because I like what I'm eating.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling a lot better, I'm losing a lot of weight,
Speaker 1: and I just it's a totally sustainable lifestyle and it's
Speaker 1: not about diet. I'm so glad you mentioned that because
Speaker 1: you know, I think so many of us as women
Speaker 1: exists along this spectrum of somewhat healthy to maybe eat,
Speaker 1: disordered eating with restriction, with permission, and it can be
Speaker 1: tricky to navigate. It can be really tricky to navigate,
Speaker 1: and so we end up maybe over indulging or eating
Speaker 1: something that we don't think is the best information to
Speaker 1: be feeding our bodies, and then we have that guilt
Speaker 1: that you're describing, and I think many of us, and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about myself here, mostly we then serve penance,
Speaker 1: you know, So we go on a strict diet, and
Speaker 1: then it's about this white knuckling experience of making sure
Speaker 1: that you're following it even though you're hungry all the time.
Speaker 1: And what I love about key Tones and about this
Speaker 1: particular approach to a ketogenic diet adapted for women, is
Speaker 1: that it allows you to just let go of that
Speaker 1: white knuckling, so you have, as you described, food freedom,
Speaker 1: and that that's so beneficial because that really allows us
Speaker 1: to concentrate on some of these other things that are
Speaker 1: so important, like the mission that you serve, Kim, the
Speaker 1: mission that I hope to serve with changing conversations about
Speaker 1: women's health and There's there's something just so delightful about
Speaker 1: being able to step away from that hunger and from
Speaker 1: that you know, kind of constant inner saboteur that's telling us,
Speaker 1: oh no, you can't eat that. Oh my gosh, you
Speaker 1: had way too many bites of that chocolate cake. And
Speaker 1: so I love that you're allowed to just away from
Speaker 1: that inner dialogue that can be so harmful. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's just too present, right, I think, like that's the
Speaker 1: whole context of this conversation, which is the focus on
Speaker 1: women's appearance, women's weight, the way we've all been educated,
Speaker 1: and so that dialogue, which could be a healthy dialogue,
Speaker 1: it's just too present, I think in the culture, in
Speaker 1: each of our heads. You know, it's just taking up
Speaker 1: too much space. And I think your point is so
Speaker 1: well taken. This frees you from that. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm definitely experiencing that. I never really uh you don't
Speaker 1: know me very well, but you know, I'm not really
Speaker 1: like a very appearance focused person. I'm you know, I'm
Speaker 1: just so into wanting to do the things I want
Speaker 1: to do that I just it's just not a big
Speaker 1: priority in my life. I don't think about it that much.
Speaker 1: But even I, who I would say is not that
Speaker 1: focused on it, still had that inner dialogue all the
Speaker 1: time of feeling guilty and just knowing that I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe that's not so healthy, Maybe that's like
Speaker 1: a little fattening. Like it's just those those constant things
Speaker 1: that you just constantly think about. And this it just
Speaker 1: clears up so much space. And now I'm just I
Speaker 1: feel like my relationship with food is much more positive.
Speaker 1: And you know, my father always told me food, food
Speaker 1: is fuel, like that's been his mantra, and I was like, yeah, great, Dad, Great.
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, Okay, I get it. Food is fuel,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's a it's a different way of
Speaker 1: thinking about it. It is a different way of thinking
Speaker 1: about it. You know. I think, Um, this is really
Speaker 1: what I hope for women. You know, I want us
Speaker 1: to move beyond the ways that we've internalized diet culture.
Speaker 1: But I would also say that the other end of
Speaker 1: the spectrum fat acceptance, UM body positivity, well all of
Speaker 1: us can get behind the concept of a more inclusive
Speaker 1: approach to different and body shapes and sizes and colors.
Speaker 1: You know, many of us still want to fit into
Speaker 1: the clothes that are in our closet, you know, like
Speaker 1: I've invested a lot in the things that I wear.
Speaker 1: I want to fit into them. I don't want to
Speaker 1: just be a woman who is going through this aging process.
Speaker 1: I love aging, but the natural aging processes that women
Speaker 1: are gaining fat mass as they get older about five
Speaker 1: pounds per decade starting in their forties, and they're they're
Speaker 1: losing muscle mass again about five pounds per decade, and
Speaker 1: so you may not even be changing your weight. That's
Speaker 1: on a bathroom scale, which I think is a terrible
Speaker 1: marker of metabolic health, but it's the one, you know,
Speaker 1: It's kind of like shorthand that we use. You know.
Speaker 1: What I want is for us to to really understand
Speaker 1: that some of these changes are occurring, and unless you're
Speaker 1: doing something about it, you can wake up at age
Speaker 1: fifty five or sixty and start to get these diagnosed
Speaker 1: us that you don't want, like party vasco disease, a
Speaker 1: heart attack, hypertension, even Alzheimer's disease. So all of this
Speaker 1: is occurring in the body decades before that scary diagnosis,
Speaker 1: and I really want for women to understand that you
Speaker 1: can be empowered to do something about it. And it
Speaker 1: can be, as you said, a lifestyle that is not
Speaker 1: actually difficult. It's it's a way to really grab the
Speaker 1: reins of your own health and your destiny, like your
Speaker 1: your health span, that period of time that you feel
Speaker 1: fantastic and you're relatively free of disease. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I'm living it because I do feel that
Speaker 1: if it was just for the waight, there's no way
Speaker 1: I would do it. I just I'm not motivated enough.
Speaker 1: You know, I feel I look good enough. You know,
Speaker 1: if I'm a little, if I'm ten pounds heavier, um,
Speaker 1: it's good enough for me. Like I'm not you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not that type of person. But the idea of
Speaker 1: being healthier, of feeling healthier, and of the longevity of
Speaker 1: the health span, that's super motivating to me. And so
Speaker 1: I'm telling myself, you know, this is just all positive.
Speaker 1: There's like nothing negative going on in this, you know,
Speaker 1: And so that is extremely motivating. And then thinking that
Speaker 1: you know, you could be I mean, I love when
Speaker 1: you talk about an end of one because this idea
Speaker 1: that it's personalized, it's you know, it's a personalized approach,
Speaker 1: and you have to know what works for you, you know,
Speaker 1: you start to sort of feel that you feel like
Speaker 1: what works for you, what doesn't? You know? Being able
Speaker 1: to just understand how your body reacts to things is
Speaker 1: very very motivating to me. Just I think it may
Speaker 1: be that moving from this sort of I don't want
Speaker 1: to say imprecise medicine because I think that's probably unfair,
Speaker 1: but I would say maybe generalized medicine and first segmenting
Speaker 1: out men versus women, that's a huge step in the
Speaker 1: right direction. And then I think what you're doing, and
Speaker 1: I think the movement that you're kind of part of
Speaker 1: is doing is telling us all like, okay, you should
Speaker 1: know you And I think that that's a very motivating
Speaker 1: way to think about health. It is motivating. And I
Speaker 1: would even say that imprecision medicine is a term that's
Speaker 1: you quite frequently for the way that medicine has been
Speaker 1: practiced for over a hundred years. And by that, I
Speaker 1: mean when someone has depression and they get diagnosed with depression,
Speaker 1: they often get started on an antidepressant. And yet we
Speaker 1: know with most of the available antidepressants right now, that
Speaker 1: you have to prescribe to about ten patients for one
Speaker 1: patient to benefit. When it comes to statins. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the most common drugs that are prescribed in
Speaker 1: US medicine. You have to again prescribe about fifty patients
Speaker 1: with the statin for one to benefit. So this is
Speaker 1: in precision medicine. We know that the way that you
Speaker 1: react to food is different from the way that I
Speaker 1: react and the way that you can really personalize it.
Speaker 1: The way that you can step into precision medicine is
Speaker 1: to really understand, Okay, what's going to work the best
Speaker 1: for me? Because there is no one size swit salt diet.
Speaker 1: There isn't And this book is really more about a
Speaker 1: template for determining how to personalized diet so that it
Speaker 1: really supports you and supports what you want your health
Speaker 1: for and whatever metrics make the most sense for you
Speaker 1: in terms of measuring your health. So for some people
Speaker 1: that might be their body weight on the bathroom scale.
Speaker 1: For others, that might be their body composition, the percentage
Speaker 1: of body fat or their fat mouths that they have,
Speaker 1: or their lean body mass. For some people it might
Speaker 1: be there fasting glucose or their average glucose as you've
Speaker 1: been playing with with your continuous glucose monitor. So there's
Speaker 1: so many different ways that we can define it. But
Speaker 1: I think this point about precision medicine is so important
Speaker 1: because we've always practiced medicine for the average, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to be average, and I don't want you
Speaker 1: to be average. I want us to be optimal. I
Speaker 1: want us to really have you know, that best possible health,
Speaker 1: the best possible mitochondria, you know, those power factories that
Speaker 1: are inside of ourselves, which, by the way, start to
Speaker 1: falter after age forty in women women but not in men,
Speaker 1: especially in the brain. And that's why so many women
Speaker 1: notice that they have this mental slow down. Their brain
Speaker 1: just slows down a bit in terms of memory, in
Speaker 1: terms of word finding, in terms of multitasking after age forty.
Speaker 1: So what do we do about that? That's a metabolic problem.
Speaker 1: One thing you can do about it is to feature
Speaker 1: brain keytones. That works really well for the majority of
Speaker 1: my patients. So, Sarah, I have to thank you for this.
Speaker 1: I mean, just this introduction to the protocol is hugely
Speaker 1: helpful because I'm learning a lot and it's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a new language. But once you know the language,
Speaker 1: you can really be freed. So I highly recommend the
Speaker 1: book Women food and hormones. But Sarah, I really want
Speaker 1: to just thank you for your work and what you're
Speaker 1: doing well. Thank you so much him, It's been such
Speaker 1: a delight. There is so much to learn from Dr
Speaker 1: Sarah about the interplay between women's health, food and hormones,
Speaker 1: but here are some of the key concepts we can
Speaker 1: take with us today. First, one of the things that
Speaker 1: makes the god Freed Protocol so effective is that it's
Speaker 1: a ketogenic diet tailored specifically for the needs of women,
Speaker 1: and it overturns a lot of the myths we've been
Speaker 1: trained to believe. In the God Freed Protocol that is
Speaker 1: good for you, Guilt is bad, and you can stay
Speaker 1: on this plan without ever feeling deprived. Second, change can
Speaker 1: happen and faster than you think. You can see a
Speaker 1: big difference after just four weeks of being on the protocol,
Speaker 1: says Dr Sarah. Finally, the god Freed Protocol allows women
Speaker 1: to build a new, more positive relationship with food. The
Speaker 1: diet culture encourages women to adapt a mindset of constraint
Speaker 1: and frankly, guilt, but the god Freed Protocol encourage us
Speaker 1: towards a mindset of abundance, encouraging us to eat foods
Speaker 1: that will make us feel good and live healthier without
Speaker 1: the guilt. To learn more about the Godfried Protocol, go
Speaker 1: to Sarah Godfried dot com and check out her new book, Women,
Speaker 1: Food and Hormones. And tune in next time to hear
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