Speaker 1: What I would say is hormones are the primary difference
Speaker 1: between men and women. And if you want to feel
Speaker 1: your best, if you want to serve your mission, hormones
Speaker 1: need to be on track. They need to be the
Speaker 1: windature back. So when you've got your hormones and balance,
Speaker 1: what happens. You sleep well, you age more slowly, You're
Speaker 1: more interested in sex, your mood is more stable, You're
Speaker 1: less likely to have anxiety or psychological distress. That was
Speaker 1: doctor Sarah Godfried, scientist, researcher, and best selling author. Doctor 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 weight. I'm Kim Azarelli and this is Seneca's Conversations.
Speaker 1: Today we'll bring you the first episode of a special
Speaker 1: two part conversation with doctor Sarah Godfried about women's health
Speaker 1: from our series Seneca's one hundred Women to Hear. Doctor
Speaker 1: Sarah is a Harvard trained MD. She's had four books
Speaker 1: on the New York Times bestseller list. Her most recent
Speaker 1: is Women, Food and Hormones. Today, doctor Sarah is going
Speaker 1: to tell us why women's physiology is different and what
Speaker 1: that means for our health. As she says, we're not
Speaker 1: just men with breasts. That distinction has an impact on
Speaker 1: women's metabolism, and a healthy metabolism, she says, is the
Speaker 1: key to a healthy life. Doctor Sarah, it's so great
Speaker 1: to have you with us. Just want to really thank
Speaker 1: you for doing this and personally thank you for writing
Speaker 1: the book, which has actually had a huge impact on
Speaker 1: my life since I've read it over the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. It's my honor, you know, this is this
Speaker 1: is my mission, this is my service to improve the
Speaker 1: metabolic health of women in the world. So you are
Speaker 1: the author of several books about women and wellness. You're
Speaker 1: a gynecologist and a scholar trained at Harvard and MIT,
Speaker 1: and you're dedicated to busting a myth and that my
Speaker 1: being that being a woman means that you'll always feel overwhelmed, tired,
Speaker 1: burnt out. But you say that we need to look
Speaker 1: at women in wellness differently. First, why do we need
Speaker 1: to approach women's health differently than we do men's health? Kim,
Speaker 1: That's such a great question, and I love that we're
Speaker 1: starting with that mythbusting because there's a tradition, particularly in medicine,
Speaker 1: of studying men and assuming that what we learn applies
Speaker 1: equally to men and women. That's just not true, as
Speaker 1: women were just not you know, men with breasts, our
Speaker 1: immune system, hormones, metabolism, brain, the way our brain works,
Speaker 1: the way that estrogen regulates the brain, even our stress
Speaker 1: response is unique. So we require a different approach than
Speaker 1: what the standard is for men. So when it comes
Speaker 1: to medical care, which is where my area of expertises,
Speaker 1: we see not just sex differences which are biological, such
Speaker 1: as hormone differences, but we also see gender differences which
Speaker 1: are socially constructed. And a good example here is the
Speaker 1: number one killer of both men and women, which is
Speaker 1: heart disease. And there's some disparities between men and women,
Speaker 1: you know women for the most part, men are experiencing
Speaker 1: less mortality associated with heart disease women are not. Women
Speaker 1: are actually having an increase in prevalence, especially younger women
Speaker 1: in each group of thirty five to fifty four. And
Speaker 1: if you look at things like the symptoms that women
Speaker 1: experience with cardiovascular disease, if you look at a woman
Speaker 1: who's having a heart attack as an example, they don't
Speaker 1: have the classic symptoms that men do. So rather than
Speaker 1: the crushing chest pain that feels like an elephant is
Speaker 1: sitting on your chest, that radiates down on the left arm,
Speaker 1: women have more subtle symptoms. They've got smaller coronary arteries,
Speaker 1: they have symptoms that are more vague, such as neck pain,
Speaker 1: shortness of breath, nausea. And what then happens is that
Speaker 1: women often get misdiagnosed and they get sent home from
Speaker 1: the emergency room when they present with these symptoms that
Speaker 1: end up being a heart attack in progress. Incredible, it's
Speaker 1: an incredible thing. And then if we take it one
Speaker 1: step further, the gender of your doctor matters. So there
Speaker 1: was a really fascinating study just published a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago showing that if you're a woman and you
Speaker 1: present the emergency room with symptoms of a heart attack,
Speaker 1: if you see a female physician, your survival is two
Speaker 1: to threefold higher than if you see a male physician. Wow.
Speaker 1: And if you look at male patients who present with
Speaker 1: a heart attack at the emergency room, there's no difference
Speaker 1: whether you see a male or a female physician. Now
Speaker 1: that I would say is more socially constructed. That's a
Speaker 1: gender difference. But this just gives you a little flavor
Speaker 1: of how women are not just smaller versions of men
Speaker 1: or men with hips. We've got our own physiology that
Speaker 1: we really need to be mindful of. Well, we are
Speaker 1: so grateful that you've written this book, Women, Food and Hormones,
Speaker 1: and really grateful for your contribution to metabolic health. So,
Speaker 1: in a nutshell, if you can say that, what do
Speaker 1: you think right now in today's times is key to
Speaker 1: improving women's health. Well, it's a complicated question, isn't it.
Speaker 1: I'll try to keep it as simple as possible. I
Speaker 1: would say what comes to mind first is awareness, knowledge,
Speaker 1: and ownership, and I'd love to dive a little deeper
Speaker 1: into those. But embedded in this increased awareness about some
Speaker 1: of the sex and gender differences and knowledge about your
Speaker 1: own body, and then ownership is that you're thinking about
Speaker 1: your metabolism. In fact, I want you to think about
Speaker 1: it as much as you think about your retirement account,
Speaker 1: because your metabolism really is your retirement account. So i'd
Speaker 1: say awareness, knowledge, and ownership. What I see with a
Speaker 1: lot of women, and I take care of both men
Speaker 1: and women, and I think this is particularly true even
Speaker 1: for very empowered women, is that often they are empowered
Speaker 1: in so many areas of their life, you know, whether
Speaker 1: they're a lawyer classically trained like you are, or they're
Speaker 1: in the corporate world, and yet they outsource the ownership
Speaker 1: of their own health. So they outsource it maybe to
Speaker 1: a doctor that they see once a year, or maybe
Speaker 1: they see a doctor more frequently. And what I want
Speaker 1: to change is that ownership. I think the more that
Speaker 1: you understand about your own physiology, which frankly is totally enchanting,
Speaker 1: the more you understand about that, the more you own
Speaker 1: it and realize that, you know, if you look at
Speaker 1: a visit to a doctor or twice a year, that's
Speaker 1: like less than point zero one percent of your time,
Speaker 1: Why would you outsource your health to this person that
Speaker 1: you spend so little time with. What I think is
Speaker 1: increasingly relevant right now as healthcare is changing, as we
Speaker 1: have the ability to monitor ourselves more, is that we've
Speaker 1: got this democratization of data and we're able to understand
Speaker 1: things like what's going on with my metabolism, why is
Speaker 1: my weight on the bathroom scale going up? What's happening
Speaker 1: with this belly fat that I'm suddenly seeing why am
Speaker 1: I so tired? And so the more that you can
Speaker 1: own that and develop the awareness and the knowledge, I think,
Speaker 1: the better off you're going to be, the better that
Speaker 1: you're going to improve your own health as well as
Speaker 1: for other women. Well, you know that you've completely turned
Speaker 1: me onto this whole way of thinking. I do feel
Speaker 1: like having this access to data about yourself, as you said,
Speaker 1: awareness and knowledge about what constitutes yourself and then you know,
Speaker 1: the ability to act on it is a very empowering thing.
Speaker 1: I know it has been for me. We're at such
Speaker 1: a crossroads right now when it comes to understanding your
Speaker 1: own biology. You know, this was not the case ten
Speaker 1: years ago. We've now got things like, you know, I've
Speaker 1: got a smart watch on my wrist. I've got a
Speaker 1: ring on my finger that measures my stress levels and
Speaker 1: my readiness each day in my sleep. I've got an
Speaker 1: implanted continuous glucose monitor. Right now, about fifty percent of
Speaker 1: Americans have wearables that they're using. Ten years from now,
Speaker 1: we expect that about fifty percent of Americans will have
Speaker 1: implantable wearables. So we're really in this environment of dramatic
Speaker 1: change when it comes to each of us understanding our
Speaker 1: own physiology and not having to outsource that to a doctor.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a very exciting concept. To be more
Speaker 1: intimately involved with your own biology. At least for me,
Speaker 1: has been pretty game changing because I have not been
Speaker 1: the person who was very focused on my physical health certainly,
Speaker 1: and I was that person who was kind of checking
Speaker 1: in once a year or when sick. So I think
Speaker 1: this mindset that you're recommending is really really powerful. So
Speaker 1: what are the benefits of looking at women's health through
Speaker 1: the lens of hormones. In your book, you talk a
Speaker 1: lot about hormones. Why is that important? Well, hormones drive
Speaker 1: which are interested in. They are these chemical messengers that
Speaker 1: I think of them almost like a text message in
Speaker 1: the body. So they typically are made at a distant organ.
Speaker 1: So for example, in your neck, you've got the thyroid
Speaker 1: gland that makes thyroid hormone that then gets spread through
Speaker 1: the bloodstream to every cell in your body, and it's
Speaker 1: one of the key drivers of metabolism. But taking a
Speaker 1: step back, what I would say is hormones are the
Speaker 1: primary difference between men and women. And if you want
Speaker 1: to feel your best, if you want to serve your mission.
Speaker 1: Hormones need to be on track. They need to be
Speaker 1: the windature back. So when you've got your hormones and balance,
Speaker 1: what happens. You sleep well, you h more slowly, you're
Speaker 1: more interested in sex, your mood is more stable, You're
Speaker 1: less likely to have anxiety or psychological distress. And so
Speaker 1: I think it's really essential to understand how core the
Speaker 1: concept of hormones is, particularly for women. I think it's
Speaker 1: more of an issue for women were more complex hormonal
Speaker 1: beings than men are, and it's really important to kind
Speaker 1: of take on this piece of your health. So part
Speaker 1: of your work has been devising the Godford Protocol, which
Speaker 1: I think is really really powerful, and you lay it
Speaker 1: out in your book, and part of that is using
Speaker 1: information about hormones and many other things to reset your metabolism.
Speaker 1: Why is this important right now? When women have been
Speaker 1: dealing with the challenges of COVID, of working from home
Speaker 1: while parenting, of homeschooling. What about this moment makes this
Speaker 1: particularly important? Kim? We were stressed before the pandemic, and
Speaker 1: I think what's happened is that all of us are
Speaker 1: noticing this increased load of stress. You know, the way
Speaker 1: I think of it as a physician is that it's
Speaker 1: a cortisol load. Cortisol is the main stress hormone. It
Speaker 1: can either be on your side helping you feel energized.
Speaker 1: Each day, you're supposed to peak your cortisol within thirty
Speaker 1: minutes of waking up and then have this gradual decline
Speaker 1: over the course of the day. But what's happened during
Speaker 1: the pandemic is that many of us have been traumatized.
Speaker 1: Depression is about threefold higher than it was pre pandemic.
Speaker 1: There's certainly the quarantine fifteen, the increased weight that some
Speaker 1: of us have noticed. But what I think about is
Speaker 1: the deeper issue of what's going on with metabolic health.
Speaker 1: So I care about the number on the bathroom scale,
Speaker 1: but in many ways that doesn't reflect this bigger picture,
Speaker 1: you know, the picture of complexity of metabolic health and
Speaker 1: also what's happening with your hormones. But just taking for
Speaker 1: a moment these challenges that we're experiencing. I just was
Speaker 1: reading a recent paper showing that depression right now is
Speaker 1: that twenty eight percent, anxiety, twenty seven percent, psychological distress
Speaker 1: fifty percent. Wow. So these numbers are higher than we've
Speaker 1: ever seen before and before the pandemic, we had a
Speaker 1: number of surveys that were published looking at, okay, well,
Speaker 1: what's going on with metabolic health in the US, and
Speaker 1: we found that only twelve percent of Americans are metabolically healthy.
Speaker 1: Twelve percent, I mean, that is so low. And what
Speaker 1: we've noticed during the pandemic is that it's those folks
Speaker 1: who have a problem with metabolic health that tend to
Speaker 1: do the worst with infection with COVID. It now tell
Speaker 1: us what you mean by metabolic health. Such a good question.
Speaker 1: So metabolic health the way I think of metabolism, if
Speaker 1: we start first with that term, it is the aggregate
Speaker 1: of all of the biochemical processes that are happening in
Speaker 1: the body. So a lot of people think about metabolism
Speaker 1: as you know, whether you burn calories slow or fast,
Speaker 1: and that doesn't quite capture it. It's much more complex
Speaker 1: than that. It's looking at all the ways that you
Speaker 1: produce energy, all the ways that you're mitochondria kind of
Speaker 1: the power factories and your cells work. It's the metabolic
Speaker 1: hormones such as the ones that we've talked about already, cortisol, thyroid,
Speaker 1: but the list includes a few dozen hormones like testosterone,
Speaker 1: growth hormone, even estrogen imbalance with progesterone insulin. But when
Speaker 1: it comes to metabolic health, the way I think of
Speaker 1: it is that it's the way that your body takes
Speaker 1: the fuel that you eat. So whatever you had, say
Speaker 1: for breakfast today, you had a breakfast and then convert
Speaker 1: set into fuel for you. So some of us are
Speaker 1: really good at that. Some of us are really efficient,
Speaker 1: and so they feel kind of steady energy all day long.
Speaker 1: They could even skip a meal and that's not a
Speaker 1: big deal. But then some of us are not so
Speaker 1: metabolically healthy. We're in that eighty eight percent category where
Speaker 1: you have a banana, for instance, and your glucose spikes
Speaker 1: way too high, like maybe up to two hundred, and
Speaker 1: then it crashes and you feel exhausted. So metabolic health
Speaker 1: is the ability to use food as fuel to do
Speaker 1: that very efficiently without a lot of symptoms. And some
Speaker 1: of the ways that we measure it include looking at
Speaker 1: things like fasting glucose, fasting, insulin levels, some of these
Speaker 1: hormones that we've talked about. You mentioned this briefly, but
Speaker 1: there is definitely a weight benefit or a benefit of
Speaker 1: losing weight when you engage in this type of lifestyle.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the role of hormones and metabolism
Speaker 1: in maintaining a healthy weight. Can you briefly outline the
Speaker 1: components of what you feel as a healthy diet for
Speaker 1: women and what makes it different from the keto diets
Speaker 1: that we hear much about. The key concept here is
Speaker 1: that food regulates your hormones, and I think that's such
Speaker 1: an important message if you learn nothing else today, I
Speaker 1: really hope that she'll come away with a concept about
Speaker 1: how food creates the backbone of the hormones that you make,
Speaker 1: and that includes carbhydrates that help you with detoxication. It
Speaker 1: includes fat, healthy fat, which is the backbone of the
Speaker 1: sex hormones, things like cortisol, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone. And it
Speaker 1: also includes protein, which you need for repairing muscle, especially
Speaker 1: if you're someone who exercises regularly. So I think the
Speaker 1: key to think about when it comes to a healthy
Speaker 1: weight and hormones and metabolism is to connect this relatively
Speaker 1: new idea that food regulates your hormones to get your
Speaker 1: metabolic hormones reset, to get them back into balance. There's
Speaker 1: three components that I came up with when I was
Speaker 1: struggling with my own metabolic health, especially in my forties,
Speaker 1: and I was struggling with a fasting glucose that was
Speaker 1: starting to climb not to the diabetes range, but to
Speaker 1: the pre diabetes range. And I found that the three
Speaker 1: components that are really important are first detoxification. You've got
Speaker 1: to have that in place first before you try a
Speaker 1: ketogenic diet, especially in women. Number two, you then layer
Speaker 1: in nutritional ketosis, but I've got some particular ideas about
Speaker 1: how to do that. And then the third is intermittent fasting,
Speaker 1: because intermitten fasting allows you to eat more carbohydrates, and
Speaker 1: it's also a backdoor to ketosis. Ketosis is where you're
Speaker 1: burning fat and you're creating that metabolic flexibility where you
Speaker 1: can go back and forth between burning carbs and burning fat.
Speaker 1: So in your book you cover extensive the role of
Speaker 1: a ketogenic diet and how your protocol works to create
Speaker 1: what you call metabolic flexibility. Can you tell us more
Speaker 1: about the role of a ketogenic diet in women's health.
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to the ketogenic diet, you know,
Speaker 1: why is it that I came up with this protocol
Speaker 1: and wrote this book. Well, what I found is that
Speaker 1: once again, the ketogenic diet was studied almost exclusively in men.
Speaker 1: It was developed by a male physician over a hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, initially for patients with epilepsy, and more than
Speaker 1: eighty percent of the research on the ketogenic diet and
Speaker 1: what it does for metabolic health and also for your
Speaker 1: waistline is in men. And so I tried kind of
Speaker 1: the male version of a ketogenic diet, and it was
Speaker 1: an utter failure for me. So if I was failing
Speaker 1: at it, I imagine a lot of other women have
Speaker 1: similarly failed. And I found that, you know, there's some
Speaker 1: issues that get in the way, such as the need
Speaker 1: for detoxication, the way that women tend to go into
Speaker 1: a stress state more easily than men do. I think
Speaker 1: that's just a relic of fertility and kind of our
Speaker 1: greater sensitivity as women to the environment. A lot of
Speaker 1: women on keto will have difficulties sleeping because they're not
Speaker 1: getting enough carbydrates to generate serotonin, which is that lovely
Speaker 1: brain chemical that's involved in sleep, appetite, in mood. And
Speaker 1: so there's some issues that women experience on the ketogenic
Speaker 1: diet where I find that some women do fine, like
Speaker 1: they don't need any help on classic keto, but I
Speaker 1: would say the majority, somewhere around seventy to eighty percent
Speaker 1: of my patients do not do well on classic keto.
Speaker 1: It needs to be adapted for a woman. And what
Speaker 1: are some of those key components that you suggest for adaptation. Well,
Speaker 1: the first adaptation is to go through these pillars of
Speaker 1: the program. So detoxication is the first pillar. In what
Speaker 1: I mean by that is that you're having a bow
Speaker 1: movement every single day. That's really important because classic keto
Speaker 1: tends to reduce the amount of stool that you produce.
Speaker 1: And it also if you restrict carbs too much, it's
Speaker 1: not feeding those really happy, lovely, benevolent bacteria that you
Speaker 1: have in your gut. You know another concept that's really
Speaker 1: changed in medicine, as we used to think of ourselves
Speaker 1: as these kind of stable human beings without much change.
Speaker 1: As we get older, you can either accelerate or decelerate
Speaker 1: the aging process, and increasingly we're thinking of ourselves more
Speaker 1: as vehicles for the bacteria that we have in our gut.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an existential change in terms of how
Speaker 1: we conceive of ourselves. But when it comes to detoxification,
Speaker 1: this was really the missing piece for me when I
Speaker 1: failed KETO the first couple of times. So really focusing
Speaker 1: on a daily bow movement, getting sufficient vegetable based carbohydrates
Speaker 1: so that you're able to detoxify and support liver, and
Speaker 1: that includes some additional nutrients that you can get from food,
Speaker 1: such as B vitamins, methylating vitamins that help you to
Speaker 1: inactivate estrogen. The whole idea with estrogens you want to
Speaker 1: use it and then you want to get rid of it.
Speaker 1: You want to poop it out and pee it out.
Speaker 1: So detoxification is one of those components the nutritional ketosis.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more detailed, but it's basically a
Speaker 1: high fat, moderate protein, low carbohydrate diet, but you have
Speaker 1: to be careful with women that the fat is not
Speaker 1: too high and that it's mostly plant based fat. You
Speaker 1: want to make sure the protein is sufficient so that
Speaker 1: it's enough to maintain your lean body mass, especially those
Speaker 1: of us over the age of forty, and then you
Speaker 1: want to make sure that the carbs are high enough
Speaker 1: that you're able to get some of those benefits that
Speaker 1: we talked about, like making the serotonin and feeding the
Speaker 1: gut bugs, but also keeping your thigh writ in check,
Speaker 1: as if you restrict carbs too much, that can actually
Speaker 1: raise this intermediate hormone called reverse T three and it
Speaker 1: can block thy wright function at the level of the receptor.
Speaker 1: So those are some of those components. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: that your book includes a very detailed eating plan as
Speaker 1: well as really great recipe, so I highly recommend that
Speaker 1: in addition to the eating plan. Are there other basic
Speaker 1: components to maintaining metabolic health? Oh, there certainly are. So
Speaker 1: you know, I like to start first with food because
Speaker 1: I think that's the biggest needle mover, you know, when
Speaker 1: you think about your metabolic health, I would say somewhere
Speaker 1: around seventy to eighty percent of it relates to your food.
Speaker 1: Food is such an important source of information for your
Speaker 1: DNA as well as for the microbes in your gut,
Speaker 1: as well as for your hormones. So I would say
Speaker 1: food first. But once we get the food dialed in,
Speaker 1: there's exercise, mindset, sleep, stress. I'm sure there's some others
Speaker 1: love purpose meaning, but I think it's really important to
Speaker 1: realize if we start first with exercise, that a lot
Speaker 1: of us don't exercise in a way that is consistent
Speaker 1: with the latest scientific information. And I would raise my
Speaker 1: own hand here because up until about five years ago,
Speaker 1: I was kind of a cardio addict. I would just
Speaker 1: get on the elliptical, get my New Yorker, and just
Speaker 1: go to town, you know, for thirty to sixty minutes.
Speaker 1: And what we now know in terms of cardio metabolic
Speaker 1: health and really keeping your system supporting you, is that
Speaker 1: you want about two thirds weight training in one third cardio.
Speaker 1: That's really the combination that works the best, and people
Speaker 1: can build up over time. And with mindset, I would
Speaker 1: say this is where healing comes in. You know, there's
Speaker 1: a lot that we can do in terms of managing
Speaker 1: tactically your hormones and getting your hormones into balance, dialing
Speaker 1: in your food, maybe using a continuous glucose monitor, but
Speaker 1: there has to be a healing growth mindset, one that
Speaker 1: is continuing to generate what we think of as neuroplasticity
Speaker 1: in the brain as you get older. That's especially important
Speaker 1: after the age of forty for women, because we know
Speaker 1: that neuroplasticity starts to decline, especially as the primary regulator
Speaker 1: of the female body. Estrogen begins to decline, so it
Speaker 1: tends to go down sometime around age forty three to
Speaker 1: forty five, and that's where women, about eighty percent of women,
Speaker 1: start to notice this slowdown in terms of brain function.
Speaker 1: And so I really want to encourage our listeners to
Speaker 1: be thinking about this healing growth mindset, to be thinking
Speaker 1: about exercise as well as how you dance with stress,
Speaker 1: especially as we're thrown externally so many things during the pandemic.
Speaker 1: And then sleep, I would say sleeps as close to
Speaker 1: a piano sea as we have, so I would say
Speaker 1: sleep is a really important place to focus. Well, this
Speaker 1: is obviously a lot to take in, but once you
Speaker 1: do take it in, you start asking more and more questions.
Speaker 1: And that's why we're so excited to have you on
Speaker 1: the show. But Sarah, I really want to just thank
Speaker 1: you for your work and what you're doing. It's really
Speaker 1: changed my life already, and I hope it will change
Speaker 1: the lives of many many listeners. Well, thank you so much, Kim.
Speaker 1: It's been such a delight to hang out with you
Speaker 1: and get to know you and to witness this unfolding
Speaker 1: that you've experienced with your own health. Thank you. Thanks
Speaker 1: so much for joining us. Thanks. We are so lucky
Speaker 1: to be able to share this helpful advice from doctor
Speaker 1: Sarah Gottfried. Here are some of the key concepts from
Speaker 1: today's conversation. First, it's important to look at women's health
Speaker 1: through a uniquely female lens and to acknowledge that how
Speaker 1: we diagnose and treat women needs to be different from
Speaker 1: the way we diagnose and treat men. Women's hormones are different,
Speaker 1: our metabolism is different, and how we react to medication
Speaker 1: and even food is different as well. Second, as we've heard,
Speaker 1: a healthy metabolism is the key to good health, and
Speaker 1: maintaining that healthy metabolism requires thinking about food, exercise, and
Speaker 1: sleep in a new way. It's not just about what
Speaker 1: you're eating, but it's about when you're eating it. Of course,
Speaker 1: exercising regularly, but how you exercise and when you exercise matters,
Speaker 1: and getting enough sleep is also key. We'll drill down
Speaker 1: into the specifics with doctor Sarah in the next episode. Finally,
Speaker 1: it's important to be aware of how food affects our health.
Speaker 1: Food regulates hormones, according to doctor Sarah, and the eating
Speaker 1: plan that works well for a man will often fail
Speaker 1: for a woman. But when women get the right balance
Speaker 1: of healthy fats, proteins, and carbohydrates, we can set our
Speaker 1: metabolic hormones and maintain a healthy and happy lifestyle. In
Speaker 1: our next episode, we'll go even deeper into what metabolic
Speaker 1: wellness means for women and how to make the most
Speaker 1: of this new approach to women's health. Thank you for listening,
Speaker 1: and please share today's podcast episode with others in your life.
Speaker 1: This is Kim Azzarelli, co author of Fast Forward and
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