Menopause Reimagined with Andrea Donsky

Episode #49: Yes, You Can Lose Weight in Menopause with Dr. Sara Gottfried

October 29, 2021 Andrea Donsk
Menopause Reimagined with Andrea Donsky
Episode #49: Yes, You Can Lose Weight in Menopause with Dr. Sara Gottfried
Show Notes

In this interview, Andrea Donsky, co-founder of Morphus for menopause, sits down with Dr. Sara Gottfried, MD, where they discuss her new book: Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again. She shares her own weight gain experience and how she discovered the correlation in women between diet, hormones, and losing weight especially in perimenopause and menopause.

00:00 Introduction
3:02 The right carbs
5:09 Trying new foods
6:13 Fruit, friend or foe
9:04 The importance of balancing blood sugar
11:57 Weight gain and belly fat
16:15 Calorie restriction failure
18:10 The first 4 weeks
20:47 Detoxification and genetics
24:15 The health benefits of keto
28:52 Exercise
31:23 How to increase hormones
34:48 Vegans and vegetarians
35:55 Test women should consider in peri/menopause
40:43 Final thoughts

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