0:04

I saw a lot of women I called them

0:07

Mike Keto refugees who

0:09

are coming to my practice, and they

0:12

went on Keto maybe with a male coworker

0:14

or a partner, and

0:17

had a similar experience to me. But they also

0:19

noticed they weren't sleeping as well, they weren't deriving

0:22

some of those benefits that men experience on

0:24

Keyo, And so that got me to figure

0:26

out, Okay, how do we work around this, how do we get

0:29

this to work for women too? That

0:32

was Dr Sarah Godfried, scientist,

0:35

researcher, and best selling author talking

0:37

about how she developed a healthy eating plan

0:39

that works for women. Now.

0:42

Dr Sarah, as she likes to be called, has

0:44

an innovative, amazingly effective

0:46

approach to women's health, an approach

0:48

that can help women deal with stress, get

0:50

more energy, and even achieve our healthiest

0:52

way in an enjoyable way. I

0:55

am Kim Azarelli and this is Santego's one

0:57

dred women to hear. Today, we're bringing

0:59

you the second episode of a special two

1:02

part conversation with Dr Sarah

1:04

Godfried on women's health. In

1:06

our previous episode with Dr Sarah, we

1:09

learned why women's physiology is

1:11

different from men's and what that means

1:13

for our health. And we learned that

1:15

a healthy metabolism is the key to

1:17

a healthy life. Now, just

1:20

in time to get the new year off to a great

1:22

start, Dr Sarah takes us through

1:24

her approach to women's health, what she calls

1:26

the Godfried Protocol. We'll

1:29

learn why the protocol works so well

1:31

for women, how to do it, and

1:33

how it can make a difference for you. Dr

1:37

Sarah, great to have you back on the show. Thanks.

1:40

Obviously, we've gotten to know each other a little bit over

1:42

the past several months, and I probably have watched

1:44

many of your videos and Phil, I know

1:46

you very well and have read your book and

1:49

started on what you called the Godfried

1:51

Protocol, which is a four week plan

1:54

that you've layed out really well in your new book,

1:56

Women, Food and Hormones. And I just

1:58

want to say it's working. It

2:00

is absolutely working. Yeah, that's

2:03

how I feel. I feel like I have

2:06

I don't know so many good things have happened. In fact,

2:08

this is just anecdotal, but I'm going to stick with

2:10

it. Someone who lives in my building stopped

2:12

me on the street yesterday. Actually,

2:14

we ranch each other in the elevator he saw me on the street

2:16

and he said, you know, Kim. I was gonna stop and say

2:19

hello, but then I thought, no, that woman looks too young to

2:21

be Kim. And

2:23

I've actually lost quite a bit of weight,

2:25

but I think feeling more importantly, I just

2:27

have a lot more energy, and I

2:31

feel like this protocol is

2:33

really like the answer. And I'm I'm becoming

2:35

a little bit of a proselytizer because

2:37

everywhere I go, I'm like, well, what's your feeding

2:40

window? And uh, you know, what are your net

2:42

carbs? And so I think

2:44

we need to tell the world about the protocol so that

2:46

I'm not just talking to myself, um, and that

2:48

people understand all this vocabulary. But Sarah,

2:51

you wrote this with a very specific goal in

2:53

mind, which is you've done the research,

2:55

You've lived the research, and you

2:57

do believe that there is a difference between

3:00

men and women, and we all know that there is

3:02

in terms of hormonal changes

3:05

in biology, and you've put together what I think

3:07

is a pretty genius protocol. So how

3:09

did you come on this realization that there

3:11

was a true difference between what men and

3:13

women needed in this in this

3:15

type of in this type of I

3:17

don't want to call it diet because it's not a diet, it's a lifestyle.

3:21

Well, I would say, first, my entire career

3:23

has been devoted to sex differences,

3:26

not for the purpose of one

3:28

up being or one downing one

3:30

gender or another, but really

3:32

for the purpose of understanding both

3:35

men and women. So this

3:38

came full circle for me about five

3:40

years ago when I went on a key to genetic diet with my

3:42

husband. He rapidly dropped

3:44

about twenty pounds. I had some initial

3:47

success, and then it backfired. It stopped

3:49

working. I actually gained weight, and that's

3:51

what got me on this path of looking at Okay,

3:54

we know there's sex differences, we know there's

3:56

gender differences when it comes to medical

4:00

all of health. Let's

4:02

go a little deeper. Let's understand why,

4:05

especially the classic ketogenic diet

4:07

was not working for me and was not working

4:10

for frankly hundreds

4:12

of women in my practice. So

4:15

that got me on this path to look at things

4:17

like the testosterone advantage.

4:19

We know, for instance, that women have ten

4:22

to twenty times less testosterone than

4:24

men, and yet it's still our most prevalent

4:27

hormone. So it's a hormone that we really

4:29

need to be managing

4:31

and tracking. It's responsible

4:33

not just for sex drive and muscle mass,

4:35

but also confidence and agency.

4:38

And so that was one

4:40

of the first pieces was looking at some of these

4:42

hormonal sex differences that were

4:45

responsible for this difference that I saw with my

4:47

husband, and there's a long

4:49

list of them. You know. One is that because

4:51

men have more testosterone, they have more

4:54

lean body mass about

4:56

more than women. They've got lower fat

4:58

mass. We think women need more

5:01

fat mass to make hormones because fat

5:03

is the backbone of the hormones that

5:05

you make. There's many other differences.

5:08

Estrogen can sometimes get in the way

5:10

of success with a ketogenic diet.

5:13

We also, I believe women

5:16

may need more carbohydrates

5:19

for the production of serotonin. So

5:21

serotonin, as many no is

5:24

that neurotransmitter that's responsible

5:26

for sleep, mood,

5:28

appetite, and carbohydrates

5:31

helped to raise serotonin. So I

5:33

saw a lot of women I call them

5:35

Mike Keto refugees who

5:38

are coming to my practice, and they

5:40

went on Keto maybe with a male coworker

5:43

or a partner, and

5:46

had a similar experience to me. But they also

5:48

noticed they weren't sleeping as well, they weren't deriving

5:51

some of those benefits that men experience on

5:53

keto, and so that got me to to figure

5:55

out, Okay, how do we work around this, How do we get

5:58

this to work for women too? You know, so

6:00

interesting, Like, there's so many things that you've already

6:02

said that I believe are sort of myths

6:05

that are really

6:07

things that I'm learning by talking to you and reading your

6:09

work and and the research. You

6:11

know, this idea that first of all, that fat

6:13

is bad, you know, is always something

6:16

that I think you've kind of educated

6:18

me on, and this type of research has educated

6:20

me on. Also the testosterone myth

6:22

that you know, testosterones a guy's

6:24

thing. I think that's really interesting what you just said, and I'd

6:27

love to learn more about that. And then also the relationship

6:29

with carbs. So I hope we get into all three of those as

6:31

you talk to us about the protocol. Yeah,

6:33

I'd say the myth about fat

6:35

being bad is one that just will not die.

6:38

We have so much data now,

6:40

you know, over the past few decades

6:43

really showing that fat

6:45

is essential. You know, your

6:47

brain is fat. When you eat

6:50

fat, it helps you feel more

6:52

satisfied in terms of um

6:55

appetite. It's also, as

6:57

I mentioned, the backbone, especially of sex

6:59

form like estrogen, progesterone,

7:01

testosterone d t A. So

7:04

we really need fat to function. The

7:06

question is how do you personalize

7:09

the amount of fat. So when

7:12

I was in medical school and

7:14

Kim, this was a very long time

7:16

ago. So when

7:19

I was in medical school, I went

7:21

off of fat, I did

7:24

plant based diet, and my hormones

7:26

became a hot mess because my

7:29

estrogen dropped, my breast

7:31

got smaller, my mood was

7:33

worse, my cholesterol dropped

7:35

significantly. We know that's a marker

7:38

of depression. So I really

7:40

believe that we need to have these

7:42

food groups and we've got to figure

7:45

out, Okay, what's the right dose of carbs, what's the

7:47

right dose of fat, what's the right dose of protein,

7:49

so that you really have that metabolic health that

7:51

we're after, right, Because I mean, the popular

7:54

culture has avoid fat skim

7:56

scam, scam again, this equation

7:58

of like fat, that you're going to be

8:00

fat well, and it hasn't worked.

8:03

It's been a failed experiment. You know,

8:05

as we have eaten more carbhydrates,

8:08

especially refined carbs, what's

8:10

happened is that we've got a higher

8:12

and higher incidence of diabetes, we

8:15

know that somewhere around eighty

8:17

eight percent of the US population

8:20

is metabolically unhealthy. Many

8:22

of them don't even know it, and

8:24

so this advice that came down through

8:26

the nineteen seventies and eighties to cut

8:29

back on fat really has

8:31

has been a misfire. It just hasn't worked.

8:34

And so a more balanced approach I

8:36

think is the way to go. But for

8:38

many women, as they become more

8:41

balanced, they need to have a therapeutic

8:43

pulse the way that I described

8:46

it in the book. So that's really how

8:48

I developed the GT Freed Protocol to help women

8:50

do this four week pulse where they

8:52

can really personalize how much

8:54

of each of these macronutrients carbs,

8:57

protein, fat are the best for them.

9:02

Senecas one hundred women to hear will

9:05

be back after this short break. So

9:17

take us through how it works. What is the protocol

9:19

and why do you set it at four weeks? I

9:22

set it at four weeks because I think it's

9:24

doable. I also think that

9:26

when you stay in keytos

9:29

is longer, there's some risks

9:31

in terms of your cholesterol

9:34

as well as your level of inflammation,

9:36

and so I think four weeks is a pulse that

9:39

is manageable. The first part

9:41

of the protocol, the first pillar is

9:43

detoxification, and I give

9:46

folks about a week to get

9:48

into a state of open

9:51

detoxification pathways. I think

9:53

that's really important, especially to

9:55

flip that switch between burning

9:58

carbs, which many of u so are stuck

10:00

in I was in my thirties and forties,

10:03

to burning fat, which is

10:05

really the goal with ketosis.

10:08

So that first part is detoxification. I

10:10

want women to be pooping every single morning.

10:12

I want to really increase the amount of vegetables.

10:15

I think we can all agree that that's healthy.

10:17

That's the crisipperus vegetables, broccoli,

10:20

hauliflower, russell sprouts, radishes,

10:23

et cetera, as well as the

10:25

alien vegetables. So that includes

10:27

onion, scarlet, gleak, the

10:30

methylating vegetables, as are the ones that help

10:32

you inactivate certain hormones like estrogen,

10:35

and that includes the dark green leafies. So

10:38

detoxification is the first part. I

10:40

see in my practice all the time that

10:43

women just don't have their detox pathways

10:45

open. Maybe it's because they're having a

10:47

glass or two of wine every night, or

10:50

they're over the age of forty and things

10:52

just slow down. You know, I think

10:54

a lot of women notice that as hangovers

10:56

hitting a little bit harder, affecting their sleep

10:59

more, and so we've got to help

11:01

out the liver. So that's the first part of the protocol.

11:04

Then you move into nutritional ketosis,

11:06

where you're eating with the macronutrient

11:09

ratio that I found to be the most effective for women.

11:12

That includes sixty to sevent of

11:14

your total calories each day from

11:16

fat, mostly plant based fat. So

11:18

there was just a study published by David

11:21

Ludwig at Harvard showing

11:23

that if you keep

11:26

your total saturated fat per day

11:29

at or less, that's

11:31

asssitated with the best cardio

11:33

metabolic function going forward. So

11:36

sixty your total calories

11:38

from fat, a portion of that from

11:41

saturated fat if you'd like to eat animal

11:43

fat, of your calories from

11:45

protein, that's a moderate protein diet.

11:48

And then about the remainder

11:51

so ten of your calories from

11:53

carbohydrates. But those carbs really

11:55

need to come from vegetables.

11:57

And what I advise is that

11:59

you simplify this by focusing

12:02

on net carbs, so less

12:04

than twenty net carbs per

12:06

day, and that allows you to get the fiber

12:09

that you need to support

12:11

your hormones as well as as to

12:13

support the benevolent microbes

12:16

that are in your gut. So

12:18

that's the second pillar. The third pillar is

12:20

intermittent fasting because that really allows

12:22

people to eat more carbhydrates.

12:25

So it kind of depends on what some of your issues

12:28

are how long that window should be. I

12:30

love that you mentioned, you know, those

12:32

new parlance that you've been using,

12:35

like with your feeding window. You

12:38

know, generally what I like is for people

12:40

to start with about a fourteen hour overnight

12:42

fast and then a ten hour feeding

12:45

window. Yeah, that that

12:47

really worked for me. I mean I started actually with

12:49

sixt eight, but I then I read in your

12:51

book or maybe in one of our conversations that

12:54

you know, women don't need to kind of shock

12:56

the system. It's better to kind of ease into it.

12:58

And so I'm switched to a four teen ten, which

13:01

is very doable. And and I have

13:03

to say that now I'm

13:05

not really hungry before that, and I feel

13:07

weird eating after that, like it doesn't occur to me.

13:09

So I feel like my body really appreciates

13:12

it, actually, and I think that's one thing that I'm learning

13:14

from this whole experience, which I again I won't call

13:16

a diet and I would love to talk to about diet culture,

13:18

but you know this lifestyle, like, I

13:20

feel like my body is happier in this mode,

13:23

so it doesn't feel like I'm being deprived. I feel actually

13:25

the opposite. That's certainly part

13:28

of the benefit of this protocol.

13:30

You know, it's designed to get you into ketosis

13:33

so that you have the flexibility

13:36

to switch your metabolism from burning

13:38

carbs to burning fat.

13:41

And the analogy that I often use to

13:43

describe this as similar to a prius where

13:45

you can flip the switch between

13:48

burning electricity or burning

13:50

gas depending on what type of fuel

13:52

is available. So the body is really designed

13:55

to do this from Stone Age times, and

13:58

many of us just with the availability

14:01

of food, especially the the ease

14:03

of carbohydrates and the deliciousness

14:06

of carbydrates, we tend to overdo

14:08

it and get too high a dose of

14:10

carbs, and that's really what gets

14:12

us into trouble. But once you

14:15

flip that switch, as you have done Kim,

14:17

and you start burning fat, then you

14:19

have key tones in your body,

14:22

in your bloodstream, also in your breath and

14:24

in your urine. And those key tones

14:27

are not just a marker of

14:29

how successful you are on this

14:32

God Freed protocol. But they're also a

14:34

signaling molecule, so they reduce

14:36

inflammation, they help

14:38

you with being less puffy,

14:41

they help you get rid of excess

14:43

fluid. A lot of us have fluid retention

14:45

starting in our forties and fifties, so this

14:48

is a major downstream benefit of

14:50

the keytogenic diet. And then

14:52

you also mentioned energy. I think that's

14:54

a really important piece to highlight,

14:56

because keytons are super

14:59

energizing. They give us focus

15:01

and concentration and mental acuity.

15:03

They help us with appetite suppression,

15:06

and that's part of the reason why I think this

15:10

approach is so successful

15:13

for so many women. I mean it's successful for men

15:15

too, but for women in particular. There's

15:18

a way that I think our culture makes

15:20

us hungry, makes us hungry

15:22

for more, makes us hungry for equality,

15:25

makes us hungry for soothing,

15:28

makes us hungry for greater

15:30

solace. And what

15:32

I find is that those keytones really help

15:34

with satiety, with feeling

15:37

like Okay, I'm at the end of my eating window.

15:39

I finished my meal, I'm done,

15:41

I'm good. I can go focus on other things

15:44

without food thoughts kind

15:46

of driving me for hours

15:48

each day. Yeah, I have to say

15:50

that, like my guilt level around

15:53

food is pretty gone. Like

15:55

I don't feel guilty about you

15:57

know what I mean, Because usually you're like, oh, that was

15:59

fattening or that wasn't so healthy,

16:01

or you know, like there's always some after

16:03

effect, and I have to say, like, because

16:05

I'm sticking to the protocol, I'm like, well, this is great

16:07

like olive oil, yes, avocado, as much

16:10

as you like, you know what I mean. Like, so the stuff

16:12

that I'm eating is good for you, and it happens to be stuff

16:14

I like. So I feel I don't feel

16:16

that same feeling of like, I mean, I don't want to

16:18

put down any particular diet plan, but

16:21

like you know, when you're on a plan and you feel like you're checking,

16:23

you're always like did I stick to it? Did I stick

16:25

to it? Am I sticking to it? I don't feel that way with this.

16:27

I feel like, oh, wow, like this is

16:29

complete freedom because I like what

16:31

I'm eating. I'm feeling a lot better, I'm losing

16:34

a lot of weight, and I just it's

16:36

a totally sustainable lifestyle and it's not

16:38

about diet. I'm so glad

16:40

you mentioned that because you

16:43

know, I think so many of us as women

16:46

exists along this spectrum of

16:49

somewhat healthy to maybe

16:52

eat, disordered eating with restriction,

16:54

with permission, and

16:57

it can be tricky to navigate. It can be

16:59

really tricky to navigate, and so we end up

17:02

maybe over indulging or eating something

17:04

that we don't think is the

17:06

best information to be feeding our

17:09

bodies, and then we have that guilt

17:11

that you're describing, and I think

17:14

many of us, and I'm talking about myself here,

17:16

mostly we then serve penance,

17:18

you know, So we go on a strict diet,

17:21

and then it's about this white knuckling experience

17:24

of making sure that you're following it even though

17:26

you're hungry all the time. And

17:28

what I love about key Tones

17:30

and about this particular approach

17:33

to a ketogenic diet adapted for women,

17:36

is that it allows you to just let go of

17:38

that white knuckling, so you have, as

17:40

you described, food freedom,

17:42

and that that's so beneficial because that

17:44

really allows us to concentrate on some of

17:47

these other things that are so important, like

17:49

the mission that you serve, Kim,

17:51

the mission that I hope to serve with

17:53

changing conversations about women's health

17:56

and There's there's something

17:58

just so delightful about being

18:00

able to step away from that hunger

18:03

and from that you know, kind of constant

18:06

inner saboteur that's

18:08

telling us, oh no, you can't

18:10

eat that. Oh my gosh, you had way too

18:12

many bites of that chocolate cake. And

18:14

so I love that you're allowed to just

18:17

away from that inner

18:19

dialogue that can be so harmful. Yeah,

18:21

and it's just too present, right, I think, like that's

18:23

the whole context of this conversation,

18:25

which is the focus on women's

18:28

appearance, women's weight, the way we've all been

18:30

educated, and so that dialogue, which could

18:32

be a healthy dialogue, it's just too

18:34

present, I think in the culture, in

18:37

each of our heads. You know, it's just taking up

18:39

too much space. And I think your

18:41

point is so well taken. This frees you from

18:43

that. And I mean, I'm definitely experiencing

18:45

that. I never really uh you don't know me very

18:47

well, but you know, I'm not really like a

18:50

very appearance focused person. I'm you

18:52

know, I'm just so into wanting

18:54

to do the things I want to do that I just it's

18:56

just not a big priority in my life. I don't think

18:58

about it that much. But even I, who I would say

19:00

is not that focused on it, still

19:03

had that inner dialogue all the time of feeling guilty

19:05

and just knowing that I was like, you know, maybe that's not so

19:07

healthy, Maybe that's like a little fattening. Like it's

19:09

just those those constant things

19:12

that you just constantly think about. And this it

19:14

just clears up so much space. And now I'm

19:16

just I feel like my relationship

19:19

with food is much

19:21

more positive. And you know, my

19:23

father always told me food, food is fuel, like that's

19:25

been his mantra, and I was like, yeah, great, Dad,

19:27

Great. But now I'm like, Okay, I get

19:29

it. Food is fuel, you

19:32

know, and it's a it's a different way of thinking about it.

19:35

It is a different way of thinking about it. You know.

19:37

I think, Um, this is really what I

19:39

hope for women. You know, I want us to move

19:42

beyond the ways that we've internalized

19:45

diet culture. But I would also say

19:47

that the other end of the spectrum

19:50

fat acceptance, UM

19:52

body positivity, well all

19:55

of us can get behind the concept

19:57

of a more inclusive approach to different

20:00

and body shapes and sizes and

20:02

colors. You know, many of us still

20:04

want to fit into the clothes that are in our closet,

20:06

you know, like I've invested a lot in the things that

20:08

I wear. I want to fit into them. I don't

20:11

want to just be a woman

20:13

who is going through this aging process.

20:15

I love aging, but

20:18

the natural aging processes

20:21

that women are gaining

20:23

fat mass as they get older about

20:25

five pounds per decade starting

20:28

in their forties, and they're

20:30

they're losing muscle mass again

20:32

about five pounds per decade, and

20:35

so you may not even be changing your

20:37

weight. That's on a bathroom scale, which I think

20:39

is a terrible marker of metabolic health,

20:42

but it's the one, you know, It's kind of like shorthand

20:44

that we use. You know. What

20:46

I want is for us to to really

20:49

understand that some of these changes are occurring,

20:52

and unless you're doing something about it, you

20:55

can wake up at age fifty five or

20:57

sixty and start to get these

20:59

diagnosed us that you don't want, like

21:02

party vasco disease, a heart attack,

21:04

hypertension, even Alzheimer's

21:07

disease. So all of this is

21:09

occurring in the body decades before

21:12

that scary diagnosis, and

21:14

I really want for women to understand that you

21:16

can be empowered to do something

21:18

about it. And it can be, as

21:20

you said, a lifestyle that is

21:23

not actually difficult. It's

21:25

it's a way to really grab the

21:27

reins of your own health and

21:29

your destiny, like your your

21:32

health span, that period of time that you feel fantastic

21:34

and you're relatively free of disease. Yeah,

21:37

I'm I'm telling you, I'm living it because I do

21:39

feel that if it was just for the waight,

21:42

there's no way I would do it. I just I'm not motivated

21:44

enough. You know, I feel I look good

21:46

enough. You know, if I'm a little, if I'm ten

21:48

pounds heavier, um, it's good enough for me. Like I'm

21:50

not you know, I'm not that type of person. But the

21:53

idea of being healthier, of

21:55

feeling healthier, and of the longevity

21:57

of the health span, that's super motivating

21:59

to me. And so I'm telling

22:02

myself, you know, this is just all positive.

22:04

There's like nothing negative going on in this,

22:06

you know, And so that is extremely

22:08

motivating. And then thinking that you know,

22:11

you could be I mean, I love when you talk about

22:13

an end of one because this idea that it's personalized,

22:16

it's you know, it's a personalized approach, and you have

22:18

to know what works for you, you know, you start to

22:20

sort of feel that you feel like what works for you, what

22:22

doesn't? You know? Being able to just understand

22:24

how your body reacts to things is

22:26

very very motivating to me. Just I think

22:29

it may be that moving from this sort of

22:31

I don't want to say imprecise medicine because I think

22:33

that's probably unfair, but I would say maybe

22:35

generalized medicine and first segmenting

22:38

out men versus women, that's a huge step in the

22:40

right direction. And then I think

22:42

what you're doing, and I think the movement that you're kind

22:44

of part of is doing is telling

22:46

us all like, okay, you should know

22:49

you And I think that

22:51

that's a very motivating way to think about

22:53

health. It is motivating. And

22:55

I would even say that imprecision

22:58

medicine is a term that's you quite

23:00

frequently for the way that medicine

23:03

has been practiced for over a hundred

23:05

years. And by that, I mean when

23:07

someone has depression and they get

23:10

diagnosed with depression, they often get started

23:12

on an antidepressant. And

23:14

yet we know with most of

23:16

the available antidepressants right

23:19

now, that you have to prescribe

23:21

to about ten patients for

23:23

one patient to benefit. When

23:26

it comes to statins. You know, one of the most

23:28

common drugs that are prescribed in US

23:30

medicine. You have to again prescribe

23:33

about fifty patients with the

23:35

statin for one to benefit. So

23:37

this is in precision medicine. We

23:40

know that the way that you react to food

23:43

is different from the way that I react and

23:45

the way that you can really personalize it. The

23:48

way that you can step into precision

23:51

medicine is to really understand,

23:54

Okay, what's going to work the

23:56

best for me? Because there is no one size

23:58

swit salt diet. There isn't And

24:00

this book is really more about a

24:03

template for determining

24:05

how to personalized diet so that it really

24:08

supports you and supports what

24:10

you want your health for and

24:12

whatever metrics make the most sense for

24:14

you in terms of measuring your

24:16

health. So for some people that might

24:18

be their body weight on the

24:20

bathroom scale. For others, that might be their

24:23

body composition, the percentage of

24:25

body fat or their fat mouths that they have, or

24:27

their lean body mass. For some people

24:29

it might be there fasting glucose

24:31

or their average glucose as

24:34

you've been playing with with your

24:36

continuous glucose monitor. So there's

24:38

so many different ways that we can define it.

24:41

But I think this point about precision

24:43

medicine is so important because

24:46

we've always practiced medicine

24:49

for the average, and

24:51

I don't want to be average, and I don't want you to be average.

24:53

I want us to be optimal. I want

24:55

us to really have you know, that best

24:59

possible health, the best

25:01

possible mitochondria, you know, those

25:04

power factories that are inside of ourselves,

25:06

which, by the way, start

25:08

to falter after age forty

25:11

in women women but

25:13

not in men, especially in the brain.

25:16

And that's why so many women notice that they

25:18

have this mental slow down. Their brain

25:20

just slows down a bit in terms

25:22

of memory, in terms of word finding, in

25:25

terms of multitasking after

25:27

age forty. So what do we do about

25:29

that? That's a metabolic problem.

25:32

One thing you can do about it is to feature brain

25:35

keytones. That works really well

25:37

for the majority of my patients. So,

25:40

Sarah, I have to thank you for this. I mean,

25:42

just this introduction to the protocol is

25:45

hugely helpful because I'm learning

25:47

a lot and it's a little bit of a new language.

25:49

But once you know the language, you can really be freed.

25:51

So I highly recommend the book Women

25:54

food and hormones. But Sarah, I really want to just

25:56

thank you for your work and what you're doing well.

25:59

Thank you so much him, It's been such a

26:01

delight. There

26:06

is so much to learn from Dr Sarah about

26:08

the interplay between women's health, food

26:10

and hormones, but here are

26:12

some of the key concepts we can take with us today.

26:15

First, one of the things that makes the

26:17

god Freed Protocol so effective is

26:20

that it's a ketogenic diet tailored specifically

26:23

for the needs of women, and it overturns

26:25

a lot of the myths we've been trained to believe. In

26:28

the God Freed Protocol that is good for

26:30

you, Guilt is bad, and you can

26:32

stay on this plan without ever feeling deprived.

26:36

Second, change can

26:38

happen and faster than you think. You

26:40

can see a big difference after just four

26:42

weeks of being on the protocol, says Dr

26:44

Sarah. Finally,

26:47

the god Freed Protocol allows women to build

26:49

a new, more positive relationship

26:51

with food. The diet culture encourages

26:54

women to adapt a mindset of constraint

26:56

and frankly, guilt, but the god Freed

26:58

Protocol encourage us towards a mindset

27:00

of abundance, encouraging us to eat foods

27:03

that will make us feel good and live healthier

27:05

without the guilt. To

27:07

learn more about the Godfried Protocol, go to

27:10

Sarah Godfried dot com and

27:12

check out her new book, Women, Food

27:14

and Hormones. And tune in

27:16

next time to hear about our next featured woman and

27:19

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27:21

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