Dr. Sara Gottfried: How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Huberman Lab

Dr. Sara Gottfried: How to Optimize Female Hormone Health for Vitality & Longevity | Huberman Lab

Notes :

• Conversation with mothers/grandmothers :
  • General hormon health stuff
  • Any stress/trauma — intergenerational trauma — determines the way the endocrine system reacts —> Cortisol signalling
• Microbiome production : Teen years —> 5 colors of vegetables daily atleast
  • If we can show biomarkers for nutritional deficiency to a teenager they may get more motivated to have vegetables in their diet
  • Case Study : A physicist(LOL) went above and beyond and incorporated 57 vegetables+ fruits in a smoothie and almost cured his auto-immune disease
    • Typical scientist — from high performing nerd maniac with travel history to warm baths, workouts for 1-2 hours then does some work… ofcourse he tracks everything. Dropped a lot of weight
• Should you take capsule probiotics?
  • Complicated
  • Gotfried —> prebiotics are more important
• How do you know if you have nutritional deficiency?
  • Blood work — antioxidants, vitamins (B), minerals (Mg)
    • You need to measure RBC Mg (Many forms of Mg are there)
    • Psychology/Endocrinology everything
    • “Being a female is a health hazard” - WOW!
    • “Tango of estrogen and progestrone — gut is longer in women so chances of being constipated. Higher amount of perceived stress that the doctors brush off”
  • Dry Urine
  • Saliva — cortisol
  • Spectracell — precision cardiometabolic health
• “Mainstream medicine doesnt really cater to women” — need network effect
• Constipation → needs to be addressed as a major health condition
• “Women experience more trauma than men — statistically”
• Refer Huberman’s Cell publication -

Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal