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Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again

336 pages Publisher Harvest Pub Date Sep 21 2021

ABOUT THE BOOK

Bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried shares a new, female-friendly keto diet that addresses women’s unique hormonal needs, so readers can shed pounds and maintain the loss more easily.

It’s no surprise that most diet plans don’t work for women—most health studies are based on men instead of women, so women have no choice but to follow plans that were created by and for men. The trouble is: women’s bodies don’t work the same way. Popular programs can actually make it harder for women to lose weight, because they can wreak havoc on a woman’s complex and delicate hormonal system.

New York Times bestselling author Dr. Sara Gottfried has spent her career demystifying hormones and helping patients improve their health with personalized medicine. In Women, Food, and Hormones, she presents the Gottfried Protocol, a science-based, road-tested plan designed to reset and balance your hormones and accelerate fat loss. Featuring a female-friendly fasting protocol and ketogenic diet that’s tailor-made for women, the Gottfried Protocol is designed to:

Work with, not against, women’s hormones—unlike other keto plans.
Improve detoxification and blood sugar levels while decreasing stress, hunger, and cravings.
Target belly fat and reduce inflammation.
Increase levels of key anti-aging hormones.

Complete with essential troubleshooting tips and more than 50 delicious and filling recipes, Women, Food, and Hormones is your all-in-one-guide to hormonal balance and a healthy new you.

MY THOUGHTS

Growing up it was just my mother and I. I was exposed to her way of eating the whole time I lived at home. She ate no sugar and was a vegan. I knew all about healthy eating and felt the same way about it as my kids do now, most of it was yucky stuff I wouldn’t dare eat or even try.

As I’ve been out of my childhood home now for quite a few years what she ate makes sense. And she always looked much younger than her years.
Since moving out I’ve incorporated many of her healthy eating habits and foods that I at one time I thought were yuck for the most part are not.

I have my slip up moments where I do enjoy eating sugar, dang it’s so hard to give up. I’ll do without and then something looks so good that I’ll let temptation win.

Dr. Sara Gottfried is a board-certified gynecologist and physician-scientist. She knows women’s bodies inside and out and knows most diets are not one size fits all and most are designed with men in mind.
Not so in this book. She gives us the formula to unlock weight loss, get our hormones balanced again and feel and look better than we have in years.

It’s so refreshing to see a doctor whose first line of defense is not traditional medicine but through natural food diet. A plant-based diet at that. I am very impressed with her research and information and will be referencing this book many times.

I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

MEET THE AUTHOR

Sara Gottfried M.D. is the author of the critically-acclaimed Amazon #1 bestselling book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again (September 21, 2021). Her book is now available on sale and you can submit your receipt to SaraGottfriedMD.com to obtain bonuses and get started.

Dr. Sara Gottfried previously published three New York Times and Amazon bestselling books, The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. She is a Harvard- and MIT-educated physician, speaker, yoga teacher, and author. For the past 25 years, Dr. Sara has practiced functional and precision medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, where she is Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Medicine Her unique mission to change the conversation about women’s health has galvanized a large community of empowered women. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

ABOUT THE BOOK

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women who fought for our right to choose, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller.

Chicago, early 1970s: Who does a woman call when she needs help? Jane.

The best-known secret in the city, Jane is an underground women’s health organization composed entirely of women helping women, empowering them to live lives free from the expectations of society by offering reproductive counseling and safe, illegal abortions. Veronica, Jane’s founder, prides herself on the services she has provided to thousands of women, yet the price of others’ freedom is that she leads a double life. When she’s not at Jane, Veronica plays the role of a conventional housewife—which becomes even more difficult during her own high-risk pregnancy.

Two more women in Veronica’s neighborhood are grappling with similar disconnects. Margaret, a young professor at the University of Chicago, secretly volunteers at Jane as she falls in love with a man whose attitude toward his ex-wife increasingly disturbs her. Patty, who’s long been content as a devoted wife and mother, has begun to sense that something essential is missing from her life. When her runaway younger sister Eliza shows up unexpectedly, Patty is forced to come to terms with what it really means to love and support a sister.

In this historic moment when the personal was nothing if not political, when television, movies, and commercials told women they’d “come a long way, baby,” Veronica, Margaret, and Patty must make choices that will change the course of their lives forever.

Publish date Sep 19,2023 Berkley publisher

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MY THOUGHTS

Historical fiction has never been as timely or relevant as Kerri Maher’s All You Have to do Is Call.

Based on actual events, the story is modeled after Chicago in the 1970’s when women had two choices, have the child they carried or get an illegal abortion.

I will tell you this, the book was not easy to read, me being a woman and reading about the lack of choices woman had toward their own reproductive health and being made to feel shamed for the choices they made.

The best kept “secret” Chicago had was the Jan Collective and the women who fought to do what was right.

The book features not only the working life but the day-to-day life of 3 women.
Jane is a women based and founded organization helping women get the reproductive services they need. These women are compassionate and help other women make choices they couldn’t make on their own, letting them know they don’t have to be held prisoner by choices society expects us to make, like becoming a mother and wife.

The author shares the facts of how it was for women back then, but she does it in a compassionate and respectful way.

I enjoyed getting a glimpse into the women’s personal lives. Though these women were supportive of the women coming into the clinic they had their own struggles as well.

I enjoy the author’s writing style. She writes about a very important subject. The book is very well researched and factual.

A very powerful book and the strong bond women have when it comes to matter of the heart.

Recommended for all women because we deserve choices regarding ourselves.

First published September 19, 2023
I was given a complimentary copy of this book.
All opinions expressed are my own.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KERRI MAHER is the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Bookseller, The Girl in White Gloves, The Kennedy Debutante, and, under the name Kerri Majors, This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in the Real World. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives with her daughter and dog in a leafy suburb west of Boston, Massachusetts. Learn more online at www.kerrimaher.com.

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