2014-07-09
55 分钟What if you weren't just a statistic? What if you were a single human being, with unique genes, biology, chemistry and needs? And what if the "generic" approach to "fixing" what ailed you didn't work? Over the last 10 years, there has been a groundswell around an idea known as biohacking. It's about rejecting the notion that your best possible state is exactly the same as everyone else's, owning the fact that you are one person with highly unique needs and optimizing everything from your health to your performance around what works best for you. Regardless of whether anyone else responds to something different. Generic, broad-based, minimally-effective solutions are out. Running individual experiments that yield individual solutions and extraordinary outcomes is in. Enter this week's guest, physician-biohacker and author of The Hormone Cure, Sara Gottfried. Watching her health, mindset, sex-drive and relationships spiral downhill, she sought the advice of other doctors, but became incredibly frustrated by the generic and ineffective "solutions" being proposed. So she decided to take things into her own hands. To start treating herself as an "n of 1" and hack her own system, with a deep focus on non-pharmaceutical ways to normalize and optimize her hormones. That led not only to a profound change in Sara's health, weight, ability and life, but a dramatic shift in the way she practiced medicine and sought to serve others. We go deep into this journey and explore the intersection between medicine, biohacking, hormones and life in this week's conversation. Watch this week’s episode here, subscribe for our weekly updates below and be sure to listen and subscribe on iTunes so you never miss an episode and you get to take each juicy conversation on the go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Here's your host, Jonathan Fields.
Hi, I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
So my guest today is Sarah Gottfried, who's the author of really fascinating book called the Hormone Cure.
She's also a physician and a biohacker.
Is that kind of how you would still describe yourself?
To a certain extent I would, although I'd say biohacker feels so masculine to me.
It really does.
There's a lot of machismo in that word.
There is.
So I'm looking for a more sacred, feminine.
Have you anything out there?
Have you?
I haven't.
Can you come up with something?
Well, I'll think about it.
Okay, good.
But it is interesting, though, because let's kind of deconstruct what this thing called biohacker is.
Or biohacking is also, because at least in the world that I live in, and apparently the world you live in, it's kind of, it's popping up all over the place right now.