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I believe in evidence-based ancient wisdom.
I believe in eating your leafy greens rather than popping synthetic prescription pills. There's a time for some pills,
to be sure, but rarely are they a cure or even the best thing for you. I believe in natural, preventive, integrative medicine.
I believe in using yoga to cultivate your vitality (and teach a workshop on it, naturally.) I believe you deserve to feel
sexy and delicious. I believe PMS is a legitimate health concern, no different than a sprained ankle (albeit a recurring one)
or a broken leg and I believe the health issues unique to women have been shamed and minimized and mocked and caricatured
for far too long. There’s no reason for women to be ashamed about menstruating or menopause or to be embarrassed about
being women. I believe that needs to change. I believe in changing it.
I believe in women.
I believe in tending your flame. I believe that proactively managing and optimizing your health is your responsibility
and a path to personal power. I believe there’s probably a reason you’ve lost your mojo and that reason is probably
hormonal. And I believe you can - and should - do something about it. I believe in you.
I
believe, I believe, I believe.
And, oh yes, I’m a Harvard-trained MD with 20+ years of experience.
I’m
a gynecologist, but I don’t treat problems. I treat people. My mission at Gottfried Center - and in life - is to help
women feel sexy, vital and balanced from their cells to their souls.
So...I'm a scholar,
seeker, yoga teacher and a doctor. It's serious, sacred stuff.
But.
Imma be honest. I frequently quote The Blackeyed Peas.
Want me to quote Top 40 lyrics
to you? (Or, if you’d prefer, we can talk very professionally about your hormones, nutrition, thyroid, libido, and lovely
lady lumps. Oops, I did it again. Those pesky pop stars.)
If you’re going to be in
Berkeley and want to book an appointment, call 510-698-2841. Or email us.
Or hang out and watch the trailer
of a upcoming movie I'm in, called YogaWoman.
How Women Revolutionize Yoga
Check it out! New documentary by Second Nature Films featuring many female yoga luminaries (and
me!). Yoga returns us to our center, and gives us heart in challenging times. Come see how women are transforming the traditionally
male form of yoga.
New Press: Natural
Health Magazine April/May 2011
I got interviewed for a story on
libido, and while nearly all the hormonal gems I gave got cut, there's still some good stuff here.
Radiation Not Normal, Not Dangerous But Is Low-dose
Iodine A Good Idea?
We know that 45% of survivors from the
last nuclear blast in Japan had thyroid problems. I posted one week ago that potentially massive amounts of radiation could
come our way on the US Left Coast if Japan's reactors had a meltdown, and we're still unsure if that may happen. Fortunately,
right now the crisis seems a little less dire, or perhaps it's just eclipsed by the crisis in Libya. My questions continues
to be: Is there any benefit to taking low doses of iodine to protect ourselves? Iodine-deficiency, very common in the US,
puts you at greater risk of damage from radioactive fallout that contains radioactive iodine. Is a physiologic dose, such
as the 04mg I take in my multivitamin a good idea? More right here.
Radiation Plume to Hit
Western US 3/18/11: Not Normal, Not Yet Catastrophic
Not
sure about you but I'm still living in the "maybe" right now with the reports from Japan. This morning, as of 3/17/11
at 10am, the New York Times states that the radiation plume, tracked by the United Nations, is not significantly dangerous to warrant large Center for
Disease Control doses of Potassium Iodide, but as the US Surgeon General stated on Tuesday, you may want to get iodide on
hand as a worthy precaution. Meanwhile, there may be more radiation to come as the New York Times reports on the front page
that the amount of radiation is "extremely high" at the plants. Radiation has been detected at several US airports on the folks fleeing Japan, according to Reuters.
Japanese nuclear reactors may have spewed significant amounts of radiation that may be heading
our way here in America. However, there's a possible preventive: IODINE. Consider getting some on hand to protect your thyroid,
my friends. It's not yet clear as of 3/14/11 if there is significant radioactive fallout, where it would go next, nor whether
you should take any action. You know I'm not a fear monger, so let's roll up our sleeves and talk prevention, and the role
of this micronutrient.
Meanwhile, Japan is dispensing 230,000
doses of potassium iodide to folks near the nuclear reactors, according to the Drudge Report.
First, a prayer for the Japanese and their arduous, terrifying few
days. May all beings experience peace. As the jet streams possibly send OVER THE NEXT WEEK the
potential radiation to Canada and the Western US, may all do what they can to learn how to manage it as safely as possible.
More right here....
MOTHS-R-US:
Addiction as Initiation
Love this pithy wisdom from Pema Chodron, about how we're insanely,
wildly, passionately drawn to things that harm us just as a moth is to flame. All of us are addicts in one way or another,
whether that's addiction to sugar, our favorite TV show, struggle, using excess petrochemicals, negative thinking, anger,
violence, carbernet savignon, scones. We all know what it feels like to be addicted.
Ultimately, we want peace, happiness and joy. Yet our goal and methods often don't jive. We often
find ourselves, very humanly, unable to say "no" to something harmful. How do we get them to align better? How do
we transmute our addictions into initiation?
Marianne Williamson
would say that our addictions result from forgetting our "Divine Mind," which she defines as reconnection to your
spiritual reality, achieved through force of Divine Mind, It's a gift from the Divine to return you to your sanity. She writes
in A Course In Weight Loss that our goal is to remember the Divine Truth, which is that love is who you are, and this is the
key to your healing. In this latest book from Marianne, famous for her translation and thought around A Course in Miracles
(ACIM), her focus is on food, as in: it "is not about your relationship to food, it is about your relationship with love."
I partner with you to transform your health, energy, and vitality in ways tailored to your own hormone levels, nutrition,
and lifestyle.
Goal:
get you implementing, not just planning, your protocol and creating measurable results.
The Work: grounded in evidence-based integration
of cutting-edge science with natural therapies, yielding proven outcomes.
I
offer attunement -- where you are now and what you most need -- rarely found in conventional medical practices. Come experience
a totally new paradigm for creation of radical wellness and aggressive prevention of
disease, in both my content and services.
My
profiles:
Find out more about me and link here to watch me gab in a trailer from an upcoming film called YogaWoman.
I went to Dr. G because I felt depleted and did not feel like myself much of the
time. Thought I was having perimenopausal symptoms (sleeplessness, night sweats). She spent a lot of time talking to me about
my whole life picture to determine what the best plan of action was for me. After taking that into consideration and some
testing, she prescribed low doses of bioidentical hormones as well as some supplements to get my hormones and energy back
on track. Within a few weeks, I felt so much better! I'm forever grateful for her expertise and attention to me as an
individual. Traditional western medicine treats patients as if we're all the same...but all cases are different and our own
bodies are constantly changing. During perimenoupause, it's a process of tinkering and refining, and she's great at guiding
one through this process. - Madeleine T, Oakland, CA
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