The Liz Moody Podcast

Women have been told how we have to show up at work, in our relationships, in our families, in society at large, forever. And it turns out it's costing us way more than we thought. It's making us sick.

My guest today, Sara Hirsh Bordo, is a 15-time award-winning documentary filmmaker and somebody who was hit with melanoma, breast tumors, Hashimoto's, and Epstein-Barr all at once. Instead of just treating it, she investigated it. She funded her own research of 1,000 women, the first-ever study on the relationship between empowerment and autoimmune conditions, and what she found was absolutely groundbreaking. Her study was endorsed by a former US surgeon general, and it's an absolute paradigm shift in how we think about autoimmune conditions. Sarah has since completely healed, and we’re going to talk about exactly what she did in this episode.

🎧 What you’ll learn:

• The shocking link between being a "good girl" and autoimmune disease

• Why eldest and only daughters are disproportionately affected 

• The science of epigenetics and what it means for your health today

• The biological chain reaction that connects people-pleasing to disease

• How Sara healed from melanoma, Hashimoto's, breast tumors, and Epstein-Barr

• What to do differently with your doctors

For more from Sara Hirsh Bordo:

• Book, Autoimmunity and The Good Girls: https://autoimmunityandthegoodgirls.com/#order 

• Website: https://www.womenrising.com/ 

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahirshbordo/ 

Read the new study on autoimmunity and being a good girl mentioned in this episode: https://autoimmunesurvey.com/

Read the ACE questionnaire mentioned in this episode: https://www.acesaware.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ACE-Questionnaire-for-Adults-Identified-English-rev.7.26.22.pdf 

Check out our NEW YouTube Channel with tons of YouTube exclusive Shorts, exclusive podcast content, and full video episodes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LizMoodyTV⁠ 

Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! 

Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/.

Use our discount codes from our  highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. 

To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast.

This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors:

• Puori: visit https://Puori.com/LizMoody and use code LIZMOODY at checkout for a discount and special offer.

• Lumebox: right now get 40% off, that's $260 off the regular price of $629, when you go to TheLumeBox.com/Liz.

• Midi Health: visit joinmidi.com/lizmoody and book your first Midi Health appointment.

• LMNT: head to DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order.

• Wildgrain: go to Wildgrain.com/LizMoody to get $30 off your first box + FREE croissants for LIFE.

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This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.

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I’m all about people being able to do whatever they want with their bodies and their faces, and I think that the hot girl era is coming to an end. I think that we're entering our ugly girl era, and there's some really convincing science as to why this is about to happen.

Today, we get into the 3 factors that led us to this tipping point, what we're going to consider beautiful next as a society, and what you can do with all of this so you can feel as good as possible in your face, your skin, and your body.

🎧 What you’ll learn:

• Why the "hot girl era" is ending

• The sneaky way social media has made beauty feel like a full-time job

• How scarcity secretly drives what we find attractive (and why that's shifting)

• Why making "perfection" available to everyone actually devalues it

• What AI has to do with the rise of imperfection as a status symbol

• How to stop playing a beauty game that keeps moving the goalposts

• Why your "flaws" might soon be your most valuable features

• A surprisingly liberating way to think about your body, your face, and how you show up in the world

Check out our NEW YouTube Channel with tons of YouTube exclusive Shorts, exclusive podcast content, and full video episodes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LizMoodyTV⁠ 

Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! 

Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/.

To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast.

Use our discount codes from our  highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. 

This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors:

• LMNT: head to https://DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order.

• Pique: head to PiqueLife.com/LizMoody for 20% off + a FREE Starter Kit on $100+ of subscriptions. 

• PaleoValley: Head to PaleoValley.com/LizMoody or use code LIZMOODY at checkout for 15% off your first purchase.

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This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.

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I’ve always wondered how specifically having good relationships can decrease our likelihood of cancer or having a heart attack, and improve our immune systems and brain health. Well, I asked a Stanford Neuroscientist and his answers are absolutely fascinating. 

Dr. Ben Rein is an award-winning neuroscientist and lecturer at Stanford, and the author of the phenomenal new book, Why Brains Need Friends. We are talking about why hanging out with your friends floods your brain with a chemical cocktail that is basically a microdose of MDMA, why being married beats chemotherapy as the number one predictor of surviving cancer, why Botox and Tylenol and Advil are making it harder to make friends, yes, really, and why we should all probably get dogs and get our parents to get dogs if we want them to live a long time.

You're going to come away with a ton of action steps to not only live longer and be healthier, but also just feel better every single day.

🎧 What you’ll learn:

• How to find your ideal "social dose"

• Introvert or extrovert: You might be wrong about yourself 

• How to audit your social life

• The Botox friendship problem

• The neuroscience behind social anxiety (why you dread going out)

• What your pet is doing to your brain 

• The hidden social side effects of Tylenol and Advil

Find the introversion to extroversion assessment and the social journal mentioned in this episode here: https://www.benrein.com/book (tag @lizmoody and @dr.benrein with your results!).

For more from Dr. Ben Rein:

• Book, Why Brains Need Friends: https://amzn.to/3S1cvPw 

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.benrein 

• Website: https://www.benrein.com/ 

Check out our NEW YouTube Channel with tons of YouTube exclusive Shorts, exclusive podcast content, and full video episodes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LizMoodyTV⁠ 

Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! 

Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/.

Use our discount codes from our  highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. 

To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast.

This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors:

• PaleoValley: head to PaleoValley.com/LizMoody or use code LizMoody at checkout for 15% off your first purchase.

• LMNT: head to DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order.

• Osea: go to OseaMalibu.com and get 10% off your first order with code LIZMOODY.

• Rythm Health: check out Rythm.Health/LizMoody for 15% off your first month and FREE shipping.

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This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.

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Most people spend their 20s and 30s either grinding toward a future they can barely picture, or living for today with no plan. But you are not most people. I will share exactly how to have both the life that you want right now while setting yourself up for your dream future. I'm sharing 20 secrets that I wish I had known earlier in life.

Check out our NEW YouTube Channel with tons of YouTube exclusive Shorts, exclusive podcast content, and full video episodes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LizMoodyTV⁠ 

Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! 

Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome. Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/.

To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast.

Use our discount codes from our  highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. 

This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors:

• AG1: visit DrinkAG1.com/LizMoody and get an AG1 Flavor Sampler and a bottle of Vitamin 

• Branch Basics: head to BranchBasics.com and use code LIZMOODY for 15% off the premium starter kit.

• IQ Bar: text LIZ to 64000 for 20% off. 

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This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.

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We are diving deep into the real reasons men are not doing their part in relationships, and exactly how you can help change that. Whether you want better sex, or for him to take on more of the mental load, or you want to know if you're even with the right person, or if the relationship is worth staying in, we're going to get into that today.

I sit down with Zach Brittle, one of the only couples therapists in the entire world certified in both the Gottman method and Terry Real's Relational Life therapy. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vanity Fair. Zach is so pragmatic and has really interesting advice on some of the trickiest issues out there.

We also talk about what men secretly think and feel behind the scenes that they're not sharing, and we solve a ton of the real-life relationship struggles that you guys wrote in. 

🎧 What you’ll learn:

• How to get your needs met without nagging, criticizing, or picking a fight

• How to tell if your partner can't do the work or simply won't

• What men are secretly thinking and feeling but never say out loud

• The one question that ends most arguments before they escalate

• The 4 behaviors that predict relationship breakdown

• The key sign a relationship will survive hard times

Check out our NEW YouTube Channel with tons of YouTube exclusive Shorts, exclusive podcast content, and full video episodes: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@LizMoodyTV⁠ 

Check out the previous episodes of The Liz Moody Podcast discussed today:

Fighting Can Make Your Relationship Better—If You Do It THIS Way with Drs Julie & John Gottman

For more from Zach Brittle:

• Website: https://zachbrittle.com/ 

• Substack: https://zachbrittle.substack.com/ 

• Podcast: https://marriagetherapyradio.com/all-episodes/ 

Ready to uplevel every part of your life? Order Liz’s book 100 Ways to Change Your Life: The Science of Leveling Up Health, Happiness, Relationships & Success now! 

Connect with Liz on Instagram @lizmoody or online at www.lizmoody.com. Subscribe to the substack by visiting https://lizmoody.substack.com/welcome.Buy our cute sweatshirts, conversation cards, and more at https://shop.lizmoody.com/.

Use our discount codes from our  highly vetted and tested brand partners by visiting https://www.lizmoody.com/codes. 

To join The Liz Moody Podcast Club Facebook group, go to www.facebook.com/groups/thelizmoodypodcast.

This episode is brought to you completely free thanks to the following podcast sponsors:

• Birch: go to https://BirchLiving.com/LizMoody for 20% off a new mattress.

• Lumebox: right now get 40% off, that's $260 off the regular price of $629, when you go to TheLumeBox.com/Liz.

• Wildgrain: go to Wildgrain.com/LizMoody to get $30 off your first box + FREE croissants for LIFE.

• Timeline: visit Timeline.com/Liz to save up to 39% off.

• LMNT: head to https://DrinkLMNT.com/Liz to get a FREE 8-count sample pack with any order.

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This podcast and website represents the opinions of Liz Moody and her guests to the show. The content here should not be taken as medical advice. The content here is for information purposes only, and because each person is so unique, please consult your healthcare professional for any medical questions.The Liz Moody Podcast Episode 436.
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