Dr. Alexandra Gajer

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Fully Alive: Unlocking the secrets to your healthier, happier, longer life · How To Build Lasting Vitality With Dr. Alexsandra Gajer · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

And, you know, I had two children, one in medical school, one in residency.

And in between those two, I had this bout with Lyme.

And even though I recovered, it was like my body wasn't the same.

You know, I couldn't maintain the same level of fitness, energy, sleep was disrupted.

So it's part of what drove me to kind of explore these fundamentals that after modern medicine did what it could with antibiotics, I had to fix what the Lyme did, you know, the damage and try to get my body back to a state where I feel good, you know, and where I feel like I can live the kind of life that I want.

And yes, I mean, I'm not perfect and I still have setbacks, but um

I'm functioning at a level that I'm really happy with.

Well, let's do a quick foundation on hormones.

Okay.

Actually, I'm gonna back up one more step because for me, I think metabolic health is the first foundation that um if we don't and it's kind of uh for me that kind of fits in the category of hormones, but um and these things can be tackled at the same time, but body composition makes a huge impact on how we feel, on our future risk of disease.

You know, if you compare just exercise.

Head to head with any medication that was ever created in terms of what it can do to prevent disease, it's really outperforms anything, any supplement, any medication we ever had.

So I think getting insulin is the main hormone that governs our metabolic health.

And because of our modern food environment, so again, we have

This long human history of having periods of famine and then periods, short periods where we really needed a lot of nutrients fast.

So our system developed to really crave and look for sweets and oils because those are highly nutrient dense.

So we are heavily rewarded with pleasure signals when we find oil uh oils, fats, and

And sugars.

And we understand that we're heavily rewarded by the fact that most people have become overweight, you know, and that's and that's not their fault.

That's because we are working with machinery that heavily um gratifies us when we find those things because they were essential to our survival, but now they're everywhere and they're more available than anything else.

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