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Amy Shah

Amy Shah is a physician, nutrition expert, and author focused on hormonal health, gut health, cravings, and sustainable wellness. She is best known for I’m So Effing Hungry and I’m So Effing Tired, which translate her medical background into practical guidance on metabolism, intermittent fasting, energy, and women’s health.

Biografie & Werdegang des Autors

Amy Shah’s professional path grew out of a personal and family history with food, health, and migration. Born in India and brought to the United States at about five, she later described watching her father, uncles, and grandparents develop type 2 diabetes after the family’s move, an experience that pushed nutrition and medicine to the center of her thinking. She studied nutrition at Cornell University, graduated with honors from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and completed training in internal medicine at Harvard’s Beth Israel Deaconess and in allergy and immunology at Columbia. A later period of severe overwork, compounded by a near-fatal car accident, became a decisive turning point: it shifted her away from a narrowly clinical model and toward lifestyle-based, preventive wellness communication. ((https://medium.com/authority-magazine/women-in-wellness-dr-amy-shah-on-the-five-lifestyle-tweaks-that-will-help-support-peoples-journey-0bb85102885c))

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Health and wellness happen outside the doctor’s office: Your best physician is good nutrition and your own mind
-mindbodygreen Q&A
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As an integrative medicine doctor, I've researched a lot of different wellness trends, nutrition plans, and complementary and alternative therapies
-Reverse Fasting: What It Is + How To Do It
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Spikes in blood sugar are a ticket to cravings, hunger, and lethargy
-How To Stop Craving Carbs
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As a physician, I really try to listen to the entire story before running tests
-What To Do When Your Lab Tests Are Normal, But You Still Feel "Off"
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I honestly feel 100 percent better. In fact, better than I ever have before
-I Was Tired, Bloated, & Stressed Out—How I Supported My Health
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A food that's healthy for one person might not be healthy for another
-This Super-"Healthy" Food Is Messing With Your Hormones
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You don’t have to choose between science and self-care. Real wellness brings both together
-AmyMD Wellness
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I’m dedicated to helping you save yourself by prioritizing physical and mental health, even amidst busy lifestyles
-Meet Dr. Shah
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You cannot control how your hormones change, but you can control how you experience it
-Hormone Havoc

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Stimmen der Community

"Amy Shah is a Harvard-trained doctor and nutritionist"

CNBC Make It

"Amy Shah is a wellness expert, nutritionist, and author"

WIRED

"Amy Shah is the author of I'm So Effing Tired and I'm So Effing Hungry"

Women's Health

"Amy Shah is the nutritionist and author of Hormone Havoc"

Oprah Daily

"Amy Shah is a Forbes Health Advisory Board member and a well-known expert on intermittent fasting for women"

Forbes Health

"Amy Shah is an asthma, allergy, and immunology specialist"

Prevention

"Amy Shah is a double board-certified physician and nutritionist, and author of two bestsellers"

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"Amy Shah is a double-board-certified doctor, nutritionist, and author of Hormone Havoc"

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