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Hey, everyone, welcome to the Primal Blueprint Podcast. Today we have Dr. Anna, or you can call her Dr. Anna

Cabega. She's D-O-O-B-G-Y-N, and she wrote an incredible book coming out called The Hormone Fix that I

really liked. And I told her before the show,

I read a lot of these books, as all the listeners know, and this one impressed me. And I thought

there was so much valuable information in there and a really incredible guide. And in fact,

I had a digital copy sent to me for the interview, but I requested a hard copy because I was like,

I want this book around. I want to look at it and I want to feel it and refer to it. So welcome

to the show. I am honored. Thank you so much, Elle, for having me. So, you know, there's so many

things to talk about because we're going to talk about keto. We're going to talk about women's

issues, especially in hormones.

And frankly, that's relative to all people. But let's start with this obscure journal article

from like 1924 that you read that that kind of pointed out that making a ketogenic diet more

alkaline could be the answer. So let's start there.

Yeah, you know, this goes back to my story when I was struggling way back. When I was 38 years

old, I was diagnosed with early menopause, premature ovarian failure. And so I worked through

nutrition, functional medicine, lifestyle, biodontal hormones to reverse that.

And then part of my story is, you know, from going to complete infertility to having a baby at 41,

well, then age 48 hit.

And then I was experiencing exactly what so many other patients experience.

Always heard, clients come in in this perimenopausal time period and say, Dr.

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