Ep. 202 Dr. Anna Cabeca - Healing Your Hormones and Becoming Empowered with The Girlfriend Doctor

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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I feel honored and privileged to re-interview Dr. Anna Cabeca today! She was with me once before in Episode 94. Dr. Anna is triple-board certified. She is also a fellow of gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She has special certifications in functional medicine, sexual health, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. Over the past 20 years, she has served more than 10,000 women in her private practice and millions more through her books, online videos, and articles. Dr. Anna has a new book out, called Menupause. When reviewing her book, I was surprised to discover that only 20% of those going into obstetrics and gynecology trained in menopause medicine. It almost seems that once women move beyond their child-bearing years, they become irrelevant and invisible. Fortunately, Dr. Anna is helping to change that narrative! In this episode, Dr. Anna and I dive into her new book. In addition, we talk about the need for female empowerment, the stigma of middle age, perimenopause, and menopause. We discuss intimacy as the key to connection and the importance of understanding the changes in a woman's body as she moves through that phase of life. (Dr. Anna refers to that as pausing.) We talk about understanding the role of the connection hormone oxytocin and the importance of women being solution-based when approaching that key phase of their lives. We get into statistics and the microbiome of the gut and the vagina, talk about Dr. Anna’s various six-day eating plans, and explain how those changes can improve our physiology and stabilize symptoms. We also look into stubborn weight-gain issues, the health needs of middle-aged women, and how different cultures view middle age. I am thrilled to be bringing you today’s exciting conversation! I hope you gain a lot from listening to it! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: There is time in menopause for women to re-evaluate their priorities. Dr. Anna challenges you, the listener, to start having girlfriend conversations. Talk to your best girlfriends about what’s going on with you intimately. How to empower yourself by increasing the healing hormone oxytocin in your life. There are many different ways to support your body and improve your quality of life while going through menopause. Following a keto diet and fasting will give you energy, make you feel better, and improve your sex life. What inspired Dr. Anna to write her new book? How to improve your health, and live a long and high-quality life by cooking healthy food in healthy ways. How will you benefit from fasting for six days? Who will benefit from doing a pause and following Dr. Anna’s Keto Green Plans? The predominant proteins that Dr. Anna focuses on in her plant-based plans. Changes Dr. Anna has seen in her patients' gut and vaginal microbiomes as they change their diets and transition from perimenopause into menopause. Some common causes of weight-loss resistance. Dr. Anna talks about some of the delicious hormone-balancing recipes in her book. Getting enough protein is vital- particularly as we get older. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Anna Cabeca Check out Dr. Anna’s website Menupause Book Page 9 Keto-Green Ways to Break a Weight Loss Plateau Free Masterclass: Diabetes and Prediabetes for Women Over 40 MenuPause Book Sneak Peek Clean Keto Recipes for Menopause Quiz: What should you eat to break your weight loss plateau? MenuPause Affiliate site Dr. Anna’s podcast

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.0	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:14.0	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the
0:19.2	health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.
0:23.4	Today I had the honor and privilege of reinterviewing Dr. Anna Kebeka. She joined me originally in episode 94. Today we dove deep into her new book, menu pause, but first we talked a great deal about the need for female empowerment, the stigma of middle age, as well as pari menopause and menopause, how intimacy is actually the key to connection and how important it is to really understand the physiologic changes that occur in a woman's body as she enters this new time in her life as Dr. Anna refers to it
1:05.2	pausing and understanding the key role of oxytocin this really
1:09.4	important connection hormone and how important it is to be very solution base for how to approach this time
1:18.1	frame in our lives. So we dove deep into statistics and the microbiome not only of our gut, but our vagina.
1:24.9	We talked about her six day plans, Kito Green, a plant-based option, a carnivore option,
1:30.6	a cleanse, and a carb moderate plan, how these changes can actually improve our physiology and
1:39.2	stabilized symptoms. We even dove into stubborn weight gain issues, the health needs of women at middle age, and lastly spoke briefly about how different cultures view middle age and it's a really exciting conversation.
1:55.6	I'm thrilled to be able to bring this to you.
2:00.2	Well, Dr Anna, I'm so excited to have you back and even more so to talk about your new book.
2:05.6	I'm thrilled to Cynthia, thank you. Our books, man, I tell you, it is the time. The time is right for this information it couldn't be better timing
2:16.1	absolutely absolutely and you know it was interesting when I was reviewing your book one of the things that
2:20.5	really stood out to me was a statistic that you mentioned that of the individuals that are going into obstetrics and gynecology that only 20% of them are trained in menopause medicine. And I just found that astounding. Like in so many ways, we're so focused on contraception and pregnancy and the postpartum period and then it's almost as if when
2:46.2	women are done having child bearing their childbearing years they suddenly
2:50.2	become irrelevant and invisible and I love that you're helping to change that
2:54.4	narrative that we're both helping to change that narrative.
2:57.0	Yeah, no, it's so powerful and I think about that as you know because we go through our health care with the OBGYN is our priority
3:05.2	doc really that's it you know taking care of our feminine needs or gynecologic problems
3:10.9	any vaginal health issues and as a resident certainly we're trained and I was
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