Female Hormones: What Disrupts, Detoxes & Balances Them! – Anna Cabeca, D.O.

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Dave Asprey

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Today you’ll learn about female hormones: what they are, what they do, and what disrupts them. You’ll learn about the hormonal shifts that happen at different ages and life stages and get tips on how to balance hormones and make them work for you, not against you.

This conversation features Anna Cabeca, D.O.. Dr. Anna is a Doctor of Osteopathy who’s triple-board certified in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine, and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She has additional certifications in functional medicine, sexual health, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.

She joins this special preview episode to talk about female hormones. It’s her particular area of expertise and one of The Human Upgrade’s all-time Top 10 podcast topics. Today’s hormone discussion includes:

How hormone disruptors go beyond stress to mold, and product and environmental toxins
How estrogen levels change over time
What’s going on with progesterone, pregnenolone and DHEA, too
What happens to hormones during perimenopause and menopause
What’s causing brain fog
What to know about bioidentical hormones
How detoxing affects hormones
How to keep your vaginal microbiome balanced
How “food as medicine” helps balance hormones
How hormones influence longevity
And much more!

For the past 20 years, Dr. Anna's educated and helped women with their hormones through her private practice, books, online videos and articles. Learn more about her work with women’s hormone health:

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0:00.0	You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey.
0:05.0	Formerly Bulletproof Radio.
0:09.0	A state of high performance.
0:12.0	You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. Today we're
0:17.9	going to be talking about one of my favorite topics of all time hormones.
0:23.4	And in this case, we're going to be talking about hormones
0:26.9	and one of my other favorite things of all time,
0:29.5	which is women, because it turns out
0:31.4	women make up 51% of our species, because Mother Nature just rolls that way.
0:35.0	So we might as well talk about hormones.
0:39.0	Also, from an anti-aging perspective,
0:42.0	women are underrepresented in the number of studies that look at hormones.
0:46.3	The vast majority of research, just in the overall body of research, not counting the last
0:51.8	ten or so years, but just the overall body is on young white
0:54.4	males because they're the ones who were in college and they were free guinea pigs.
0:57.5	So we're still making up for that by doing studies of fasting on women and looking at women's hormones and it isn't just for
1:04.3	OBGYNs, it's overall for longevity for anti-aging. So what you're going to
1:08.9	learn today is we're talking about hormones, we're going to talk about women with someone who only has three board certifications
1:17.8	in such things as a medical doctor
1:19.6	and her name is Anna Quebec.
1:21.6	She's a friend and it's just written a book with one of the best
1:26.0	titles I've seen as an author in a long time called menu pause, which is elegant and
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