Better Everyday #54 Sex Drive, Libido & Hormones with Dr Anna Cabeca
Release Date: 07/14/2017
Dr Brooke Show #447 10th Annual Gratitude Episode!
Dr. Brooke Show
For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . The holidays are here, and it's time for the 10th annual Thanksgiving episode! Can you believe it? Gratitude is a powerful and it is tricky. I'll share some new research on the science of gratitude and how it can be an important tool for resilience due to how it triggers a potent feel-good hormone cocktail in our nervous system. I'll also cover a few places where it's easy to get gratitude quite wrong. AND the annual 15% off sale is on at ! Use code GRATITUDE15 to save on all of the Better By Dr Brooke supplements. If you...
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Dr Brooke Show #446 What Women Need To Know About Testosterone + HRT
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For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . Testosterone for women is among the most over AND under prescribed hormones out there. Women in their 40s and 50s are suffering and struggling to get treatment OR they are being given dosages high enough to cause potentially irreversible side effects. On the other hand, women in their 20s and 30s are prescribed testosterone with little to no attention paid to diet, stress and exercise first. I cover the importance of thorough testing, how to target nutrition and lifestyle for better testosterone output and the best options, dosages and...
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Dr Brooke Show #445 A Nervous System Approach To Holiday Treats + Stress
Dr. Brooke Show
For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . It’s that time of year when things can get a little chaotic - in a festive way, but still. Your social feed is about to be filled with healthier swaps for holiday treats, experts telling you how horrible sugar is and others telling you: it’s only once a year! In this episode, I cover my tried and true tips and perspectives for navigating how this advice can fit for you (or not), where to have grace, where to have grit, and how I’m coming at the holidays this year from a very different perspective. Resources mentioned in...
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Dr Brooke Show #444 Should You Be Cycling Your HRT?
Dr. Brooke Show
In this episode, I am asking a question I get daily in my practice from women taking HRT: do I need to be cycling my progesterone? Or is OK to just take it every day? How about estrogen, does that need to be cycled too? It’s a good question and one that experts do not agree on. As I always say though, HRT can’t be one size fits all and it’s worth understanding why cycling might be better for you - or at least another option! I’m sure you have a friend with this same question, so be sure to forward this episode. Resources mentioned in this episode: Grab the Midlife Is More Than...
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Dr. Brooke Show #443 Do You Really Need A Weighted Vest?
Dr. Brooke Show
Trend alert: weighted vests. These low-weight vests are all the rage in the midlife/perimenopause space right now. The menopause experts say to wear these babies every day, all day, and for every exercise. The fitness experts say there is a whole lot of problems with wearing a weighted vest for long durations and with certain exercises. I break it all down and go over the most commonly touted studies on bone density and fat loss. I cover some times they definitely aren't a good idea and how to avoid the biggest mistakes if you do choose to use a weighted vest. Grab the Midlife Is More...
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Dr Brooke Show #442 Histamine, MCAS and Your Nervous System
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Nervous system regulation is all the rage and it is so important to so many symptoms and health conditions. When you have an overactive and highly sensitive system, it might not be enough to take a deep breath or trigger your vagus nerve with singing or cold water. Those tools are powerful and you should know how to use them but for many of us the ultimate root cause of mast cell activation, autoimmunity, chronic issues like long covid, POTS, etc. is deeper trauma that created a lack of safety and we need to address that before gut health, hormone balance, or other triggers can be safely dealt...
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Dr Brooke Show #441 Why Your Progesterone to Estrogen Ratio Matters
Dr. Brooke Show
For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . Whether you are cycling and have symptoms or are on HRT and having issues, the ratio of these two hormones can be a real indicator of issues like low progesterone, estrogen dominance or estrogen metabolism issues. You can calculate this ratio from values on your serum testing or urine testing such as the DUTCH test. In this episode, I talk about what this ratio should be, how to calculate it (units matter!), what you can glean from various types of testing (i.e. urine shows you something different than serum, both matter) and what to...
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Dr. Brooke Show #440 - Understanding Oxytocin
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For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . The love hormone, the cuddle hormone, the hormone of bonding. Not much bad to say about oxytocin! However, with so many new, compounded hormones easily available on the internet, you may be wondering if you should be taking oxytocin. I cover challenges with oxytocin delivery methods and how to naturally raise it on your own, including common recommendations like hugging but also how the interplay with cortisol might be your biggest needle mover when it comes to boosting this amazing hormone naturally.. Grab the Midlife Is More Than HRT...
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Dr. Brooke Show #439 Midlife is More Than HRT, Part II
Dr. Brooke Show
For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . Part II of this two-part episode series on the "other stuff" about midlife. In this episode, I get into the tangible system I created to tackle the stuff that HRT doesn't fix — my 3G + 4R Perimenopause Process. There is both perspective and habits as part of this system to help you know what to do - and actually be able to do it! If you missed Part I, where I shared more of the somewhat ugly background of how hard this transition has been for me, you can listen to that . Grab the Midlife Is More Than HRT guide if like...
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Dr Brooke Show #438 Midlife Is More Than HRT, Part I
Dr. Brooke Show
For more info on how I can help you, visit my site . Personal episode alert….this one is a bit different than most. It’s not science based and there is no tangible system taught - BUT there is next week so stay tuned! This episode is simply me sharing the nitty-gritty, personal, exhausting, ugly, humbling, guilt ridden, heartbreaking experience that has been perimenopause for me the past 5 years. From this though something new and powerful was born and I wanted to be totally transparent because I felt so alone going through this and I hope no other women struggles the way I...
info_outlineListen up ladies it’s about to get good! We get so many questions about sex drive and libido that we went straight to THE expert on this issue, OBGYN Dr Anna Cabeca. We dug deep into this topic from all angles including how sex drive and libido change throughout a woman’s lifespan and life circumstances ranging from childbirth, clearing age 35 and of course menopause. Woman’s hormones are so easily affected by stress and our current crazy environment of endocrine disruptors that it’s easy for sex drive to take a dive. And so often it’s a symptom we think can wait “until we have time” or “until life calms down” but it puts such a strain on our sense of self, our comfort with our bodies and of course our relationship.
We covered testing you need to get to the “why” behind your low libido and hint: the first test Dr Cabeca and Dr Brooke recommend is not testosterone! Dr Cabeca talks about both the primary and secondary libido mechanisms we all have and why secondary is actually more important for women. And she shares why a woman’s orgasm is like a game of Candyland. Trust us, you’ll want to have a notebook handy for this episode!
To learn more about Dr Cabeca click here. To grab her FREE webinaire: Help Doctor, My Sex Drive Has No Pulse click here. And be sure to check out her online course Sexual CRP and her amazing dream cream, hormone helping, lubricating, garbage free (i.e. parabens and other hormone disruptors found in most lubricants and personal care products) product right here.
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