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Is Your Home Making You Sick? What I Learned About Feng Shui and Hormones | Marie Diamond

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Release Date: 07/09/2026

Brain Defenders: How Hormones and Metabolism Shape Your Brain’s Future | Dr. David Perlmutter

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Your brain has its own immune cells, and the way you live each day helps decide whether they protect you or turn on you. Two-thirds of Americans living with Alzheimer's are women. Living longer doesn't explain that gap, girlfriend. So what does? I'm so happy to welcome back my dear friend Dr. David Perlmutter, board-certified neurologist and author of the New York Times bestseller Brain Defenders. He explains microglia, the immune cells that make up about 10% of your brain. On a good day, they're like firefighters in the firehouse, quietly repairing the blood-brain barrier and helping your...

The Hidden Stress Behind Your Hormone Imbalance | Dr. Sue Morter

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

A divorce. A layoff. A season where you held everything together for everyone. Your body flipped into fight or flight to protect you, exactly the way it was built to. But what happens when the stress passes and your nervous system never gets the message? Bioenergetic medicine expert Dr. Sue Morter, author of The Energy Codes and The Anatomy of Awakening, explains the hidden stress your body can keep carrying for years. She shows how that old emergency ripples through your adrenals, your thyroid, and your hormones in midlife. Then she walks me through her first two steps. The wise belly breath,...

What Caused Your Cancer? The Question Nobody Asked Dr. Nasha Winters

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

When a woman sits across from Dr. Anna after a breast cancer diagnosis, she asks one question. What did your oncologist say caused it? Almost every time, the answer is a blank stare. Dr. Nasha Winters has lived that silence from the inside. By 19, she had collected a decade of diagnoses, including PCOS, endometriosis, IBS, anxiety, and thyroid trouble. Then she landed in the ER with a grapefruit-sized tumor and was told she was too ill for treatment. In this conversation, she shares the three things she credits with changing her path. She also explains how childhood trauma can shape the immune...

Leptin Resistance in Menopause: The Hormone Nobody Tests | Sarah Kleiner

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Tell me if you've heard this before. You're sleeping. You're eating the way you were told to eat. Your labs come back normal, and you still know something is off. That's the woman I had in mind for this conversation. After twenty years in hormone and longevity medicine, here's what I keep coming back to. Most of what supports your hormones comes down to the foundations, like light, darkness, and when you eat, and so many of them cost you nothing. My guest, Sarah Kleiner, is board-certified through the Quantum Biology Institute and the creator of My Circadian App. She came to this work the hard...

What's Really Aging Your Skin (And the Diagnosis Doctors Miss) | Dr. Mamina Turegano

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Dr. Anna sits down with triple board-certified dermatologist, internist, and dermatopathologist Dr. Mamina Turegano for a deep dive into skin health from the inside out. They cover the real drivers of collagen breakdown, which anti-aging ingredients and procedures actually hold up to decades of evidence, and how to build a sunscreen routine you don't have to second-guess. The conversation then turns to two of the toughest conditions in women's health, rosacea and vulvar lichen sclerosus, with practical, root-cause-informed guidance for both. This is the episode to bookmark if you've ever...

From Blindsided to Empowered, Four Coaches' Real Stories | Dr. Anna Cabeca

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

I was sitting in my studio in Dallas with four women who had just spent five months inside my Magic Menopause Certification, and every one of them got emotional before we even started recording. That tells you something about what this season of life actually does to a woman who thought she had it handled. As a triple board-certified OB/GYN and the creator of the Keto-Green method and the Magic Menopause Coach Certification, I sat down with graduating coaches Chelsea, Song, Tara, and Jamie for a live, unscripted panel on everything nobody warns you about before perimenopause hits. In...

Menopause Is Natural. Suffering Is Optional. — Four Coaches Share Their Stories

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Grab your Mighty Maca and get cozy. In this episode of The Girlfriend Doctor Podcast, Dr. Anna Cabeca sits down with the very first graduates of her Magic Menopause Hormone Restoration Coaching Certification, Emily, Ann, Amy and Angela. Four women, four completely different paths into menopause, and one shared mission, making sure no woman has to go through this alone. We're talking surgical menopause, the myths that keep women suffering in silence, the postpartum "mini menopause" nobody warns you about, and what it actually takes to feel like yourself again. Key Timestamps 0:00 Welcome...

Are You Being Medically Gaslit? | Dr. Efrat LaMandre

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

You leave your doctor's office with "everything looks normal" ringing in your ears, but your body is telling you something else. This week Dr. Anna talks with nurse practitioner Dr. Efrat LaMandre, aka Dr. E, about medical gaslighting, why "you're fine" often means "I ran out of tools," and how to advocate for yourself without burning every bridge with your doctor. You'll learn: The difference between "normal" and "optimal," and why it matters What "pre-disease" is and why most providers aren't equipped for it How to describe your symptoms so your doctor actually listens Why one...

Midlife Isn't a Breakdown, It's Your Upgrade | Chalene Johnson

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

Have you done everything right and still watched the scale refuse to move? I sat down with fitness industry veteran Chalene Johnson, who built her career telling women exactly how to lose weight, and then walked straight into that same wall herself in perimenopause. Her hormone panel came back "dialed in." She was still doing every workout, every macro track, every habit that used to work. The weight stayed anyway, until she found the piece nobody had pointed her toward, the link between cortisol, insulin resistance, and a metabolism that stops cooperating no matter how hard you push. We get...

Why Your Sexless Marriage Isn't About Sex | Tressa Yonekawa

The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca

She shut down. Walked out of the room. And you spent the next three days replaying the one sentence that did it. That right there is a trigger talking to a trigger. And it's exactly what my guest today spends her career untangling. Tressa Yonekawa holds a graduate degree in cognitive neuroscience for communication. Twenty five years in, she's used it with corporate leaders, celebrity clients, and couples who feel more like roommates than lovers. We get into her own near drowning at four years old, the voice she heard underwater that redirected her entire life, and how her father's war trauma...

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Can your home be affecting your hormones, stress levels, sleep, and overall health?

In this eye-opening episode of The Girlfriend Doctor Podcast, Dr. Anna Cabeca welcomes internationally renowned Feng Shui Master, bestselling author, and The Secret teacher Marie Diamond for a fascinating conversation about how your environment influences your physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Marie shares her remarkable journey from surviving a near-death experience to becoming one of the world's leading experts on feng shui, energy, and manifestation. Together, she and Dr. Anna explore how the spaces you live and work in may influence stress, sleep quality, relationships, abundance, mental clarity, and healthy aging—and why your environment deserves a place in your wellness routine.

You'll learn practical feng shui principles you can implement immediately—including how clutter affects stress and brain function, why your bedroom setup matters for restorative sleep and hormone balance, how to optimize your workspace for productivity and success, and simple ways to create a healthier, more supportive home environment.

Marie also shares practical strategies for using intentional home design to support better health, reduce stress, simplify decluttering, rediscover purpose in midlife, and create an environment that encourages healing, confidence, and emotional well-being.

Whether you're navigating menopause, rebuilding your health, reducing stress, or simply looking for ways to feel more energized and aligned, this episode offers practical strategies that blend ancient wisdom with modern wellness.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How feng shui influences your health, hormones, and nervous system
• Why clutter can increase stress and affect mental clarity
• Simple bedroom changes that may support deeper sleep and better recovery
• How your environment impacts manifestation, abundance, and relationships
• Simple feng shui tips for better energy, productivity, and focus
• How to create a home that supports healing, resilience, and healthy aging

This episode is perfect for anyone interested in feng shui, hormone health, menopause, decluttering, stress reduction, healthy home design, energy healing, manifestation, and midlife wellness. If you're ready to transform your health from the inside out, don't miss this inspiring conversation.

Key Timestamps

00:00 — Dr. Anna and Marie Diamond Introduction: How They Met in Dallas
03:30 — Marie Diamond’s Near-Death Experience at 15 and the Life-Changing Message
10:00 — From Corporate Lawyer in Belgium to Feng Shui Master
17:00 — What Is Feng Shui? The Three Pillars of Manifestation
26:00 — How Your Bedroom Affects Hormones, Cortisol, and Sleep
36:00 — Feng Shui Mirror Study: Blood Pressure, White Blood Cells, and Results
42:00 — Dr. Anna Applies Feng Shui at Home—and the Surprising Results
50:00 — How to Use the Free Marie Diamond App to Find Your Personal Energy Number
58:00 — Midlife Purpose, ADHD Decluttering Tips, and Thyroid Health
1:07:00 — What to Do When Grief and Caregiving Leave You Paralyzed and Surrounded by Clutter

Memorable Quotes

"Your home will win. It’s bigger, it’s stable, and it’s constantly telling a story — whether you know it or not." — Marie Diamond
"Your home is a vision board—it reflects what you're creating in your life." — Marie Diamond
"You can’t get well in the same environment you got sick in." — Dr. Anna Cabeca
"Healing isn't just about what you put into your body—it's also about what surrounds you every day." — Dr. Anna Cabeca
"When we change our environment, we create space for transformation." — Dr. Anna Cabeca
“Every space has its own vibration, and your body is always responding to it.” — Marie Diamond
"Clutter creates stress. Clarity creates energy." — Marie Diamond
"Sometimes the smallest change in your environment creates the biggest shift in how you feel." — Marie Diamond