From Blindsided to Empowered, Four Coaches' Real Stories | Dr. Anna Cabeca
The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca
Release Date: 09/10/2026
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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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What's Really Aging Your Skin (And the Diagnosis Doctors Miss) | Dr. Mamina Turegano
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Are You Being Medically Gaslit? | Dr. Efrat LaMandre
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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...
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Midlife Isn't a Breakdown, It's Your Upgrade | Chalene Johnson
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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...
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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...
info_outlineI 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 this episode, you'll hear:
- Why declining progesterone and DHEA between ages 35 and 55 quietly drive insulin resistance and weight gain that shows up out of nowhere
- Why fibroids don't have to mean an automatic hysterectomy, and what a natural starting point can look like instead
- Why perimenopause symptoms get dismissed as "normal" in a standard OB/GYN visit, and why that isn't good enough
- Why this conversation belongs in mother-daughter relationships, starting as early as a daughter's first period
- How to reclaim vaginal and sexual health without shame
- What it actually means to become the CEO of your own health
This is the conversation I wish someone had handed me twenty years ago. Peace is possible on the other side of this transition. So is feeling like yourself again.
Learn more about the Magic Menopause program at magicmenopause.com, subscribe if you're watching on YouTube, and comment your one word for this season of your life. I read every one.
Key Timestamps
00:00 — Why I brought four coaches into one room
04:00 — Fibroids, hysterectomy, and the missing third option 05:25 — The 30-day cycle nobody could explain
18:30 — Why the weight shows up even when nothing else changed
22:00 — The conversation that needs to start with our daughters
47:35 — Peeling back the shame around vaginal and sexual health
52:30 — Becoming the CEO of your own health
Memorable Quotes
"I didn't realize that until I crossed the line into menopause. And I was devastated."
"You go to that doctor's appointment and you're the doctor. If your doctor won't partner with you, that's not your doctor."
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