Why Your Brain Feels Foggy and Your Mood Is Off in Perimenopause with Dr. Anna Cabeca

About this episode

Dr. Shivani Gupta interviews Dr. Anna Cabeca about the challenges of perimenopause, including hormone imbalance and its effects on women's health.

Are you eating clean, managing your stress, doing everything right and still gaining weight, snapping at everyone you love, and lying awake at 3 a.m. wondering what happened to you? You are not imagining this. And you are not broken. In this episode, Dr. Shivani Gupta sits down with the beloved Dr. Anna Cabeca, OB-GYN, hormone specialist, and creator of Mighty Maca Plus and the Magic Menopause program, to break down what she calls "the devil's pitchfork": the three-pronged crisis of hormone imbalance, adrenal dysregulation, and chronic inflammation that silently dismantles women's health from their late 30s onward. Dr. Anna brings cutting-edge research on DHEA, progesterone, uric acid, and the keto-green alkalinizing approach, backed by her own extraordinary personal journey. Her message to every woman listening: your diagnosis is not your destiny. If you are struggling with unexplained weight gain, perimenopause rage, brain fog, bladder issues, or the feeling that your body has turned against you, this episode will change how you understand yourself. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN Why DHEA starts declining before estrogen and what this means for your bones, brain, bladder, vaginal health…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Shivani Gupta

Guest: Dr. Anna Cabeca

Topics covered

• perimenopause
• hormone imbalance
• brain fog
• weight gain
• chronic inflammation
• women's health

Keywords

• perimenopause
• hormone imbalance
• DHEA
• progesterone
• keto-green
• chronic inflammation
• brain fog
• weight gain

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Mighty Maca Plus, Magic Menopause program

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