The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca Dr. Anna Cabeca OB/GYN

Are you ready to build your dream life? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we welcome Sheri Salata, former executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show. After her self-image collapsed, she reconnected with her higher purpose with intense self-healing. Sheri teaches you how to map out your life and conquer negative thought patterns, so you can choose to build a life full of happiness. 
Life is full of transformational opportunities. Sheri guides you on your healing journey and shares how you can utilize plant medicine, trauma healing, and therapy to become your own source of love and fulfillment. She is an expert in baby steps and shows you easy ways to break free from habits that no longer serve you!
In this episode, we discover the power of emotional wellness and empower you to choose a happy life. No transformation happens overnight, but you can make the decision today and change the trajectory of your spiritual journey, develop delicious curiosity of your psyche, and step into a new phase of phenomenal transformation!



KEY TAKEAWAYS
[1:00] The path of transformation 
[6:00] Keeping yourself centered
[7:10] Only you can solve your love problem
[10:18] Shamanistic healing 
[15:00] Healing the mother wound
[18:00] How your organs hold emotions
[19:20] The spiritual journey of a plant medicine 
[21:50] Start small with gentle changes
[24:45] Transformation retreats  
[30:00] Recognizing negative patterns 
[31:50] Mapping out your life
[36:30] Developing delicious curiosity 
 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 
Sherisalata.com
Instagram
 
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Really load my life up with those things that keep me so centered, and understanding that not only do I want the joyride, I deserve it, and I always have!”  [6:14] -Sheri Salata
“What you’re doing is coaxing yourself onto the path. You’re coaxing yourself, you’re not whipping yourself. You’re not beating yourself up.” [24:00] -Sheri Salata
“ What I like to do, is make sure that everybody has their basic practices going, so it isn’t like you’ve gone from zero to chanting. You have your little practices going, you’re not uncomfortable guiding yourself on the path a little bit, and so then, when we get to a place like that, away from our lives. Then here’s the question, what is the sacred opportunity sitting right in front of me?”   [27:11] -Sheri Salata
“There is a new story to be told, and when you tell that story, Dr.Anna, as I know you know, there is a new life that comes with it, the life of your dreams.” [35:45] -Sheri Salata
 
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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we welcome Dave Asprey as he launches his revolutionary book Smarter Not Harder. He takes you on a journey, as you rewire your biology for rest and rehabilitation instead of living in fight or flight. 
Exercise has not changed since its inception, and Dave is here to uproot the traditional system of endless vigorous exercise. He found the flaw in the logic of working hard for better results. It turns out that your body craves rest, and endless workouts are conditioning your body to stay in perpetual survival mode! He teaches you how to reprogram your biology to achieve the best health of your life!
Most people are not eating enough food, or are eating nutrient-deficient diets and depleting their energy with long bouts of extreme exercise. The path to health does not need to be a struggle. Dave teaches you how to dismantle your limiting beliefs about your health, so you can own your biology!
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:50] Dave’s evolution into bio-hacking
[9:00] The laziness principle
[13:00] Training your mitochondria 
[16:00] Strategizing according to your goals
[18:00] The psychology of laziness
[21:50] No sweating allowed!
[25:00] Picking your path to your definition of health  
[30:00] Understanding mineral deficiencies 
[34:10] Biohacking and stress
[38:00] Getting your energy back
[43:00] Dismantling layers of limiting belief
 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
DaveAsprey.com
Smarter Not Harder 
The Human Upgrade Podcast
Danger Coffee
Upgrade Labs
40 Years of Zen
SleepWithDave.com
 
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Everything that we doin exercise today is pick up rocks or run away from tigers, or maybe some stretching. That’s all of excserze for all of history. Well, it turns out, we can change the environment around us, so that our body, can go, maybe there’s not a tiger, maybe it’s so convenient and easy, I’ll just fix my respritory system right now instead of doing it slowly over time.” [24:00]  -Dave Asprey
“Oats are peasant food, designed to keep you alive in the winter, and one of the things that oats do is, they steal minerals, like zinc and copper and iron and calcium.”  [31:30] -Dave Asprey
“What if you just turned it off, so the next time it happened, you can go ,oh, that wasnt very nice,  but you’re not triggered, and you don’t have to yell at anyone to change their behavior so you can feel safe in your skin, because you owned your own biology! The definition of bio-hacking.” [36:20] -Dave Asprey



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The Microbiome gets a lot of attention these days, but are you protecting your Glycobiome? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, I welcome renowned fertility expert Dr. Robert Kiltz. He has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Parents Magazine, and CNBC for his work making IVF affordable and accessible. Using diet and mindset to supplement low-dose IVF therapy, Dr. Kiltz has reduced the cost of IVF to a third of the national average. He is investigating the efficacy of the American plant-based diet, and how a keto-carnivore diet could reduce inflammation, heal chronic diseases, and promote fertility. 
Contrary to popular belief, fat is fuel to the body. When you consume sugar and amino acids, they are processed and converted into fat by the liver, which is evidence that your body's primary fuel source is fat. Plant-based diets potentially expose you to pathogens and microbes that ferment in the gut, destroy the Glycobiome, and cause chronic illness. 
In this episode, Dr. Kiltz shares how his approach to nutrition is helping women become fertile again. He teaches the dangers of a plant-based diet, and how a carnivore diet may be the solution you have been looking for!
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[3:20] Affordable and accessible fertility treatments 
[4:00] Natural and low doses of fertility treatments 
[7:00] How the standard American diet contributes to infertility 
[9:00] Positive mindset is often the catalyst for healing 
[12:00] The different approaches for men and women 
[14:00] Fat is the only fuel for your body
[16:00] Plant sugars are the leading cause that damages our dy
[22:00] What is the Glycobiome
[27:00] Questioning the efficacy of the microbiome hypothesis 
[33:00] The estrogen and progesterone in plants create endocrine disruptors
[34:00] The Carnivor space is the healing space
[36:00] 99.9% of pesticides are made from plants
[37:00] Fat goes straight to the lymphatic system 
[42:00] Removing toxic components from your diet 
[49:00] Visualizing your healed body
[53:00] Healing the Glycobiome with fat and fasting 
 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
CYN Fertility 
Instagram
 
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“I believe that fat is the only fuel for our body. Sugar is not, glucose is not a fuel for the body. It’s a precursor to our fuel, and a high plant-based, low-fat diet turns out to damage every nook and cranny of our body, especially the blood vessels.”  [13:36] - Dr.Kiltz
“The exposure of plant antigens and the microbes that ferment in our gut, and destroy the Glycobiome is the leading cause of all disease.” [35:17] -Dr.Kiltz
 
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Are you in tune with your gut intuition? Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, I discuss the mind-body connection with leading functional-medicine expert, Dr. Will Cole. He is among the top 50 functional and integrative doctors in America and the author of The New York Times best-seller, Intuitive Eating. In this episode, we explore the connection between mental and physical health from his soon-to-be-released book, Gut Feelings. 
Conventional medicine often overlooks the mind-body connection, usually only addressing a single aspect of health. Dr. Cole’s comprehensive approach to healing trauma, the gut microbiome, and restoring homeostasis to the body is helping patients reclaim their wellness. 
Emotional stress has the power to reduce the effectiveness of your healthy habits, which is why you cannot separate mental health from your physical well-being. Dr.Cole guides you through a thorough analysis of your physical and emotional traumas to find the underlying factors causing chronic disease, thyroid issues, and digestive disorders. Join us as we uncover how your gut and emotional health affect your physical body!
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[3:00] The relationship between mental and physical health 
[6:00] How mental, emotional, and spiritual components impact the physical body 
[8:00] Shameflammation: the connection between stress and inflammation 
[12:00] Orthorexia and the overwhelmed of healthy eating
[17:00] Looking at the aspects of your health that are often overlooked
[20:00] How adverse childhood trauma leads to the destruction of the self
[23:00] Intergenerational trauma: epigenetic heirlooms that predispose you to disease
[27:00] Metabolising trauma: Healing without knowing the cause 
[29:00] Polyvagal theory and understanding how trauma can be stored in the body
[34:00] Determining your personal point of entry to healing 
[39:00] Don’t confuse your doctor’s medical degree with your gut intuition

 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Drwillcole.com
Instagram 
Pre-order Gut Feelings
Intuitive Fasting 
The Art of Being Well Podcast



MEMORABLE QUOTES
“In many ways, I find it’s an incomplete conversation around mental health care. Where mental health is relegated as separate from physical health, but the reality is that mental health is physical health, and it’s really  a functional medicine conversation around mental health, and around trauma, and chronic stress, and shame, and how these mental emotions, spiritual things impact our physical body.” [4:35] -Dr. Cole 
 
“I see people up against seemingly insurmountable things, and just as trauma can be inherited, so can healing. I see people break the chains of pain, break the chains of disease, break the chains of dysfunction by what you can do today.”  [25:50] -Dr. Cole
 
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Today on The Girlfriend Doctor, we discuss how oxytocin is the key to unlocking longevity with Dr. Molly Maloof. Her book The Spark Factor is a riveting display of the effect that love and community have on your body. Dr. Maloof deconstructs how loneliness and stress affect your health and deplete your lifespan. 
To fully understand how external stress affects your body, Dr. Maloof teaches you the importance of tracking your cycle because your period is a vital sign. If your period becomes irregular, it is a sign that you need to slow down and be kind to your mind and body. In this episode, Dr. Maloof shares her biohacking protocol for reframing stress from a destructive force to a transformational tool.
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[2:00] Ensuring longevity by optimizing your organ reserve while your young 
[3:45] How a stressful environment can deplete energy and cause hormonal imbalance
[6:00] Your period is a vital sign and a window into your overall health 
[10:30] Knowing the difference between good stress and bad stress 
[12:00] Cognitive reappraisal and becoming your own performance coach 
[16:25] Sitting in the satisfaction of what you have achieved and celebrating yourself
[18:30] Reframing your mindset to act with joy to improve your attitude and cortisol levels
[20:00] How love and oxytocin give life meaning and promote vitality and longevity
[23:00] How isolation stress from a lack of community causes phycological diseases 
[26:30] The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in inflammation 
[29:00] The physiology of isolation and the challenge of cortisol testing
[35:00] Hypertonic muscles and how you can train your body to relax 
[39:30] The effect community has on your oxytocin levels 
[41:00] What is the spark factor 
 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
Molly’s book: https://drmolly.co/thesparkfactor/

Website: www.drmolly.co
Instagram: @drmolly.co 
Molly’s online course: YOUR HEALTHSPAN JOURNEY: master your blood sugar (your energy gauge & the ultimate biomarker!) to extend healthspan https://drmolly.co/courses/
Dr. Molly Maloof’s book THE SPARK FACTOR: Supercharge Your Batteries for Limitless Energy and a Fitter, Stronger, More Resilient Future (on-sale 1/31). As a physician and Stanford lecturer, Dr. Molly Maloof has spent her career providing personalized medicine services to high-performing technology executives, billionaire investors, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and Academy Award-winning actors. What she noticed is that women, specifically, were feeling the spark that once energized their lives beginning to dim. Not just metaphorically but in a measurable reduction in the energy output from their cells. In response, Dr. Molly developed a science-backed program focused on mitochondrial health, used successfully by her patients, which offered lifestyle changes that target the unique biology of women and provide immediate and long-term benefits--now available in her book The Spark Factor. “The idea is steady gradual improvement, not perfection. The goal is to help get your spark back, so you can spend the rest of your life empowered, alive, mobile, and resilient,” she writes.
 
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As you age, it’s common to feel stuck in certain patterns but today’s guest gives you the tools to reimagine your life, health and purpose. Natalie Jill, pivoted from her wildly successful fitness brand to create her podcast Midlife Conversations. Although she was thriving in her career as a fitness influencer, she no longer felt that spark of passion, so she began questioning her purpose. By following three simple steps, Natalie was able to  reshape and redefine her purpose to create a new and fulfilling path. 
Decision, vision and action are at the core of long lasting change! Many women struggle to change because they focus on the action before committing and envisioning the results of the path they would like to take. Once you have gotten clear on what it is that you want, action comes naturally!
Nothing is set in stone, you can improve your diet,  your relationship, your job, your home and your health all by choosing to do so and believing in the possibilities beyond your current circumstances. In this episode, Natalie shares how you can use gratitude and these simple principles to manifest a life of purpose. 
 
KEY TAKEAWAYS
[1:30] As soon as you lose passion for something you’re not going to be an effective coach 
[2:50] Women are so much more than their fitness and nutrition
[5:00] Finding purpose when transitioning into your menopause years 
[9:00] Support versus suppression of your menopausal symptoms 
[12:35] Creating a new life for yourself with Decide, Vision and Action: 
[17:45] Improving your self image by visualizing the possibilities and how that would feel
[20:00] Shifting your energy by focusing on the things that you do appreciate about yourself
[23:50] Getting results by revisiting your commitment every day
[25:40] Action only works when you’ve first decided and envisioned the results that you want
[27:00] You will be rewarded if you intentionally focus on gratitude
[30:00] Manifesting your future with a dream book 

 
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE 
NatalieJillFitness.com
Midlife Conversations Podcast 
Instagram 
 
MEMORABLE QUOTES
“Most people say they want to be happy and want to be confident and that really comes down to purpose because when you are living on purpose, it’s amazing how  you feel and how you look.” [6:37]  -Natalie Jill
“I really think that is such an important skill set for us to be using in midlife, is to be focusing on what we want and how we want to live versus the problem of what is.”  [15:36] -Natalie Jill
“You have to take time on the vision first! The actions only work after decision and vision. Most people go to action first.”  [25:26] -Natalie Jill
 
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