Takeover Tuesday: Anna Cabeca

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Well, I'm so excited. I am talking with one of my favorite doctors in the Whole Wide World, Dr. Anna Kabeca, and I love her because she's incredible. Like, if you've missed out on knowing who she is, then you're in the right place at the right time because she is not only an amazing doctor for women, but she has discovered so much with our food, our hormones, everything to help us live vibrant, really, lives of freedom. So, Dr. Kabeca, thank you so much for being here and for sharing your book with us. The hormone fix that is climbing up the charts, girl.

Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be with you and I love talking with you, Hannah. So I love this girl, by the way.

We didn't call each other to match sweaters. It's just that we're both like, such the same vibe. Like, we're mentally. We were like, I think I like red sweaters today. And so that's just what happens when you're close to people, right?

That's it. That's so true. We were in sync.

Absolutely. Always in sync. I remember talking with you, and I am just going to give a little backstory here. This was right after I turned 45, and I. It was like I was fine. I am like, menopause. What is menopause? And all of a sudden, it just hit like a brick wall. And really, it was through a lot of your help and your products and your resources, I was. I changed the way I ate. I've always been, like, naturally kind of lean, but that wasn't happening after 45. Like, there was a switch or I don't know what it was. I know you know what it was, but I was like, what is going on with my body? And I started having these weird cravings and everything. And you really helped me transform the way I ate. And I lost weight. Mental clarity. I got more energy, which I already had a lot of energy, but now it's like, you know, I'm out running the kids all day. Every day. And one other thing that I. Because I want you to steal the show here. But one other thing I need to say about you is there's been so much keto craziness. Like, everything's keto. There's businesses built around keto, everyone. And you are like the common sense, God inspired keto person, because you're like, wait, why would you eat? Why would you do keto if you're putting toxins in your body? Like, you all of a sudden, like, put keto in this brand new beautiful package. Like, look, God has everything for you right here. And fortunately, you know, getting a hold of that, I was able to eat really, really healthy and do keto. It changed my life. So tell me what happened to me, because I know it's happening to other people too.

Yeah, absolutely. And you're absolutely right. Like, we get into this age and you just went through. You described it so beautifully and what so many other millions of women are doing. Sorry, they're my dog.

These are live right dogs, grandson, babies, just everything beautiful.

So what happens is like our body goes into a metabolic stall, and then all of a sudden, everything we were doing stops working. Right? I've heard that from so many patients. And then I experienced it myself, and that was really where I needed to dig in and say, okay, well, you know, what else do I have to do to pull my body out of this metabolic stall? And that is where keto came in. But keto also made me crazy. So that is where I recognized very, very quickly that. And so many of my perimenopausal patients, when I put them on a restricted carbohydrate diet, they would feel irritable, like, feel like they're hitting a wall, maybe have brain fog. And so. And for me, it was literally keto crazy. I mean, it just, you know, irritable, moody. And I didn't like how I felt. And I needed to figure out why, because being a single mom, running a family, trying, running a business, you can't have that brain fog or labile personality.

No, you cannot have that.

So, yeah, we can call it witchy. We can call it a witchy personality. I will admit it. It was not. So we had this. I had to stop that right away. So. And that's where I recognize as a functional medicine doc and as a hormone balancing specialist, that I really needed to bring in those. Those alkalinizers again because I started checking my urine ph, something that I've always told my patients to do. And. And when we're detoxing always want to make sure we've got that urine pH above 7. So just checking urinary ph. And then when you're in that state for a good enough time with all the greens, the alkalizers, the beet greens, the kale, the chard, the cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, those are very nourishing to your body and your cells. And so add that with healthy fats from the keto perspective, healthy proteins and intermittent fasting. Well, lo and behold, you get this keto clarity and energized enlightenment. Hannah. And you and I talked about that in the stage that I was in, the revelations that start poor pouring on you when you get into this clear, clear mind, clear, clear spirit. So you're like, okay, God, I hear you. You know, like I haven't heard you in a long time. I wasn't sure what I was hearing.

All I was hearing is Fritos. But now I can hear the Lord.

There you go, there you go. You know, and that makes a difference because we want that spiritual growth and you know, we want to have that lean, healthy physics, physical, you know, physical body and because the body is the spirit, right? The temple of our spirit. Right? Our body is the temple of our spirit. So. And you know, it's an energetic body. So we're sluggish if we're slow, if we're metabolically stalled, you know, that affects us, that affects our clarity and our willingness to fulfill our purposes that God's put in us in our lives. And so getting that clarity, that's the, that's the combination I talk about, I wrote about in the hormone fix. There's a 10 day keto green detox, quick start as well as it's not just about what we eat.

Well, let me ask you something because I want to make sure everyone's on the same page here. Well, when I learned the difference, like what keto actually means, about how you're actually, you know, your body is switching what it's burning as fuel. So I think a lot of people just kind of think it's like this trend diet or something. But can you explain really quickly what a keto diet actually is?

Yeah, yeah. And that's really important because we throw around the word ketogenic and think, okay, bacon and butter and certainly that's ketogenic because you stop burning glucose and you've got all this fat to burn. Right? And again, men and women are different. Men have a lot of testosterone to work with. Their metabolism is different. They can do a Lot more animal fats, etc. Than women can, as a rule. So we can't compare what women need to do with what men need to do. And that's a problem. And every individual woman is different too. So the customization part is key. But back to your question, Hannah. So we either are you using glucose for fuel? And that includes brain fuel. Our brain will use glucose for brain fuel. And so consider glucose as fuel as compared to like glucose is to gasoline as ketones are to jet fuel.

Okay.

So if we think about that ketones, we use fat, it's more of a caloric burn, it's higher energy, it's higher efficiency. And we get into the state of either burning the fat that we're ingesting for fuel or, or using our own metabolic, our own stored fats, which is my preference.

All day long, all day.

Long, keep going with it, right? And that's the goal. And so that's what really figured out what has to work for women. And so we get into that stage and it's really important to understand. Many women in their 40s, even their late 30s, but all the way post menopause will experience some brain issues. Memory loss, brain fog, loss of focus. And those things are quite devastating. It's important to know that when we use glucose for fuel in the brain, it's an estrogen dependent phenomenon. So if our estrogen's tanked and we're stressed and that's tanking our estrogen even more, the brain fog, I mean, we should expect that, right? We don't want it, we don't need it. But at least let's not think we're going to be demented. We just have to think we need to start using ketones for fuel and gain that clarity back, right?

I'm going to tell you this crazy thing that happened to me. It was so. It was so amazing. Excruciating, but incredible how my body's wired. But we went away for five days. My husband and I went away for five days and you know, like the bioidentical hormone therapy and all that and stuff that you do. Like I've started doing that, right? I forgot all my. I forgot like the cream, the hormone.

Therapy.

After five days and I went off the diet I normally eat because it was not as accessible. So I ate like. Well, I'm gonna, I'm just gonna say I went off of it. I'm not gonna give excuses. So I had like a hamburger and I included the bun and I ate it and then I had a cookie that night, I woke up in the middle of the night. My sheets were drenched. I was sweating profusely. I was like, what in the world is going on? I mean, you understand this. I kind of wish you had been there with me, although that would have been a little creepy. I was like, what is happening? But it's. Our hormones direct everything in our life. And we don't understand, like, why. Why can't I remember things? Why do I feel foggy? Why did I miss that appointment? I knew it was coming up. And we don't understand that it's. This is all what our hormones are doing. Women need to understand this just for a few days. And I was like, oh, my gosh, what is wrong with me?

And absolutely. And also, willpower goes too, right? Because we go off and willpower is physiologic. And you said it exactly correctly. And this is the one thing I say, first of all, it takes more than hormones to fix our hormones. It definitely does. And secondly is that our physiology drives our behavior. So if we're stressed, if we're inflamed. So we're not going to have a willpower. We're not going to have focus. We're not going to be able to sit and do the things we need to do. We're not going to want to. But the good news is that we can use our behavior to improve our physiology just the same way. So as we start working with nourishing our body, our physical body, nourishing our mind with what we put in our eyes and our ears, right? What our thoughts are, we have to nourish our mind. We have to nourish our spirit, our spiritual body. We have to nourish that, and we have to nourish our relationships. So we have to feed all of these areas in our life with, like.

The real good stuff, the real good stuff. And the thing is, I want people to understand. I mean, you get this. We think that maybe our spiritual walk is not where it should be. But what we have to understand is just like what you said, we're multifaceted women. Like, we have a spirit, we have a body, we have a soul. Well, we are spirit. We live in a body. We have a soul. But we're just like, you know, God, Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost. We have to understand that we're so complex if we're, you know, trying to have this spiritual walk, but yet our bodies are. We're destroying our bodies. And we wonder why we're not hearing from God and why we're Struggling and why we're angry and why we're confused. And the thing is, like, you and I both know God is so good and he has provided everything we need to live in abundance. Just what Jesus said. I can't even have abundance. And we can't neglect our bodies and just think, oh, well, that's not important because it's a body. And I'm just going to be all spiritual because like you said, our physiology. What did you say? Our physiology guides our behavior. Yeah. So we don't understand why we're having such a struggle, but we're not completely. We're not dealing with ourselves in completion on every area.

A hundred %. I agree.

100%. So.

Good. I.

Know. I'm so grateful you wrote this. I'm so grateful we have the hormone fix because I think, you know, people just want that quick cure and they don't realize, just like you said, it takes more than hormones to fix your.

Hormones. Yeah. Then there's a place, you know, especially, you know, in our 40s, 50s, I do bioidentical progesterone. Progesterone. And I'm a believer. Yes. It makes a difference. It makes a difference. That's good stuff. You know, and of course, for sexual health, you know, I created natural products to help this because there was nothing to help us. So Jolva, you know, the mighty Maca Greens product, I mean, different aspects to just nourish our body, but the. Ultimately, it's in the steps. Like, you know, if we want to have a good night's sleep, it starts in the morning. If we want to have a good morning, it starts at night. Right. We have to create the principles and practices that really work, that really work in our life for us and. And how we create that. And we want abundance. Like you said, we are promised abundance. Abundance does not mean three meals a day, every day of everything we want. It does not mean I can live inside and never go outside. Right. Abundance does not mean excess. Jesus fasted. Right. So Jesus fasted, too. And he also feasted. So. So part of my theory is that we fast 10% of the time. Keto green, 80% of the time, and feasting 10% of the time.

Right. So we have that. I love.

It. Right. We have that. And that just incorporates into our life when we have that balance and we are better able to say yes when we need to say yes and no when we need to say no. And that's important for us as women.

Especially. Oh, let me ask you for the woman who feels like I Am losing it. Like, I don't know what I was doing fine, and I'm just scattered. I have this excess weight. I have no energy. I have this brain fog. Kind of like I talk about, you know, mom fatigue syndrome aside. I mean, I want her to get the hormone fixed. I want her to get this book so she can get down to, you know, figuring out a plan. But what would you suggest? What can you be the first step she can do? Like right now, when she listens to this, when she watches this, what is the first thing she can do today and not beat herself up about how bad she.

Feels? Right. Right. And I think it's just know, first of all, that there's. There's a solution, that no matter what condition you're dealing with, that there's a solution. Hannah, you know my story. I was diagnosed at 38 with early menopause, permanent infertility, irreversible infertility. I was told I would never be able to have another child. That was it. And lo and behold, you know, I tell everyone, I went around the world to figure out that everywhere you go, there you are, number one. Number two, to add to my doctor's bag. And lo and behold, reversed menopause and became pregnant, conceived a healthy baby at age 41, who today is 11 years old. 11 years old. So cute. And she's so funny because we. My book launched yesterday. I'm like, a birth. I birthing my book the day before I birthed you. Right? And she's like, mom, you're stealing my funda. I'm like, you're turning 11. What.

Thunder. They're like, I gave birth to you. I can steal whatever I.

Want. That's right. So it's that concept. Then at 48, it hit again. Post stress, post trauma. So in my book, very vulnerably and authentically, I share the journey that I've been on in my life with God's guidance, and I share that where I learned to fix my body, reverse the menopause, improve that. I also needed to fix my spirit and my mind and my relationships, which I didn't fix until post divorce. Until post. Like, you know, it was the book of Job. Honestly, it was the book of Job, book of Anna. It was trauma after trauma after trauma. And then at 48, they saying, look, I'm spiraling down. What am I going to do? And that's where, you know, I fasted, I sought answers, and, you know, without a doubt, was inspired to do this in my life and then do it in other women's lives and then bring it online to tens of thousands of women and now put it in the book to help millions of women. And in these ways, I vulnerably share, you know, what my journey was and how your health, no matter what. I am 53 this year. Turning my life around. Turned my life around. So I have a seven figure business where I was near bankruptcy in the past. I have the best relationships with my children. My physical health is better, my numbers on the lab test are better than ever. Ever. And I have family history of diabetes and heart disease on both sides of my family. And so when I see these changes that not just happen in my life but have happened in women who have followed these steps that, you know, God showed me, right. Every step of this journey, sometimes harshly, I will admit to be so harsh. Nope. But there is hope and hope for everyone. So I would start with just even starting with a keto green smoothie in the morning because setting the stage for your day. So when you wake up in the morning, drink a tall glass of water. You could even put a squirt of lemon juice in it, alkalinize your body. You know, I usually will do a shot of my mighty Maca plasma greens. So a scoop OR 2. Today's three scoops, that's a little bit busy here with book launch. Three scoops with a little bit of apple cider vinegar, some water and drink that down. I want alkalinizers, detoxifiers, you know, to help support my body right.

Away.

Yeah. And then I'll have a cup of coffee. I love my.

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Podcast. And you know when I'm at like somewhere between, you know, nine o', clock, I'm drinking my keto green smoothie. And so that is a quarter to a half of avocado, typically. And if I didn't have avocado, I might put a teaspoon of MCT oil in it or another maybe a tablespoon of almond butter. So healthy fats. I'm thinking and then grains. So a handful of whatever is in the fridge. So what was it? Baby kale, broccoli sprouts. Throw that in there. And I put in my keto green protein mix because that's easy for me, it's 14 grams of protein. Put that in there and it has some good antioxidants in it as well as some powdered MCT oil. So I think fat, so healthy fat with my avocado and dorm MCT oil protein. There's my keto grain protein shake. That's zero grams of sugar. Two Weight Watchers points, if anyone cares. Or I would use like a tablespoon of almond butter or 1 or 2 tablespoons of almond butter. You could add in nuts and certainly chia seeds or fresh ground flax seeds and water or coconut milk and then just so protein fat and then your grains, which are going to give you your fiber, right? So put those three ingredients in your shake in the morning, blend it up and that will satisfy you, that will give your body healthy fat. So you're not going to have cravings until your next meal, right? And that gives you willpower and you're not giving your body tons of carbohydrates. That's going to affect your blood sugar and cause you to have swings and again have cravings. So you're starting the day with alkalinizing healthy fats. You're starting the day keto.

Green. I love it so much. It's so.

Easy. And the thing like when you.

Get in this pattern of repetition, you don't just wake up and grab a bagel like, you know, ok, I have to have everything in my fridge. Like I probably get like those boxes of organic grains every three days because we eat them, you know, we put the spinach in our smoothie. I have a salad every single day. You got to get that your body alkalize. It is so important. And I just want to say something about you before we wrap this up. It would have been so much easier for you not to do what you've done. And I just want everyone to understand that what you do, it's not to make a sale, it's to change a life. And that's one thing I love so much about you, Anna. I love. I just really respect what you did. Take the heart replacement, your pain to help someone else escape pain. And I just want people to understand how that wasn't easy for you. That was a struggle and you had to go into dark places so that other people wouldn't have to go there. And I know there are so many diets, there's so much keto stuff, but you did the hard work of figuring out, you know, what. Just not everything's going to work for us women. We need to figure out what's really going to work. And I'm going to do due diligence and I'm going to get to the bottom of this and I'm going to help. I'm going to be able to let God's healing hands pour through mine. And I just want to give you a huge thank you for going in those hard places so that other women don't have to. Thank you so much. I just know not everyone sees that and they see keto green to my protein powder. No, no, no. Like, you really have the heart behind it. And you have done so much work to create systems and products that heal lives. And so thank you so much for doing.

That. You are welcome. And Hannah, it's so true, because I've had to really, again, you know, you think we've done our work. I've done my work in telling my story. But still, in releasing this book and bringing it into the hands of strangers, that's vulnerable, scary. I have cried so much this week just thinking, you know, God, just please, this is your hands, not mine. And this is the healing work that I know you, that you created me for. Give me the strength to do it. Give me the strength to do it. And I will tell you that God gave me a sign. Can I share this with you.

Please? Oh, my goodness. I mean, our tribe eats that up, baby. Yeah, let's.

Go. So, you know, with telling, you know, it's just a hard time to tell my story. But one thing, that person who meant so much to me, my mom passed away 20 years ago. And in life and death, she showed me. That's why I'm such an advocate for women's health, because she suffered and she didn't have to. I saw my mom suffer. Anyone who's watched a parent suffer, someone they love suffer, you don't want that to happen. I don't want that to happen. Doesn't deserve to happen to anyone listening to this call. And I also saw my dad suffering when he was 79. This is 20. Sorry, 13, 14 years ago now. He had come to visit. He had to be wheeled in the wheelchair from the airport to come here. And my dad's old World War II Navy veteran was in the Navy for 20 years. God bless him for his service and Purple Heart, you know, and funny guy, great sense of humor. And he came here. This is. My son was crawling. So he, you know, dad was cranky and he was irritable. I'm like, dad, what's going on? He goes, you know, anna, I just don't feel well. And I said, can I call your doctor for you? I call his doctor, his cardiologist. And I said, you know, dad's really struggling. I mean, what can we do? And he said, you know, Anna, he's led a good life. He's led a good life. And I said, well, do you mind if I intervene with some things? And he said, no, of course. I went back to my dad. I said, dad, are you done living? And dad said, no, I'd like to see 80. And so I said, okay, well, we're going to do things my way. At that point, I'd been well immersed in functional medicine, hormone management. And I ended up taking him off of three medications, making him go essentially keto green before I called it that. And he went from 120 units of insulin per day to 20 units of insulin per day in 30 days, Hannah. In 30 days. We don't talk about possibility. He went from being cranky and irritable and sitting in a chair in his bed to. To getting up and walking out on the tennis court and playing with the kids outside. And he just. He loved life. And let me tell you this, Hannah, that He lived another 12 good years. He died at 91. 91. And he had good life, mental clarity, sharpness. All of that was diminishing. At 79. He regained that. He regained that. And let me tell you, my book was supposed to publish in March, so we had some other books that were coming out the same day. And my publisher, like, we gotta move it. And so they moved it to yesterday, February 26th, which was my dad's.

Birthday. Oh, Anna, that is so.

Beautiful. Yeah. So it is God's work being done, and it is solutions that God led me to find. And I always say, God, take me out of it. And he does. Believe me. I am humbled in so many ways. I have four daughters. Course I'm humble.

So. Oh, my goodness. That is so beautiful. I love it when God wants to heal his people. And I love it when he uses people like you to do that work, because he could have used anyone. He picked you because you are willing and you are willing to do the hard work and to go where other people wouldn't go. So I want to thank you for doing that and thank you for bringing this beautiful work out into the world. Like, Oh, we're going to give away a couple of books. Yes, we're going to give away a couple of books. The hormone fix guys, if you have not, like, seriously, this is the only. I know there's a lot of keto stuff out there. You can just look on Amazon. This animated for you. So whether you get a free book or not, get the book. Like, don't depend upon the freebie. Get the book. It is a small price to pay for such a huge life change. I mean, I can speak directly to it. It has done incredible things in my life. My sister also got on the program. OK, you're sitting down. She's lost 240.

Pounds. What? Oh, my gosh. You got to share that with me. That is awesome.

Wow. 40 pounds. By changing the way she ate. By sticking with the keto, the healthy.

Keto. Keta Green girl. Keta Green, I tell.

You. But I'm going to tell you just quickly, I don't think she would mind. She thought she was going to die the way that she was living. She thought, I'm going to die like this. I've tried everything. I've tried. I mean, you name it. Like, you can name it every single diet program, vitamin B shots. She was trying to get insurance to cover gastric bypass. She was. And then I said, well, you know, why don't we try this? I said, give me about six months to work with you and let's see. And you know, my work, I work from the inside out. I work from the spirit out with the mom mastery method. And so we started with that and then she and I both were like, well, let's. Let's try this keto. Let's do it the healthy way, the green way. Yeah. How amazing is.

That? Awesome. That is.

Awesome. Renewed.

Lives. Renewed lives, right? And that spreads into the community. Like you are bringing on this tribe of women, everyone who is listening. You becoming healthy helps you help other people become healthy. You magnetize that energy. You create a new force field, so to speak, to help heal other people. So it comes from in my blog this week, which was a very tender blog that I wrote, my website@dranna.com but I talk about, you know, you have to pause. First thing you have to do is pause. Stop. Get off the hamster wheel, pause. Figure out where you're at. And then number two, pray. Listen and pray. And number three, prioritize. Prioritize yourself. Prioritize the things that mean most to you in your life. And then number four, pour. Pour into yourself, Pour out into the world. So that is the steps that I took to help heal my life and.

Others. Beautiful. Thank you so much. Dr. Anna, thank you so much. You are amazing. I love you. I love your work and I am so excited. If you have not already gotten it, please go get it right now. Thank you so much. And you said you even have a 10 day quick start in there. Awesome. Fantastic. Thank you so much. I love you. Thanks for being.

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