How Ketosis Can Benefit Female Hormones & the Brain
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Anna Cabeca, OB/GYN, Anti-Aging and Integrative Medicine expert believes in whole health, powerful immunity, and a great sex life at any age.
In this podcast, Anna shares the tools that she developed through her investigations into balancing female hormones, improving brain health, and improving sexual health in and around menopause. Our wide ranging discussion in the podcast today touches on the advantages of a ketogenic diet for older women, the importance of having more oxytocin in your life, the benefits of bioidentical progesterone, why gratitude is good for your health, and so much more.
Her message about paying attention to your intuition and not accepting suffering as a way of life will resonate with listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:30.9 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease. |
| 0:39.2 | Please do not apply any of this information without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. |
| 0:44.5 | Hi everyone. Today I speak with Dr. Anna Quebec, and we were kind of all over the map. Now, her |
| 0:50.0 | background is in gynecology, and we're going to definitely hit that in this podcast. However, |
| 0:57.5 | we start off with her sharing some of her personal experience with having mold in her home |
| 1:02.9 | and how she handled that and also kind of get into some discussion on EMDR and Olympic |
| 1:09.2 | retraining. And then from there, we go into quite an interesting conversation on estrogen and progesterone |
| 1:16.3 | in how, especially in aging women, changes in these hormones, to paraphrase the conversation |
| 1:21.7 | loosely here, may make women's brains more resistant to glucose and therefore ketones may be a better source |
| 1:29.6 | of energy for the brain and why it's so important for women to be doing things like intermittent |
| 1:35.1 | fasting, ketogenic dieting, but she's a strong believer that this should be what she terms |
| 1:41.6 | keto green to partially make sure there's enough vegetation |
| 1:45.6 | in the diet to maintain an adequate pH and also certain lifestyle interventions to ensure that |
| 1:53.2 | someone has enough oxytocin being produced, which apparently is a very strong influencer on pH. |
| 2:00.4 | So there's a lot there that was interesting to add |
| 2:03.2 | to the conversation about ketosis and women. And she has a little bit of a different perspective |
| 2:08.6 | than Sarah Gottfried, who was recently on the podcast and also what I've seen clinically, which is |
| 2:12.9 | women, when they're too low carb for too long, may get into some trouble. Anna hasn't found this when using kind of this keto green and alkalinity focused application. |
| 2:23.1 | So that was all interesting to discuss, of course. |
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