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, and mood
• The truth about "estrogen dominance" , why it is actually progesterone insufficiency, and why dropping progesterone is linked to anxiety, insomnia, and even psychiatric misdiagnosis
• How the keto-green alkalinizing approach helped Dr. Anna lose 18 of 20 perimenopause pounds in just 6 weeks
• Why uric acid is a hidden driver of weight gain and metabolic slowdown and how to check yours for pennies a day
• How intermittent fasting for as little as 13 hours significantly reduces breast cancer recurrence risk, backed by a 2016 JAMA study
• The "oxyplay" framework, why increasing oxytocin through connection, laughter, and play is the most powerful hormone-balancing tool available to you
• Mighty Maca Plus and JOLVA topical DHEA, what they do, who needs them, and how Dr. Anna formulated them from her global travels

The Inflammation Code (book) https://www.amazon.com/dp/140199699X?tag=usalinktagdefault-20&th=1&psc=1&geniuslink=true

Fusionary Formulas Supplements (use code CODE15 for 15% off your first order)

7-Day Inflammation Detox Challenge

Work with Dr. Shivani — Free Discovery Call

Dr. Anna Cabeca's Website

Free Gift for Listeners — Mighty Maca & JOLVA samples + 10-Day Breeze Through Menopause Program:

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CONNECT WITH DR. SHIVANI
Instagram: @dr.shivanigupta
Website: https://shivanigupta.com/

What if the system designed to protect your health was never actually built to make you well? Dr. Shivani Gupta has spent 25 years studying why the body gets sick and more importantly, how it heals. What she discovered along the way changed everything about how she practices, how she lives, and how she thinks about the relationship between patient and doctor.

In this deeply personal solo episode, Dr. Shivani introduces the concept of health sovereignty, the radical, practical shift from trusting the system as the authority on your body to becoming the expert on it yourself. Drawing on her own experience with a diagnosis that was dismissed, minimized, and nearly handled with a surgery she never needed, she walks through the exact moment she stopped waiting for someone to save her and started building a system that actually worked. From Ayurvedic root cause thinking to functional medicine testing to a daily rhythm that costs nothing, this episode is a complete framework for reclaiming your health from the inside out.

If you have ever walked out of a doctor's office with more questions than answers, felt dismissed by results that came back "normal," or been offered medication or surgery with no explanation of why the problem appeared, this episode was made for you.

WHAT YOU'LL LEAR

Why "normal" lab results do not mean healthy and what the actual difference is between average and optimal

How a hormonal imbalance (excess estrogen) can silently drive growths, inflammation, and symptoms your doctor never connects to the root cause

The systemic pattern behind why conventional medicine offers removal or medication instead of ever asking why the problem appeared

What Ayurveda teaches about symptoms as messages and why silencing the message without reading it keeps you stuck in a cycle

The 5-part daily rhythm that costs nothing and genuinely moves the needle: tongue scraping, warm water, anti-inflammatory supplements, midday meals, and consistent slee

Why turmeric extract combined with boswellia and black pepper which increases absorption by up to 2,000% is the daily anti-inflammatory foundation Dr. Shivani built her supplement line around

RESOURCES MENTIONED

The Inflammation Code (book) https://www.amazon.com/dp/140199699X?tag=usalinktagdefault-20&th=1&psc=1&geniuslink=true

Fusionary Formulas Supplements — use code CODE15 for 15% off your first order https://fusionaryformulas.com/?utm_source=Show+Notes&utm_medium=Show+notes+&utm_campaign=Podcast+promo&utm_id=The+Inflammation+Code+Podcast

7-Day Inflammation Detox Challenge

Work with Dr. Shivani — Free Discovery Call

Most of us are walking around with underpowered cells and we don't even know it. In this episode, Dr. Shivani welcomes back Caroline Alan, founder of Beam Minerals and author of The Mineral Reset, for a conversation that will completely change how you think about your energy, your sleep, and your health.

Caroline breaks down why your body needs a full spectrum of 18-22 minerals in the right ratios, how humic and fulvic molecules work as nature's cellular delivery system, and why common tests like blood work miss the full picture entirely. She also shares the two tests she recommends (HTMA and OligoScan) and why minerals are the single most foundational thing you can do for your health, before everything else.

Key Takeaways:

• Mineral depletion is behind fatigue, brain fog, sleep disruption, hair loss, and gut problems
• Your cells need minerals to generate up to 1,200 watts of energy daily
• Humic molecules bind and remove heavy metals, glyphosate, nanoplastics, and more
• Fulvic molecules shuttle nutrients in and toxins out at the cellular level
• The best mineral form mirrors what nature already pre-formulated for us

RESOURCES MENTIONED:

📖 The Mineral Reset by Caroline Alan
mineralresetbook.com | Available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, and Books A Million
📖 The Inflammation Code by Dr. Shivani Gupta

🌿 Fusionary Formulas Supplements (use code CODE15 for a discount)

🔥 7-Day Inflammation Detox Challenge https://www.7dayinflammationdetox.com/
📞 Work with Dr. Shivani: Free Discovery Call https://shivanigupta.com/

CONNECT WITH CAROLINE ALAN
Website: beamminerals.com (use code DRSHIVANI for 20% off)
Book: mineralresetbook.com
Instagram: @carolinealan.official