{"podcast":{"title":"The Girlfriend Doctor w/ Dr. Anna Cabeca","slug":"the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375","podcast_index_feed_id":745375,"rss_url":"https://drannacabeca.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://drannacabeca.com/pages/show","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/0/f/4/7/0f47535fd5b1a7fb16c3140a3186d450/The_Girlfriend_Doctor_Podcast_with_Dr._Anna_Cabeca.jpg","author":"Dr. Anna Cabeca","episode_count":485,"summary":"Dr. Anna Cabeca is America's top menopause doctor. Known most widely as The Girlfriend Doctor, Dr. Anna is the first call for the woman who has questions she would only ask her best girlfriend if her girlfriend were a triple-board-certified OB-GYN. This top health podcast is all about helping women live better lives — before, during, and after menopause.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-25T14:20:48.056612+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375"},"episode":{"title":"Are Mammograms Safe? | Dr. Jenn Simmons","slug":"are-mammograms-safe-dr-jenn-simmons","published_at":"2026-02-19T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375/are-mammograms-safe-dr-jenn-simmons","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375","url":"https://www.dranna.com/tribe","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/drannacabeca/Dr._Jenn_Simmons.mp3?dest-id=794707","summary":"Are mammograms truly protecting women — or is it time to rethink how we approach breast health? In this powerful and deeply nuanced conversation, Dr. Anna Cabeca sits down with former fellowship-trained breast surgeon turned integrative oncologist Dr. Jenn Simmons to unpack one of the most important questions in women's health today: Are mammograms safe — and are they enough? Together, they explore how conventional breast cancer screening became the standard, what the research actually says about radiation exposure and screening frequency, and why early detection is not the same as prevention. Dr. Simmons shares her personal turning point — from 17 years at the forefront of breast oncology to leaving conventional medicine and founding Real Health MD after her own health crisis. What she discovered changed everything: inflammation, toxicity, hormone disruption, and metabolic dysfunction matter far more than women are being told. This episode goes beyond mammograms. It dives into: • Radiation risks and over-screening • Alternative imaging options including thermography, ultrasound, and emerging technologies • Hormones and breast cancer — clearing the misinformation • Why anti-estrogen messaging can be harmful and incomplete • Bioidentical progesterone and protective mechanisms • Birth control pills and breast development risk • The power of metabolic health, fasting windows, detoxification, and terrain theory Most importantly, this conversation restores agency. You are not powerless when it comes to breast health. Knowledge is evolving. Screening is evolving. Hormone science is evolving. And you deserve the full picture. –––––––––––––––––– KEY TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Reimagining breast health and questioning the narrative 01:23 Introducing Dr. Jenn Simmons and her paradigm shif…","meta_description":"Are mammograms truly protecting women — or is it time to rethink how we approach breast health? In this powerful and deeply nuanced conversation, Dr. Anna…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4136,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375/episodes/are-mammograms-safe-dr-jenn-simmons/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-girlfriend-doctor-w-dr-anna-cabeca-745375/are-mammograms-safe-dr-jenn-simmons.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}