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The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wellswww.buzzsprout.com

The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com

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Episodes

Understanding the Science of Mind-Body Connection With Dr. Olivia Lesslar

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar What psychoneuroimmunology is and how understanding it can help improve our health How everything relates to everything and why understanding this is important What polyvagal therapy is and how addressing nervous system health is beneficial The dorsal vagal response of fawn and how this affects the nervous system How she looks at hormones differently than her peers Getting to the why of hormone imbalances Symptoms as messengers and how to learn how to l...

May 13, 202430 minEp. 794

Life Skills for Kids and Independence vs Protection with Katie Kimball

Episode Highlights With Katie Kimball Why life skills are still important (and maybe more so) in today's world How life skills foster confidence and relate to mental health The reason for the rise in anxiety and depression in kids Chore wars and balancing responsibility and life skills with kids doing too much work Require the work, not the results The downside of being overprotective and giving kids the idea that they need someone else to keep them safe How the correct level or risk for kids is...

May 08, 202452 minEp. 793

How to Create More Sanity and Calm With Dane Maxwell

Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell Ways to create more space and sanity, especially as a mom Sanity is available right now if you can figure out what your mind is doing or needing How to figure out what your mind is doing and say yes to it Why women are often not told things that are in alignment with the complexity of who we are The unconscious scripts running in our minds at all times It isn’t necessarily what we think, but what we think about what we think Learning to ask, "What is the invi...

May 07, 202431 minEp. 792

How to Write a Children’s Book for Your Own Children To Help Them Avoid Pitfalls You Experienced with Dane Maxwell

Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell How his journey led him to write a children’s book for his daughter His journey from high-achieving entrepreneur to singer How Hatha yoga helped him process energy in his body after trauma The therapies that helped him resolve past trauma How he's working to avoid passing on negative patterns to his daughter What dual sympathetic reset is and how it helped his PTSD How this led to writing a book for his daughter The formula you can use to write a book for you...

May 06, 202429 minEp. 791

Root Cause Approach to Cold and Flu & Why Many OTC Medications Are Unhealthy With Nazlie Latefi

Episode Highlights With Nazlie Lafefi Why most OTC medications are outdated and were created before we understood inflammation and its role The reason many products don’t address root causes and aren’t helpful in the long-term Surprising ways that many OTC medications work How to address the root cause of colds and flu at the inflammatory level The respiratory lining is similar to the gut lining and ways to support it OTC products can damage the respiratory lining just like we can damage the gut...

May 01, 202437 minEp. 790

How to Build Anti-Aging Muscle Mass & a New Way to Think About Obesity With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle Why not to train to get better and what to do instead How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time Why high-intensity training even just once a week, can make a huge difference When you exercise, you sensitize muscles to glucose The long-term benefits of...

Apr 30, 202442 minEp. 789

Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well with Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle What happens when a person doesn’t have healthy skeletal muscle The myth of “healthy sedentary individuals” Having healthy skeletal muscle is the o...

Apr 29, 202437 minEp. 788

Plant-Based Minerals: What They Are & How They Work with The Mineral Geek Caroline Alan

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan What plant-based minerals are and how they are much different than other forms of minerals How we can get minerals from decomposed plants The molecules inside humate: humic and fulvic Minerals fuel the cells via mitochondria in the cells Fulvic is an intracellular molecule that removes toxins from the cell and humic hangs out in the blood to help remove inflammation-causing elements These can actually be helpful in removing heavy metals There are 70+ mineral...

Apr 25, 202432 minEp. 787

Mythbusting Minerals – Understanding Minerals Starts in the Cells with Caroline Alan

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan Why modern humans are experiencing so many mineral deficiencies The reason modern humans can’t get enough minerals from food How minerals impact mitochondria and why this is so important Your body makes amino acids but minerals must be ingested We are often operating at 40% of the mineral levels we actually need Symptoms of mineral deficiency How mineral depletion affects the nervous system and cellular health Her own experience with mineral depletion How to...

Apr 24, 202432 minEp. 786

How to Become More Resilient and Release Unconscious Programs with Dr. Olga Stevko

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What resilience is and why it is important Common traits of people who are resilient What kinds of things can lower our resilience How the language we use toward ourselves and our children can impact us drastically A way to become the observer in a situation to shift focus and become more resilient Ways to cultivate resilience with small daily practices How resilience can help us when we go through difficult situations Resources We Mention Dr. Olga Stevko ...

Apr 23, 202428 minEp. 785

How to Increase Your Emotional Intelligence to Improve Your Life With Dr. Olga Stevko

Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko What emotional intelligence is and how it affects all areas of life We need to be able to feel to have emotional intelligence What happens when people feel too little or too much Problems that can arise if someone has very high emotional intelligence Ways to improve emotional intelligence How unconscious programs are formed from trauma and life events or passed genetically What mirror neurons are and how they can be helpful How pets can help with emotional...

Apr 22, 202436 minEp. 784

How Your Nervous System Can Help Create the Life You Want With Veronica Rottman

Episode Highlights With Veronica How we can befriend our bodies and nervous systems to help create the life we want The pitfalls that women especially can fall into when it comes to nervous system health How this relates to reproductive health, especially for women Deeper nervous system healing that goes beyond just affirmations and talking How to make amends with your body and start to signal safety Ways to build a nervous system healthy environment in our homes and teach our kids good nervous ...

Apr 18, 202426 minEp. 783

Somatic and Autonomic Nervous System Healing with Veronica Rottman

Episode Highlights With Veronica What somatic healing is The way this ties into nervous system healing Somatics is a broad term that includes all things that mean healing through the body Modalities that are included in somatic healing What somatic experiencing is How we can use the body to help resolve trauma and promote mental wellness What polyvagal theory is and why it is important 80% of thoughts, emotions, and experiences are moving from the body up Why nervous system healing isn’t just de...

Apr 17, 202437 minEp. 782

How to Take Care of Your Skin During Menopause and As You Age with Dr. Mina

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina How hormone changes affect the skin Why the skin changes at menopause and what to do about it The reason menopause isn’t a bigger part of the conversation Why acne can happen again in menopause The reason hair loss happens sometimes during menopause What to know about different skincare procedures Procedures that can be helpful and what to avoid (plus risks and downsides) At-home devices that work and ones to avoid Resources We Mention The Skin Real Mito Red Ligh...

Apr 16, 202422 minEp. 781

Simplify Your Skincare Routine for Better Results with Harvard Dermatologist Dr. Mina

Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina What a minimalist skincare routine is and why keeping it simple can be best Skincare is self-care but it doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive The basics of a skincare routine that works and what you don’t need Products that can help you age gracefully without any extreme procedures Over-the-counter products that can work How a vitamin A cream can be beneficial Vitamin C serums and if they can be helpful What different skin types actually need and the real tr...

Apr 15, 202434 minEp. 780

Emotions and Their Impact on the Vagus Nerve with Diane Ducarme

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally How emotions come into play here What brain freeze teaches us about the vagus nerve Where Western medic...

Apr 11, 202427 minEp. 779

The Physical Benefits of Letting Go - Learnings from Migraine Sufferers with Diane Ducarme

Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme She speaks seven languages English is actually her third language The genetic aspects of migraines and why they're so intense The health benefits of letting go and how this relates to migraines Hope for migraine sufferers and how to actually resolve migraines through a root cause approach How not letting go impacts our brain and also our body in a massive way An incredible story about someone completely recovering from migraines The actual process of letting...

Apr 10, 202439 minEp. 778

The Natural Healing Frequencies of Infrared and Red Light with Robby Besner of Therasage

Episode Highlights With Robby Besner Creating the safest home environment for healing The difference between infrared and red light and how to use them both What full-spectrum infrared is and how it includes near, mid, and far ranges Ways to create a healthy home environment with protective healing frequencies How sleep drastically impacts healing and how to support deep sleep Ways to reduce EMFs in our home environment without going crazy What EMF harmonizing is and how this can be helpful How ...

Apr 09, 202435 minEp. 777

Harnessing the Energies of Nature to Create a Healing Platform in the Body with Robby Besner

Episode Highlights With Robby The connection between toxicity, inflammation, and energy Natural and non-invasive ways to support the body in detoxification The natural frequencies that help break the bonds of toxins and where they are stored in the body How infrared is especially beneficial and how it supports the body in healing What the healing frequencies of nature are that are found in sunlight Healthspan vs lifespan What we don’t realize about nature exposure and sun exposure How infrared f...

Apr 08, 202436 minEp. 776

Playing Chess When Everyone Else Is Playing Checkers with Nathan Barry

Episode Highlights With Nathan What does he mean by playing chess when others are playing checkers A fascinating way Reese Witherspoon did this with a book club Other examples of flywheels and playing chess Tip: Look at anywhere you spend money in business and turn those into opportunities to make money or provide services How Amazon does both flywheel and playing chess well His three basic principles for this type of business: build more than a personal brand, sell products rather than attentio...

Apr 04, 202428 minEp. 775

Flywheels: How to Use Them To Improve Every Aspect Of Your Life with Nathan Barry

Episode Highlights With Nathan What a flywheel is and the correct understanding of the term How flywheels exist in physics and how the concept is helpful in business as well The story of how building a well with a flywheel in Africa changed how he thought about business How a flywheel business system can help you have better results Importance of disconnecting effort and impact and getting leverage How to apply flywheels at the small business level to get better results An example flywheel for c...

Apr 03, 202434 minEp. 774

How Our Food System Has Become Centralized and Industrialized (& How to Change It) with Brett Ender & Harry

Episode Highlights With Brett and Harry How the industrialization of food changed human nutrition The biggest changes to the food supply in the last few decades and how they are impacting our health One thing sprayed on most grocery store chicken that you might not realize The real problems for animals and humans with factory farming and how to make better choices 80% of meat in the grocery store is controlled by four major companies Is regenerative agriculture scaleable? How we can help change ...

Apr 02, 202424 minEp. 773

Why Are We In the Worst Metabolic Health Crisis We’ve Ever Seen (& How to Fix It) with Meat Mafia

Episode Highlights With Brett and Harry How their own health journey got them into the work they do and taught them about the massive health crisis we are in The unique diet that completely changed Brett's health Why so many people have at least one marker of metabolic disorder and what we can do about it The markers of metabolic dysfunction and the one that is easiest to measure at home at no cost (hint: it's about your waist) There are 40,000 products at most grocery stores and they come from ...

Apr 01, 202443 minEp. 772

A Real-Time Example of Shifting Energy In My Workspace With Elaine Glass of Get Quiet

Episode Highlights With Elaine Glass Tips for how to clear your own spaces How she does energy clearing of places and spaces Burn palo santo to remove any negative, stuck energy Open a window or door to the outside to release the energy out of your space Places in your space where energy can get stuck (pay attention to wall intersections) Make sure to move furniture so fresh air can get behind and around it Cleaning is a great way to clean energy. Not only are we cleaning dust we can see but we'...

Mar 28, 202425 minEp. 771

How to Shift Your Energy to Move Your Life Forward and Get Unstuck with Elaine Glass

Episode Highlights With Elaine Glass The importance of getting quiet in a world that only seems to get louder Why surrender is important and can make life much more enjoyable How we hold so much as women and how the holding can lead to so much suffering The way to start shifting your inner language and ask better questions to get better answers Ways to tune in to your body and listen to what it is trying to say The biggest, most transformational thing you can give someone is the gift of listenin...

Mar 27, 202435 minEp. 770

New Way to Support Memory (& Why Memory Is Declining) With Tina Anderson

Episode Highlights With Tina Anderson Why memory is such a problem in the modern world Some of the reasons focus and attention are so tough now A record number of people are using prescription stimulants to increase focus and memory Smartphones could be to blame for an increase in people diagnosed with ADHD How brain and gut health are related What role stress plays in our gut and brain health Their research-backed natural products for calming stress and increasing focus and memory Key ingredien...

Mar 26, 202423 minEp. 769

The Supplements I Take (Almost) Every Day & Why With Tina Anderson

Episode Highlights With Tina Anderson All the things in the modern world that assault our gut health and what to do about it Understanding the different types of probiotics and how they work differently A reason to avoid probiotics that need to be refrigerated The importance of probiotics and why all aren’t created equal What to look for in a probiotic or a supplement Spore-based probiotics and what makes them different Why many probiotics don’t survive the digestive system What K2 is and why it...

Mar 25, 202441 minEp. 768

Lunar Rhythms and Women’s Health (Menopause and Postmenopause) With Masami Covey

Episode Highlights With Masami Covey How the moon cycles affect hormones and different phases of life A tip for when it might be slightly easier to engage with your kids Why progesterone is considered the Zen hormone How men also have monthly hormone fluctuations based on the moon How the moon affects parasites A reason to eat less carbohydrates around the full moon When to build muscle and protein intake based on the moon How to benefit from the dark phase, new moon phase of the moon Her East m...

Mar 21, 202432 minEp. 767

The Moon’s Influence on Your Biology & The Dark Moon Phase with Massami Covey

Episode Highlights With Masami Covey The connection of the moon to our biology The lunar calendar vs solar calendar focus on biology Why the circadian rhythm is not exactly 24 hours! A fascinating study on melatonin production and pineal gland with lunar rhythm Why melatonin decreases during the full moon Deep sleep can decrease by as much as 30% leading up to the full moon What moon bathing is A reason to take HCL, especially around the full moon, because digestion can slow down The connection ...

Mar 20, 202440 minEp. 766

Take Care of Your Bones and They Will Take Care of You with Margie Bissinger

Episode Highlights With Margie Bissinger Why bone health is not just an issue for older people Almost 90% of your bones are developed by age 18-20, and how to help our kids have strong bones The top things that affect bone health: exercise is huge, nutrition, reducing inflammation 1 in 2 women in the US will have a fracture due to osteoporosis The nutrients that are actually important for healthy bones beyond just calcium The role of vitamin D in bone health, and why it is so important Types of ...

Mar 19, 202436 minEp. 765
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