The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Caroline

• Her story with minerals and fertility and what she learned the tough way
• The long road to having her two kids and how her health suffered after
• What makes fulvic and humic minerals different and why her job is to make these famous 
• Why she considers these compounds the celebrities of mineral replenishment
• A new way of thinking about the body and fuel 
• Minerals are the fuel that's translated ...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• What my birth was like this time
• The things that I think made it easier
• What I’m doing differently now with ten more years of parenting and context
• How simple I’m keeping things this time

Resources Mentioned

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Episode Highlights With Justin

• Is he the real most interesting man alive? How he got hit by a train!
• What is hypochlorous acid and how he discovered it 
• The body already makes this, but what makes it so unique 
• What makes this such a strong antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, speeds up healing process
• It has the same safety profile as saline but is over 100x more powerful than bleach! 
• The things that matter with hypochl...

Episode Highlights With Eddie

• How fast food goes beyond just food and navigating a hurried culture 
• Some simple ways we can shift the nutrient quantity of food
• Why nutrient levels matter more than macro levels with food
• When supplements are necessary and why he became concerned with the supplement industry 
• Big problems you may not realize exist in supplements
• What fractionated supplements are and why the body doesn’t...

Episode Highlights With Eddie

• What the modern toxic burden is and reducing everyday toxin exposure
• We are exposed to over 100k chemicals that have been produced and not cleared for safety
• Microplastics, chemicals and other toxins found in general everyday living 
• What zeolite is and how it works gently to support detox 
• Common food and water toxin exposures and how to reduce them
• Zeolite is inert in nature so it is gentle -...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• The real story behind baby #7 and the hardest year of my life — not the polished version, but the honest journey of what it looked like behind the scenes.
• The unexpected prayer that changed everything and what happened when I asked life to shake up anything that wasn’t rooted in love and kindness.
• What it felt like to walk through a season where I couldn’t fix, plan, or control my wa...

Episode Highlights With Connie

• What makes infrared different than traditional saunas 
• How infrared combines light energy with heat
• What infrared actually is (we also get this from the sun!)
• Light and heat as energy medicine
• How this can help with emotional resilience
• What we know about the sympathetic nervous system and how sauna can influence this
• FIR specifically for entering a parasympathetic state
• Mood benefits and how infrare...

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• What tapping or EFT actually is and how it is such a powerful nervous system reset
• Understanding the nervous system and what a lot of sources get wrong 
• Tapping has over 300 peer-reviewed studies behind it
• Why always being calm isn’t the goal of nervous system regulation
• How quickly the nervous system can respond to safety signals through tapping
• Tapping meditations that can reduce stress by...

Episode Highlights With Michael

• Why he thinks synthetic fragrance is the new secondhand smoke and how he can back this up with data
• Secondhand smoke was such a brilliant marketing push and why fragrance needs this now
• The worst offenders and what to look for
• What “fragrance” actually is when you see it on a package
• Safe swaps that actually work
• Having safe and beneficial indoor air quality 
• The air freshener industry ...

Episode Highlights With Michael

• What he learned from years in working on mold remediation
• When he learned that the mold industry had a serious integrity problem 
• Mold remediation - what does this actually mean
• What companies are doing wrong that leaves families sicker than before
• Lessons learned from 8 years of doing mold testing
• The Mold Rush (or Mold is Gold) in the industry
• At its core, mold remediation is demolition with more...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why the traditional biochemical model of the body is incomplete...and why the body is electric first
• The shocking amount of energy your body generates each day (about your own body weight in ATP!)
• Why 90–95% of chronic diseases have mitochondrial dysfunction at the root
• How your mitochondria act not just as powerhouses but as quantum batteries, antennas, and information hubs
• The surprising sources...

Episode Highlights With Ninu

• What the gut hormone connection is and why it matter so much
• How supporting the gut supports hormones and can improve cortisol and sex hormones
• Why most women are chronically constipated and how to remedy this
• Why high cortisol is a good thing at the right time of day and why it's more about balance
• How screens disrupt melatonin and sabotage sleep
• The inputs we need for balanced hormones: sugar stability,...

Episode Highlights With Ninu

• The reason women can still feel stuck even if they’re doing all the “right” things with nutrition and exercise
• Why those are only two pieces of the pie and the other things that can be really helpful
• Women hear all the time that their labs are normal and still don’t feel well… delving into the reasons why
• The major reason bloodwork isn’t the best place to look for an...

Episode Highlights With Todd

• What quantum energy actually is and how Todd went from skeptic to deep understanding 
• How this term gets misused a lot and the important things to actually understand
• What quantum entanglement is and how this can benefit us practically 
• The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Zellinger, Clauser and Aspect for proving quantum entanglement, but how it actually works
• How they do experiments...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why resilience and adaptability...not restriction...are the true markers of vibrant health.
• How rigid diets and “perfect routines” often reflect a dysregulated nervous system
• The mindset and language shifts that changed your health from the inside out.
• The nervous system foundations that created real healing capacity.
• How gradually expanding inputs taught your body it was safe again.
• Why meta...

Episode Highlights With Mike

• What the money habit is and how this differs from traditional budgeting 
• Why most financial systems fail to change behavior long term
• The psychology behind money habits and how to change them
• What commitment devices are and how they can help
• How this works if you're at essential living and a very tight budget
• The simplest way to get started 
• How this ties into the hierarchy of needs and how to wo...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why I never even thought to question college when I was 17... and why I’m rethinking it now with my own kids.
• How college became the default safe choice, and why that may no longer be true in today’s world. 
• The emotional side of this decision for parents: fear, social pressure, and wanting to  do right by our kids.
• The hidden  avoidance pattern of using college to delay the ...

Episode Highlights With Ann

• Key ways to future proof fertility and protect mitochondria to have healthy pregnancies, even as we get older
• New studies show mitochondria in eggs are preserved better than other parts of the body
• How minimizing toxins is protective of fertility in a major way
• Ways to lower inflammation to protect fertility 
• The dramatic decline in sperm quality and count in the last few years
• Male infertility and ho...

Episode Highlights From Ann

• Why she decided to write this book on preconception health
• Surprising thing she’s found in her work as a functional medicine doctor 
• Decline in fertility isn’t just about age, there are some major biological and lifestyle factors behind the fertility decline 
• Top nutrients for building a healthy baby and for fertility 
• How the buildup of environmental toxins affects both fertili...