The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Sarah

• Light and leptin and how these interplay with each other
• The importance of leptin and what it is
• All of our hormones are circadian 
• How to support these hormones naturally
• Leptin wasn’t even discovered and studied until 1994 and why we still don’t hear much about it even thought it is so important
• How this interplays with thyroid health and why this is important 
• What it means when leptin is low or high
• Th...

Episode Highlights With Brittany

• Why this work is so important, especially for moms
• How babies co-regulate with moms for several years and how our children borrow our nervous systems for several years until theirs' develop
• How dysregulated nervous systems affect parenting and the parent child bond
• Children are wired to come to their caregivers for regulation, so when the caregiver is a source of fear or dysregulation this can ...

Episode Highlights With Brittany

• What polyvagal theory is and the updated science of the nervous system 
• Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and what this means
• Three principles of polyvagal theory: hierarchy of responses, coregulation, neuroception 
• Humans have a bioligcal imperative to be in connection with others
• What glimmers or safety cues are and how to understand these 
• Misconceptions and misinformed ideas related to nervous sys...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• How she got into meditation with a baby and a toddler
• Her entrepreneurial story and how it eventually led into meditation work
• What she would say to the mom who feels like she doesn’t have the time, space and patience to meditate
• We all know the benefits of meditation… how to actually make it a habit
• The health benefits of meditation and why these are just the side benefit to her
• Meditation is one of the...

Episode Highlights With Linda

• Why she is so passionate about breast health after her mother and sister both got breast cancer six months apart and her doctor wanter her to have a double mastectomy 
• This led to research for her and ways to protect and take care of breast health
• How she got a ND degree and began researching breast health and has done this for 18 years
• The surprising connection between oral health and breast health 
• Im...

Episode Highlights With Linda

• How being deaf in one ear led her to research sound and vibration and led to the work she does now
• The healing power of sound and vibration
• Einstein said future medicine would be the medicine of frequencies 
• The history of sound healing and frequencies and how this was pushed out of modern medicine
• Chemical frequencies (from supplements and pharmaceuticals) vs WAV frequencies
• Why we don’t even have to he...

Episode Highlights With Nathalie

• What the latest research is saying about peptides and what she’s studying and trying
• Bioregulators and how they work so uniquely 
• Peptides by definition are small proteins and often fragments of naturally occurring peptides in the body
• About 7,000 peptides have been identified 
• Bioregulators are only 2-5 amino acids in length
• Her take on GLP-1s and important things to know if you try them
• What testing ...

Episode Highlights With Georgia

• How the inner critic turns off when we drink
• We think we have a drinking problem, yet it's often a thinking problem or a stress problem
• There's always an emotional reason for regular over-drinking
• Why some people drink to “become a better version of ourselves” if we believe we are more fun, relaxed, etc., when we drink
• How this also relates to food and eating
• Tools to train the deeper parts o...

Episode Highlights With Georgia

• What the inner critic is and how it has gotten out of hand in the modern world 
• Self esteem is something we are not born with, we have to develop it
• The inner critic creates detachment and feelings of not being good enough
• Our children pick up on the energy of our inner critic
• Everyone’s inner critic is saying similar things and it doesn’t go away but we can learn to tame it
• The pleaser personalities a...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why grip strength is one of the top predictors of longevity
• What low grip strength says about your nervous system and overall health
• Simple ways to test grip strength at home
• How grip strength connects to full-body strength and fall risk
• The difference between passive and active grip strength
• How farmer’s carries and dead hangs improve your whole system
• Why we lose grip strength with age—and how to revers...

Episode Highlights With Carolyn

• Why symptoms are messengers and gifts and how to listen to them
• Common reasons people go to doctors: fatigue, sleep issues, etc., and what they indicate
• How these ions support our 45 miles of nerves and hundreds of muscles
• What stabilized ions of minerals are and how they trigger healing enzymes
• We all know minerals are important, but not how to optimally support balance 
• Linus Pauling: Mineral deficie...

Episode Highlights with Carolyn

• Some of the many reasons why magnesium is so important
• The reasons why magnesium deficiency is so common in the modern world
• Magnesium is necessary for fertility and healthy pregnancy
• How it comes into play with detox and sleep
• Stress depletes magnesium and why it's impossible to get enough from diet anymore
• How fluoride and related drugs deplete magnesium
• Calcium and mineral channels and how these...

Episode Highlights with Aimie

• Why she started this line of study after she foster parented while in medical school
• Assumptions about trauma that turned out to be all wrong
• The reason therapy might not be the solution, or certainly not the only one
• How trauma is connected to our physical health and why this matters so much
• Creating inner safety… and why this sounds so simple but can be tough to actually do
• What trauma is in the body. ...

Episode Highlights With Sinclair

• The nervous system connection to gut health and all health issues
• Why it isn’t an accident that everyone is becoming nervous system curious
• How the modern lifestyle isn’t naturally supportive to our nervous systems and things we can do to shift that
• The body is brilliant and is having a perfect response to what is going on… and how we can understand that more
• Most of the body’s communication is happe...

Episode Highlights With Sinclair

• How she had to personally learn this the hard way and how it was a big piece in her health journey
• The limitations of labs when it comes to parasites and gut health
• Parasites are really good at hiding and the limitations of each lab test
• How anxiety, depression, and fatigue can be connected to parasites
• You aren’t going to outsmart the body in the process of healing and you can’t force your way into ...

Episode Highlights with David and John

• Red flags when it comes to supplements and what to watch for
• Understanding bioavailability when it comes to supplements
• Synergy in supplements and how this can take something from 1+1=2 to 1+1=10
• How to get a much larger effect from supplements when synergistic then when taken alone
• What sulforaphane is and how it is so beneficial - it has 39 pro-health mechanisms in the literature
• Curcumin and ...

Episode Highlights With Mara Labs

• We're made of salt and have an inner ocean within us
• Our inner “salt sink”, which is a place where salt reserves are stored in our body
• If you under-eat salt, this will start depleting your salt
• Problems that increase when we don’t get enough salt
• How the kidneys come into play 
• The myth of too much salt leading to hypertension and high blood pressure
• Only 25% of the population is salt sensitive
• T...

Episode Highlights With Courtney

• Why this conversation is so important right now, and why 74% of adults are obese or overweight and over 50% of kids are
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease didn’t even exist decades ago, and it's now rampant
• Her own journey into health and wellness 
• The biggest offenders and contributors to why we're seeing this drastic rise
• 60% of Americans’ diets are coming from ultra-processed foods
• The rea...

Episode Highlights With Hannah

• Hannah calls herself a farmer of microbes and she sees fermentation as a sacred practice
• The resurgence of ancient wisdom though regenerative farming
• They do DNA sequencing on all of their cultures
• How to cultivate your microbiome at home by making your own fermented foods
• What to know about fermented products and sugar and why sugar in ferments is different
• How to mitigate excess sugar in kombucha and ...