The Wellness Mama Podcast
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
Episodes
Episode Highlights With Tyler
- How often he talks about stress with patients and why this is such an important factor
- Women handle stress differently than men, and why this doesn’t have to be a bad thing
- What our cycle and our digestion directly tell us about our health
- Why women and men handle stress differently (hint: there’s an adrenal reason)
- What happens when we are stuck in fight or flight long term
- The effects on gut health and...
Episode Highlights With Tyler
- How he got into gut and skin health work and his personal story with it
- Peeling skin on his fingertips led him to a deep dive into this topic
- Gut health shows up on the skin - if there are skin issues, something is going on underneath
- The autoimmune connection and how almost everything can be resolved
- Looking at gut and diet and what IGG food allergies are
- A lot of people are constipated and don’t real...
Episode Highlights From Katie
- The concept of the “Four Horsemen” of chronic disease and why 85% of people over 50 die from one of these conditions.
- What these diseases share in common: long, silent development over years or decades before symptoms appear.
- Why traditional screening often catches disease too late. And how new data and AI tools can identify risk far earlier.
- The difference between 10-year risk scoring and lifetime ris...
Episode Highlights With Cristi
- Her incredible story with breast implant illness, fibroids, and autoimmune issues
- Why she was so interested in health conferences and what this led to for her
- What she learned through bodybuilding, getting sick, and uncovering her underlying autoimmune issues
- How the “no pain, no gain” mindset is harming women and how we can shift to something more positive
- If we're in sympathetic nervous system d...
Episode Highlights With Cristi
- What dry needling is and how she uses this modality
- The things happening to the body physiologically during dry needling
- Why muscles became acidic after injury and how to replenish and fix this
- How muscle voltage changes and how this impacts us and is linked to pain
- Dry needling is a mechanical disruption of the tissue fibers of the muscle in a knot
- The four pillars of healing: Reset, repair, replenish...
Episode Highlights With Justine
- Her background in cell membrane medicine and what she learned in this
- Understanding mitochondria and phospholipids and fatty acids
- What we don’t understand about mitochondria and why they aren’t just the powerhouses of the cell and what else they do
- Einstein: the environment determines how the particle behaves
- What the real biggest needle movers are for health
- Why she tries to use technology outside to...
Episode Highlights With Katie
- How stress impacts sleep, digestion, and energy.
- The science behind magnesium’s calming effects.
- Why enzymes are crucial for digestion and nutrient absorption.
- How to use magnesium and enzymes together for better holiday energy and comfort.
Resources Mentioned
- BiOptimizers Magnesium and Enzymes - Use code WELLNESSMAMA for 25% off
Episode Highlights With Katie
- Why minerals are the foundation for energy and hydration (and why I travel with salt)
- How front-loading hydration and morning sunlight reset your body clock
- The weird but effective tools I swear by: mouth taping, barefoot grounding, and more
- Why sauna, cold therapy, and protein breakfasts are in my non-negotiables list
- How to build your own list of non-negotiables to feel your best
Resources Mentio...
Episode Highlights With Faraz
- What's early, normal, and late for gray hair
- The factors that contribute to gray hair and what we can actually do about them
- Some of the risk factors for early gray hair: genetics, alcohol consumption, smoking, pollution, chronic disease, stress, and surprisingly, higher education and height!
- Only 20-25% is controlled by genetics and what we can do about the other factors
- How hydrogen peroxide com...
Episode Highlights With Faraz Khan
- His own personal story with hair loss and how it dramatically impacted him
- How he researched how to get his hair back without pharmaceuticals
- The biggest “aha” he had about reversing hair loss and how he reversed his extreme hair loss
- Number one cause of hair loss in women and men
- How stress relates to hair loss and what we can do about it
- How vitamin D, B12, zinc, and iron are important for hair
- W...
Episode Highlights With Cristina
- Why hair loss is so common and why it doesn’t have to be
- Her personal mission around this and why it hits so close to home for her
- When hair loss seems to happen just randomly without an identified cause
- The myth that this is just a part of aging and the hidden risks in many common “solutions”
- The four hidden causes of hair loss: inflammation, lack of sleep, gut issues, toxin overload, and reduced s...
Episode Highlights With Dave
- What led to him writing a book about meditation and what surprised him most
- Why meditation is one of the most impactful tools he uses
- How he went from learning to put butter in coffee on the side of a mountain in Tibet to the father of biohacking
- What makes this book different from any other books about meditation
- Meditation as it's typically understood is a waste of time- here’s why
- False: Everyone...
Episode Highlights With Katie
- Why what annoys you in others often points to unhealed parts of yourself
- How Carl Jung’s shadow work explains projection and self-recognition
- Practical tools to turn triggers into growth opportunities
- Real-life examples of how “spotting it” led to personal breakthroughs
- Journaling prompts and self-inquiry methods to reframe irritations into insights
Resources Mentioned
Episode Highlights With Carolyn
- Yeast is normal, yeast overgrowth is not
- What to know about yeast
- The introduction of penicillin and how this affected yeast
- How yeast can turn into a mycelial yeast that pokes holes in the small intestine
- Yeast produces 78 known toxins in the body
- It's possible to have enough yeast overgrowth that produces alcohol byproducts that it will make a person fail a breathalyzer test
- How dentistry com...
Episode Highlights With Katie
- Prioritize sleep—it’s more powerful than most supplements
- Start the day with sunlight and minerals. Light is key
- Small, consistent habits beat drastic changes
- Movement (especially walking) is underrated medicine
- Relationships, community, and emotional health matter as much as diet
- Kids thrive when parents focus on connection, not perfection
- Nature heals—sun, earth, and water are fundamental
- From a more fea...
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...
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