The Wellness Mama Podcast

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

• Carl Jung's books
• Journ...

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...

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...