The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Devon

• The challenges of modern parenting and how to navigate them
• Ways to simplify our routines, environments, etc.
• How to cultivate a calm environment in the home that helps support parenting
• Creating a “yes space” for younger kids where they can play without any safety concerns
• How can we encourage movement in children rather than restrict it? And how this helps regulate their nervous system.
• Ways to meet ou...

Episode Highlights With Devon 

• What is happening mentally and biologically when a child is not calm and feeling triggered
• The lower part of the brain is more developed in young children and they aren’t as strong in impulse control and other skills yet
• All parenting moments are opportunities for learning and growth
• How to start asking questions from a place of a growth mindset vs a fixed one
• Awareness is the first step in creating ch...

Episode Highlights From Katie

• Why controlling kids’ food often backfires and leads to power struggles
• The surprising research on kids’ natural ability to self-regulate food intake
• How to create structure without micromanaging meals
• Why removing “good” and “bad” food labels helps prevent negative food relationships
• Practical strategies I use to raise intuitive eaters at home

Resources Mentioned

• Commonsense Childrearing by Thom...

Episode Highlights With Robyn

• How she came to question supplements and how this led to a deep expose book
• Why what we call “vitamin D” as a supplement isn’t actually vitamin D and why she questions taking it
• It isn’t just about good supplement vs bad supplement, but how to evaluate to know what's helpful and what's not
• Why some vitamin D supplements have poison control warnings for pets 
• When supplements are not just not h...

Episode Highlights With Leedia

• Why sugar isn’t the only problem when it comes to kids' oral health and it isn’t even the main thing
• It's the microbiome, not the sugar, and what to know about this in kids
• The things that are just as bad as sugar for our kids' teeth
• Safe forms of toothbrushes and oral care for babies and kids
• How to reverse early dental cavities 
• The one most important thing she would tell new moms (hint...

Episode Highlights With Leedia

• The incredible links between the oral cavity and the womb, from physical to energetic
• Why this connection is so strong and what to know about it
• Her own story with oral health during pregnancy and how it led to her research
• Over 65-70% go through reversible dental issues in pregnancy
• Vaginal tissue and oral tissue are very similar tissues with quick cell turnover and progesterone and estrogen receptors
• ...

Episode Highlights With Bradley

• What led to his most recent work, The Heart Code, and what makes it different than his other books
• How emotional energies can become stuck in the body
• Our bodies are made of nothing but energy, and we are beings of pure energy
• Everything is energy, including emotions
• What a trapped emotion is and how these can happen in three ways: we bury it, unchecked big emotions, and an overwhelming circumstance w...

Episode Highlights With Nagina

• What changes in metabolism during midlife and why a different approach is needed
• Why the body needs more nutrients as we get older
• Switches to turn on in the body so we can burn more fat in midlife
• Why we become more insulin resistant during the midlife years
• Our hormones shift in midlife as women and what these hormone changes do in the body
• Why muscle mass declines at this phase of life and what to do...

Episode Highlights With the Holistic Kids

• The problem with ultra-processed foods and how these are destroying kids' health
• Why they consider ultra-processed foods to be fake foods and a science experiment
• What actually is an ultra-processed food?
• How kids get addicted to ultra-processed foods created in labs for this reason
• The “global diet of doom”
• These foods are linked to dozens of chronic health conditions

Resources Ment...

Episode Highlights With Holistic Kids

• What the current generation of kids is facing, without even always realizing it
• How mindfulness applies to kids today
• Why they started their podcast and why this topic is so important to them
• Their insight into why kids and teens don’t want to open up to parents and what parents can do to create a more open environment
• Parents should listen to learn, not listen to reply and give advice
• Problems f...

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 

• 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...