The Wellness Mama Podcast

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

October 29, 2025 46 mins

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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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