The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Jaban

• What PANS and PANDAS are, and what the key differences are
• The different causes of the same neuropsychiatric symptoms and figuring out the underlying issue
• There are adult versions of these conditions as well
• Early warning signs of PANS and PANDAS to watch for in children and the autism connection
• Autoimmune encephalitis symptoms in kids and why this can be so dramatic
• Why this can be a very fast onset a...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jaban

• Why mold exposure is so common and yet still so unknown
• Mold is everywhere, but it's the amount and type of mold that matters in a home environment
• Common mold symptoms that many people miss and specific symptoms in kids
• The tests he runs to see if a person has mold exposure and home tests he uses
• Sodium and potassium levels as indicators of chronic stress or mold exposure
• Urine mycotoxin test f...

Episode Highlights With Angela

• Her incredible story from starting as a biochemist to being on American Ninja Warrior
• The dramatic and shocking moment that happened to her on national TV
• How she learned to shift from everything that was wrong to openness to “What if it all goes right?”
• The journey back for her and learning to release parts of her identity that were tied to her competitions
• Putting a deadline on the tough emotions
• What...

Episode Highlights With Aimee

• Why perimenopause is a misunderstood phase of life and common vs normal 
• Commonly overlooked symptoms of perimenopause that are helpful to understand 
• How to look at midlife changes as an opportunity rather than a challenge
• Core mindset shifts that can make a massive difference
• Listening to symptoms as messengers of your body working hard to protect you
• Estrogenic things in our environment and how they i...

Episode Highlights With Aimee

• The pivotal moment in her career that led her to blend conventional and holistic medicine
• Normal doesn’t have side effects and what this actually means
• How normal lab ranges are calculated and why they aren’t as straightforward as you think
• Thyroid and thyroid testing: what to know and what results mean
• The actual ideal TSH range, what to look for, and what ideal lab results should be
• Her approach to nat...

Episode Highlights With Emily

• Manifesting: consciously creating a life you love
• Why we're manifesting all the time, whether we're conscious of it or not
• Mindfulness: handling stress in the now, meditation: handling stress in the past, manifesting: handling the future
• Simplest manifestation formula: feel good, place the order; place the order, feel good
• Visualize, alchemize, magnetize 
• The same muscle that lets you feel the ...

Episode Highlights With Emily

• Her unique journey into meditation and how it led to her work today
• How she had insomnia and was going grey at 27 before finding meditation
• What makes her method of meditation different and how it gives your body rest that is 5x more effective than sleep
• Investing just 2% of your day helps the other 98% be even more amazing
• The mind thinks involuntarily, just like the heart beats involuntarily 
• Ziva is b...

Episode Highlights With Joseph

• His amazing story that led to his bestselling book and how great books often come from the author's great pain
• Thoughts vs thinking and why this is important
• The core questions he asked himself were: Who am I? Why am I here? Why do I have so many negative thoughts?
• Learning to question the root of negative thoughts and ask if they're true
• How to separate yourself from the thoughts you have
• Tho...

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• Why does cardiovascular disease risk rise in menopause to match the rate of men?
• What happens to hormones and the heart when a woman goes through menopause?
• 45% of women have some marker of cardiovascular disease
• How the loss of estrogen in menopause is the tipping point
• 1 in 3 women will die of cardiovascular disease which is more than all cancers combined
• What to monitor and look out for starting in ...

Episode Highlights With Jessica

• She was a surprise twin and she and her sister could communicate in their own language before they could even talk
• What reparenting is and how we have the ability to give ourselves what we might not have gotten
• ACE scores and what we know about how highly traumatized people suffer from diseases at much higher rates
• The difference in how women and men respond to stressful events. Women don’t respond w...

Episode Highlights With Shefaly

• The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each do
• Most plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiber
• What fiber does in the body and its roles in the body
• How fiber benefits gut ecology
• What resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic health
• What bitters are and why...

Episode Highlights With Shefaly

• What Vitamin J is and why it is a crucial nutrient in our life (and not a typical nutrient)
• Vitamin C, which stands for community and why it is so important
• How these in particular can have such a profound impact on our health
• The downstream effects of joy and community on so many aspects of physical health
• Habit stacking in a way that builds joy and community into daily life
• The benefits of gratitude ...

Episode Highlights With Tiffany

• What stress actually is and how it is more far-reaching than you might expect
• Your body can be experiencing stress even if you don’t “feel” stressed
• Even things like nutrient deficiencies are a form of stress for the body
• If we are in fight or flight, we can’t rest, digest, and heal
• We actually need stress, and not all stress is bad- how to get it in balance
• Exercise is an example of good stress, and w...

Episode Highlights With Tiffany

• Her first home birth story was also a breech birth, a connection she and I share!
• What is happening in the body when someone is diagnosed with autoimmunity
• When the immune system gets confused and attacks part of your body
• Autoimmune diseases are treated as different problems, but they share a common component and causes
• Why are women affected by autoimmunity more than men, and some reasons why
• The ris...

Episode Highlights With Gina

• How our relationship with food is a mirror into our inner world and how this starts the day we are born
• Every single person on the planet develops a relationship with food and how this impacts us
• Associations we can develop around food, like food being a source of love and affection
• Knowing how to eat healthy is only about 5% of our drive and decision making when it comes to behaviors
• 95% of what influen...

Episode Highlights With Dani

• Her own story and dramatic experience with adverse childhood experiences
• The childhood trauma she had and how her health problems started in high school from those experiences
• Data on ACE (adverse childhood experiences) and how a score of 4 or more is linked to a 20 year reduction in life expectancy
• How she addressed her own trauma and what she recommends to her patients
• Many people who come see her have...

Episode Highlights With Dani

• Her 24 years spent with chronic lifestyle diseases like IBS, Lupus, urticaria, and others
• She was 24 years in before a doctor asked what she was eating 
• If you were born healthy… you do not have to live sick!
• How quickly the body can adapt when given the right inputs
• Healing is incredibly simple, but not easy
• She starts with diet first and then builds from there… the importance of single-ingredient foods
• R...

Episode Highlights With Roudy

• The fun way that drinking cacao at night leads to him being super energetic and extroverted while usually an introvert 
• How he incorporates dance into his life
• What he learned by living with no artificial light and how it drastically changed his life
• You can’t get healthy in the same light environment that got you sick
• The quality of our life is entirely dependent on the quality of light that enters our...

Episode Highlights With Sharon

• A massive reframe in understanding fevers and the approach to handling them
• What homotoxicology is and how understanding this response is helpful 
• Supporting vs repressing the body’s natural immune and detoxification responses 
• What a fever actually is and why it is so helpful
• Reasons to consider not bringing down a fever
• What happens when we don’t let our bodies have a natural fever response
• Chronic inf...