The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Gary Vee

• How he feels he was perfectly parented and the things his mom did that made the biggest difference
• Why this led to a book called Meet Me in the Middle 
• It stands out to him that his mom found balance and how this impacted him
• How his mom helped him feel capable and remarkable but didn’t create delusion or entitlement
• What inspired him to write this book and expand into the children's world 
• His d...

Episode Highlights With Hilda

• The best health hacks in life are free
• Ancestral wisdom trumps modern technology
• How 6 ancestral secrets can boost your energy and vitality
• Easy ways you can incorporate these secrets into your daily life
• Ways to show your kids that these secrets are important instead of just telling them
• How the work of a dentist from the 1930s can (and should) change your approach to diet
• The benefits of the most nutrie...

Episode Highlights With Hilda Gore

• Her amazing experiences with visiting and studying indigenous populations around the world
• How Dr. Weston A. Price inspired her work and her experiences
• Why technological community can’t replace the importance of in-person community 
• The happiest people she's met around the world and the surprising things they had in common
• Stories from her trips to Cuba, Peru, and Ethiopia and how these exper...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons

• Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer
• How she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer 
• What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift 
• How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the research
• The real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wrong thing
• Estrogen does not cause breas...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons

• The downfall of imaging as breast cancer prevention is that this is really just early diagnosis and not prevention
• Far beyond cancer, there are a lot of benign changes in the breast that can cause stress for people
• Why screening doesn’t improve outcomes as much as we once thought
• No matter how many women we screen per year, the exact same number die of breast cancer and present with aggressi...

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan

• The problem with biohacking and why he doesn’t like that word either
• Why I personally prefer bio-love or bio-alignment and working with my body
• Most bankruptcies are due to healthcare cost
• The real story of aging and how inflammation is connected
• Everyone needs to focus on reducing inflammation
• The foundational things that are helpful for all humans and from which we can build based on understanding ...

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan

• Why medical gaslighting is a real problem in medicine 
• The real reason women and men aren’t medically the same and why this is empowering 
• Looking at what biology is broken and genetics vs the symptoms to get real answers
• Functional genomics vs genetics and how to understand your genes in a way that benefits you
• Why genes are not our destiny and how we can work with our genes for better results
• The g...

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein of Jaspr

• The reason indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air
• How poor air quality can cause inflammation 
• Humans breathe about one credit card worth of microplastics per week, and what this does to the body
• 100% of all homes tested positive for microplastics in air
• How we can get oxidative stress and accelerated aging from bad air quality 
• Why we don’t have the same biosensors around air...

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein

• We breathe so much more than we drink or eat, so air quality can be much more important than even food quality 
• We breathe 11,000-15,000 liters of air per day
• Air is one of our most essential health factors, and we can only go minutes without air
• Why Mike carries a CO2 monitor, and when CO2 levels can affect performance 
• What to do about high CO2 levels
• Why heat might not be the reason you feel ...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt

• We evolved under the light of the sun to take code/energy from the sun 
• Light is a symphony of information for our bodies
• How light can help us reverse age
• It is all coded into our bodies; how to send your body the right signals
• How sunrise and sunset are natural sources of red light
• When you get enough red light you burn through sugar faster and have better blood sugar control
• Carbs are free ...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt

• Her own story of recovery from Hashimoto's
• She was trained as an OB/GYN and her path to what she does now
• You are not your diagnosis
• The importance of seeing yourself well
• What autophagy is and how it can be such a valuable tool
• How to encourage autophagy and self-cleaning in the body
• When you enter ketosis as a metabolic state you make acetoacetic acid which breaks down into beta-hydroxy...

Episode Highlights With Adrienne

• Her story of autoimmune recovery and how it led her to learning about cold exposure
• Why she was taking over 20 prescriptions daily and how she recovered
• The reason cold exposure is the one healing modality she would choose 
• Drastic effects she noticed when she started doing ice baths
• Why ice baths can be so helpful and the physiological ways they help the body
• How cold exposure creates norepinephrine ...

Episode Highlights With Barbara

• The power of listening, especially with our children
• How understanding human design can drastically change how we parent
• The way a child's design can affect how they learn and the school environment they need
• How our kid's type can affect how they eat and why we might call it picky eating
• The only thing that heals is love 
• Importance of viewing our children as an asset, not an inconvenience
• Wh...

Episode Highlights With Barbara

• Her incredible background and journey and what led to her work
• The wisdom she found in not needing to be or have power over other people
• Her friendship with Ra and Eckhart Tolle
• What human design is and how it can help us understand our gifts 
• How human design is unique and what the different types are in human design
• The four basic types in human design: projector, manifestor, generator, reflector
• What...

Episode Highlights With Justin

• The real root cause of obesity and why it isn’t what you think
• Why diet can be so frustrating and why so many of us are recovering dieters
• The average woman tries 126 diets in the course of their lifetime
• Obesity often stems from unmet emotional and psychological needs
• The antidote to this problem
• How we inherit programmed thoughts from our parents about food and diet
• Body fat storage is not a bad thing,...

Episode Highlights With Paola Telfer

• Navigating parenting in an increasingly technological world
• How to maximize the benefits of technology for kids and minimize the addictive potential
• A relationship-focused approach to parenting around technology
• Some practical tips for managing technology in the home
• The most important part of managing a relationship with a teenage child 
• Her litmus test for how her relationship with her teenager ...

Episode Highlights With Sens.ai

• Her story that led to her creating at-home brain training that actually works
• How a brain injury and PTSD impacted her life and how she reversed it
• What is brain training and how it can be so impactful
• This is basically neurotechnology-assisted meditation
• What the different brain waves and brain states are and how to benefit from them
• How to access self-directed neuroplasticity 
• The pillars of brain sta...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Tom O'Bryan

• The inflammation equation and all the variables we face in the modern world
• Bottom-line principles that affect inflammatory status
• 14 of the 15 largest killers are chronic inflammatory conditions
• Why inflammation is the trigger that pulls on the chain to break the weakest link
• The most common environmental toxins we are seeing in the modern world
• How mold affects inflammation and is even l...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Anthony Gustin

• What he learned from his stay with a hunter-gatherer tribe and how it changed his life
• Huge takeaways he had from witnessing a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and how this actually shifted his viewpoint away from just the physical aspects of health toward human wholeness
• His experience with mold exposure, detox, and getting to healing
• A drastic mindset shifts he had away from being as research-f...