The Wellness Mama Podcast

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...

Episode Highlights With Sharon

• Why we can forget the pause part of menopause and why this can mean much more than just the pause or end of the menstrual cycle
• This is a physiological process and also an important emotional and spiritual inflection point
• Why she suggests women write their eulogies at this age as a way to recenter 
• How to reverse engineer the life we want to have as we go through menopause
• The different ways that othe...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) helps regulate your body’s pH and CO2 levels
• How it boosts endurance and athletic performance (and why it was once banned in sports!)
• The surprising ways baking soda supports kidney health, inflammation, digestion, and more
• Safe dosing guidelines and how to use it for energy, recovery, and even oral health
• When and how to take it for maximum benefits—and who should b...

Episode Highlights With Meg

• The eight pillars of women’s health and the connections between them
• Order matters when it comes to these pillars, especially with things like detoxification
• Why starting with detox can be counterproductive and a helpful order to work through
• Most women are living in fight or flight and the importance of balancing the nervous system
• A two minute practice that can really help your nervous system and make h...

Episode Highlights With Meg

• What histamine is and how it can be causing symptoms you may not even realize
• The different parts of the immune system and how they're important to understand
• Link to stomach acid and digestion
• What’s happening when histamine is out of balance
• Sometimes anxiety and insomnia might be the only responses and symptoms of histamine issues
• Why histamine purposefully causes inflammation 
• We have four differen...

Episode Highlights With Jonathan

• How he almost opened a pie shop- a wild story and his journey into the world of chocolate 
• What the real story of chocolate is, and all of the components that can be in chocolate 
• The dark side of chocolate and how it can be a healthy food when it’s done right
• How heavy metals can be in chocolate if it isn’t sourced well
• Why you crave chocolate and why this might not be a bad thing
• What true chocolate...

Episode Highlights With Erica

• The role of the fascia in the pelvic floor and deep core muscles
• Why this is important, especially if we’ve been pregnant and had vaginal or c-section births
• An at-home test and analysis of the pelvic floor
• An alternative viewpoint on kegels and what might be more effective
• What to do for optimal pelvic floor function and how this involves our deep core
• How using your feet more can actually help your pel...

Episode Highlights With Erica

• What fascia is and why it's so important
• Why fascia is our body’s superpower and how we create more and stronger fascia
• Muscular strength vs fascial strength and how these are different
• Fascia will form the way our body moves
• Body-mind vs mind-body connection 
• Ways to support fascia to elongate it and help get us out of pain
• How to wake up the deep core and support inner fascia 
• Fascia and low back pa...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Which test I took that showed my biological age substantially lower than my actual age
• Different ways to test biological age and how they're calculated
• The things this particular test looks at and things I think helped me in each category
• Factors I think contributed to my biological age being so low

Resources Mentioned

• Just Thrive
• Eidon
• Beam Minerals
• Carolyn Dean's Minerals
• Function Health...