The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Laila

• How to create a strong family foundation with structure, values, healthy habits and connection
• Boxing was her outlet when she was younger and what she learned through that
• Why she wrote a children's book to inspire kids to follow their spark
• The importance of physical outlets for kids 
• Why her dad didn’t want her to box and why she did it anyway

Resources Mentioned

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Episode Highlights With Lora and Elmira

• How they got into looking deeper at the oral microbiome and the connection to oral health
• Root cause factors of oral health that many people don’t realize 
• Oral health can be a missing part of the puzzle that most people don’t look into
• What oral testing is and what it can help reveal
• The specific pathogens they test for and the ones they actively work on
• Oral environment is mi...

Episode Highlights With Christine

• Over-functioning and why capable, efficient people end up doing everything, but how to break the cycle
• This can look like competence but be connected to control and safety starting in childhood
• How can we actually break the pattern of over-functioning 
• “If I stop doing all this, bad things will happen” and the myth of that belief
• The question of "will I still be valued if I don&rsqu...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why light is the most important “nutrient” your body receives each day
• How natural light and darkness influence metabolism, hormones, gut health, and circadian rhythm
• How blue light after dark affects melatonin, glucose, mood, and inflammation
• Why sunrise light is nature’s most important daily reset button
• The difference between UV, visible light, and infrared ... and how each impacts ...

Episode Highlights With Colleen

• How hormones affect hair health for women
• Why hair loss can increase in perimenopause 
• The reason thyroid and medication can affect hair
• Nutritional deficiencies that affect hair 
• How PCOS affects hair health and growth
• Insulin resistance can come into play as well
• Understanding the connection of thyroid problems and hair loss
• Hypo and hyperthyroidism both can cause hair loss
• What is a normal am...

Episode Highlights With Torrie

• How living in Thailand inspired her current work and what she learned about Eastern medicine
• Her own health story and how this inspired the work she does
• Biggest missing factors in health and wellness that some people miss
• In Asia, they look at lifestyle first, and how this shifted her approach
• What she learned about herbalism on her own journey
• The root cause of all root causes
• Why are we seeing an incr...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why your identity (especially your “I am…” statements) shapes biology more than any protocol
• How the nervous system responds chemically and electrically to the language you use about your body
• The difference between identifying with your symptoms vs. identifying as someone who is healing
• How subconscious narratives can keep you stuck in illness patterns, even when your actions are &l...

Episode Highlights With Ian

• Understanding detox and why harsh ones can be too much for the body
• The things you don’t know that you’re breathing in and how to avoid accumulating it
• How to avoid becoming an aggregator of air toxins
• All of us have been poisoned in some way in the modern world 
• Can we have perfect health? And what’s the alternative
• Why indoor air is more polluted that outdoor air and what to do abo...

Episode Highlights With Lauren

• How she went from health blogger to an incredible inner and outer journey to writing about some even bigger topics
• Why healing the body can also lead to questioning deeper topics
• It’s hard to open to truth when we’ve been manipulated by fear unless we know there is more love on the other side
• What did Jesus actually say vs how it has been changed throughout history
• Being comfortable in curi...

Episode Highlights With Degree Free

• The shocking data around college now, and how many jobs actually require a degree
• What has shifted in the last couple of decades, and why new data is important to consider
• Most people who are employed in the US do not have college degrees
• Less than one in five jobs even mention a degree as preferred 
• How is this a simple supply and demand problem 
• The real deal with student loans and the ...

Episode Highlights With Scott

• How we track so many things, but often don’t know what’s going on with bowel and urinary health
• His path into this- both of his parents are doctors
• Is there something we can learn from our poop that we are missing?
• How stress comes into play with gut health
• The big factors related to gut health that people don’t always get right
• We know gut health affects the whole body, but we miss som...

Episode Highlights With Mindy

• Cutting through the myth… can women fast and what we need to do differently
• How to navigate fasting with a female hormone cycle and why it is so important 
• The three types of women and how each fasts differently 
• There are times when women shouldn’t fast and times when it can be a game changer
• We have two metabolisms: glucose and ketones and how to use them differently 
• Somewh...

Episode Highlights With Stef

• His work with gold medalists, special forces soldiers and elite entrepreneurs and the wound that always shows up
• What people call chemistry is actually nervous system dysregulation
• We move toward what feels familiar even if it is dysfunctional
• The nervous system is a hidden matchmaker often operating in the background
• Why do we want to create situations that feel familiar 
• These circumstances are the...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why healing often requires unlearning more than learning
• The invisible beliefs, identities, and patterns that kept me stuck … even when I was doing “all the right things”
• How clinging to control, perfection, and certainty created more stress than peace
• The surprising nervous-system science behind letting go (and why your biology resists it)
• How my identity as a “fixer,” &l...

Episode Highlights With David

• Why living an adventurous lifestyle is so good for your brain and body
• Being sedentary is one of the biggest things that threatens brain health- here’s why
• Why he considers brain defenders the most urgent and important thing he’s ever written
• What the brains immune system is and why this is vital to understanding long term brain health
• Microglial cells and why these matter
• Why it isn’t ...

Episode Highlights With Nat

• Her experience with homesteading, homeschooling and native plants
• Reasons to plant some native things in your yard!
• Her recovery from Autoimmune disease with circadian health
• How she reversed Hashimoto's naturally 
• We are circadian beings, and our cells need light to produce the proper hormones and responses
• Nonna-maxxing and living like Italian grandmas
• Intuition getting stronger from the sun and why ...

Episode Highlights With Matt

• His wild health journey and how he got into the work he does now
• Overcoming Lyme, Babesia, Epstein-Barr, parasites, mold, and heavy metals 
• What mineral balancing is and how it is important 
• Why he prioritizes hair mineral analysis as a form of testing over a blood test
• What makes HTMA different than other forms of testing
• My personal experience with mineral balancing 
• Minerals work within a...

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why sunlight is essential for hormones, energy, mitochondria, circadian rhythm, and Vitamin D production
• What a “solar callus” is and why the skin needs gradual training — just like muscles
• How to safely build sun tolerance in early spring without burning
• The internal factors that determine whether sunlight helps or harms you: minerals, hydration, antioxidants, and fat-soluble vitamin...

Episode Highlights With Caroline

• Her story with minerals and fertility and what she learned the tough way
• The long road to having her two kids and how her health suffered after
• What makes fulvic and humic minerals different and why her job is to make these famous 
• Why she considers these compounds the celebrities of mineral replenishment
• A new way of thinking about the body and fuel 
• Minerals are the fuel that's translated ...