The Wellness Mama Podcast

The Wellness Mama Podcast

The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s health! Brought to you by WellnessMama.com

Episodes

January 26, 2026 37 mins
Episode Highlights With Devon 
  • What is happening mentally and biologically when a child is not calm and feeling triggered
  • The lower part of the brain is more developed in young children and they aren’t as strong in impulse control and other skills yet
  • All parenting moments are opportunities for learning and growth
  • How to start asking questions from a place of a growth mindset vs a fixed one
  • Awareness is the first step in creating ch...
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Episode Highlights From Katie
  • Why controlling kids’ food often backfires and leads to power struggles
  • The surprising research on kids’ natural ability to self-regulate food intake
  • How to create structure without micromanaging meals
  • Why removing “good” and “bad” food labels helps prevent negative food relationships
  • Practical strategies I use to raise intuitive eaters at home
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Episode Highlights With Robyn
  • How she came to question supplements and how this led to a deep expose book
  • Why what we call “vitamin D” as a supplement isn’t actually vitamin D and why she questions taking it
  • It isn’t just about good supplement vs bad supplement, but how to evaluate to know what's helpful and what's not
  • Why some vitamin D supplements have poison control warnings for pets 
  • When supplements are not just not helpful but...
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Episode Highlights With Leedia
  • Why sugar isn’t the only problem when it comes to kids' oral health and it isn’t even the main thing
  • It's the microbiome, not the sugar, and what to know about this in kids
  • The things that are just as bad as sugar for our kids' teeth
  • Safe forms of toothbrushes and oral care for babies and kids
  • How to reverse early dental cavities 
  • The one most important thing she would tell new moms (hint: it’s about br...
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Episode Highlights With Leedia
  • The incredible links between the oral cavity and the womb, from physical to energetic
  • Why this connection is so strong and what to know about it
  • Her own story with oral health during pregnancy and how it led to her research
  • Over 65-70% go through reversible dental issues in pregnancy
  • Vaginal tissue and oral tissue are very similar tissues with quick cell turnover and progesterone and estrogen receptors
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Episode Highlights With Bradley
  • What led to his most recent work, The Heart Code, and what makes it different than his other books
  • How emotional energies can become stuck in the body
  • Our bodies are made of nothing but energy, and we are beings of pure energy
  • Everything is energy, including emotions
  • What a trapped emotion is and how these can happen in three ways: we bury it, unchecked big emotions, and an overwhelming circumstance w...
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Episode Highlights With Nagina
  • What changes in metabolism during midlife and why a different approach is needed
  • Why the body needs more nutrients as we get older
  • Switches to turn on in the body so we can burn more fat in midlife
  • Why we become more insulin resistant during the midlife years
  • Our hormones shift in midlife as women and what these hormone changes do in the body
  • Why muscle mass declines at this phase of life and what to do...
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Episode Highlights With the Holistic Kids
  • The problem with ultra-processed foods and how these are destroying kids' health
  • Why they consider ultra-processed foods to be fake foods and a science experiment
  • What actually is an ultra-processed food?
  • How kids get addicted to ultra-processed foods created in labs for this reason
  • The “global diet of doom”
  • These foods are linked to dozens of chronic health conditions
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    Episode Highlights With Holistic Kids
    • What the current generation of kids is facing, without even always realizing it
    • How mindfulness applies to kids today
    • Why they started their podcast and why this topic is so important to them
    • Their insight into why kids and teens don’t want to open up to parents and what parents can do to create a more open environment
    • Parents should listen to learn, not listen to reply and give advice
    • Problems f...
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    Episode Highlights With Tyler
    • How often he talks about stress with patients and why this is such an important factor
    • Women handle stress differently than men, and why this doesn’t have to be a bad thing
    • What our cycle and our digestion directly tell us about our health
    • Why women and men handle stress differently (hint: there’s an adrenal reason)
    • What happens when we are stuck in fight or flight long term
    • The effects on gut health and...
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    Episode Highlights With Tyler
    • How he got into gut and skin health work and his personal story with it
    • Peeling skin on his fingertips led him to a deep dive into this topic 
    • Gut health shows up on the skin - if there are skin issues, something is going on underneath
    • The autoimmune connection and how almost everything can be resolved 
    • Looking at gut and diet and what IGG food allergies are
    • A lot of people are constipated and don’t real...
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    Episode Highlights From Katie
    • The concept of the “Four Horsemen” of chronic disease and why 85% of people over 50 die from one of these conditions.
    • What these diseases share in common: long, silent development over years or decades before symptoms appear.
    • Why traditional screening often catches disease too late. And how new data and AI tools can identify risk far earlier.
    • The difference between 10-year risk scoring and lifetime ris...
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    Episode Highlights With Cristi
    • Her incredible story with breast implant illness, fibroids, and autoimmune issues
    • Why she was so interested in health conferences and what this led to for her
    • What she learned through bodybuilding, getting sick, and uncovering her underlying autoimmune issues
    • How the “no pain, no gain” mindset is harming women and how we can shift to something more positive
    • If we're in sympathetic nervous system domina...
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    Episode Highlights With Cristi
    • What dry needling is and how she uses this modality
    • The things happening to the body physiologically during dry needling 
    • Why muscles became acidic after injury and how to replenish and fix this
    • How muscle voltage changes and how this impacts us and is linked to pain
    • Dry needling is a mechanical disruption of the tissue fibers of the muscle in a knot
    • The four pillars of healing: Reset, repair, replenish...
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    Episode Highlights With Justine
    • Her background in cell membrane medicine and what she learned in this
    • Understanding mitochondria and phospholipids and fatty acids
    • What we don’t understand about mitochondria and why they aren’t just the powerhouses of the cell and what else they do
    • Einstein: the environment determines how the particle behaves
    • What the real biggest needle movers are for health
    • Why she tries to use technology outside to...
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    Episode Highlights With Katie
    • How stress impacts sleep, digestion, and energy.
    • The science behind magnesium’s calming effects. 
    • Why enzymes are crucial for digestion and nutrient absorption.
    • How to use magnesium and enzymes together for better holiday energy and comfort.
    Resources Mentioned
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    Episode Highlights With Katie 
    • Why minerals are the foundation for energy and hydration (and why I travel with salt)
    • How front-loading hydration and morning sunlight reset your body clock
    • The weird but effective tools I swear by: mouth taping, barefoot grounding, and more
    • Why sauna, cold therapy, and protein breakfasts are in my non-negotiables list
    • How to build your own list of non-negotiables to feel your best
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    Episode Highlights With Faraz
    • What's early, normal, and late for gray hair 
    • The factors that contribute to gray hair and what we can actually do about them
    • Some of the risk factors for early gray hair: genetics, alcohol consumption, smoking, pollution, chronic disease, stress, and surprisingly, higher education and height!
    • Only 20-25% is controlled by genetics and what we can do about the other factors
    • How hydrogen peroxide comes in...
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    Episode Highlights With Faraz Khan
    • His own personal story with hair loss and how it dramatically impacted him
    • How he researched how to get his hair back without pharmaceuticals 
    • The biggest “aha” he had about reversing hair loss and how he reversed his extreme hair loss
    • Number one cause of hair loss in women and men
    • How stress relates to hair loss and what we can do about it
    • How vitamin D, B12, zinc, and iron are important for hair 
    • W...
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    Episode Highlights With Cristina
    • Why hair loss is so common and why it doesn’t have to be
    • Her personal mission around this and why it hits so close to home for her 
    • When hair loss seems to happen just randomly without an identified cause
    • The myth that this is just a part of aging and the hidden risks in many common “solutions”
    • The four hidden causes of hair loss: inflammation, lack of sleep, gut issues, toxin overload, and reduced s...
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