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
- Her amazing story, growing up half Indian and half Japanese and the winding journey of her entrepreneurial success
- How she went from being a professional athlete to opening a gluten-free restaurant in NYC, to other start-ups as well
- Every baby goes through up to 6,000 diapers that take hundreds of years to break down
- Her revelation with diapers and baby poop and how this led to a product that's helping ...
- Menopause is not a pause but a biological evolution
- Her perspective to give women the information to make informed and empowered decisions
- The dichotomies that we set up that are not helpful to women and the gray area in between
- Misconceptions that still exist around menopause and hormone shifts
- Does hormone therapy actually cause breast cancer? What the data actually says
- We no longer use the syntheti...
- What the gender health gap is and how this negatively impacts women
- The reason women weren’t included.. It wasn’t necessarily malicious, just assumed that the physiology was the same and just adjust based on height and weight
- Women and men’s physiology is very different and this impacts a lot in medicine and fitness
- How hormones come into play in fitness
- Why functional training is especially importan...
- Most people aren’t stuck, they’re predictable and they’re playing it safe
- How to break the pattern of predictability
- Presence helps break the predictability issue and the overwhelm and how to do it
- Anxiety comes when you’re living in the future or the past, not the present
- Why motherhood is perhaps the biggest identity shift a person can go through
- How to surrender without losing ourselves as moms
- Why...
- What photobiomodulation (PBM) is and how red/NIR light affects cells
- Core mechanism in plain English: cytochrome-c oxidase, nitric oxide displacement, ATP boost, secondary ROS and Ca² signaling
- Wavelengths and depth: red (630–660 nm) for skin/surface; NIR (810–850 nm) for deeper tissues; why 980 nm behaves more thermally
- Evidence overview: where PBM helps most (pain, recovery, tissue healing, some skin...
- Her ten-day silent retreat and what she learned from this experience (and my four days in a dark cave, also in silence, and what I learned)
- Why she loves playing truth or dare as a social hack, and why she uses it at events
- People also actually love being told what to do
- The four pillars of conscious relationships and the paradigm shifts they offer
- Mastering conscious aloneness and how to actually c...
- What enzymes are, how they differ with and without food, how to read activity units, when and how to use them, and cautions.
- Action steps: 7-day digestive trial, 14-day systemic trial (if appropriate), meal hygiene checklist, post-meal walk habit.
- Resources: enzyme unit guide, timing cheat sheet, meal hygiene checklist.
- Timing cheat sheet (for your recording notes)
- Digestive enzymes: at first bite or mi...
- His journey to get to the work he does now
- The metaphor of dance and how it relates to everything
- Somatic healing and how it comes into play
- “It’s sacred, not serious.”
- What the Habit Finder is and how this gives different information than regular personality tests
- Inductive assessments vs deductive assessment like the Habit Finder
- Identity is very fluid and trauma can often become a core element of iden...
- What the liver actually does
- How the liver is a metabolic hub: carbohydrate, fat, and protein metabolism; glycogen storage and release.
- Bile production: emulsifies fats, carries out bilirubin, cholesterol, and conjugated toxins via stool (enterohepatic circulation).
- Signs the liver or biliary system may be struggling and red flags to quickly check out.
- Labs you need to know about
- Detox myths vs the real...
- Why your home environment influences your nervous system more than any supplement, diet, or protocol
- How light, sound, temperature, clutter, and even colors communicate “safety” or “threat” to your biology
- The difference between a home that keeps you in fight-or-flight and one that supports calm, digestion, sleep, and resilience
- How to create circadian-friendly lighting without expensive devices
- Why clu...
- Grounding basics: the Earth is an electron reservoir; skin contact equalizes your body’s electrical potential and lowers body voltage.
- Native vs non-native EMFs: native = Schumann/geomagnetic background; non-native = wiring and wireless sources.
- Aim to increase exposure to native signals (nature time) and reduce unnecessary non-native exposure, especially during sleep.
- Physiological effects discussed ...
- Fertility is one of the most natural aspects of being human, and we are seeing it significantly decline
- The male fertility factor that comes into play in as much as 70% of cases, and 1 in 6 couples face infertility
- Thyroid disorders affect 20 million Americans, with women 5-8x more likely to be affected
- We're exposed to over 80,000 chemicals daily, with less than 1% tested for reproductive safety
- It isn...
- Your body has more lymph than blood — and why that matters
- The critical role of the lymphatic system in detox, immunity, and energy
- Practical ways to boost lymph flow daily (walking, rebounding, breathwork, massage, hydration, natural light)
- Lesser-known supports for lymph health, from vibration plates to castor oil packs
- Signs your lymph may need support and how to reset flow naturally
- The challenges of modern parenting and how to navigate them
- Ways to simplify our routines, environments, etc.
- How to cultivate a calm environment in the home that helps support parenting
- Creating a “yes space” for younger kids where they can play without any safety concerns
- How can we encourage movement in children rather than restrict it? And how this helps regulate their nervous system.
- Ways to meet ou...
- 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...
- 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
- Commonsense Childrearing by Thom...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- ...
- 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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