
The Wellness Mama Podcast
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A weekly podcast series covering the health topics of real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, and much more to give you actionable steps to improve your family's health.
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The Wellness Mama Podcast
2w ago
Episode Highlights With Micah
What ozone is and the difference between oxygen and ozone
Ozone therapy - what it is and how it is available at home now
How Micah got into ozone therapy
Different types of ozone therapies and which ones can be done at home
What rectal and vaginal insufflation of ozone are and how can they be used
How to try these methods of ozone therapy
Local application of ozone vs. systemic use
Why vaginal and rectal insufflation are systemic methods of using ozone
What ear insufflation is and how it can help ear, sinus, and eye issues
How to use ozone to support oral health ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
2w ago
Episode Highlights From Katie
The ultimate question is, how do we form habits and get them to stick
As much as 40% of what we do in a day isn't the result of decisions, but of habits
What the research says about habit creation, including methods for starting new habits and making them stick
The average habit actually takes about 66 days (so over two months) to be created
Will missing one day of the new habit affect the creation of the new habit?
What the difference is between habits and routines
The process of creating a habit isn't just about learning to do something repeatedly - It's really ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
2w ago
Episode Highlights With Kelly
Why she transitioned from a pharmacist to a functional medicine specialist and why she now works with ADHD and anxiety patients
The common root causes she sees for these chronic issues
Dopamine connection and why ADHD is not just a dopamine deficiency
Common gut issues and how they present in problems in the body and the brain
Other factors that contribute to these issues that people don’t always realize
Why ADHD and anxiety often go hand in hand
The vitamin and mineral deficiencies that often play a role in why we see these issues together
Importance of asking w ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
3w ago
Episode Highlights With Bryana
What makes conscious parenting different from other approaches
How focusing on ourselves and our own emotional reactions and behaviors as parents is a more effective long term approach and is relationship first
Focusing on “how am I managing myself” as a marker of effective parenting
The magic of taking a pause during heated emotional encounters with our kids
How to understand what is getting in the way of being able to model these behaviors for our kids
What to do when “my kids will only listen to me if I am screaming”
Love withdrawal - what it is and why it is ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
3w ago
Episode Highlights With Dr. Waldinger
How he became a zen master who teaches meditation around the world
The science of meditation and the science of why it is beneficial
What the Harvard study of adult development is- the longest study on the same group of people since 1938
Key takeaways from this extremely long study
The surprising key to happiness and why human connection and relationships are so important
Helpful questions for checking in on your own relationships
How childhood experiences shape mental health later in life and what children really need to feel safe and secure in life
What ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
1M ago
Episode Highlights With Morley Robbins
What might be going on if you are told you have low iron or low ferritin
Why what’s going on in the blood isn’t always indicative of whats going on in the tissue and what to know when looking at blood tests
The three things to understand when measuring iron: hemoglobin (70% of body’s iron), ferritin (storage protein inside cells- 10% of body’s iron), serum iron (less than a tenth of a percent which actually means copper isn’t doing its job)
What hepcidin is (peptide)
Katherine Philpott MD PhD paper on how ferritin is storing excess iron in the body
Why t ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
1M ago
Episode Highlights With Diana Rodgers
How she got into nutrition through her own undiagnosed celiac
Why meat is the most vilified food and some reasons this is off base
The most common myths and misconceptions on meat: nutrition, environment and ethics
Why personal food decisions should stay personal and not be imposed on others
What the research says about meat being critical for childhood development
The elephant in the room: 60% of the US diet is ultra processed foods
Why it's possible to meet protein needs and still be deficient in amino acids
Protein consumption is especially important f ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
1M ago
Episode Highlights With Dr. Lyon
What muscle-centric medicine is and how she developed this method
Why muscle is so important, especially for women
The connection between body composition and how we age
Her research on how body composition affects the brain and ability to do cognitive tasks
Why muscle is the organ of longevity
How muscle helps with disease prevention
Muscle is an endocrine organ and why exercise should be about building muscle not losing fat
The longevity connection to lean muscle mass
Why it's very difficult for a woman to get “bulky” or too muscular quickly
What reverse die ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
1M ago
Episode Highlights With Katie
The beautiful lessons I've learned this year and how it was a year of rest and relationships
My focus for this past year: to be with my kids and focus on them, inner work and diving into house projects that required new skills (and lots of power tools!)
Why I now feel ready to step into new projects and new energy
An update on my Health and how it is better than it has ever been
What health goals I've been focusing on: healthy blood sugar numbers , eating to nourish my body, Hashimoto's remains in remission
The biggest factors impacting my health: dealing with st ..read more
The Wellness Mama Podcast
1M ago
Episode Highlights With Matt
What wild health is and where this concept came from
How a return to nature is the root of good health
What separates precision medicine from traditional medicine
Why genetics are important but they are only about 20% of the whole picture
The importance of light, sleep, and stress for health
Factors we can optimize for our kids for lifelong health
Are diseases actually preventable
What their data says on reversing disease through lifestyle intervention
His core pillars of optimal health and how to optimize each one
What studies say about movement and how much we n ..read more