The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jill Carnahan The equation of chronic illness, trauma, and healing Why she feels trauma work and safety in the body are an important part of physical health Toxic load plus physical burden in chronic disease The link between cancer and autoimmunity  How infectious burden affects physical health and what happens when it increases too much What happens with latent infecti...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Griffin Cole The connection between oral health and disease in other places in the body “Good” and “bad” bacteria in the mouth and how they impact the rest of the body We have over 500 species of bacteria in the mouth alone The importance of maintaining an alkaline environment in the mouth What is the difference between traditional dentistry and biological dentistry How...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Griffin Cole What fluoride is and how it became part of conventional medicine The different forms of fluoride and what to know Is fluoride actually needed?  Ingested fluoride and the new research that we need to be aware of What many studies show about how fluoride in water affects babies in utero Fluoride in the water is like drinking band-aids when you have a cut This...

Episode Highlights With Lauren Vaknine Her incredible story and how her health struggles began at a very young age How her mom navigated her diagnosis at a young age The importance of not making decisions from a place of fear How can we begin to learn to figure out our own pieces for our health Her own root causes and how she eventually uncovered them When she realized she had to stop outsourcing...

Episode Highlights With Dana What's going on in the gut in children with ADHD Surprising statistics about gut health in children 54% of American children are diagnosed with some sort of chronic condition — why is this happening  It all begins in the gut: 80% of the immune system is in the gut How gut disturbances create brain disturbances and vice versa The gut makes 95% of serotonin and 50% of do...

Episode Highlights With Dana Kay Her personal story with ADHD and how she got into the work she does around this What her son being on medication for his ADHD taught her about best supporting him and other children through ADHD with other methods as well The multi-faceted approach to ADHD What data says about dietary changes and ADHD symptoms Biggest offenders of foods to avoid in kids with ADHD G...

Episode Highlights With LeelaQ The potential issues of EMF exposure and reasons it is important to be aware of and mitigate  Not all EMFs are bad and the nuance we need to understand  Since we aren’t likely to get rid of EMFs and exposure to them, we need to focus on mitigating the effects and harmonizing them instead How EMFs essentially add stress to our systems  The ways EMFs impact the nervous...

Episode Highlights With Quantum Upgrade What quantum energy is, also called source energy, and what we know of it We are over 90% water on a molecular level and why this matters How we are also over 99% space, but it is not empty space A quanta is the most complete and discreet particle of something  The zinc experiment and the fascinating results that give insight into how we can benefit from thi...

Episode Highlights With Non-Toxic Dad How to navigate the balance between educating our kids/keeping them safe and respecting their agency Addressing our own patterns of control and respecting our children as they grow up Free or inexpensive habits we can adopt in our family culture that benefit our whole family How gardening is helpful in many ways beyond just growing food Ways to model love and...

Episode Highlights With Warren The big offenders when it comes to toxins that affect our families How shoes can be detrimental to your health and how to choose good ones There can be dyes in shoes that make them brightly colored and forever chemicals to make the plastic soft  Low-level exposures that you might not be aware of for your kids Some simple switches that can reduce exposure What to know...

Episode Highlights With Michael Griswold His very unique take on healing and the things that keep us stuck How he read 500 books on how to get better and what he eventually found that worked In order to find something that works, you need to hear it from someone who is honest The myth that you have to control your thoughts The myth of needing to control our feelings or manifest  His take on what h...

Episode Highlights With Michael Griswold The heartbreaking story that led him to the work he does now What data says about the benefits of certain substances to help with depression and anxiety His dramatic experience that shifted him out of deep depression and into joy A Yale study showed that these substances can end depression in a single dose Other studies have named this breakthrough status f...

Episode Highlights With Hannah Went What biological age is and how we measure it Understanding cellular-based aging  How we measure biological age Sprint speed and grip strength can be really loose indicators of biological age Understanding epigenetic biomarker proxies and how to pull levers to improve your biological age How biological age is closely tied to all-cause mortality  The biggest facto...

Episode Highlights With Ryan We're operating in a way that is not according to our design and how this is impacting our mental and emotional health drastically  61% of people say they are depressed, anxious, or lonely  Why we are in a global emotional recession We have an exploding population of therapists, but we aren’t seeing a change in the underlying problems His incredible journey to healing...

Episode Highlights With Gary Vee How he feels he was perfectly parented and the things his mom did that made the biggest difference Why this led to a book called Meet Me in the Middle  It stands out to him that his mom found balance and how this impacted him How his mom helped him feel capable and remarkable but didn’t create delusion or entitlement What inspired him to write this book and expand...

Episode Highlights With Hilda The best health hacks in life are free Ancestral wisdom trumps modern technology How 6 ancestral secrets can boost your energy and vitality Easy ways you can incorporate these secrets into your daily life Ways to show your kids that these secrets are important instead of just telling them How the work of a dentist from the 1930s can (and should) change your approach t...

Episode Highlights With Hilda Gore Her amazing experiences with visiting and studying indigenous populations around the world How Dr. Weston A. Price inspired her work and her experiences Why technological community can’t replace the importance of in-person community  The happiest people she's met around the world and the surprising things they had in common Stories from her trips to Cuba, Peru, a...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer How she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer  What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift  How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the research The real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wron...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons The downfall of imaging as breast cancer prevention is that this is really just early diagnosis and not prevention Far beyond cancer, there are a lot of benign changes in the breast that can cause stress for people Why screening doesn’t improve outcomes as much as we once thought No matter how many women we screen per year, the exact same number die of brea...

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan The problem with biohacking and why he doesn’t like that word either Why I personally prefer bio-love or bio-alignment and working with my body Most bankruptcies are due to healthcare cost The real story of aging and how inflammation is connected Everyone needs to focus on reducing inflammation The foundational things that are helpful for all humans and from which...

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan Why medical gaslighting is a real problem in medicine  The real reason women and men aren’t medically the same and why this is empowering  Looking at what biology is broken and genetics vs the symptoms to get real answers Functional genomics vs genetics and how to understand your genes in a way that benefits you Why genes are not our destiny and how we can work wi...

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein of Jaspr The reason indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air How poor air quality can cause inflammation  Humans breathe about one credit card worth of microplastics per week, and what this does to the body 100% of all homes tested positive for microplastics in air How we can get oxidative stress and accelerated aging from bad air quality  Why we don’...

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein We breathe so much more than we drink or eat, so air quality can be much more important than even food quality  We breathe 11,000-15,000 liters of air per day Air is one of our most essential health factors, and we can only go minutes without air Why Mike carries a CO2 monitor, and when CO2 levels can affect performance  What to do about high CO2 levels Why h...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt We evolved under the light of the sun to take code/energy from the sun  Light is a symphony of information for our bodies How light can help us reverse age It is all coded into our bodies; how to send your body the right signals How sunrise and sunset are natural sources of red light When you get enough red light you burn through sugar faster and have bett...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Courtney Hunt Her own story of recovery from Hashimoto's She was trained as an OB/GYN and her path to what she does now You are not your diagnosis The importance of seeing yourself well What autophagy is and how it can be such a valuable tool How to encourage autophagy and self-cleaning in the body When you enter ketosis as a metabolic state you make acetoacetic acid wh...