The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Pranitha The most affordable way to get lab testing these days What Function Health is and how it is changing medicine Hormone testing and what to look at and why  What can we know about our organ health from lab testing Insights from labs that we might not otherwise know Latent connections between biomarkers and what to know about them What to pay attention to and learn fr...

Episode Highlights With Caroline What are plant-based minerals and how are they different Humic and fulvic and what these are Our body is designed to heal and achieve optimal health Why it’s impossible to receive all minerals in food alone All cellular systems use humic and fulvic Difference between salt-based electrolytes and plant-based minerals How athletes should replenish their electrolytes B...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber Her amazing story of overcoming pain, Hashimotos, IBS, depression, and burnout How this led to her work in helping women seek answers and make informed choices The pivotal event that shifted the course of her career and life Why autoimmune conditions are reversible! Helpful tools for addressing root causes and partnering with our bodies to find healing Wh...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber Why conventional gynecology is not just failing women but hurting us How she became disillusioned with the mainstream narrative of women's health We're asking the wrong people for help in women’s health Gynecologists are surgeons Birth control pills do not regulate your hormones (and why this lie is told so often) How birth control causes serious magnesiu...

Episode Highlight With Corban David Jenai Why he choose his own name and how it lines up with his story His incredible story and how it led to the work he does now Healing through physiology and mythology and how using both approaches is helpful What HopeGuide is and how it helps people find their own specific path to healing Approaches that help expand our nervous systems' capacity and increase r...

Episode Highlights With Corban David Jenai How we’ve exchanged depth of connection with breadth of connection and how this has affected our mental health The importance of leaning into the experience you have of another person in your own body and how this is transformational The importance of intuition and how to tune into it So much of the wounds we’ve experienced in life are relational and ofte...

Episode Highlights With Corban David Jenai We are each our own healer, and how to even begin the journey How he started his own healing journey and how some things like talk therapy actually seemed to make things worse at certain points No one can know us as well as we can know ourselves and why we are the experts on ourselves Therapy is a major intervention often made necessary by lack of a thous...

Episode Highlights With Dr. David Rabin What to do if you feel stuck in fight or flight Things you can do to help your home feel safe for your nervous system Strategies for creating a calm and soothing environment in our homes How screens are stressful to the nervous system Why he says one of the most dangerous things you can do to a young child is hand them a screen, especially one that's unlocke...

Episode Highlights With Dr. David Rabin What translational neuroscience is and how these topics apply to all of us Applicable understanding of nervous system health and regulation What the autonomic nervous system is and the two parts  The vagus nerve and how to stimulate it  How overstimulation affects the nervous system and how light, sound, news, etc., can keep us in fight or flight Strategies...

Episode Highlights With Matt and Wade Why there's no universal perfect diet but why a personalized diet can be helpful for everyone How to figure out what a sustainable lifestyle plan for your personalized needs is Ways Wade gets enough protein on a plant-based diet Gut biome considerations for figuring out your personalized plan Why we can’t get enough magnesium from food anymore, even if we're e...

Episode Highlights With Matt and Wade Their own stories with diet and nutrition that led to them writing this book Universal nutritional optimizers that everyone can benefit from How to figure out your own personalized plan that is sustainable and effective How the digestive system processes food and how optimizing your diet helps your digestion be more successful The truth about why we crave food...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Patrick Porter What happens in the brain when there's a head injury and why everyone has this to some degree You're the result of how your brain remodeled after all the head bumps as a child Some people have blood in the brain from an injury even a decade after the injury! The only time the brain detoxes is during level 4 sleep What’s going on with age-related cognitive...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Patrick Porter What BrainTap is and how he developed it The Silva Method and how it influences brain entrainment What brain entrainment is and how to use this to your advantage  A PTSD study they did with moms of autistic children and the surprising results  Our bodies learn from our environment and how we can use this with light, sound, and vibration to help our nervou...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gundry The biggest misconceptions when it comes to Blue Zones and what we can learn Where the word Blue Zones comes from  What people actually eat and what we can learn from the Blue Zones Data from Sardinia that highlights actual lessons from the Blue Zones  A shocking statistic: the nicotine consumption in some Blue Zone areas might be contributing to longevity! Is th...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gundry What inspired his new book Gut Check Why a diverse gut biome is key for longevity and health The reason he works with so many autoimmune patients and what he has found about gut health and autoimmunity What leaky gut is and how to fix it 100% of people with leaky gut have their immune system activated to various forms of wheat What has changed that is leading to...

Episode Highlights With Ian The three keys of health most people miss The first key is to get your biological age to around 25-35 years old and how to do this The second key is to have structural integrity in your bones, joints, muscles, etc, and how to do this The third key is the fuels that you put into your body (air, fluids, and food) and how to optimize them People often ultimately die from h...

Episode Highlights With Ian The elephant in the room when it comes to health What we do the most physically, and how it affects us One of the biggest things we do each day is breathe — 160 million liters of air by age 60 How air contamination causes us health problems We have five liters of blood, and what we breathe gets instantly transported to every cell in our bodies every single minute What h...

Episode Highlights With Gordy What happens when we compartmentalize business and family and how to integrate this better Living a mission-driven life as a parent and entrepreneur It’s no secret that the school system doesn’t adequately prepare our kids for all aspects of life and how to do that better How he navigates screen time and technology with his kids and balances it with nature time Conver...

Episode Highlights With Gordy His personal journey that led to writing The New Millionaire’s Playbook Pillars to understand when it comes to financial success Creating conscious change and financial stability through serving others The reality distortion field and why most of our programming, especially around finances, is from external sources The big switch: we can interface with the reality dis...

Episode Highlights With Sara Banta Why detox is so important now The reason our ancestors never had to think about detoxing  How insulin resistance and toxicity are connected The liver is responsible for detox, protein and fat metabolism, thyroid function, and much more Diabetes is insulin resistance of the liver PCOS is insulin resistance of the ovaries  Signs you need to detox and how to do it W...

Episode Highlights With Sara Why we are seeing unexplained weight gain in all age groups and what to do about it The reasons why you might not lose weight even if you're doing anything “perfectly” Stress hormones and cortisol have been on the rise for the last few years Cortisol is the stress hormone  The new diseases that are now showing up in children Real reasons processed foods are causing pro...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Uma Naidoo How environment shapes our choices and how to use this to your advantage Stress inhibits good habit circles in the brain How to create good family habits around food that also reduce stress Sugar taps into the same brain receptors as street drugs!  Why preparing more meals at home leads to eating less and to better nutritional habits How small positive habits...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Uma Naidoo How foods affect mental health Foods to prioritize and avoid for optimal mental health We know our diets affect our bodies, but they impact our brains just as much!  How the gut and the brain communicate 95% of serotonin receptors and serotonin is in the gut! A simple acronym for remembering the best brain foods, especially for kids Why we crave more food tha...

Episode Highlights With Katie What I spent my time on this past year How I don't do resolutions but instead do experiments, and why Our new format for podcasts this year My annual water fast: why I do it and how I'm working on writing three books, creating a new in-person space in my area, and a surprise Watch for new content and more videos this year about some of my favorite things: plants, DIY,...

Episode Highlights With Suneel Gupta His experience with being clinically obese for most of his teen years What dharma is and the equation for it Dharma = essence + expression Finding your dharma isn’t so much of a transformation but more of a revelation of realizing what is already there A simple question: what are the bright spots of your current day? What rhythmic renewal is and how to use it t...