The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Scott How he came face to face with a bear and a shark and survived Understanding financial literacy and teaching this to our kids at a young age Passing on a generational legacy to kids Steps for building financial literacy with kids and preparing them for wealth at a young age The three “E”s of wealth with kids How to use the Gravy Stack app for teaching kids wealth Expec...

Episode Highlights With Priyanka How her own health journey led to her helping women with health using her background in the data world  Why were women not included in clinical research until 1993, and why are women diagnosed years later than men for the same conditions How to actually make the best use of data that we now have access to Vaginal discomfort is the leading reason women seek medical...

Episode Highlights With Lauryn How she also used to be a journalist and reporter Her story of 13 incurable illnesses and eating disorders and how she recovered  What led to her breaking the normal medical model and researching the root cause The gut and mind connection Why healing is 80% mindset Understanding stress at a deeper level and how this relates to gut health Fascinating studies on hunger...

Episode Highlights With Alisa Vitti How she sat and learned with one of the only female zen masters and what she learned from that experience Reconnecting with her feminine energy What cycle syncing is and how to use it to your advantage Why we actually need more calories in certain phases of our cycle like the luteal phase How to use certain foods strategically to deal with estrogen surges throug...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Stillman How he got into functional medicine and conventional medicine and now works with many families The importance of light, sunlight, and how to optimize this We are each our own primary healthcare providers and his approach of partnering with families for better outcomes  How to create an optimized natural light environment and know the level of lux in the light e...

Episode Highlights With Naveen 99% of the genes in our body don’t come from our mom and dad but from the 100 trillion microbes that call our bodies home How oral health relates to overall health and gut health What the oral microbiome is and how to improve it  How oral health is connected to colorectal cancer and heart disease Why the bacteria in the mouth is related to digestion, nitric oxide pro...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Isaac How he got to study with meditation masters in the Himalayas and how this led to what he calls open heart medicine What the survival paradox is and how it's a new paradigm of understanding health and disease How this relates to fight or flight and what this does to the body The feminine principle in Chinese medicine and how this relates to health What alarming pro...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Leaf The problem with how we take care of depression, anxiety, and mental health How the mind can influence the brain and vice versa Why the brain isn’t the cause, it is the responder, and why this reductionist approach has been a disservice to those who struggle with mental health The problem with labeling conditions based on just looking at the brain and a better appr...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Appelbaum The misdiagnosis and missed opportunities of vision and eyecare and why healthcare has it all wrong about the eyes Eyesight and vision are different things and need to be treated differently Eyesight refers to how well you can see on a chart or in a classroom Vision refers to how our eyes work together and how we derive meaning from the world around us Why vis...

Episode Highlights With Amy Her own drastic story with conventional medicine and how this led her to functional medicine and the work she does The common triggers and causes of the rise of chronic disease Why she defines autoimmunity as a spectrum and commonalities among conditions How to know where you are on the spectrum 5 factors: toxins, infections, gut issues, diet, and stress Why ¾ of the tr...

Episode Highlights With Tina Preparing for back to school with a family  Core things that can help us get back into a routine for school Health things to keep the immune system strong when going back to school The importance of morning sunlight - her tips Her most crucial parenting advice The power of words and the energy you bring to any situation A fantastic strategy that her dad used that helpe...

Episode Highlights With Lisa Her incredible near death experience that changed her life The difference between DNA and epigenetics How things like emotions and trauma can be passed on in our DNA What informational tags are and how they're passed on How to identify our inherited patterns and how to separate those from learned behaviors Parenting tips and how to help our kids build confidence in a h...

Episode Highlights With Marisol Why she says she has a health retreat addiction and her favorite one to date What makes castor oil so unique from a health perspective Castor oil as the number one thing in an at-home pharmacy or beauty cabinet Why castor oil is considered the master carrier oil How castor oil can transport things into deeper levels of the skin Can castor oil improve collagen and el...

Episode Highlights With Amber Why she dances to old school hip hop and how she got into this as a mom of four boys What the five anxiety styles are and why they are important  Discovering our own superpowers and drivers  Where your style isn’t serving you but the flip side is your superpower The five anxiety styles: lover, fighter, executive, visionary, and dynamo How she defines overwhelm and why...

Episode Highlights With Alex What circadian biology is and understanding the foundational aspects of it The big factors that impact circadian rhythms  How light, temperature, and food timing affect circadian rhythms and sleep Why blue light isn’t bad but why timing matters so much More reasons why morning sunlight is so important Sunlight can help stimulate the mitochondria and even help thyroid f...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Erin How she got into breastfeeding medicine and researching the microbiome  The difference in microbiome from vaginal and cesarean and how to optimize each Important bacteria that is now missing from many people's microbiome that is very important for babies and that c-section babies don’t get at all How breastfeeding provides important prebiotics and probiotics Why la...

Episode Highlights With Adam His own story of attachment issues as a child and how he got into this work as an adult What is attachment theory and how attachment styles impact relationships How attachment styles can shift throughout life and in different phases of life Why having kids can change the attachment styles of the parents Anxious attachment can sometimes stem from not getting enough oxyt...

Episode Highlights With Jeff Why he does a yearly event called “challenge the trainer” where clients and friends challenge him to various challenges like feats of strength and embarrassing things Why he often works with parents Bold statements: chronic pain is easy to fix and becoming fit is even easier The simple things that help us stay pain free and fit as we get older Why things like chronic c...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Floyd Why he wrote his first books in 5th grade Why over 90% of Americans are considered sick and have at least one symptom of metabolic dysfunction The early warning sign symptoms of metabolic disease We make our entire bodyweight worth of ATP every day ATP is the energy currency of the cell and excess fructose depletes it How Uric Acid comes into play and why this is...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Amie How she set a state powerlifting record The way the thyroid is connected to metabolism, hormones, and so much more Symptoms of thyroid issues and when symptoms and labs disagree Why thyroid function is tied to hair and skin health as well TSH is actually a pituitary hormone and not a thyroid hormone but why it is important What lab tests to get to get an accurate p...

Episode Highlights With Heather Why managing energy is more important than managing time What her 10-minute habit is and how it can help people stick to their goals Living from our “to-be” list instead of a "to-do" list A journal prompt you can use to help: “Wouldn’t it be nice if…” Connecting this to feelings and helping integrate them Act as-if, instead of fake it until you make it Discovering t...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Elizabeth Yurth Why she and her five kids go to a foreign country every year with no plans except how long they would stay and how this has been so impactful for them The problems with the medical establishment right now and how we can take control of our own health What’s wrong with how we currently think of joint health and joint pain and how to stop this epidemic It...

Episode Highlights With Sam Why she gave away almost everything she owned and became a nomad for a year The reason words matter so much and how to get better about the words we use Why parents should get the word “careful” out of our vocabularies with our kids Words that, as parents, we should USE and words we should LOSE A simple exercise to shift your words in parenting Replace stop with start i...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Wendy Myers What the research is showing about how physical health can be directly impacted by emotional trauma and health issues actually caused by emotional stuff going on Up to 65% of physical health issues can stem from adverse childhood events (ACEs) The science of why these traumas can impact our biology so strongly Why talk therapy doesn’t necessarily resolve tra...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Achina Stein How she got into functional medicine psychiatry Her son’s journey with this method in her own family Some of the most common root causes of depression and anxiety in her patients The five factors she looks at to determine root cause, starting with food SHIFT protocol: stress, hormones, infections, food, and toxins The most common food triggers that are link...