The Wellness Mama Podcast

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 th...

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 is...

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...

Episode Highlights From Katie What is magnesium and why is it important Why are so many people deficient in this important mineral What are the many benefits of magnesium How magnesium plays a role in workouts, power, and recovery Other benefits of optimal levels include: better mood, lower inflammation, better sleep, and stronger bones Some easy sources of magnesium: Leafy green vegetables, sea v...

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...

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 ir...

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 develo...

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 a...

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 ha...

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...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Kruse What junk light is and why it can be so harmful Why sunlight is so important and not dangerous... and why it is so important for kids The problems with screens that you probably didn’t know of Understanding light functionally Why light is a medicine Six meta analysis show that lack of sunlight is more dangerous to your health than smoking The deeper problems with...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Lin A big misconception for parents when it comes to a child’s jaw growth How we can help our kids grow a jaw that fits their adult teeth The factors that come into play with tooth decay and collapse of the jaw that leads to crooked teeth Dr. Weston A. Price’s work on nutrition and dental health Factors that make a difference in jaw structure in utero What to look for i...

Episode Highlights With Marie Why she was an original member of the smurf fan club Her own entrepreneurial journey Why she doesn’t feel that our current educational model prepares us for how to best contribute to the world in a meaningful way How to learn to listen to the small voice inside Getting through imposter syndrome and learning to listen to our intuition even if we are scared Failure = a...

Episode Highlights With Kelly Why over 100 million people in the US have diabetes or pre-diabetes, and why this is largely preventable The reason we see a rise in these issues, even in children Understanding macronutrients at a higher level to make health easier Why amino acids and essential fatty acids are important, but we don’t have a dietary need for carbohydrates How the body can take protein...

Episode Highlights With Anya How she studied four languages including Russian and Chinese! Her personal story with foot health and foot problems that led her to research minimal footwear How pregnancy made her foot problems worse and how this led her to research alternatives to overly supportive shoes When her foot pain got super severe and started causing other joint pain as well The book that op...

Episode Highlights With Michelle Sands The different types of hormone replacement available and which are appropriate for most people Why hormone levels are shifting earlier for women and men and how to navigate it How to navigate natural hormone decline with age What makes bioidentical hormone replacement different and why dose matters Where bioidentical hormones come from The surprising practice...

Episode Highlights With Lauren and Katie How sauna and heat exposure can reduce all cause mortality by as much as 60% and how to get these benefits Why heat/sauna is an exercise mimetic and why this is important The way sauna use can improve mood and help us enter parasympathetic nervous system states What PEMF is and how it benefits the body Why they combined PEMF and infrared heat to increase th...

Episode Highlights With Esther Blum The average age of menopause and early signs to look for Why menopause can start really early for some women in todays world Hormones to look at to get a baseline for mitigating menopause symptoms When supplements like chaste tree, DIM, and calcium d-glucarate can be helpful How cruciferous vegetables help hormones What to know about hormone replacement therapy...

Episode Highlights With Jim Kwik His purpose in life and how his inspiration was his desperation through brain injuries and learning struggles How he teaches the “software” of brain health: learning faster, adaptability Things he recommends for having a limitless brain 1/3 of our brain performance is determined by genetics but the other 2/3 are under our control to change Tools for brain health: a...

Episode Highlights From Katie How I'm so grateful for each of you since I launched this podcast in 2014 What life changes I've experienced since starting this podcast The importance of inner work and how emotions impact our health Giving our children a better foundation for dealing with emotions and difficult situations The emerging research on psychedelics and substances like MDMA in assisted psy...

Episode Highlights Their fascinating feats - swimming from Alcatraz and the fastest lacrosse shot in the state What berberine is and how it can be used The berberine/glucose connection What ketosis is and how it can be used therapeutically How melatonin affects the glucose cycle Timing berberine for better sleep and appropriate cortisol response Why berberine can drastically improve sleep Many typ...

Episode Highlights With Steven Wright What an immune misfire is The two parts of the immune system: the innate and the adaptive side 5 symptoms of immune misfire What cytokine storms are Why skin issues can often be immune related What paraprobiotics are and how they interact with the immune system How paraprobiotics might help with gut issues, histamine imbalance, and other things Why sleep and m...

Episode Highlights With Dr. Kelley-Chew What metabolic dysfunction is and why this is so important to understand The flip side - what metabolic health and regulation is What role insulin plays in metabolic dysfunction Personalization of insulin response and what we can learn from it The shocking amount of added sugar most people are consuming Walking as one of the most powerful tools for blood sug...

Episode Highlights With Morley Robbins His background and what led him on his own journey into researching these topics What the “innate healer” is why this was a paradigm shifter for him The importance of minerals and understanding mineral balance Stress: the body’s inability to make energy for the mind to respond to its environment Understanding oxidative stress and what happens to oxygen withou...

Episode Highlights With Danielle How she lives a very low waste, almost zero waste lifestyle and why she started Tips for reducing our footprint and living lower waste What she learned living in Thailand and teaching environmental classes there Vitalism- the type of medicine she studied and uses Functional mushrooms 101- fascinating facts about fungi Why mushrooms are considered their own kingdom...