Wellness Women Radio

JJ Virgin is the author of four New York Times best sellers and celebrity health and fitness guru! On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re diving into JJ’s biggest challenge, not training her star studded line up or writing best sellers but some powerful lessons that she had to learn when her son Grant was in the fight of his life after being the victim of a brutal hit and run accident. In h...

On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re diving into a really complicated topic that is impacting far too many women! Hashimotos Thyroiditis is an autoimmune condition that gradually destroys the thyroid gland and can have devastating health implications. On episode we talk through the different stages of hashimotos and the clinical testing that is Listen In The post WWR 73: Hashimoto’s Thyro...

In this special episode of Wellness Women Radio we welcome an extraordinary guest Bronnie Ware to the podcast! Bronnie is the best selling author of ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying’ and now her new memoir ‘Bloom; a tale of courage, surrender and breaking through upper limits. ’ Bronnie is just the most beautiful, Listen In The post WWR 72: The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying with Guest Bronnie Ware...

Have you ever been told that you’re low in iron or iron deficient? We are finding that so many women are coming in with symptoms of fatigue, weakness, headaches, dizziness and the list goes on only to find out that they’re iron deficient! How can it be that in this modern day of medicine we are still so depleted? In this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re looking at the underlying causes of WHY...

This is by far one of our favourite episodes! Do you know why we love our pets so much? Or why they are so beneficial for our health? Did you that your furry best friends really do have powerful healing benefits? Tune in now to hear Dr Andrea get choked up just talking about her dog (ha ha) and Dr Ashleigh explain why she’s not a pet person but how she finds her own form of ‘vitamin P’! There’s a...

We cannot discuss women’s reproductive health without discussing fibroids! Fibroids (muscular benign tumours of the uterus) can affect up to 50% of women at some stage of their lives and can either be inconsequential or completely debilitating. In this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re exploring the risk factors that can lead to fibroids, what can exacerbate them as well as the best evidence f...

Can stress really make us gain weight? How does that happen? In this episode of Wellness Women Radio tune in to find out how stress actually impacts our metabolism, food cravings, fat distribution and overall health. Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to combat stress induced weight gain and Dr Ashleigh and Dr Andrea talk Listen In The post WWR 68: How Stress Makes Us Fat- The science behind stress...

Are the cosmetics and beauty products you use every day affecting your health and hormones? On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re examining our daily beauty rituals to see what kind of chemical load we’re exposing ourselves to and whether or not this is harmful to our health. Dr Ashleigh and Dr Andrea share their own personal routines and the swaps they’ve made over time to lessen the toxi...

We’ve mentioned leaky gut on the show countless times and now it’s time to give this syndrome the episode it deserves! On this episode of Wellness Women Radio, Dr Ashleigh and Dr Andrea explain in detail exactly what leaky gut is, how it happens and the best strategies to begin healing as well as the Listen In The post WWR 66: Functional Medicine & Healing Leaky Gut appeared first on The Wellness...

The placebo effect used to be brushed off as a ‘fake’ phenomenon experienced by people who were easily susceptible to suggestion. However, we now know that our mind is one of the most powerful healing tools that we can tap into! Tune in now to hear The Wellness Women discuss some of the most profound Listen In The post WWR 65: The Power of Placebo appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

There is nothing more agonising and debilitating than a migraine headache, for those who suffer them. Migraines can be triggered by a whole host of foods, toxins, stressors and even hormonal changes but can force women to lose days, if not weeks each month! Please remember that there is no such thing as a ‘normal headache’ or a ‘normal migraine’ and in this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re an...

Antibiotic Resistance is a serious public health issue that has been exaggerated over the last 30 years of antibiotic overuse and over-prescription! Join Dr Andrea & Dr Ashleigh as they journey through how this came about and what you can do to naturally protect yourself and your family from antimicrobial resistance. Tune in now! The post WWR 63: Antibiotic Resistance appeared first on The Wellnes...

On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we need you to put your NERD hat on and come for a little ride with us inside your body to understand the basics of methylation! Never heard of methylation? Don’t worry we’re trying to keep it super simple today so you can get a handle on this essential biochemical process that occurs more than 1 billion times per second and controls so much of our health! T...

Did you make it out of the holidays with your adrenal glands in tact? Or, like many of us, did you find yourself and your immune system crashing as soon as you had some down time? This is a sign that your hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (big fancy term for your adrenal feedback system) is not functioning as well as what it could be, so in this episode The Wellness Women are giving you the keys...

New Years resolutions don’t work! Does this come as a surprise to anyone? In the first episode of Wellness Women Radio for 2017 Dr Ashleigh & Dr Andrea are welcoming you into the New Year with a BANG and helping you to start the year right, despite previous failed attempts at resolutions that don’t work. Listen In The post WWR 60: Why New Years Resolutions Don’t Work & The Wellness Women’s Guide t...

This time of year we all too often reflect on the time that we’ve wasted, the missed opportunities and the ‘should haves’, then we make unrealistic New Years resolutions that don’t serve us! On this week’s episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re helping you to change that! We have a superstar special guest on the show today, Dr Laurence Tham, he is the ‘coaches coach’, the entrepreneur behind The We...

Our Wellness Women family is growing! We have a HUGE announcement on the show today that you can’t miss. We are also introducing you to and interviewing one half of the Wellness Women, Dr Ashleigh Bond! Tune in now to hear more about her journey and the big news we’re telling you first! The post WWR 58: A Big Announcement & Who is Dr Ashleigh Bond? appeared first on The Wellness Couch .

By popular demand this episode has been requested by multiple listeners! On this weeks episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re diving into your contraceptive choices and specifically looking at natural fertility practices. This is also referred to as the Billings Method or Rhythm Method where women can tap into the signs and symptoms their body gives them throughout the month to understand their hor...

This guy needs no introduction, but we’ll give him one anyway! On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re chatting with the incredible Dr Brett Hill, the barefoot ‘caveman’ himself, from The Wellness Guys and That Paleo Show. Brett is the embodiment of the paleo lifestyle and we’re grilling him what a paleo lifestyle looks like, what he eats everyday and even what he feeds his kids! We also fin...

On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re teaming up with the brilliant Kale Brock to talk all things gut health! The microbiome and gut health is so trendy now but it’s also incredibly complicated! What is beneficial for one person may be detrimental for the next and there are so many conflicting opinions, no wonder everyone is so confused! Kale and The Wellness Women try to get things simple...

On this episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re getting really specific and we’re talking to the women who are trying to conceive. Today we are talking about how to naturally improve your ovarian reserve or enhance your egg quality! As we get older the number of eggs we have declines dramatically, but the quality of them also changes which is intimately linked to the potential of the egg to fertilis...

On this weeks episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re chatting about something that affect 90% of women, and only 10% of men. Something that most of us think is completely unsightly and can be the cause of huge self esteem issues! Would you believe we’re talking about cellulite? The thing that gossip magazines love to shame beautiful celebrities with by exposing their cellulite to the world! In this...

Today we are celebrating 52 episodes of Wellness Women Radio! What a feat! It has certainly been more than 12 months but we are celebrating anyway. On this extra special episode of the podcast we’re answering some of your questions about anything from pubic hair and it’s purpose to the best type of protein powder! We’re also reflecting on what we’ve learned over the last year and spill the beans a...

Muscle spasms, cramping, fatigue, insomnia, irritability, poor memory, anxiety, weakness and brain fog are just a few of the symptoms of a magnesium deficiency. Magnesium is one of the most important minerals that every organ in your body needs, especially your bones, heart and brain! It is also a cofactor to over 300 different functions but most of us are not getting enough! Tune in now to hear T...

On this weeks episode of Wellness Women Radio we’re diving into a topic that affects all women at some stage of their life and can be terrifying and frustrating. We’re talking about anxiety: the feelings of fear and uneasiness that are usually accompanied with a tightening of the chest, racing heart, shortness of breath, catastrophising and obsessive thinking, just to name a few! Anxiety can becom...