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**The Wellness Mama Podcast**

The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com

Latest Episodes:

Addressing the Root Causes of Gray Hair Naturally With Faraz Khan Nov 18, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Faraz

What's early, normal, and late for gray hair
The factors that contribute to gray hair and what we can actually do about them
Some of the risk factors for early gray hair: genetics, alcohol consumption, smoking, pollution, chronic disease, stress, and surprisingly, higher education and height!
Only 20-25% is controlled by genetics and what we can do about the other factors
How hydrogen peroxide comes into play for gray hair and what we can do about it
Sunlight pros and cons for gray hair
Ways to reduce and slow graying hair and how much of a difference we can expect to see
The biggest changes come from early interventions and what to do when

Resources Mentioned

FullyVital hair products - use code WELLNESSMAMA for 15% off
Anti-aging Hacks and Fully Vital Hair on Instagram

How to Combat Hair Thinning and Grow Thicker, Longer Hair Naturally With Faraz Khan Nov 17, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Faraz Khan

His own personal story with hair loss and how it dramatically impacted him
How he researched how to get his hair back without pharmaceuticals
The biggest “aha” he had about reversing hair loss and how he reversed his extreme hair loss
Number one cause of hair loss in women and men
How stress relates to hair loss and what we can do about it
How vitamin D, B12, zinc, and iron are important for hair
Why he recommends water based serums daily over oily or thicker serums
His take on scalp massages and how to do them the right way
How low circulation comes into play with hair loss
His recommended protocol that is most effective in the fewest steps
The maximum length for a hair derma roller is 1mm and best practices for derma rolling
The truth about red light for hair and how to use it
Specific tips for dry or brittle hair
His specific products with money back guarantee

Resources Mentioned

FullyVital hair products - use code WELLNESSMAMA for 15% off
Anti-aging Hacks and Fully Vital Hair on Instagram

The Truth About Hair Loss (And Why Typical Fixes Fall Short) With Cristina McKay Nov 12, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Cristina

Why hair loss is so common and why it doesn’t have to be
Her personal mission around this and why it hits so close to home for her
When hair loss seems to happen just randomly without an identified cause
The myth that this is just a part of aging and the hidden risks in many common “solutions”
The four hidden causes of hair loss: inflammation, lack of sleep, gut issues, toxin overload, and reduced scalp function.
How stress triggers hair loss and what to do about it
Beauty sleep is a real thing… what happens when you don’t get enough
How hormones come into play and how low estrogen can lead to hair loss
What happens when we have less scalp circulation and how scalp massage can help a lot
Why most hair products don’t work and can leave your scalp worse than before
An important warning about silicone and how it harms your hair
Hair follicles go dormant but not dead… how to wake them up
Foods that directly help support hair health
How scalp care is a major factor in regrowing hair
Three steps to proper scalp care
A DIY haircare serum you can make yourself
A super special offer on her highly effective scalp serum that works as well as medical options

Resources Mentioned

Everbella Hair Serum - Discount for Wellness Mama

Meditation is a Waste of Time: Becoming Heavily Meditated With Dave Asprey Nov 10, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Dave

What led to him writing a book about meditation and what surprised him most
Why meditation is one of the most impactful tools he uses
How he went from learning to put butter in coffee on the side of a mountain in Tibet to the father of biohacking
What makes this book different from any other books about meditation
Meditation as it's typically understood is a waste of time- here’s why
False: Everyone should meditate more (not necessarily)
98% of humans were involved in agriculture for the last few thousand years, and how this matters for the personalization of meditation
“ If I can trigger you, it means you are a loaded gun”
He's woken up at 5 am to meditate for long periods of time and what he learned from this
Techniques that go beyond meditation to amplify the results
Understanding the actual goal of meditation to get real results and not just waste time
Somatic practices and why these can work most quickly
The recipe he uses with top executives called the RESET method, which is a somatic practice
Dark is one of the most underrated supplements in the world… here’s why
How to change your state, just with light
How he and I both experienced absolute darkness in a cave (separately), and what we learned from this
Your body processes reality before you have time to think
What's missing from meditation and psychology teaching and how understanding this can be life-changing

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If You Spot it, You Got it: Why Triggers are Teachers (Solo Episode) Nov 05, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Katie

Why what annoys you in others often points to unhealed parts of yourself
How Carl Jung’s shadow work explains projection and self-recognition
Practical tools to turn triggers into growth opportunities
Real-life examples of how “spotting it” led to personal breakthroughs
Journaling prompts and self-inquiry methods to reframe irritations into insights

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Gut Check: The Surprising Signs of Yeast Overgrowth (And What to Do About It) with Carolyn Dean Nov 03, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Carolyn

Yeast is normal, yeast overgrowth is not
What to know about yeast
The introduction of penicillin and how this affected yeast
How yeast can turn into a mycelial yeast that pokes holes in the small intestine
Yeast produces 78 known toxins in the body
It's possible to have enough yeast overgrowth that produces alcohol byproducts that it will make a person fail a breathalyzer test
How dentistry comes into play and common dental things used contribute to yeast overgrowth
The difference between SIBO and yeast overgrowth and why yeast is almost always present if there is
How hormones come into play and why magnesium is so important
The lesser known symptoms of yeast and why things like rashes can be a good sign
The thyroid, yeast, and magnesium connection and how supporting magnesium and managing yeast can improve thyroid health
How hormones, including birth control pills, can lead to yeast overgrowth
Unique protocols for supporting the body in beating yeast overgrowth and getting back into balance
The immune system is so affected by yeast that with yeast overgrowth it's easy to develop other infections and conditions
How parasites come into play and why fixing yeast also helps the body eliminate parasites
Her protocol for addressing yeast without stressing the body out
Importance of food based vitamin C and ascorbic acid
Yeast overgrowth and mineral deficiency are directly related to autoimmune disease and she explains how!

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Episode 1000: What I’ve Learned, Changed, and Still Believe Oct 29, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Katie

Prioritize sleep—it’s more powerful than most supplements
Start the day with sunlight and minerals. Light is key
Small, consistent habits beat drastic changes
Movement (especially walking) is underrated medicine
Relationships, community, and emotional health matter as much as diet
Kids thrive when parents focus on connection, not perfection
Nature heals—sun, earth, and water are fundamental
From a more fear based place to a complete confidence in the body’s ability to heal, the harmony of nature, etc
My beliefs list gets shorter and shorter and my questions list gets longer, and I love this
Why I'm now a supplement minimalist
Motherhood: shifting from control to connection (“unparenting”)
Health is not about doing more, but about aligning with nature and simplicity
My non-negotiables are different: light, minerals, hydration, peace, connection

Resources Mentioned

Function Health lab testing
ReMyte Minerals

Light and Leptin: Understanding These For Hormones, Fertility and Health With Sarah Kleiner Oct 27, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Sarah

Light and leptin and how these interplay with each other
The importance of leptin and what it is
All of our hormones are circadian
How to support these hormones naturally
Leptin wasn’t even discovered and studied until 1994 and why we still don’t hear much about it even thought it is so important
How this interplays with thyroid health and why this is important
What it means when leptin is low or high
The mitochondrial aspect of these hormones and how light environment impacts this
How much our light environment affects almost every aspect of health
Most important factors we can shift in our light environment
What to know about UV light and how much of each type of light we need
What red and infrared light at sunrise and sunset do for hormones and mitochondria
Why hunger in the morning is a good thing and important to have
Red light therapy panels don’t have far infrared light and it is available in the sun daily!
If our mitochondria think we are in danger, even if we have the perfect diet, they can down-regulate to keep us safe and how to signal safety
Her own amazing fertility journey and how these factors helped even when IVF failed
Thyroid specific advice for supporting the thyroid and tapering off meds
How a leptin reset can help and how to do it
Strategies for timing food and carbs with the sun to get nourishment without gaining weight
Her best tips for leptin reset and getting all these things into range
Perimenopause and how light and leptin come into play

Resources Mentioned

All of Sarah's courses - Use code Katie for 15% off
MyCircadianApp
Sarah's website, her Instagram, and YouTube
Evolving Wellness Podcast
Sarah's Free Ebooks
Function Health lab testing

Somatic Healing for Moms: How to Regulate Your Nervous System in Real-Time With Brittany Piper Oct 22, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Brittany

Why this work is so important, especially for moms
How babies co-regulate with moms for several years and how our children borrow our nervous systems for several years until theirs' develop
How dysregulated nervous systems affect parenting and the parent child bond
Children are wired to come to their caregivers for regulation, so when the caregiver is a source of fear or dysregulation this can create attachment issues and other issues
Perfection is not required- in fact an in-depth study found that mothers being attuned even just 30% of the time led to secure attachment in the child. So we don’t even have to get it right the majority of the time!
Navigating rupture and repair well can actually lead to more resilience and secure attachment
Somatic practices that moms can do on the go when we feel overwhelmed
Practical tools that moms can use to benefit our nervous systems and our families
How movement is so helpful for the nervous system
What resourcing is and how doing this for just a couple minutes a day can be really helpful
How attunement is so important and can be helpful even if we're personally not regulated
Ways to help our kids develop healthy nervous system regulation and attachment.
Her advice for those struggling with mom guilt.

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The Science of Safety: How to Rewire Your Nervous System For Resilience & Joy With Brittany Piper Oct 20, 2025

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Episode Highlights With Brittany

What polyvagal theory is and the updated science of the nervous system
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and what this means
Three principles of polyvagal theory: hierarchy of responses, coregulation, neuroception
Humans have a bioligcal imperative to be in connection with others
What glimmers or safety cues are and how to understand these
Misconceptions and misinformed ideas related to nervous system regulation
Regulation does not mean being calm, cool, and collected all the time
What somatic experiencing is and how it can be helpful in processing emotions and physical symptoms
Steps you can take and try now to support your body, emotions, and nervous system
Trauma doesn’t always come back as a memory but can come back as patterns and reactions
How to know if exhaustion is going into shut down or just the body finally being able to rest
Why we actually have to go through fight or flight to climb the nervous system ladder
When things can feel worse before they feel better
Why the nervous system prefers predictable over safe at times and why slower is faster when it comes to the nervous system
We will never be fully healed and releasing that expectation

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