The Wellness Mama Podcast

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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:

Conscious Parenting for Busy Parents of Teenagers In the Age of Distraction with Paola Telfer Jun 25, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Paola Telfer

Navigating parenting in an increasingly technological world
How to maximize the benefits of technology for kids and minimize the addictive potential
A relationship-focused approach to parenting around technology
Some practical tips for managing technology in the home
The most important part of managing a relationship with a teenage child
Her litmus test for how her relationship with her teenager is doing
Tips for sleep with teenagers
Teaching kids entrepreneurship from a young age

Resources We Mention

Sens.ai (use code wellnessmama for discount)

Brain Training at Home and How to Optimize Brain States with Sens.ai Jun 24, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Sens.ai

Her story that led to her creating at-home brain training that actually works
How a brain injury and PTSD impacted her life and how she reversed it
What is brain training and how it can be so impactful
This is basically neurotechnology-assisted meditation
What the different brain waves and brain states are and how to benefit from them
How to access self-directed neuroplasticity
The pillars of brain states
What neurotechnologies Sens.ai includes and how they work
How this device also measures and impacts the nervous system as well
The gamified way that this headset helps meditation and focus
How this helps with sleep

Resources We Mention

Sens.ai (use code wellnessmama for a discount!)
The Science Behind Sens.ai

The Inflammation Equation: Decoding the Path to Optimal Well-Being With Dr. Tom O’Bryan Jun 19, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Tom O'Bryan

The inflammation equation and all the variables we face in the modern world
Bottom-line principles that affect inflammatory status
14 of the 15 largest killers are chronic inflammatory conditions
Why inflammation is the trigger that pulls on the chain to break the weakest link
The most common environmental toxins we are seeing in the modern world
How mold affects inflammation and is even linked to things like Alzheimer's
Where plasticizers are found and how they affect inflammation
What nanoplastics are and why we need to be aware of them
Ways toxins enter the body and the four parts of the immune system (three aren’t in the gut!)
How the immune system works within the brain
Houseplants can help with environmental toxins
Why he never touches credit card receipts because of the BPA
Our environment is fueling our disease and how to improve yours without stress

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Importance of Returning to Natural Human Environments (Other Than Nutrition) With Dr. Anthony Gustin Jun 18, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Anthony Gustin

What he learned from his stay with a hunter-gatherer tribe and how it changed his life
Huge takeaways he had from witnessing a hunter-gatherer lifestyle and how this actually shifted his viewpoint away from just the physical aspects of health toward human wholeness
His experience with mold exposure, detox, and getting to healing
A drastic mindset shifts he had away from being as research-focused
Why he stopped focusing as much on physical health markers like Oura ring data and labs
What actually is a natural environment for humans
His emotional and mental health journey
How to cultivate true community in your life and authentically connect helping and receiving in modern life
Understanding the importance of sunlight and natural light exposure
Why it is absurd that we try to avoid the sun and the many reasons we need more sunlight

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Why Regenerative Agriculture Is So Important With Dr. Anthony Gustin Jun 17, 2024

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Episode Highlights with Dr. Anthony Gustin

The problems with the current food supply chain
How complex the meat supply chain is
What regenerative agriculture is and why it is so important for the planet, especially now
The point we are fast approaching that will be a big problem for our food supply and the planet
Regenerative agriculture is a way to produce food that helps and not harms the planet
How meat is important for the human body and for plant growth in the environment
Why to look for regenerative meats at the grocery store even over grass-fed
When shipping meat can actually be a healthier option
Reasons to find a local farmer and rancher if possible
The importance of nose-to-tail eating and consuming enough sources of things like collagen
What the different types of collagen are and why they matter
Colostrum: what it is and how it's beneficial
Understanding sourcing on colostrum and why it isn’t taking colostrum from baby cows
How colostrum helps the gut lining
His first principles of nutrition: Real food first
Why local and seasonal foods can be so impactful
Food as a biochemical barcode that your body scans, beyond the basic nutrients

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Seven Essential Health Elements With Ryan Lazarus Jun 13, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Ryan Lazarus

Pillars of health: Move, Rest, Nourish, Learn, Connect, Challenge, Spark
The details on nutrition: the EAT plan
Salt should not be demonized and what we need to know about salt consumption
How 3-5 grams of salt a day can be really helpful
Practical tips for getting enough high-quality sleep: routine, environment, timing, exercise
Movement tips you can do at home and the value of movement/play over exercise
Top-level pillars: learning, connecting, challenge, and spark and how to dial them in
How learning new things (even outside of health things) is vital for health
The power of nature and connection for health
If you don’t learn how to train your mind, your mind will train you

Resources We Mention

The Essential Health Playbook: A Holistic Method to Beat Fatigue, Boost Strength, & Heal Your Gut by Dr. Ryan Lazarus
Dr. Ryan Lazarus - Instagram
Lazarus Method - Website

The Lazarus Method: How to Create Your Own Health Playbook & Gamify Healthy Habits Jun 12, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Ryan Lazarus

The life-altering event that drastically changed the course of his life and led to the work he does now
An indoor soccer injury that led to severe health problems for him including type 1 diabetes
What he learned in his own recovery and how this led to him helping people
His epiphany that led to incredible results in his work
The four reasons people make changes: you have no other choice, when you learn enough that you want to, when you are inspired to by witnessing others do it, and when you receive enough that you are able to
What the Lazarus Method is and how he uses it with patients
Pillars of his system: Movement, Rest, Nourish, Learn, Connect, Challenge, Spark
The importance of reasons over rules when it comes to health
How he relates health to a game, including playing offense and defense
Ways to gamify health and wellness to create lasting habits

Resources We Mention

Dr. Ryan Lazarus - Instagram
Lazarus Method - Website
The Essential Health Playbook: A Holistic Method to Beat Fatigue, Boost Strength, & Heal Your Gut by Dr. Ryan Lazarus

Being the “Weird Parent” In a World of Sugar, Vegetable Oils, and EMFs With Dr. Cameron Chesnut Jun 11, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Cameron Chesnut

The things he does differently in parenting that make him a “weird” parent too
Tinfoil hat topics for him with his kids and family
Things he avoids with his kids: vegetable oils, sugar, EMFs
Why he almost completely avoids sugar with his kids
How insulin response as children can affect insulin sensitivity as adults
Even more reasons to avoid vegetable oils completely
How certain foods contribute to chronic inflammatory states
Why he completely avoids seed oils
Optimizing the omega balance in your body
His take on EMFs and what he does with his family
Why his family sleeps in an EMF tent and how his sleep dramatically improved when he started this
How he incorporates play-based exercise with them

Resources We Mention

Clinic 5C
Cameron Chesnut, MD - Instagram

Peak Performance in Daily Life: A Surgeon Who Trains Like a Professional Athlete With Dr. Cameron Chesnut Jun 10, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Cameron Chesnut

What sets him apart as a surgeon
How he trains like an athlete to show up best in surgery
Recovery protocols that set him apart from other surgeons
How he makes sure he can show up for peak performance every time he enters the operating room
Inflammatory states optimized - what to do
His routine for getting into flow state for every single surgery
A functional medicine approach to surgery and what you can learn from it
Why he even does genetic testing on his patients pre-surgery
The problem with Botox and fillers and why we should rethink them
Important update: fillers do not go away in the tissue over time like we once thought
Can fillers lead to inflammation or an immune response in the body?
Fat is one of the richest sources of stem cells in our bodies and how this can be an alternative to Botox and filler
His take on sun exposure and how it comes into play for skin health and aging (that won’t be what you think)

Resources We Mention

Cameron Chesnut, MD - Instagram
Clinic 5C

10-Year Anniversary Episode: Then vs. Now & What I’d Tell Myself 10 Years Ago Jun 05, 2024

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Episode Highlights

What life looked like 10 years ago!
What has changed on the Wellness Mama business side
How my mindset has changed over this past decade
Physical health vs mental/emotional health - or both?
How I lacked a work-life balance back then
What I wish I knew 10 years ago: light, protein, sleep, inner work
The real 80/20 is light, sleep, stress, community, and then nutrition and supplements
Previous podcast guests I really enjoyed speaking with (and why!)

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