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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:

Being Empowered to Take Control of Your Own Health with Function Health Feb 13, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Pranitha

70% of medical decisions are made based on lab testing
How to get comprehensive labs at low cost without having to go through a doctor
Health doesn’t happen at the doctor's office; it happens at home with daily decisions
What the data is showing them about overall health of people
Basic lifestyle habits that are beneficial and backed by data
Data-driven importance of community
The health trends and data that stand out based on the data they’re getting
What their autoimmune testing looks at
Other data they are working on implementing to make their system even more robust

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Function Health (use code wellnessmama to skip to the front of the line)

How to Understand Your Own Hormones, Heart Health, Toxin Levels & Metabolic Health with Function Health Feb 12, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Pranitha

The most affordable way to get lab testing these days
What Function Health is and how it is changing medicine
Hormone testing and what to look at and why
What can we know about our organ health from lab testing
Insights from labs that we might not otherwise know
Latent connections between biomarkers and what to know about them
What to pay attention to and learn from heart health panels
70% of people with a heart condition will still have a normal lipid panel unless you look at particle size
How to test inflammation and metabolic health
Biological age and what tests indicate biological age
Reference ranges on labs are based on averages and are not necessarily optimal
Inexpensive add-on testing they make affordable and available
The 160 biomarkers they test each year

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Function Health

Plant-Based Minerals With Caroline Alan Feb 08, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Caroline

What are plant-based minerals and how are they different
Humic and fulvic and what these are
Our body is designed to heal and achieve optimal health
Why it’s impossible to receive all minerals in food alone
All cellular systems use humic and fulvic
Difference between salt-based electrolytes and plant-based minerals
How athletes should replenish their electrolytes
Berkley study on minerals with brain fog

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Beam Minerals

Overcome Food Cravings, Negative Self-Talk, and Body Shaming with Dr. Tabatha Barber Feb 07, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber

Her amazing story of overcoming pain, Hashimotos, IBS, depression, and burnout
How this led to her work in helping women seek answers and make informed choices
The pivotal event that shifted the course of her career and life
Why autoimmune conditions are reversible!
Helpful tools for addressing root causes and partnering with our bodies to find healing
Why it isn’t the doctor healing you—it's the innate intelligence of your body and its ability to heal
Your body isn’t betraying you ever… it is always on our side
Thyroids don’t just fail, so what is actually going on?
How to reprogram the mental scripts that might be keeping you stuck
The power of fasting and how to do it as a woman

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Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening: Reconnect Your Body, Mind, and Soul for Lasting Weight Loss, Sustained Energy, and Unstoppable Strength by Tabatha Barber
Dr. Tabatha - Website

Conventional Gynecology is Not Just Failing Women, But Hurting Us with The Gutsy Gynecologist Feb 05, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber

Why conventional gynecology is not just failing women but hurting us
How she became disillusioned with the mainstream narrative of women's health
We're asking the wrong people for help in women’s health
Gynecologists are surgeons
Birth control pills do not regulate your hormones (and why this lie is told so often)
How birth control causes serious magnesium and B-vitamin deficiencies
What questions to ask to find a good practitioner
Factors within your control that can help support your hormones
Signs to be aware of for hormone problems and symptoms to listen to

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My Story of Healing from PTSD (& What Worked) with Corban David Jenai of HopeGuide Feb 05, 2024

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Episode Highlight With Corban David Jenai

Why he choose his own name and how it lines up with his story
His incredible story and how it led to the work he does now
Healing through physiology and mythology and how using both approaches is helpful
What HopeGuide is and how it helps people find their own specific path to healing
Approaches that help expand our nervous systems' capacity and increase resilience
His definition of trauma: our interpretation of events that are stored in our nervous system and body
Our bodies and our psyche are miracles of adaptation and our bodies are always on our side and trying to help us
Trauma is a solvable problem and how he’s helping to solve it

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The Simple and Surprising Power of Being a Witness With Corban David Jenai Feb 01, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Corban David Jenai

How we’ve exchanged depth of connection with breadth of connection and how this has affected our mental health
The importance of leaning into the experience you have of another person in your own body and how this is transformational
The importance of intuition and how to tune into it
So much of the wounds we’ve experienced in life are relational and often need to be healed in relationship with others
How he learned to tune into his intuition again after years of ignoring it and even being hostile to it
Childhood trauma can often lead to an ignoring of intuition and a mental pathway of assuming the abuser is correct because it's necessary for survival
How this concept is especially helpful in our relationship with our children

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You Are Your Own Healer with Hope Guide Founder Corban David Jenai Jan 31, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Corban David Jenai

We are each our own healer, and how to even begin the journey
How he started his own healing journey and how some things like talk therapy actually seemed to make things worse at certain points
No one can know us as well as we can know ourselves and why we are the experts on ourselves
Therapy is a major intervention often made necessary by lack of a thousand smaller interventions along the way
Healing hinges on connection with our bodies, with each other, and with the ineffable
What somatic experiencing therapy is and how it can help with reconnection to our bodies
Dissociation is not a malady; it is a remedy and is there to tell us something
How spending over $300k helped him learn that it is often the simple and inexpensive things that can make the most difference over time
His core, sleep, diet, and exercise strategies that helped his mental health
Resting is investing!
How sleep and a healthy diet directly influence the brain and mental health
Emotions happen within our bodies, and our bodies can give us a clue to healing
How lack of connection with others (true, deep connection) connects to mental health struggles
Why are we more lonely now than we ever have been and what to do about it

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Nervous System Health and Regulation for the Whole Family with Dr. David Rabin Jan 30, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. David Rabin

What to do if you feel stuck in fight or flight
Things you can do to help your home feel safe for your nervous system
Strategies for creating a calm and soothing environment in our homes
How screens are stressful to the nervous system
Why he says one of the most dangerous things you can do to a young child is hand them a screen, especially one that's unlocked
How screens can short-circuit kids' learning to self-soothe
Certain lighting that is abrasive to the nervous system
Fascinating study about depression that shows it's not genetic and the things we can do that help the most

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Apollo Wearable - use code wellnessmama15 for a discount

Neuroplasticity and the Stress Response with Dr. David Rabin Jan 29, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. David Rabin

What translational neuroscience is and how these topics apply to all of us
Applicable understanding of nervous system health and regulation
What the autonomic nervous system is and the two parts
The vagus nerve and how to stimulate it
How overstimulation affects the nervous system and how light, sound, news, etc., can keep us in fight or flight
Strategies for calming the nervous system and creating a calmer home
His six suggestions for calming the nervous system: intentional breathing, intentional movement, soothing touch, soothing music, intentional nutrition, and sleep/rest
Why our normal breathing rate is actually in the range of stress breathing
The three most foundational skills we can teach our kids or learn as humans: mind and body are connected, we are in control of our attention, and self-soothing
What neuroplasticity is and how to improve yours
Safety unlocks recovery, which unlocks learning and creativity

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