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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:

The Simplest Dietary Secret with Wade Lightheart and Matt Gallant Jan 25, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Matt and Wade

Why there's no universal perfect diet but why a personalized diet can be helpful for everyone
How to figure out what a sustainable lifestyle plan for your personalized needs is
Ways Wade gets enough protein on a plant-based diet
Gut biome considerations for figuring out your personalized plan
Why we can’t get enough magnesium from food anymore, even if we're eating a perfect diet
How to address the emotions that may be inhibiting health and dietary success
Recognizing your patterns and monitoring them
The simplest dietary secret: eating the same combination of things over and over (rotate 12 favorite meals that meet your needs)
Bulk cooking strategies for making healthy eating easier
How to reduce decision-making fatigue by following a healthier eating plan
The more variety you eat, the more food cravings you have

Resources We Mention

The Ultimate Nutrition Bible: Easily Create the Perfect Diet that Fits Your Lifestyle, Goals, and Genetics by Matt Gallant and Wade T. Lightheart
BIOptimizers
The Body Keeps the Score

Unlocking Dietary Success: Insights, Genetics, and Your Unique Path to Health with Matt Gallant and Wade Lightheart Jan 24, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Matt and Wade

Their own stories with diet and nutrition that led to them writing this book
Universal nutritional optimizers that everyone can benefit from
How to figure out your own personalized plan that is sustainable and effective
How the digestive system processes food and how optimizing your diet helps your digestion be more successful
The truth about why we crave foods
Undigested protein causes inflammatory issues in the body if we don’t have enough enzymes
Their view of the diet wars and how to end them
How your diet needs to be sustainable for your lifestyle
Some practical tips you can follow to sustain your weight
How women should lift weights and why doing it won't make you too big
What a set point of weight is and why it takes 18 months to reset this set point

Resources We Mention

The Ultimate Nutrition Bible: Easily Create the Perfect Diet that Fits Your Lifestyle, Goals, and Genetics by Matt Gallant and Wade T. Lightheart
BIOptimizers

Help for TBIs and Cognitive Decline with Dr. Patrick Porter Jan 23, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Patrick Porter

What happens in the brain when there's a head injury and why everyone has this to some degree
You're the result of how your brain remodeled after all the head bumps as a child
Some people have blood in the brain from an injury even a decade after the injury!
The only time the brain detoxes is during level 4 sleep
What’s going on with age-related cognitive decline
The importance of vitamin C for brain and nervous system health
The aging brain is a brain that's on fire with inflammation
Why they call Alzheimer's type 3 diabetes
Our livers hold 30 grams of sugar and why this is important
The brain uses 25% of all the energy in the body before the rest of the body gets any
Words can change up to 2,300 brain expressions
Our eyes have the most mitochondrial density of anywhere in the body

“It’s either thoughts, trauma or toxins.” -Dr Patrick Porter

Resources We Mention

BrainTap
BrainTap(R) Technical Overview - The Power of Light, Sound and Vibration by Patrick Porter, Ph.D
Instagram - Dr. Patrick Porter

How Light, Sound, and Vibration Heal the Brain (The Science) with Dr. Patrick Porter Jan 22, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Patrick Porter

What BrainTap is and how he developed it
The Silva Method and how it influences brain entrainment
What brain entrainment is and how to use this to your advantage
A PTSD study they did with moms of autistic children and the surprising results
Our bodies learn from our environment and how we can use this with light, sound, and vibration to help our nervous systems relax
What psychoimmunology is and why this is important to understand
Your brain isn’t just located between your ears — every cell of your body responds to its environment
He has scanned over 30,000 brains!
Most brains are operating in delta and why this isn’t optimal (and how to shift it)
Beta and alpha brain waves and what they do
Alpha is the intuitive mind
How to reset your nervous system quickly
His tip on caffeine and why it’s worth waiting a while before drinking coffee in the morning
The importance of prayer or breathwork before eating for nervous system health
His best breathwork strategies and how to do them with your kids
Why sugar is bad for the brain

Resources We Mention

Debunking the Blue Zones with Dr. Steven Gundry Jan 18, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gundry

The biggest misconceptions when it comes to Blue Zones and what we can learn
Where the word Blue Zones comes from
What people actually eat and what we can learn from the Blue Zones
Data from Sardinia that highlights actual lessons from the Blue Zones
A shocking statistic: the nicotine consumption in some Blue Zone areas might be contributing to longevity!
Is there a time and a place for healthy nicotine consumption for longevity?
Actual key takeaways from the data of the Blue Zones
Vitamin C is essential for knitting collagen back together
The mineral and micronutrient theories of food consumption and why getting more nutrients and minerals might also help combat overeating
A fascinating study of a two-week water fasting group that added in prebiotics
His personal daily habits and non-negotiables
Why he eats in a shorter eating window each day for gut health and longevity
Why you need downtime for your gut wall to repair itself

Resources We Mention

Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health (The Plant Paradox, 7) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
Unlocking the Keto Code: The Revolutionary New Science of Keto That Offers More Benefits Without Deprivation (The Plant Paradox, 7) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free (The Plant Paradox, 3) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age (The Plant Paradox, 4) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone (The Plant Paradox, 6) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
Dr. Gundry - Products

How to Keep Your Gut in Check & Transform Your Health with Dr. Gundry Jan 17, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gundry

What inspired his new book Gut Check
Why a diverse gut biome is key for longevity and health
The reason he works with so many autoimmune patients and what he has found about gut health and autoimmunity
What leaky gut is and how to fix it
100% of people with leaky gut have their immune system activated to various forms of wheat
What has changed that is leading to more gut issues
The key foods he recommends avoiding for gut health
Glyphosate was patented as an antibiotic, not a weed killer, and it can harm the microbiome
On its own, glyphosate causes leaky gut
94% of autoimmune patients resolve their issues with his protocols
The reason people can eat certain foods in Europe but not the US
What the estrobolome is and why it is important
There is a microbiome associated with every cancer that has been studied
His key solutions to resolving leaky gut
The importance of pressure-cooking grains and legumes
There are 92 trillion more bacteria in each of our guts than there are trees in the world

Resources We Mention

Gut Check: Unleash the Power of Your Microbiome to Reverse Disease and Transform Your Mental, Physical, and Emotional Health (The Plant Paradox, 7) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
Unlocking the Keto Code: The Revolutionary New Science of Keto That Offers More Benefits Without Deprivation (The Plant Paradox, 7) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Plant Paradox Quick and Easy: The 30-Day Plan to Lose Weight, Feel Great, and Live Lectin-Free (The Plant Paradox, 3) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Longevity Paradox: How to Die Young at a Ripe Old Age (The Plant Paradox, 4) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone (The Plant Paradox, 6) by Dr. Steven R. Gundry, MD
Dr. Gundry - Products

The Three Keys of Health that Most People Miss with Ian Clark Jan 16, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Ian

The three keys of health most people miss
The first key is to get your biological age to around 25-35 years old and how to do this
The second key is to have structural integrity in your bones, joints, muscles, etc, and how to do this
The third key is the fuels that you put into your body (air, fluids, and food) and how to optimize them
People often ultimately die from hypoxia, as less and less oxygen gets to tissues as we age, and how to reverse this
How HRV comes into play and how to get it into a great range
What rhythmic breathing is and how to use it to improve HRV (breathe in for 5 and out for 6)
Ways to improve structural health

Resources We Mention

Activation Products - Use code wellnessmama20 for a discount
HeartMath

The Elephant in the Room in the Health Space (& How to Fix It) with Ian Clark Jan 15, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Ian

The elephant in the room when it comes to health
What we do the most physically, and how it affects us
One of the biggest things we do each day is breathe — 160 million liters of air by age 60
How air contamination causes us health problems
We have five liters of blood, and what we breathe gets instantly transported to every cell in our bodies every single minute
What happens when these nanoparticles of negative substances accumulate in our bodies over the course of years
The actual solution to this problem on a cellular level
How his biological age went from age 65 to age 25-35
Ways to produce clean blood and build your body from the cellular level up
How to biologically age backward
What sea minerals are and how to drastically change your body by optimizing them

Resources We Mention

Activation Products - Use code wellnessmama20 for a discount
Book: The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life

Balancing Parenting and Entrepreneurship (& Teaching Kids Financial Skills) with Gordy Bal Jan 11, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Gordy

What happens when we compartmentalize business and family and how to integrate this better
Living a mission-driven life as a parent and entrepreneur
It’s no secret that the school system doesn’t adequately prepare our kids for all aspects of life and how to do that better
How he navigates screen time and technology with his kids and balances it with nature time
Conversations he has with his kids about work and business
How he works in these lessons with his kids at a young age
The reason he doesn’t ask his kids, “Why did you do that?” and the questions he asks instead

Resources We Mention

We Are All Investors: The New Millionaire’s Playbook with Gordy Bal Jan 10, 2024

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Episode Highlights With Gordy

His personal journey that led to writing The New Millionaire’s Playbook
Pillars to understand when it comes to financial success
Creating conscious change and financial stability through serving others
The reality distortion field and why most of our programming, especially around finances, is from external sources
The big switch: we can interface with the reality distortion field and create our own reality through our thoughts
Our thoughts are the most powerful currency we have to invest, and how to begin doing this
How to discover your true purpose
What MEPS stands for and how to use it: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being
What MARS is and how it works: multiple automated revenue streams
How to change your thoughts to change your mind and your life
What happens when we ask "why" questions of ourselves, especially negatively focused one
His immediate hack to change your thoughts: pause and say, “Am I having my thoughts, or are my thoughts having me?”
Our thoughts are the most powerful currency for us to invest
How to engineer synchronicities

Resources We Mention

The New Millionaire's Playbook: 7 Keys to Unlock Freedom, Purpose, and Abundance by Gordy Bal
Book: Love Money, Money Loves You by Sarah McCrum

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