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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:

Keep Being Love: How Healing Happens, Acupuncture, & Mind, Body, Soul Connection With Diana Lane Jun 12, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Diana

Her journey backpacking from china to Thailand to learn Traditional Chinese Medicine and what she learned
How she went from pre-med heart expert to multi-modality acupuncture and holistic health
What acupuncture is and how it works
How acupuncture works with energy and electricity using water and metal to conduct electricity and the scientific backing for it
Is acupuncture safe for moms and pregnant moms
Why you have to feel it to heal it and how emotional and mental health are so intricately connected to physical health
“The issues are in the tissues”
What EFT is and how it can be helpful for healing
Where thoughts go, energy flows
Keep being love and how healing happens
When discomfort arises, can you learn to love that too?
How does healing actually happen and how understanding this can help in all areas of healing

Resources We Mention

Diana Lane - Acupuncture
Diana Lane - Instagram
A Path with Heart by Jack Kornfield
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Mental Health, Time Management and Learning Together With Our Kids With Sara Olsher Jun 07, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Sara

How she got into the work of creating resources to help kids through something tough
The importance of talking to our kids about the hard stuff
Why we need to have the real conversations with them or they will make up stories about what is happening to help them understand
Why using simple language and explaining how this will affect them are two important pieces
How a calendar had such an impact on her daughter and her anxiety
The reason she wrote a children's book to help navigate those hard conversations
The importance of therapists, accepting help when you need it, and healthy outlets for your own emotions

Resources We Mention

Why Most of Us Are Mineral Deficient, How to know, and What to Do About It with Barton Scott Jun 05, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Barton

Why we are all facing a lack of nutrients in our food supply and why this is a new phenomenon
This issue is important because we are getting 50% less minerals in food but can’t easily take in 2x calories to compensate so we have to figure out what to do
How his Mom's struggle with life threatening health issues led to his work in this area
The body is always putting out warning signs and speaking to us in a way we might not understand
How modern farming practices are causing a rapid depletion of minerals in our food supply and how if minerals are not present in the soil, they can’t be in the food (similar to a mother not being able to give nutrients she doesn’t have to her child in utero)
Why blood tests aren’t necessarily accurate for minerals
Blood tests are “you on your best behavior because we will pull from bone marrow or even organs to make sure blood is as ideal as possible
Why abnormal results in blood tests can indicate that a person has had a deficiency for decades
8 out of 10 people are deficient in magnesium
Why most women are also low on testosterone
Minerals are the building blocks for hormones and neurotransmitters
How absorbable minerals can help with things like making melatonin or serotonin naturally and how taking a very bioavailable one can help even if you have digestive issues or other things going on that make it hard to get them from food
Magnesium activates over 3200 proteins and over 800 enzymatic pathways in the body
Minerals are a “light switch” of sorts that open the circuit for the body to be able to use other things like vitamins
How activity level impacts mineral need
Risk factors for mineral deficiencies
Why most people are also deficient in potassium and how potassium is connected to energy
What sodium and lithium deficiencies cause

Resources We Mention

Upgraded Formulas
LMNT - salt and electrolytes
The Surrender Experiment by Michael A. Singer
Clean Gut: The Breakthrough Plan for Eliminating the Root Cause of Disease and Revolutionizing Your Health by Alejandro Junger

Must Listen if You Drink Wine + Conscious Consumption & Longevity With Todd White May 31, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Todd

The problems with most wines today
Why most wines are not natural and the unsavory things added to most wines today
What we don’t know about wine may be hurting us
Alcohol is objectively toxic and why Todd, as the wine guy, explains this in depth and why it can be best not to drink it at all
Todd’s own rules around drinking to minimize negative effects and why he chooses it for joy and not for health reasons
Why they started adding toxins and additives to wine
Wine has been made for 9,000 years and all wine was natural, but this changed in the 1920s
Only 4% of US wines are organic but it’s worse than that
Grapes are #6 on the dirty dozen so organic wine is important
Beyond organic… the nasty stuff added to most wines (even some organic ones)
The massive consolidation of the wine industry that led to 3 companies controlling over 50% of wine
There are 76 additives approved for use in wine
Why Todd believes wine labels should have a contents (ingredients) label and nutritional info
The only two ingredients found in a natural wine: grapes and native natural yeast
Other ingredients in conventional wines: sugars, dyes, animal products, 12 additives classified as health hazards, 8 derived from black mold, and two classified by NIH as acute toxins meaning too much in a 24 hour period can be fatal
How big wine companies respond to claims about natural wines (and how they responded to a lawsuit showing arsenic in wine at 5x the amount allowed in water)
The reason Prop 65 in California can actually let companies get away with additives in wine based on disclosure
What is natural wine and the standards it adheres to
Why wild native yeast is important and what makes it so different
How conventional wines often contain GMO yeast
Why they only accept 21% of the wines they test (and they only choose organic wines to start with)

Resources We Mention

Dry Farm Wines
Mastery by Robert Greene
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
The Master Key System by Charles F. Haanel

Toxic Mold Recovery Guide to Take Back Your Home and Health With Bridgit Danner May 29, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Bridgit

Her experience living in a rice farming village for a year
What toxic mold is and how it develops
Mold is a natural part of the world and it serves a purpose but can be problematic when it thrives in our home environment
The most common and most noticeable effects of mold exposure and the lesser known effects
Why mold is really hard on the gut
How to test for mold in the home and in the body
Ways to do remediation in the home
How to actually heal from mold and strategies to detox
Tips to keep your liver healthy
Benefits of sauna, coffee enemas, dry brushing and other interventions for mold
Ways to actively support detox from mold or other exposers

Resources We Mention

Bridgit Danner - website
The Ultimate Toxic Mold Recovery Guide: Take Back Your Home, Health & Life by Bridgit Danner
Sunlight Sauna
Creatrix Sauna
Castor Oil Packs
Air Doctor
Simply O3
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
Video on Coffee Enemas

Silica, Salt, and Minerals for Collagen and Overall Health With Eidon Minerals May 24, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Rick

What we are made of and how minerals come into play
Where do you think you came from?
We are a combination of minerals and water (among other things)
Why the Germ Theory of Disease is inadequate
The reason western medicine misses things by just looking at the level of germs or of the organ systems and not looking at the cellular level and mineral balance
Mineral balance theory of disease and how to support the body
The benefit of adding sea salt to the soil in gardening
A reason not to take calcium everyday and how too much can be toxic
The real story about calcium, how much we need, and the other minerals we need with it
Why silica is so important for health and why we aren’t getting anywhere near enough
Silica is the essential element that builds collagen
Bone is collagen matrix… and why we don’t need more calcium most of the time but more collagen matrix which can be helped by minerals and silica
How to supplement with minerals so they are effective in the body
Importance of potassium and magnesium

Resources We Mention

Eidon
LMNT electrolytes
Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

Stop Trying to Lose Weight and What to Do Instead With JJ Virgin May 22, 2023

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Episode Highlights With JJ

Why we should all stop trying to lose weight and why she says this after decades as a weight loss expert
The problems with some of the weight loss trends right now
Things that have helped her thrive and feel amazing in her 50s!
The importance of skeletal muscle for maintaining a healthy body composition
Muscle loss vs fat loss
Creatine, protein, and resistance training
Reasons not to focus just on the scale
Reframing the conversation about health and weight especially with our kids
How to use a DEXA scan to understand your body composition
Why it is more dangerous to be under muscled than over fat and why where the fat is matters
Why we need more protein as we age, not less
Why you need to be healthy to drop fat, not drop fat to be healthy
Less than 6% of the population is metabolically healthy
Why we burn fat well when we are sleeping and why fasted workouts might not be great for women
Let’s stop trying to be smaller and to take up less space and focus on getting stronger
Muscle is your metabolic Spanx and a sugar sponge to handle carbs
How to use HRV as a tool to see what is helping you and use it to improve your nervous system
Why you should absolutely be taking creatine and why it is a secret weapon for women
An ending challenge for you (try it!)

Resources We Mention

Meditations of Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids With Ryan Holiday May 17, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Ryan

How he shifted from just talking about stoicism to bringing this into parenting
The imbalance in the domestic load that often exists between moms and dads and what he views as paths forward to help balance this
Why there aren’t a lot of good parenting books, especially for Dad
Modern times expect much more of parents and how this has shifted parenting
Why it might be a good thing when kids misbehave or push boundaries and how to handle this in a positive way
We don’t really control our kids and even if we can, it isn’t a good idea, so what to do instead
The importance of modeling in parenting and especially in communicating values
Why parents need to get serious about understanding what our values actually are when it comes to our children
The things we can get caught up in thinking are important now with our kids that won’t be important at all in 20 years
Balancing protecting our kids with helping them learn to be autonomous
Key takeaways from his book that he hopes to leave listeners and readers with
Making parenting decisions with the long term goals in mind

Resources We Mention

The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love, and Raising Great Kids by Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday The Stoic Virtues Series 2 Books Set
The daily dad email signup link
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD

Reasons to Let Our Kids Be Free Range Kids With Lenore Skenazy May 15, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Lenore

How she initially rose to fame by letting her child ride the subway alone and how she got the title “America’s worst mom” because of it
The way we got to a point where we're afraid to let our kids do things that many of us remember doing
Crime is lower now than when we were kids so why are we more worried?
Two big things that happened in the 1980s that shifted parenting in the US
Big factors that have influenced why we have more fear around parenting now
Why we all have the desire to keep our kids safe but the downsides of an over curated childhood
The negative effects of over curated childhood for children
Why more kids are having depression and anxiety and how kids feeling underestimated can contribute to this
How too much control is harming children and why kids need an internal locus of control
Independence, responsibility, and trust all help contribute to this internal locus of control for kids
What the Let Grow Project is and the free resources they have
How to rewire your own fears as a parent to feel safe in letting our kids have more independence

Resources We Mention

Free-Range Kids: How Parents and Teachers Can Let Go and Let Grow by Lenore Skenazy
Let Grow Website
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Free to Learn by Peter Gray
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein

What You Don’t Know About Water, It’s Job, and Revitalizing It for Best Interaction with Our Bodies with Natural Action Tech May 10, 2023

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Episode Highlights With Jonathan

Why his favorite thing to do is walk and how he cultivated this habit
The basic foundational building blocks of understanding water and the real definition of water
How water can communicate and how to help it communicate better
Why water is alive in a simple way and why this is important to understand
What the terrain model is and how this relates to water
How information is stored in the water
The correlation between human pregnancy and single cells and water’s action in the body
Our blood is similar to ocean water and why this matters
Life cycle behavior in water and how to use this to your advantage
The double-blind studies he has done on water and ice crystals
His four-year study on the vibration of water
The inertia of water and what this means
Why we are declining in hydration as we age and how to hydrate better as you age
The geometric patterns in water and how people with illness have the same geometric patterns of water
What his experience with working with nuclear power taught him about water
Structured, coherent, or revitalized water that occurs in nature and how we can replicate it at home
How he went from working on nuclear power to now innovating with water
What the phases of water are and his in depth understanding about this
Interesting facts about water: water is the number one nuclear remediation method, the power of a well designed nuclear reactor is regulated by water
Water systems that revitalize water in the home and the one I use (linked below)