The Wellness Mama Podcast

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443: Dr. Manasa Mantravadi on How Plastic Chemicals Are Changing Your Family’s Health & Hormones May 13, 2021

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I am here today with Dr. Manasa Mantravadi, a pediatric hospitalist who is also a mom. We sit down to talk about something I’ve taken some heat for in the past: my stance on the problems with plastic chemicals. Years later, with the benefit of new studies and a 2018 paper from the American Academy of …

442: John Roulac on how Chemicals are Killing Insects & Destroying the Ocean May 10, 2021

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This episode is incredibly important for any of us who breathe air, eat food, or drink water. Today we delve into some of the real dangers of some of the climate change problems that we’re having and what the real roots are. Bottom line, it’s not the story that you’re hearing from most sources. I’m …

441: Dr. Robert Lustig on the Lure & the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, & Modern Medicine May 06, 2021

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Warning: if you have a sweet tooth, you might not like what you hear in this episode! Dr. Robert Lustig is a professor of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California at San Francisco. He has authored over 130 peer-reviewed articles, …

440: Dr. Ari Langdon on Working Through Trauma & Understanding the Mind/Body Connection May 03, 2021

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Over the last year, I’ve been sharing how I worked through my past trauma and ways that others can start that journey as well. I’m here with Dr. Ariana Langdon, who is a Bastyr-educated naturopathic physician. She was raised in the Ukrainian area of Chicago where she learned plenty of street smarts by age nine. Later …

439: An Interview With My Five-Year-Old About Family Culture Apr 29, 2021

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I’ve talked before about how I believe that kids are born with many of the skills they need to thrive as an adult, like creativity, imagination, connecting the dots (pattern recognition), critical thinking (asking why), and many others. In my opinion, much of our work as parents is just keeping them from having these skills …

438: Martha Tettenborn on Metabolic Factors That Affect Cancer Recovery Apr 26, 2021

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I’m here with Martha Tettenborn, a registered dietitian and health coach whose health journey began with an ovarian cancer diagnosis. It led her to deep research on the science of cancer metabolism and eventually to her own recovery. Now she helps so many others do the same. I walked away from this episode amazed by how …

437: Dr. Ted Achacoso on Health Optimization Medicine, Nootropics, & Anti-Aging Apr 22, 2021

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I’m here with Dr. Ted Achacoso, a polymath doctor with one of the most impressive resumes I’ve ever seen. He is multiple board-certified and an expert in many things, including what he calls health optimization medicine. It’s an entirely different approach to medicine, beyond even functional medicine and naturopathic medicine, that specializes in things like …

436: Are Bras Making Us Sick? The Breast Disease Link With Sydney Singer Apr 19, 2021

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Sydney Ross Singer is a medical anthropologist, which is a term maybe not many of us have heard before. As director of the Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, Sydney uses his training in medicine, biochemistry, and anthropology to discover the cultural causes of disease and how they link to medical causes. When his …

435: Eileen Durfee on the Cause & Solution of Back and Neck Pain Apr 15, 2021

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I am back today with Eileen Durfee, a former nuclear power plant engineer who, like many of us, has battled through a lot of her own health problems. Eileen has figured out a really innovative solution called the Neck Shaper that helps the misalignment of spinal posture that causes many back and neck problems. There …

434: Radha Agrawal on Biohacking Joy & Creating Strong Community Apr 12, 2021

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This episode is all about creating joy and strong community, something we’re all longing for about now! I’m here with Radha Agrawal, who is quite simply a force for community-building in the world. She is the co-founder, CEO, and chief community architect of a company called Daybreaker, which is a dance and wellness movement company …

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