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
Episodes
953 episodes
Baking Soda Benefits: Energy, Endurance & pH Balance (Quick Tip- Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieWhy baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) helps regulate your body’s pH and CO2 levelsHow it boosts endurance and athletic performance (and why it was once banned in sports!)The surprising w...
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Episode 946
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28:53
The 8 Pillars of Functional Women’s Health With Dr. Meg Mill
Episode Highlights With MegThe eight pillars of women’s health and the connections between themOrder matters when it comes to these pillars, especially with things like detoxificationWhy starting with detox can be ...
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Episode 945
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32:10
Histamine Masterclass and Incorporating MCAS With Dr. Meg Mill
Episode Highlights With MegWhat histamine is and how it can be causing symptoms you may not even realizeThe different parts of the immune system and how they're important to understandLink to stomach acid and diges...
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Episode 944
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40:03
Chocolate As a Health Food: The Power of Chocolate + Adaptogens with Jonathan Pantalis
Episode Highlights With JonathanHow he almost opened a pie shop- a wild story and his journey into the world of chocolate What the real story of chocolate is, and all of the components that can be in chocolate
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Episode 943
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52:17
Fascia and The Pelvic Floor + Deep Core Strength with Erica Ziel
Episode Highlights With EricaThe role of the fascia in the pelvic floor and deep core musclesWhy this is important, especially if we’ve been pregnant and had vaginal or c-section birthsAn at-home test and analysis ...
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Episode 942
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29:54
The Power of Fascia to get your body out of pain with Erica Ziel
Episode Highlights With EricaWhat fascia is and why it's so importantWhy fascia is our body’s superpower and how we create more and stronger fasciaMuscular strength vs fascial strength and how these are different
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Episode 941
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41:37
My Biological Age is 21.7- Factors that I Think Helped Most (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieWhich test I took that showed my biological age substantially lower than my actual ageDifferent ways to test biological age and how they're calculatedThe things this particular test loo...
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Episode 940
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30:38
The Brain, Gut, Vagina Connection with Dr. Betsy Greenleaf
Episode Highlights With BetsyThe microbiome you might not have even known you have! How the gut and brain microbiome connection comes into playUnderstanding the vaginal microbiomeThe feedback loop to ...
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Episode 939
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1:04:06
Setting Women Free From the Chains of Dieting With Shay Pascale
Episode Highlights With ShayThe common problems with most conventional diet models What’s going on when we feel like we're doing everything right but nothing is changing We start losing muscle in our 30s ...
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Episode 938
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55:59
The Brain is the Most Powerful Healing Tool We Have With Dr. Darin Ingels
Episode Highlights With Darin Why the mind is the most powerful healing tool we have and how mindset comes into play with healingYou have more nerve endings in the gut than in the brain, and the gut/brain connection co...
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Episode 937
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25:12
The Lyme Disease Epidemic and Solution With Dr. Darin Ingels
Episode Highlights With Darin Lyme disease is actually a bacterial infectionThe mysterious collection of symptoms associated with Lyme diseaseThere are over 100 symptoms associated with Lyme and why it's often...
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Episode 936
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41:43
Stress vs. Safety: The Hidden Signals That Affect Your Health (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieWhy your body needs safety, not just supplements, to healThe difference between stress signals and safety signals—and how your body is always listeningHow und...
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Episode 935
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37:33
Autism Deep Dive: Beyond Mercury to Other Risk Factors with Dr. Anne Marie Fine
Episode Highlights With Dr. Anne Marie FineWhat happened with autism and why rates have risen from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31Some of the multi-faceted reasons that it might be on the riseWhat the literature actually sa...
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Episode 934
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58:05
My Nighttime Routine: From Sunset to Deep Sleep (Solo episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieDim lights, not willpower, is the best sleep hackCreating a nighttime ritual helps your nervous system feel safeSleep is a multiplier—optimize it and everything else gets easier
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Episode 933
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36:07
Understanding Hormone Testing and Replacement for Women with Dr. Deborah Matthew
Episode Highlights With DeborahWhen to consider hormone testing and symptoms to be aware ofOne big clue that your hormones could be the issue Symptoms of too much or too little estrogen and progesterone <...
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Episode 932
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29:55
Testosterone for Women: Testing, Natural Methods and Replacement with Dr. Deborah Matthew
Episode Highlights With DeborahWhy testosterone is important for women and often not talked about as muchWomen can have up to 10x as much testosterone as estrogenTestosterone is important for sexual health, bone he...
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Episode 931
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40:06
My Morning Routine for Energy, Focus, & Hormone Health (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieWhy sunlight and salt first thing supports energy and hormonesThe oral detox ritual that supports your microbiome and immune systemWhich supplements to take on an empty stomach (and why...
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Episode 930
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40:05
The Science of Skin Health: Debunking Myths and Effective Root Cause Options with Robyn Spangler
Episode Highlights With RobynCommon misconceptions about nutrition and skin healthFood fears around skin health: i.e., dairy/gluten is bad for the skinTop ways to support skin from the inside outFixing the...
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Episode 929
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28:48
The Root Causes of Acne and How to Address Them with Robyn Spangler
Episode Highlights With RobynHer own journey with acne and all the extreme things she tried before discovering what workedThe functional approach to healing that changed her lifeWhat to understand about the convent...
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Episode 928
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33:30
Understanding Fertility, AMH, Premature Ovarian Insufficiency, and Diminished Ovarian Reserve With Sarah Clark
Episode Highlights With SarahWhat AMH is and how it comes into play with fertility Her own journey with fertility AMH does not predict your ability to get pregnant naturally and it doesn’t test egg qualit...
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Episode 927
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53:11
Detox, Epigenetics, and Biohacking from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective With Ashley Beckman
Episode Highlights With Ashley What are the foundational differences between Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine? It’s all about constitution in TCM and what the differences are hereWhat it might mea...
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Episode 926
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29:56
The Benefits of Walking: Health One Step at a Time (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieWhat the research actually says about the benefits of walkingIs there any magic in the 10K steps a day number?Timing considerations for maximum benefitThe physiological benefit...
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Episode 925
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30:46
How to Discover Your Why and Your Unique Health Equation with Jill Foos
Episode Highlights With Jill FoosHer background in equestrianism as a kid and how she has five kidsShe essentially grew up in a barn How she took charge of her own health by age 16 after deciding she wanted a ...
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Episode 924
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55:26
Thyroid Update: Hashimoto's Gone… What I Did That Worked! (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With KatieMy recovery journey from Hashimoto'sWhat my most recent labs show with no medication for over two yearsAll of the factors I feel contributed to my healingHow long this approach...
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Episode 923
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33:18
Thyroid Health Deep Dive: Labs, Remedies, Medications and More with McCall McPherson
Episode Highlights with McCall McPhersonWhy we can’t put our blind trust in practitioners when it comes to thyroid health and the tools to step into being your own primary healthcare provider for thyroid healthIf you have t...
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Episode 922
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34:30