Cynthia Thurlow is back to talk biohacking your hormones and your sleep, especially for women. And we get to go deep on some pretty fun science topics on this one. If you don’t remember her from the first episode, Cynthia is a nurse practitioner and the CEO and founder of Everyday Wellness project. She’s an …

Dr. Robin Berzin is the founder and CEO of Parsley Health, which is America’s leading holistic medical practice, specifically designed to help women overcome chronic conditions. And she founded this company to help Americans combat the rising tide of chronic disease through really personalized holistic medicine. She’s also the author of a new book called, …

I’m here today with my friend, Naveen Jain, who is an intensely curious entrepreneur who has been taking on some big, audacious ideas to push humanity forward. He’s the author of the award-winning book “Moonshots: Creating a World of Abundance,” and his current adventures are Moon Express, which is a space company, and Viome. His …

I am here today with Dr. Debi Silber about how to stop sabotaging yourself and healing from betrayal. She’s done a lot of work on how unhealed betrayal impacts our health, our work, and our relationships. She had two painful betrayals by her family and then by her husband. And at age 50 with four …

This episode is all about sleep. I’m here with my good friend, Mollie McGlocklin, who is the creator of Sleep is a Skill and the host of the Sleep is a Skill Podcast. Her company is one that helps people optimize sleep through a unique blend of technology, accountability, and behavioral change and this started …

This episode is focused on body temperature, sleep, and much more. I'm here with Dr. Craig Heller, who is a doctor at Yale and he's done a lot of research focused on the neurobiology of sleep, circadian rhythms and thermoregulation mammalian hibernation, and temperature controls. And we dive into the Stanford cool mitt study. the fascinating way that the brain regulates body temperature and how this can be used to our benefit for athletic performance, for sleep.

I'm here today with Angela Gargano and she is an athlete, a coach, a fitness model, and a speaker. I met her recently at an event and she does a lot of work helping women get stronger and to be able to do pull-ups, which is something that has been elusive for me to date. I love her message: Strong feels good. She gives really applicable tips for increasing strength and muscle mass in this episode and she is a wealth of knowledge.

I am back today with one of my favorite people to talk to, Ari Whitten. And today we're talking about how to eat for energy, beat fatigue, supercharge your mitochondria, and unlock all-day energy. He talks about the real root causes of fatigue, how nutrition and circadian function are interlinked and how to optimize them, the real reasons we're seeing a rise in obesity and how we can reverse it and some practical shifts that make a big difference in your body composition.

I’m here today with Jules Schroeder and we talk about living an unconventional life and intuitive living. Jules is a fascinating person and she is ranked by “Inc Magazine” as number one of the top 27 female entrepreneurs changing the world and is one of the top 40 millennials to follow. She’s also a musician …

I’m here with my friend, Dr. Trevor Cates, and she’s the author of the book, “Clean Skin from Within” and founder of the Spa Dr. natural skin care line. She was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California and she helps women from around the world with the focus …

I’m here with Mariah Sage and I was excited to chat with her about parenting, how to release mom guilt and how to raise empowered kids. She uses a combination of intuition, systems, and clear applicable skills to create some really tangible shifts here, and we talk about a lot of those today. She has …

I’m here with the brilliant Teri Cochrane, founder of the Global Sustainable Health Institute and an international thought leader on longevity. She has decades of clinical work, and she developed the Cochrane Method and the Wildatarian Diet, which we talk about today.

She helps people with the intersection of gene expression due to pathogenic and environmental causes, energy, and a personal blueprint based on a variety of lifestyle factors. We discuss a lot of interesting topics today, including the role viruses, bacteria, and fungus play in genetic expression, why genes are only a small but important part of health, and how to influence our genes to our advantage.

She truly is a wealth of knowledge and a pleasure to talk to. I learned a lot in this interview, and I know that you will as well.

Episode Highlights With Teri Cochrane

• Her fascinating story of moving here from Cuba as a child and how this influenced her mindset
• How she went from institutional finance to health and wellness
• What the Wildatarian Diet is and how she built it out
• What the Cochrane Method is and how it helps look at the whole picture
• The role viruses, bacteria, and fungus play in gene expression
• Why genes are only a small part of health, but an important one
• Ways to influence your genes to your advantage 
• How herpes viruses can be latent in the body and impact health
• The way viruses (including strep) are linked to autoimmunity 
• What biofilms are and what to do about them
• How thoughts directly affect our biology 
• Why stress hormones are a  “dirty cupcake” for our health
• The role insulin plays in longevity and aging 
• Why she uses berberine for insulin health
• The supplements she takes every single day and why
• What amyloids are and why they are important 
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Teri Cochrane’s website
• Teri Cochrane’s Supplements (code MAMA10 gives 10% off)
• The Wildatarian Diet: Living as Nature Intended: A Customized Nutritional Approach for Optimal Health, Energy, and Vitality by Teri Cochrane
• Bruce Lipton books
• Izabella Wentz books
• Sinclair Lab at Harvard Medical School
• Jan 17, 2022

This episode is about the tough but very important topic of childhood trauma. I’m here with Dr. Tanner Wallace, a former university professor of health and human development turned full-time trauma recovery guide. She hosts her own podcast called “The Relational Healing Podcast” and helps adult survivors of childhood trauma heal their attachment wounds.

We discuss how childhood wounds can express in our lives, even if we don’t have a really specific extreme trauma, and the way these wounds show up in our relationships. We also go into the differences between traumatic events, how what happens after an event is often more important than the event itself, and the reason emotional neglect can be more harmful than physical abuse for children.

There will definitely be follow-ups to this episode. But as a starting point, I can’t wait to share today’s episode with you. Let’s join Dr. Tanner.

Episode Highlights With Tanner Wallace

• How childhood wounds can express in our lives, even if we don’t know we have specific trauma
• The way childhood wounds show up in adult relationships
• Differences between traumatic events and if they are traumatizing or not
• How what happens after an event is often more important than the event itself 
• Why trauma isn’t just assault and physical abuse
• The reason emotional neglect can be more harmful than physical abuse
• How trauma and wounding are a continuum
• The way our brains and bodies cope with trauma and how our personalities develop protective responses
• First steps to recognizing and starting to unpattern childhood wounds
• How to deactivate default survival codes 
• The somatic connection to working through childhood wounds and how to develop the body awareness
• Witness, befriend, validate, and eventually release 
• What attachment wounds are and how to recognize them
• Why many of these wounds often bubble up when we enter primary relationships and start creating families
• How to find a trauma-informed therapist to help work through this
• What the Internal Family Systems Model is and how this method works
• Her Relational Healing Lab approach
• What emotions are and tools for helping our kids have a better emotional vocabulary from a young age
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• The Relational Healing Podcast with Dr. Tanner Wallace
• Dr. Tanner Wallce on Instagram
• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
• Emotion Jan 13, 2022

Today on the podcast, I’m here with Dr. Joel Warsh, a board-certified pediatrician in Los Angeles who specializes in integrative medicine. We talk all about raising healthy kids using integrative pediatric options by combining Western and alternative medicine. One of my favorite quotes from this episode is, “It’s not a doctor’s job to tell people what to do, it’s a doctor’s job to teach people what to do.” And he does a lot of teaching in this interview.

We touch on different aspects of pediatric care and integrative medicine today, including all the hot topics such as what to do about a fever, ways to address things like eczema and allergies, why all childhood illnesses are on the rise, what to do about behavioral issues, why the vast majority of illnesses can be resolved at home, why he rarely prescribes antibiotics, and so much more.

He offers peace of mind for parents about how most childhood illnesses pass quickly on their own and don’t actually need care, but he gives advice on what to do if you encounter one that does require medical attention. So, without further ado, let’s learn from Dr. Joel.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Joel Warsh

• Why parents are increasingly frustrated with the current medical system
• How working with your pediatrician should be a partnership
• The reason illnesses are on the rise, even in children
• Difference between conventional care, which treats acute illness, and optimal care
• Why diabetes rates in children have doubled in the last two years
• His SEEDS of health for kids: Stress, Environment, Exercise, Diet, and Sleep
• The number one thing we can do to change our health
• Why cooking at home is one of the best health changes you can make
• The benefits of working with a team of doctors instead of a single doctor
• How often medication is actually necessary vs. the vast majority of illnesses that get resolved without it
• Why avoiding antibiotics when they aren’t needed is so important
• The reason he almost never prescribes antibiotics and uses them less than 1% of the time
• Why a fever isn’t usually a bad thing and what to do about it
• Natural ways to tackle a fever or minor illness
• Why it’s important to remember that it’s normal for kids to get sick
• How Western and alternative medicine are starting to blend together
• The three big things that parenting books get wrong about raising healthy children
• How kids are more frequently labeled with behavioral concerns now
• What the most important thing often missed in medical care
• How changing our kids’ diets can improve symptoms and reduce chemical exposure/overload

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Joel’s website
• Dr. Joel’s Instagram account
• Guinness World Records 2022
• Elderberry syrup recipe
• Genexa Remedies for Kids
• Positive Parenting C

I’m here today with Peter Crone, who does amazing work around subconscious beliefs, past trauma, and patterns from childhood. Since I shared some of my trauma, I’ve received follow-up questions about tangible things we can do to heal, which is why I wanted to have Peter on the podcast!

Peter’s story is fascinating — his mother passed away when he was seven, and his father when he was 17. This led him to a fear of loss, which was triggered when his first romantic relationship ended. He faced a lot of sleepless nights until he realized that life is uncertain and the answer to most of his problems was found in three simple words: I don’t know.

He went on to explore how the mind influences our lives and works with professional athletes, entertainers, and all kinds of global organizations around this concept.

In this episode, Peter challenges the subconscious patterns that show up in our adult lives. We also delve into consciously interacting with our children so that maybe they can enter adult life with fewer subconscious patterns. I hope you enjoy this episode!

Episode Highlights With Peter Crone

• The story of a hit-and-run accident that allowed Peter to help someone in a powerful way
• What our main obstacle to freedom is
• How who you think you are keeps you from actually being who you are
• How the loss of his parents when he was young helped him understand trauma
• Why the feeling of not being enough is almost universal
• The reason that anywhere there is resistance, there is suffering
• Different types of trauma and where they show up
• Why acceptance is the first step to healing
• How traumatic childhood experiences can lead to physical health problems (like Hashimoto’s for me)
• The importance of recognizing that we are clueless, the future is uncertain, and how to find freedom in this
• Ways to be more mindful of language and why this is important
• The reason problems are often just symptoms of subconscious constructs
• Power of imagination and how it fits into healing
• Your kids will rarely succeed at listening to you, but they will always succeed in becoming you
• How children learn by mimicking and why this is important
• How to move into compassion in interactions with people
• His advice for parents on helping avoid some of these patterns and embrace creativity and imagination
• How to maintain the joy of possibility in our kids as much as possible
• What true happiness is and how to transition to joy
• How to transcend happiness and sadness as both parts of the human experience
• Why happiness, in the way we often think of it, is impossible and why this is beautiful
• The importance of making room for all of our emotions

Resources We Mention

• Peter’s website
• Connect with Peter on Facebook
• Connect with Peter on Instagram
• Peter’s courses and workshops
• I Am That by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Today I’m here with Paul Jaminet, who had a very strong early influence on me with his “Perfect Health Diet.” As a key leader in the health and wellness world, he also influenced people like Chris Kresser and Mark Sisson. If you aren’t familiar with Paul, he’s MIT-educated in both physics and philosophy and has a Ph.D. in physics. After working in astrophysics, Paul became an entrepreneur and then transitioned into the natural health world after he experienced his own health problems.

Paul’s also the founder and president of Angiex, a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for solid cancers. It’s built on discoveries made by his wife and co-founder, Shou-Ching. They created a new class of cancer drugs, and so far the results are absolutely astounding! Normally I am not a big proponent of pharmaceuticals, but I actually invested in this company because of its potential.

We talk about a wide range of topics from diet and natural health, circadian biology, and these novel cancer treatments. And without further ado, let’s jump into this fascinating episode.

Episode Highlights With Paul Jaminet

• What the Perfect Health Diet is and how Paul created it
• How the work of Art DeVany impacted his work and what he learned in his own experimentation
• The reason he thinks carbohydrates are important (within a certain ratio)
• Paul’s own health struggles that led to his research and experimentation for the Perfect Health Diet
• The gut, carb, thyroid connection and how to understand carb needs
• How cycling fits into an evolutionary approach and how to use it effectively
• Key lifestyle and nutrition interventions for health and how circadian biology plays a pivotal role
• How he shifted into cancer research
• Paul and his wife Shou-Ching’s work on effective cancer treatments and what sets them apart
• The innovative way they are taking a two-prong approach to cancer treatment that is much less toxic and appears to be much more effective in initial trials
• Natural vs pharmaceutical approaches to cancer and how they work best together
• The things people don’t know or understand about his areas of expertise
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Perfect Health Diet website
• Perfect Health Diet: Regain Health and Lose Weight by Eating the Way You Were Meant to Eat by Paul Jaminet
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel
• Oct 25, 2021

I’m really excited to have Sara Gustafson back on the podcast today and we focus on the mental, emotional and spiritual side of women’s health. We went deep in our first episode on the physical and medical side and the mismatch between men and women both in research and treatment. But, we ran out of time before we could really delve into these other areas.

Today, we cover what she calls the four feminine archetypes and how those each relate to women in various periods of their lives, and even in a smaller basis throughout the month. She works with many women in resolving trauma, working through health problems, and a lot more. She’s a CHEK practitioner and has direct experience helping a lot of people work through issues, both physically, mentally, emotionally. We go into some really interesting topics like intuition, balancing those archetypes, and having a proper amount of each in our lives.

I’m excited to share it with you. Let’s jump in!

Episode Highlights With Sara Gustafson

• What an archetype is and the most common ones within the heroes journey
• The four specific feminine archetypes are and why they are important
• How these archetypes play a role in health
• What happens when we become detached from the archetypes
• The shadow of these archetypes and how they express themselves
• How overexcited or underdeveloped archetypes can express
• What happens when a woman isn’t allowed to express one of these archetypes
• The seven dark arrows and how they affect relationships
• How doing the work can sometimes lead to relationship problems and how she helps counteract these
• Ways to nurture intuition
• A reason to write down dreams
• How to use artwork for inner processing
• Why Sara paints everyday and how she starts her day

Resources We Mention

• Primal Pride
• Dreaming Yourself Awake: Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
• Dreaming on Both Sides of the Brain: Discover the Secret Language of the Night
• Inner Work (Audiobook)
• The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
• Oct 11, 2021

This podcast is all about real solutions for orthopedic and musculoskeletal pain. I’m here with Dr. Josh Levitt, who draws on the science of both conventional and natural medicine and has a really unique approach to dealing with musculoskeletal pain and orthopedic pain. He shares his wide-ranging approach to this and why it’s much more than just addressing the acute pain. He also talks about how he got started as a naturopathic doctor, the root causes of pain, the mind-body connection, understanding inflammation and how it relates to pain, and so much more!

He’s also the founder of upwellness.com, which is a new company. I’ve been using some of their products and am really enjoying them. While we touch a lot on pain in this one, he has expertise in a lot of different areas and he is am amazing resource for all of his patients.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Joshua Levitt

• Fun Fact: Why surfing imitates life and what we can learn from it
• How he got his start as a naturopathic doctor (it started with antibiotics)
• The patients he works with most and how he approaches care
• Root causes of musculoskeletal pain
• The mind body connection of pain that we can understand through phantom limb pain
• Why pain is actually in the brain and not the body
• The root of the word inflammation and how this relates to pain
• Why those with chronic inflammation will have a heightened pain response
• The reason he supports vs suppresses the pain/inflammation response
• Why structural problems that cause pain are only part of the equation

Resources We Mention

• Whole Health Natural Family Medicine
• Up Wellness
• Ferdinand the Bull

More From Wellness Mama

• 267: Solving Joint Pain & Why Sports Aren’t Good for Kids With Hunter Fitness
• 473: Aleks Rybchinskiy on Pain, Trauma, and Inner Work for Health and Healing
• Why Balance Is a Moving Target & How I (Sometimes) Hit It

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Today’s guest is Dr. Sara Gottfried and this episode goes deep on women, food and hormones. She is such a wealth of knowledge and she is also a personal friend. She is a board-certified physician and practices evidence-based, integrative, precision and functional medicine and we touch on so many different areas today.

We talk about new studies on when metabolism actually changes, a better model of health for women and how to reverse the negative diet mindset, why BMI is a poor metric, the reason that hormone-related problems are on the rise right now, and why hormones are more important than calories. We also touch on the most common endocrine abnormalities, why women are more sensitive to stress, how testosterone is the most abundant hormone in the female body (which I didn’t know), and so much more. Such a fun and informative episode as always!

Let’s get ready to join Dr. Sara!

Episode Highlights With Dr. Sara Gottfried

• Why doctors are trained to gaslight women about weight and metabolism
• How metabolism doesn’t change until over age 60
• A better model of health for women and how to reverse the negative mindset
• Why BMI is a poor metric that is often not helpful for women
• The reason hormone related problems are on the rise right now
• What the most common endocrine abnormality is in women and why this is important
• Why women are more sensitive to stress and how to understand how to manage it
• How cortisol can disrupt other hormones in a cascade
• Why testosterone is the most abundant hormone women have
• The 400 jobs estrogen has in the body
• What range to aim for optimal testosterone for women
• Natural ways to balance hormones, especially testosterone
• How coffee can lower testosterone in women
• The way to leverage exercise to improve hormone levels
• Why calories matter but hormones matter more
• The reason some people don’t do well with high levels of saturated fat
• Why keto doesn’t work for some women and how to adapt it
• How to be metabolically flexible and how to know if you aren’t
• A reason to cycle everything
• How to support hormones through menstrual cycles, perimenopause and menopause

Resources We Mention

• Sara Gottfried MD website
• Dr. Sara’s books
• Become a patient of Dr. Gottfried’s
• Levels monitor
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• Dr. Christiane Northrup’s PBS Special

More From Wellness Mama

• 506: Dr. Daniel Kalish on Aging, Mitochondria, Hormones, and Longevity
• 309: How I Overcame Trauma (and Lost 50 Pounds)
• Sep 20, 2021

Meet Paul Chek, a well-renowned expert in the fields of corrective and high-performance exercise kinesiology, stress management, and holistic wellness. He’s the founder of the CHEK Institute and a coaching program by the same name, and he’s the host of the podcast, Living 4D with Paul Chek.

This conversation isn’t about just one topic, but many many interesting ones. We explore the idea that our mental belief systems and the thoughts that we have internally drastically affect our health in a very real and physical way. Paul talks about how to address some unconscious beliefs that might be holding us back, especially in terms of motherhood.

I think this is a very educational episode and probably pretty surprising. I would encourage you to listen to it with an open mind, and I’m very curious to know your opinion once you do!

Episode Highlights With Paul Chek

• How Paul got into the world of holistic health 37 years ago
• Why his day starts at 3 am
• How his system of four doctors developed and how he teaches his practitioners this process
• The four categories that no philosophy can be reduced below: Happiness, movement, diet, and quiet
• Why unbound play is so important for us all
• What control fatigue is and how to manage it, especially as a mom
• How to avoid burnout and “stinking thinking”
• The importance of your mental diet, not just the food you put in your mouth
• Why moms especially can struggle with taking care of themselves and the unconscious beliefs at the root of this
• How long-term elevated cortisol levels can lead to a cascade of thyroid and neurotransmitter issues
• What research shows on the healthiest tribes in the world and what we can learn from them
• Why to ask yourself if your belief system is worth challenging
• The “name it, blame it, tame it” technique
• Why to identify what your most important unmet task is
• Why you have a 38-60% chance of manifesting a disease you believe you have due to the nocebo effect
• How curiosity is the antidote to unconscious beliefs
• Ways to be present and impactful as a parent
• The four factors most likely to lead to addiction: perfectionism, intensity, negativity, need to know
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coaching Program Level 1 Paul Chek’s online program (Use code wellnessmama15 for 15% off)
• How to Eat, Move, and Be Healthy by Paul Chek (Use code wellnessmama15 for 15% off)

Other Books Recommended by Paul Chek

• Switch: How to Change When Change Is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath
• It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
• Sep 06, 2021

I’m here with Cynthia Thurlow, who is the CEO and founder of the Everyday Wellness Project. She’s also a nurse practitioner and a globally recognized expert when it comes to intermittent fasting and nutritional health. In fact, she has a TED talk on intermittent fasting that has been watched over 8 million times!

We go really, really specific on the differences between fasting for men and women, how to fast without stressing out your body, and some really important reasons to stop snacking. If you fast or practice time-restricted eating (or are considering it), this is the episode for you!

Episode Highlights With Cynthia Thurlow

• The reason for the differences in fasting between men and women
• How to navigate fasting as a woman during fertile years
• The time of the month that it is better not to do much intensive fasting
• A reason to stop snacking
• The importance of hydration and electrolytes with any type of fasting
• How snacking keeps insulin elevated and makes weight loss difficult
• The reason our body (liver especially) needs a break from food between meals
• What the mitigating motor complex is and why it’s important
• Why not to over-exercise and what we get wrong about this
• The importance of electrolyte balance, especially during fasting
• How fasting changes after menopause
• Her tips for mitigating stress and staying in parasympathetic mode
• And more!

Resource We Mention

• Cynthia Thurlow
• Levels
• Everyday Wellness Podcast
• TEDx Talks by Cynthia Thurlow
• The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien
• Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss
• Metabolical by Robert Lustig

More From Wellness Mama

• 455: Gin Stephens on the Real Deal About Intermittent Fasting for Women
• 444: The Rain Barrel Effect, Inflammation, Fasting & Hormones With Dr. Stephen Cabral
• 345: How to Use Circadian Fasting to Improve Health & Slow Aging With Dr. Amy Shah
• 255: Dr. Valter Longo on a Fasting Mimicking Diet and Increasing Healthspan
• 201: Understanding Fasting & Keto for Women (Even During Pregnancy or Breastfeeding) + Instant Pot Tips
• 134: Five Benefits of Fasting, Autophagy, Diet Variation & Cellula

Did you know 80% of all autoimmune diseases and 90% of fibromyalgia diagnoses are in women? And (less surprisingly) that women experience more anxiety and PTSD than men?

This episode separates fact from fiction when it comes to how men and women differ on the physiological, limbic, semantic, biochemical, and physiological levels. Sara Gustafson is a holistic tech practitioner and a women’s health researcher from Austin, Texas. She has a lot of expertise in many areas, but today we’re digging into tough questions like why medical studies focus on men, what factors in our modern world affect women more than men, and how to use this knowledge for better health.

Episode Highlights With Sara Gustafson

• The problems that arise when studies look primarily at men but women receive the same treatments
• A fascinating hormonal difference that affects how women respond to viruses
• The surprising reason so many Alzheimer’s patients are women
• Two items that we use on a daily basis that were designed on the measurements of women and not on the average man
• How we can understand and use knowledge of cellular differences based on sex to better help everyone
• A metaphysical link to chronic disease symptoms and why this affects women more
• The surprising statistic of how much work women do, unpaid and paid
• Why autoimmune disease often comes from a feeling of not feeling like you have worth or that you aren’t good enough
• The link between breast cancer and disease and self-sacrificial emotions
• A short exercise to help get emotionally unstuck by asking “is this true?” and “what else could be true?”
• The cortisol connection: how our cortisol response is still pumping out cortisol for a 24 hour period after a stimulus
• Drastic differences between cortisol patterns in response to stress in women and men
• Why Sara recommends reading a lot of books written before 1989!
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Primal Fusion Health
• Primal Pride

More From Wellness Mama

• 486: Sara Gustafson on the Four Feminine Archetypes and Finding Purpose
• 455: Gin Stephens on the Real Deal About Intermittent Fasting for Women
• 246: What Women Need to Know About Heart Health With Dr. Mark Menolascino
• 201: Understanding Fasting & Keto for Women (Even During Pregnancy or Breastfeeding) + Instant Pot Tips
• 93: How to Avoid the Most Common Fitness Mistakes Women Make
• 204: The Rise of Autoimmune Disease (& How to Thrive Even If You Have It) With Dr. Guillermo Ruiz
• 115: Decoding Autoimmune Disease with Dr. Tom O’Bryan

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Know much about quantum technology? Me neither! I will be the first to admit this is a field I definitely do not fully understand but I’m still very much excited to learn about it. I’m here with Philipp Samor von Holtzendorff-Fehling, a coach, entrepreneur, and the founder of a company called Leela Quantum Tech. His company works with quantum energy technology, which works to support health on a cellular level.

In this episode, we go into what quantum energy therapies can do and the roots of understanding how the body is able to heal itself. Philipp has been able to make some really surprising changes in a lot of people using some of this technology, including some pretty drastic HRV changes, which is a significant marker for health.

This is a complex topic, but one with so much promise. Take a listen!

Episode Highlights With Philipp of Leela Q

• What the primal healing human frequency is and how this can benefit us
• The measurable results of meditation
• Understanding quantum energy and how this impacts us on a cellular level
• Why the body is able to heal itself and how we unlearn that
• The surprising HRV changes from quantum devices
• What dark field microscopy is and how it shows changes from quantum fields
• Understanding EMFs (from someone who used to be an executive for a cell phone company)
• The measurable results of meditation
• How quantum energy devices can be used to harmonize and neutralize EMFs
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Leela Quantum Tech (Use code WELLNESSMAMA10 through this link for 10% off! Expires one month from podcast air date.)
• Private Quantum Power Group on Telegram
• Siddhartha

More From Wellness Mama

• 456: Rian Doris on Harnessing Flow States for Accelerated Learning and Peak Performance
• 433: The Energy Paradox: What to Do When Your Get-Up-and-Go Has Got Up and Gone With Dr. Gundry
• 416: Q&A: Supplements, EMFs, Protein Snacks, First Principles, and More
• 203: Hidden EMF Dangers and How to Mitigate Them With Geobiologist Brian Hoyer
• 193: How to Protect Your Family From the Rise of 5G & Other EMFs

What did you think of this episode? Any questions we can answer on this topic? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Today’s guest is going to be of special interest to any of you natural health or functional medicine practitioners out there, whether you’re already in practice or just thinking about getting into this field. Seth Conger has been a business leader and innovator in the functional medicine world since 2013. He’s helped bring several businesses to seven figures and beyond. He also created a cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s startup geared at helping people in those spaces.

Seth is now the COO of Freedom Practice Coaching, a company that helps practitioners reinvent and maximize business and client outcomes. We go deep into some practical tools practitioners can use to grow as entrepreneurs. We also talk a lot about functional medicine in general and the direction it should hopefully go over the next few decades. It’s a truly fascinating topic and I learned so much!

Episode Highlights With Seth Conger

• How life’s most unexpected experiences (for him, becoming a truck driver) can open doors you never thought possible
• The functional medicine difference: working from symptoms to root cause and first principles
• Why not to run your small practice like a hospital or corporation (and what to do instead)
• The need for business education in the doctor/naturopath sector
• Why the acute care model in the U.S. isn’t enough, and how to rethink the system
• The importance of creating an emotional connection with the patient in good, long-term holistic care
• Techniques for developing effective health programs to get the patient to their destination
• How to recognize when it’s time to grow your team/practice
• Why marketing and advertising on its own is not enough
• Seth’s experience with neurofeedback and biofeedback, and its impact on brain health
• An important lesson he learned from a business launch failure
• How to adjust and reinvent as a practitioner in a post-COVID world
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Freedom Practice Coaching
• Get Seth’s free 14-page “Packaging Your Services Blueprint Guide” here
• Seth Conger et al, Reversal of Cognitive Decline, Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Parkinsonism
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• What’s Within You: Your Roadmap to Living Life With No Barriers by Tom Lillig and David Shurna

More From Wellness Mama

• 407: Working Toward Financial Independence and Time Freedom With Joe DiSanto
• 254: Business, Lifestyle, and Routines With The Skinny Confidential
• 240: How Ethical Businesses Are Changing the World With Thrive Market Founder Ni

This episode gets into some really cool science, even more than usual! It’s about neurosurgery, specifically in spinal health, but we dive into also brain health, and so much more. I am here with Dr. Marcella Madera, whose bio is so impressive. She is board-certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. Not only that, she is world-renowned in the surgical treatment of conditions of the spine, including degenerative spine disease, spine tumors, and degenerative deformity.

What’s really impressive is that Marcella combines the cutting edge of surgical treatment with alternative and even energy therapies. She shares the incredible results she’s getting for her patients and how these therapies can translate into other areas of life as well.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Marcella Madera

• Why Marcella chose to make neurology/the nervous system her specialty
• How her holistic education reinforced her success as a neurosurgeon, resulting in an integrative practice
• Indicators that you might need surgery for spinal issues vs. more non-invasive options
• The role of aging in brain and spinal health, and how to age gracefully
• Why the research is pointing to the need for biologic decoding when addressing these problems
• Common causes of back pain, and natural solutions to try
• How to combat inflammation, a root cause of pain and disease, with energy work
• Simple lifestyle changes that can make a real difference in spinal and overall health
• How to learn your “real” age by testing your DNA methylation
• Dr. Marcella’s take on nootropics and whether they’re safe and effective for moms
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Austin Integrative Spine
• Energy for Success
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
• Power vs Force by David Hawkins MD

More From Wellness Mama

• 260: Why the 21st Century Is at War With Your Spine With Ty Carzoli
• 435: The Cause (and Solution) of Back and Neck Pain With the Neck Shaper
• 399: Chronic Pain: What’s Wrong With the Normal Approach and How to Fix It With Dr. Yoni Whitten
• 418: Brain Wash: Detox Your Mind for Clearer Thinking, Deeper Relationships, and Lasting Happiness With Dr. Perlmutter
• 238: Using Neuroplasticity to Rewire Nervous System or Brain Disorders With Carol Garner-Houston
• How to Stimulate Vagus Nerve Function to Reduce Inflammation and Support the Brain

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

I’m here with Dr. Jennifer Tippett, a licensed clinical psychologist in the Denver Metro area. Dr. Tippett has been working with patients with mental illness and substance misuse for a decade. She’s the director of the Substance Use Disorder specialty at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology, where she teaches the sequence of graduate-level courses about the neurobiology of trauma, addiction, and behavioral addictions. She also has a small private practice where she provides psychedelic integration and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.

I wanted to have her on because these things have been helpful to me in my own life, and because we’re likely going to see the clinical legalization of substances in the United States in the next couple of years. I think education around this topic ahead of time is vitally important, as it can be easily misunderstood or even misused.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jennifer Tippett

• The astounding research on certain therapies for PTSD and severe trauma
• How these therapies can have a lasting effect without continued use
• The downsides of SSRIs and what to be aware of
• How trauma lives in the body and how this gives us a window to address it
• The role of somatic therapies in trauma processing
• How ACE (adverse childhood experiences) play a role in the trauma response
• Clinical research on ketamine and how it is being used in patients with depression
• The vital importance of integration for processing any type of trauma or trauma therapy
• Why couples are each other’s perfect triggers and how to reframe couple disagreements
• Complementary and alternative therapies that work with these types of therapy
• The surprising roots of the stigma around psychedelics
• Important safety and risk information
• Problems and barriers with access to these therapies for people who need them most
• What the future holds for clinical use of psychedelics and ketamines
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Jennifer Tippett
• The Body Keeps the Score
• Daring Greatly

More From Wellness Mama

• 513: Tanner Wallace on Childhood Trauma, Attachment Wounds, and How to Heal
• 504: Paul Austin of Third Wave on Understanding and Using Psychedelics for Transformation
• 491: Peter Crone on Freedom From the Prisons of the Subconscious Mind
• 483: Mark Wolynn on Why It Didn’t Start With You, Inherited Trauma & How We Heal
• 470: Amy Emerson of MAPS on the Future of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy & Research
• 447: Kambo Frog Medicine for Detox, Healing, and Trauma Release With Todd Shipman
• 445: Understanding Consciousness, Ego & How to Reduce Suffering With Polymath Dr. Ted Achacoso
• Jun 21, 2021

Welcome back to Ted Achacoso, one of the smartest doctors and human beings on the planet, for the second part of last week’s episode. In our first interview, we talked about consciousness, suffering, ego, and a lot of other topics related to that. Today we take it a step further into some controversial waters, the substances called psychedelics and their possibilities from a medical and neurological perspective.

I would encourage you to listen to this episode with an open mind, not only because you’re hearing from one of the smartest people in the world, but because these substances, while often misunderstood, have truly life-changing potential. I know this firsthand from my own experience with several of them, which were instrumental in healing some personal trauma in my past.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Ted Achacoso

• What ketamine is and how it can be used therapeutically
• How ketamine can do a DNM reset
• The way ketamine inhibits the inhibitor by taking away from the task positive network
• How psychedelics calm the default mode network to allow for emotional recovery
• How the 5HT2a receptor affects mood and why these substances can be a great alternative to other depression medications
• What psilocybin, DMT, and MDMA are and how they affect the brain, body, and consciousness
• How psychedelics are to the mind what a telescope is to astronomy and a microscope is to biology
• “Meditation is like a mental gym and psychedelics are like steroids for your mental gym”
• What psychedelic therapy is and how it is being used in research for things like PTSD
• The research happening at Johns Hopkins
• How they are so safe that we can say that no one has actually died from certain psychedelics
• Why psychedelics are by their nature non-addicting
• Who should be very cautious or not use psychedelics
• The importance of being in therapy when considering using these substances (and the importance of integration after)
• Important safety notes related to all of these substances
• The science of how psychedelics affect and can benefit the body too!
• Why ketamine has been approved for treatment-resistant depression (and where to find it)
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• https://www.homehope.org
• https://biobalanceinstitute.com
• 445: Understanding Consciousness, Ego & How to Reduce Suffering With Polymath Dr. Ted Achacoso
• 437: Health Optimization Medicine, Nootropics, and Anti-Aging With Polymath Dr. Ted Achacoso
• Troscriptions– Use code WELLNESSMAMA for 5% off
• Santa Sold Shrooms
• Ryan Holiday books on Stoicism
• How

Dr. Mark Hyman hardly needs introduction, but just in case, he's an internationally recognized speaker, 13-time New York Times bestselling author, and renowned physician in the field of functional medicine. Dr. Hyman is here talking about his newest book The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World, a paleo-vegan book that promises to end the dietary wars once and for all!

Dr. Hyman delves into the roots of functional medicine today, and why a nutritious diet isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. Take notes on this one... it is jam-packed with advice you won't want to miss!

• What paleo and vegan diets have in common
• How Dr. Hyman's views on food have changed over the years, and why
• The role of phytochemicals (and why you can't always get enough from food alone)
• What happens to our immune systems as they age
• Why insulin resistance is the most common condition affecting Americans right now
• How to eat if you want to protect the planet
• The new label to look for on food (regenerative organic)
• Success stories from his practice
• Food rules we can all agree on (and end the diet wars)
• And more!

• Dr. Mark Hyman
• GetFarmacy.com
• Dr. Hyman blog post: Why I Am a Pegan (Paleo-Vegan)
• The Pegan Diet
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
• Other Mark Hyman books

• 335: How the Food Industry Preys on Children & How to Fix It (With Dr. Mark Hyman)
• 160: What the Heck Should I Actually Eat? With Dr. Mark Hyman
• 416: Q&A: Supplements, EMFs, Protein Snacks, First Principles, and More
• 405: Eat Smarter: How to Use Food to Reboot Your Metabolism With Shawn Stevenson
• 402: How to Use Glucose as a Continuous Health Marker for Metabolic Health With Dr. Casey Means of Levels
• 414: Ancestral Parenting, Biological Norms, Wild Food, and Foraging With Arthur Haines
• What I Learned From Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for a Month
• Is Organic Food Worth The Price? What the Label Really Means

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment bel

You all really enjoyed Shawn Wells the first time he was on, and I’m glad to say he’s back again! Shawn has written a fascinating new book, The Energy Formula, and it’s safe to say we all want more of that!

Just to tell you a little about Shawn, he is one of the world’s leading nutritional biochemists and has personally formulated over 500 supplements and cosmeceuticals, as well as patents on 10 novel ingredients. He is also formerly a chief clinical dietitian with over a decade of clinical experience.

Today we cover some very specific advice on ways you can have more energy, and how this equation is a little bit different for each individual person.

Episode Highlights With Shawn Wells

• The biggest factors for having more energy
• A subtle but important shift in mindset that makes a big difference in health
• What we can actually learn from data and studies (and what the limitations are)
• How to increase compliance and actually stick to changes
• Some simple labs to track to see if something is working for you (HA1c, CRP, oxidized LDL), glucose, HRV, etc
• How to figure out the healthiest diet for you personally
• What sirtuins are and why these matter (for aging)
• Some easy exercise hacks to make it more efficient
• A reason to stop doing cardio
• The power of “I am” statements for creating change
• How a growth mindset helps us improve in every area
• Ways to increase resilience and use hormesis to our advantage
• How stoicism relates to health
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Shawn Wells
• The Energy Formula by Shawn Wells
• Heads Up Health
• Vitamin D
• 147: Using Heart Rate Variability with HeartMath to Stop Stress & Improve Nervous System Health
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
• The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
• Boundless by Ben Greenfield

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or Feb 11, 2021

Sandra Halling is a business strategist who knows how to get the best out of technology. She’s been working on optimizing and organizing systems for just about everything for the last 20 years. Now she brings her corporate experience and strategic thinking to help small businesses and individuals implement Notion, an app I’ve been using and loving lately. If you haven’t heard of it yet, definitely check it out.

Many experts say Notion is a total game changer for how we organize and use information. I’m still learning Notion but I love the clean, visual layout and endless flexibility. I’ll definitely be taking notes on everything Sandra has to say!

Episode Highlights With Sandra Halling

• What Notion is and how to use it for organization and productivity
• How to create a daily journal in Notion
• What a daily homepage looks like
• The difference between tables and pages and how to use them
• What OKR is and how you can use it to reach goals
• How I (Katie) use Notion to keep track of summaries using the Feynman Technique
• What the momentum method is in Notion and how to use it
• Using templates for maximum productivity
• Ideas for using Notion to organize the home, family, and meal planning
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Sandra Halling Website | Twitter
• Notion
• Otter app
• Start Finishing: How to Go From Idea to Done by Charles Gilkey
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• Paths to God by Ram Dass
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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• 403: Whew! 2020 in Review + Experiments, Highlights, and Systems for 2021
• 407: Working Toward Financial Independence and Time Freedom With Joe DiSanto
• 285: How to Have a Miracle Morning and Organize Your Day With Hal Elrod
• 316: 17 Practical Time-Saving Systems for Parents (& How I “Get It All Done”)
• My Favorite Health Apps for Mind, Body, and Hormones
• Jan 28, 2021

I’m here with Dr. Ian Mitchell, an expert in the field of ozone and many other topics. He’s here to tell us what ozone is, how to use it, and why it can sometimes be a controversial therapy. We also dive into the cautions and what you need to avoid if you’re going to try ozone.

Dr. Ian also explains a cutting edge product called Biocharged that allows you to ingest ozone orally and get a lot of the same benefits you get from using ozone in the blood. I’ve tried some ozone therapy myself and I can’t wait to learn more about this!

Episode Highlights With Dr. Ian Mitchell

• What ozone is (it doesn’t just have to do with the environment)
• Antibacterial and antifungal benefits of ozone therapy
• The pros and cons of ozone delivery systems
• Why ozone isn’t a therapy to use every day
• Cautions when using ozone and why it’s controversial
• Tips to avoid a Herxheimer reaction (excessive die-off)
• How to use an indirect signaling mechanism to deliver ozone
• What causes sugar cravings (and how ozone can help)
• Benefits of ozonated oils and how to use them
• How to find the right dosage for you
• Carbon 60: promising research that it mitigates effects EMF and radiation
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Biocharged (save 10% with discount code WELLNESSMAMA)
• Silvia Menendez
• Velio Bocci
• Activated charcoal
• The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
• Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness by Itzhak Bentov
• The Universal One by Walter Russell
• Sir Ken Robinson Video:

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

I’m here with Dr. Yoni Whitten, who is an expert on chronic pain. He’s a lifelong athlete who is no stranger to the physical and mental ailments that can hold us back. He is well-known for his program, Pain Fix Protocol, which blends the latest in scientific research with essential concepts from the field of natural movement, evolutionary health, spinal hygiene, and much more.

In this episode, we really go deep on things like why 1.5 billion people are suffering from chronic pain worldwide, and why so much of the conventional approach to treating chronic pain doesn’t make sense. Even if you don’t struggle with chronic pain, it can help so much with posture and agility overall.

Episode Highlights With Yoni Whitten

• Why 1.5 billion people are suffering from chronic pain (and half of these have back pain)
• The factors that make chronic pain so complex
• What we can learn from five year olds about movement
• The difference between exercise and movement and why it matters
• Why so many chronic health problems could be resolved if people would walk 5-9 miles a day
• How joints wear out even in people aren’t using them
• A funny side effect of wearing heels
• The surprising longevity correlation with being able to get up and down off the floor
• Why NSAIDs are the number one prescribed treatment for chronic pain
• The big mismatch between conventional pain treatment and what the research says
• Ways to improve posture in adults and kids in creative ways
• Why every joint needs to move through full range of motion every day, and how to do it
• How to adopt a healthy movement routine each morning to avoid and fix chronic pain

Resources We Mention

• Pain Fix Protocol – use the code WELLNESSMAMA for discount
• The Wellness and Prevention Paradigm by Dr James Chestnut

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• 482: Katy Bowman on Grow Wild & Optimal Movement for Children and Families
• 481: Dr. Joshua Levitt on Real Solutions for Musculoskeletal Pain
• 267: Solving Joint Pain & Why Sports Aren’t Good for Kids With Hunter Fitness
• 235: Signs of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction & How to Stop Pelvic Pain Naturally With Isa Herrera
• Natural Remedies for Growing Pains

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

I’m here with someone I deeply admire and I’m incredibly grateful for. Dr. Alan Christianson is a naturopathic endocrinologist who focuses on thyroid function and specifically Hashimoto’s (which I had) as well as hypothyroidism and Graves’ disease.

Dr. Christianson was actually the first doctor to diagnose me (correctly) and guide me to my recovery. He’s also done this for thousands of people in his years of practice.

In this episode, we go deep on, of course, thyroid health, but also things like iodine, weight loss, and some confounding factors that aren’t always considered when it comes to thyroid.

Episode Highlights With Dr. Alan Christianson

• Specific resources to help with thyroid disease
• Some important reasons to consider avoiding iodine with thyroid disease
• Why you likely need less iodine, not more, if you have thyroid disease (this was an important factor for me)
• The hidden source of iodine you’ve probably never considered
• How to know if you’re putting iodine on your skin without knowing it
• What to know about selenium intake and how to get enough without getting too much
• The labs to know to look at for thyroid health
• One lab that confirms the presence of thyroid disease
• The two products you should consider avoiding for thyroid health
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Connect with Dr. Alan Christianson
• Books by Dr. Alan Christianson
• Maldon Celtic Salt (regular and smoked)

More From Wellness Mama

• 409: The Thyroid Reset Diet to Resolve Thyroid Problems With Dr. Alan Christianson
• 325: Hashimoto’s Update: How I Got to Remission & What I Do to Maintain
• 242: Fighting Thyroid Disease With Food & Recipes for Thyroid Health From Dr. Izabella Wentz
• 118: An At-Home Approach to Balancing Thyroid Hormones with McCall McPherson
• 97: OB & Midwife Aviva Romm on PPD, Thyroid Problems, & MTHFR
• Hypothyroidism 101: How to Boost an Underactive Thyroid Naturally
• How to Know If You Have Hashimoto’s Disease (& What to Do)
• When Iodine Might Be Bad For Your Thyroid

Do you have questions about thyroid health? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Christopher Walker is the CEO and co-founder of an amazing health company called UMZU. He also authored and created The Thermo Diet, a provocative new nutrition and health program. Today he shares his incredible story, from performing surgery on a patient at the age of 16, to his own brain tumor diagnosis at the age of 19 and how he recovered from that.

Oh, and for those of you who have written to me with concerns about husbands and significant others suffering from low testosterone, we address it in this episode!

Episode Highlights With Christopher Walker

• The amazing story of how he first performed surgery at 16
• Why he went through the Duke neuroscience program
• The incredible health journey he undertook after getting a brain tumor
• What the thermo diet is
• The core parts of a nourishing micronutrient-rich diet
• The reason to avoid phytic acid and vegetable oils (hint: your liver)
• A case for focusing on fruits and roots as starches
• The specific things women should pay attention to
• A surprising fitness truth that you are likely getting wrong
• Blockers vs activators and how to pay attention to this
• A reason to do less cardio
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• UMZU Use code wellnessmama for 15% off first purchase
• Thermo Diet
• Thermo Diet Facebook Community
• Think Again Docuseries
• The Vegetable Myth (Video)
• Master Your T: The Definitive Guide to Raising Your Testosterone Naturally
• Thor Program: Resistance Optimization for Hormonal Optimization
• The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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• 308: How to Use Your Hormones to Your Advantage With FloLiving
• 383: Resilience, Mitochondrial Health, Peptides, and Smart Supplementation With World’s Leading Biochemist Shawn Wells
• 387: Ask Katie Anything: Protein, Supplements, Sleep, Parenting, and Shoes
• 294: Using Targeted Nutrition to Alleviate Hormone Related Issues With Dr. Chris Masterjohn
• 196: How the Modern World Is Changing Our Hormones (& How to Create a Balance Plan)
• 10 Tips to Help Balance Horm

In life, mindset is half the battle — especially when parenting! This episode is all about specific ways we can improve mindset in our homes and set our kids up for success in life. Elliot Roe is a world-renowned performance coach who works with Olympian athletes, Hollywood actors, Wall Street traders, entrepreneurs, and leaders in almost every industry. He hosts the podcast “The A-Game Advantage” and also created an app called Primed Mind that helps people in highly demanding industries unlock their full potential and perform on-demand.

As a dad, Elliot understands the complicated dynamics of parenting and the great potential that comes with that responsibility. I’ve found his techniques really helpful in overcoming my own mental roadblocks, which I can trace back to childhood and adolescence. By learning how to pass on a resilient mindset to our kids, we can interrupt the cycle and avoid giving our kids some of these roadblocks in the first place!

Episode Highlights With Elliot Roe

• How to tap into the subconscious to change your habits
• Why hypnotherapy isn’t what you think it is
• A hidden reason you might procrastinate
• Two key factors behind most of our decisions and personality traits
• Why most of what we don’t like about ourselves can be changed
• Ways to redefine how we look at success and failure
• How to reach a flow state in your life and work
• Steps to building a growth mindset (and passing it on to our kids)
• How to use the Primed app to re-train your emotions
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Primed Mind app
• Elliot Roe
• A-Game Advantage Podcast
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin

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• 364: Mindset Strategies to Survive and Thrive as a Homeschooling, Working Parent With Carrie Husse
• 281: Building Resiliency, Mindset and Doing the Impossible With Joel Runyon
• 376: How to Use Everyday Activities to Rewire the Brain for Calmer Kids With Brain Harmony
• Oct 12, 2020

During quarantine, I’ve heard from many of you asking for help with cravings and weight gain caused by stress and the emotional toll all of this is taking. To that end I brought in Brittany Watkins, one of my favorite people for advice on natural ways to stop emotional eating, control food cravings, and end self-sabotage.

In fact, she’s one of the top experts in the world on using something called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), or tapping, which I relied on heavily during my weight loss journey. During that experience I realized I had to do the inner work I had ignored for so long in order to move forward.

Let me say too that I don’t think people need to necessarily be a certain size or a certain weight to be healthy. At the same time, I can’t argue with the fact that my health markers are all in a healthier range now and my Hashimotos is finally in remission. I give Brittany and her methods a lot of credit for where I am today, and I’m excited to share her with you in this episode.

Episode Highlights on The Watkins Method

• How trauma can show up on our body as extra weight
• Ways our bodies store traumatic experiences (even the small ones)
• Why tapping interrupts and retrains our ingrained thoughts and memories
• A strategy for tracing a craving back to an emotion or thought
• The 9 points of EFT and how Emotional Freedom Therapy works
• Ideas for handing down healthy thoughts and behaviors to our children, especially around food
• What led Brittany to finally find the source of her struggles and find peace
• One key question that stops most cravings in their tracks
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Brittany Watkins
• Previous podcast with Brittany Watkins: 212: How to Release Cravings and Emotional Eating With EFT
• Blog post: EFT: How Tapping & Emotional Freedom Technique Work
• The Inconvenient Truth About Relationships by Arthur Hartz
• Alison A. Armstrong

More From Wellness Mama

• 406: The Case for Keto: Rethinking Obesity and Weight Loss With Gary Taubes
• 371: How Eating More Protein Will Transform Your Metabolism w/ Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
• 317: Tackling Insomnia, Anxiety, Weight, and Hormones Naturally With Esther Blum
• 313: The Tapping Solution to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Pain With Nick Ortner
• 87: How to Stop Emotional Eating (From a Nutritionist Who Lost 100 Pounds!)
• 45: How to Lose Weight with Thyroid Problems
• Sep 24, 2020

This episode brings back one of my favorite guests, and one of your favorites as well, because he is one of the most requested repeat guests. I’m here with Ari Whitten, best-selling author and founder of the Energy Blueprint. I have a tremendous amount of respect for his research and look to him for guidance in many areas.

In this episode, we tackle what is often is a very controversial topic, even though it shouldn’t be — sun exposure! He makes an incredibly compelling case for why sunlight is as important as nutrition or exercise when it comes to health and lifespan. I know that you will learn as much as I did from this, even with all my research in this area, because he goes that deep.

Thanks for being here Ari!

Episode Highlights With Ari Whitten

• The reason the sun is important (beyond just vitamin D)
• Why a vitamin D supplement won’t replace the benefits of the sun
• The relationship between sunlight and all-cause mortality
• Why the research doesn’t show that sunlight is linked to dying earlier
• The reasons why sun exposure is linked to better health and longer lifespan
• A fascinating study that showed that women who got more sun exposure lived longer and healthier
• Why avoiding the sun was as risky as smoking a pack a day of cigarettes
• What malillumination is and why it is as bad as malnutrition
• How sunlight reduces your risk of cancers, heart disease, and diabetes (which can all be more problematic than just skin cancer)
• The different types of light in sunlight and why we need them all
• A strong case for why sunlight does NOT meaningfully increase risk of skin cancer
• Why melatonin is one of the most potent forces for health and how to increase it (hint: it has to do with light!)
• How avoiding the sun might speed aging!
• Why the more sunlight you get during the day, the stronger your brain gets against artificial light
• How Katie eats her sunscreen to be able to handle more sun naturally without sunscreen
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Ari’s site: The Energy Blueprint
• Follow Ari on Instagram
• Joovv Red Light Devices
• Astaxanthin
• Polypodium Leucotomos
• Article: Skin Types

More From Wellness Mama

• 142: Is Adrenal Fatigue Real or Just Bad Science? With Ari Whitten
• 245: Ari Whitten on Fighting Fatigue and Anxiety With Sauna, Hormesis, NRF2 & Sun Exposure
• 301: How to Use Light to Drastically Improve Health With Matt Maruca
• 209: Sun Protection and Anti-Aging From the Inside Out With Polypodium Leucotomos
• 506: Dr. Daniel Kalish on Aging, Mitochondria, Hormones, and Longevity
• 515

Today we’re talking all about finances, side hustles, and entrepreneurship — what you need to know and why this is best time (maybe ever) to start a new venture. I’m here with Ryan Moran, founder of Capitalism.com, a site that teaches entrepreneurs to build businesses and invest. Ryan shares how he turned a $600 investment into an 8-figure company, and ways you can duplicate and build on what he learned along the way.

Many people are certainly feeling financial stress right now, so I think this is an especially timely episode. I hope these tips give you the confidence to take the leap and start putting your dreams into action!

Episode Highlights With Ryan Moran

• How to think outside the box and start a business
• Opportunities available in the market right now
• Why this is the best time in history to be an entrepreneur
• Unexpected benefits to nontraditional education
• Why your ordinary life may be enough to inspire the best business ideas (if you know what to look for)
• The most common mistakes new entrepreneurs make (and how to avoid them)
• How parents can help kids start their own business incubators
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Ryan Moran
• 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur by Ryan Moran
• The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson
• Straight Line Leadership: Tools for Living With Velocity and Power in Turbulent Times by Dusan Djukich
• Primal Kitchen
• The Primal Connection by Mark Sisson

More From Wellness Mama

• 361: Homeschooling and Raising Entrepreneurs With Nathan Barry
• 240: How Ethical Businesses Are Changing the World With Thrive Market Founder Nick Green
• 249: How to Harness Energy & Create Success From the Inside Out With Suzy Batiz of Poo~Pourri
• 85: How to Raise an Entrepreneur: Nurturing Risk Takers, Problem Solvers, & Change Makers
• Why We Are Creating a Business Incubator for Our Kids (And How)

Do you have a business idea? What is your biggest obstacle to getting started? 

Carrie Husse has been one of the editorial masterminds behind the content on Wellness Mama and is now a homeschooling mom of four. She has a background in print book publishing and made the jump to join the Wellness Mama team in her spare time.

Like my family, Carrie and her husband both work from home in addition to homeschooling. It hasn’t always been an easy road, but at this point she’s addicted to building a flexible, out-of-the-box life where family and career go hand in hand. Reading, traveling, and learning as a family are always at the top of her priority list, as well as keeping up with her ever-growing suburban homestead.

It’s our hope this conversation can at least help lessen the learning curve for so many families in a time of great change.

Resources We Mention

• Carrie Husse LinkedIn & Instagram
• LoonlingLearning/GreenFire Gardens
• Article: Finding the Bare Minimum in Your Homeschool
• Kids Cook Real Food e-course
• Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head by Carla Hannaford, PhD
• 201 Relationship Questions: The Couple’s Guide to Building Trust and Emotional Intimacy by Barrie Davenport
• Cook Once, Eat All Week: 26 Weeks of Gluten-Free, Affordable Meal Prep to Preserve Your Time & Sanity by Cassy Joy Garcia
• The Wellness Mama Cookbook

Carrie’s Favorite Homeschool Picks

• Catholic Schoolhouse
• This Is Me, The Me I Choose to Be: Mindset Stories to Empower Your Child
• Layers of Learning Series
• Draw the World Series (Geography)
• Bare Books
• Little Story Creator (app for journaling/digital scrapbooking)
• Aug 10, 2020

In this episode, we’re wading into a controversial area that parents are very concerned about, based on the number of emails and comments I get on the topic. Today we’re tackling HPV or Human Papillomavirus from all the possible angles, from vaccination to root cause approaches.

Since I don’t have personal experience within this area, I’m leaning naturopathic doctor Dr. Doni Wilson. She has an extremely high success rate in helping patients with problems like HPV or abnormal pap smears get back to normal after diagnosis. She goes deeps on underlying causes and factors, including genetic issues, reverse adrenal distress, autoimmunity, cervical dysplasia, and infertility.

p.s. Just in case you think HPV isn’t a concern for you: If you are female, you likely have up to an 80% chance of getting this at some point during your life. If you are male, you may never know if you had this or not, but you may be just as much at risk!

Episode Highlights With Dr. Doni Wilson

• The factors that make a difference in your risk for HPV
• What percentage of people likely have HPV at some point
• How to know if you have it
• Ways to support the immune system after an abnormal pap smear
• The leaky gut connection more doctors need to be talking about
• How many women resolve HPV and get a normal pap smear after
• The amazing protocol that helps 95+% of Dr. Doni’s patients heal
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Doni’s website
• Reversing HPV (Live Group Course With Dr. Doni)
• Free HPV Guide
• A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

More From Wellness Mama

• 247: Vaccine Injuries, Autism, and Homeoprophylaxis With Dr. Jeff Knight
• 109: Vaginal Health, Menopause, and Hormone Therapy With Dr. Anna Cabeca
• 92: A Holistic Pediatrician Talks Ear Infections, Fevers, & Vaccines
• 53: Does Leaky Gut Cause Autoimmunity?
• Leaky Gut Diet: My Experience with GAPS & SCD

Are you concerned about HPV? Is there an angle we didn’t cover? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Joe Cohen won the lottery on bad genes. From childhood he suffered from all kinds of inflammation, fatigue, digestive problems, anxiety, depression, and many other issues his doctors couldn’t seem to sort out. Frustrated by the lack of good information and tools, he threw himself into experimentation and self-learning to improve his health like many of us have. He’s now a self-made “biohacker” and he created the ultimate biohacking resource, a website called SelfHacked.

All this led to his next venture, a biotech software platform for DNA-based health research called SelfDecode. We go deep today into how you can use your personalized genetics to understand how to meet your health goals.

There’s so much to cover here I bet we’ll need to have Joe back for round two, but for now let’s get started!

Episode Highlights With SelfDecode

• A helpful analogy for how our immune system works
• The role of genetics in our personal health
• Why all MTHFR mutations aren’t equal (it depends on your genes)
• How knowing your genetic information can help you figure out the right path to overcome depression
• Ways to counteract your “bad” genes
• Why COVID affects some people more than others
• Diet considerations for someone with the PEMT (fatty liver) gene
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• SelfDecode
• Longevity DNA Report (get 10% off with code WELLNESSMAMA)
• SelfHacked

More From Wellness Mama

• 514: Teri Cochrane on How Genes, Viruses, Emotions, and Stress Impact Health
• 356: How to Improve Your Health Based on Genetics With Joe Cohen From SelfDecode
• 256: Chris Masterjohn on Decoding What Your Body Really Needs
• 329: How to Slow Aging, Fight Inflammation, & Improve Cellular Signaling With Brian Dixon
• 337: Science-Backed Strategies for Happiness Even During Stressful Times (With Yale Professor Dr. Laurie Santos of The Happiness Lab)

Have you ever had genetic testing done? What did it do for your health? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

I’m pretty sure every one of us has experienced some level of high stress, especially these days! I am here with Jeff Banman, a former firefighter, U.S. Army Ranger, and CIA Counter-terrorism Operator. He’s made a career of studying successful people and discovering which variables allow them to survive or even thrive in stressful situations. Jeff has taken all he’s learned from years of conducting operations and missions all over the world and applied it to all aspects of modern-day parenting.

Jeff is a parent as well, so we also talk about how to foster this mindset of resilience and strength in your kids from an early age. I think you’ll enjoy this super creative and science-based way to look at adversity as much as I did.

Episode Highlights With Jeff Banman

• What combat situations teach us about the brain
• Jeff’s three Cs that allow kids (and adults) to thrive: comfort, confidence, and creativity
• Why parenting may be the toughest and most important leadership role anyone can have
• What it means to live in a conscious parenting zone
• Tips and strategies for getting comfortable with discomfort
• How heart rate variability lets us see stress
• Ways to find (and create) calm even when there’s chaos
• How to judge an acceptable and healthy level of risk for kids
• Why Jeff made it his life’s mission to help people be more resilient
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Mindset Radio Podcast
• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind & Create a New One by Joe Dispenza
• Ryan Holiday books (Stillness Is the Key and more)
• Mark Manson books (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck and more)
• Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman

Can you relate to Jeff’s life lessons? What was your biggest takeaway from this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Today we’re about to get an amazing education in neurotransmitters, those very important chemical messengers in our brains. Balancing neurotransmitters through natural methods is an important part of Dr. Ann-Marie Barter’s work in her practice in Colorado. Dr. Ann uses a combination of functional blood chemistry analysis, nutrition, applied kinesiology, and other natural remedies with a functional medicine approach to help people with a host of brain/body issues.

While we may think of neurotransmitters in terms of brain health, when they get out of balance they can also affect the thyroid, blood sugar, gut health, hormones, and so many other issues.

Let’s get started as there’s so much to cover, including practical ways that you can start at home to optimize your neurotransmitter levels, reduce stress, and feel better!

Episode Highlights With Dr. Ann-Marie Barter

• What neurotransmitters are and the areas of health they affect (hint: most things!)
• Kinds of neurotransmitters, especially serotonin and dopamine, and how they work in the body
• Why addressing dopamine levels may help you with sugar cravings and other addictive habits
• Signs you might have low dopamine
• Why diabetes should not be the only measure of having a blood sugar problem
• What processed foods can do to your neurotransmitters
• How to check your glucose at home (and why you’d want to)
• What a simple elimination diet can do for brain balance
• How to know if you have a serotonin imbalance
• Important things to know about SSRIs and antidepressants
• Key vitamins for brain and neurotransmitter health
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Ann’s practice
• The Fearless Health Podcast
• RealTime Lab (mold test)
• Why Isn’t My Brain Working? by Dr. Datis Kharrazian
• Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing by Anita Moorjani
• Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, and Chronic Environmental Illness by Neil Nathan MD
• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

More From Wellness Mama

• 252: How to Activate Peak Brain Performance With Neuroscientist Dr. A

The last two years have been a journey for me as I worked through a past trauma to get to a new point of inner healing. The result? I feel happier in my skin and even enjoyed a dramatic 80-pound weight loss as everything else came into balance.

One of the heroes I looked up to during this process was Gabrielle Bernstein, who is my guest today. She has an incredible story of fighting her way back from a traumatic experience. Now she’s known as a “shame-shifter” who helps people all over the globe.

Gabrielle wrote the #1 New York Times best-selling author of book The Universe Has Your Back and six additional bestsellers, including Super Attractor. She also co-hosted the Guinness World Record’s largest guided meditation with Deepak Chopra and was chosen by The Oprah Winfrey Network to be part of the “Super Soul 100,” a trailblazing group whose life’s work is to elevate the world.

Episode Highlights With Gabrielle Bernstein

• The story of how Gabrielle faced a life-or-death decision at the age of 25… and how she chose life
• The protective mechanisms that help us “hide”
• Why Gabby calls her postpartum depression a blessing in disguise
• How to discover the habits that undermine your success and root them out for good
• Why addiction often has its roots in trauma
• Why acceptance is sometimes more important than doing everything “right”
• How our belief systems are formed, and ways to reshape based on our authentic selves
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• GabbyBernstein.com
• Books by Gabby Bernstein
• Trauma Proofing Your Kids by Peter Levine
• No Drama Discipline by Dan Seigl
• Healing Back Pain by Dr. John Sarno
• The Mindbody Prescription by Dr. John Sarno

More From Wellness Mama

• 483: Mark Wolynn on Why It Didn’t Start With You, Inherited Trauma & How We Heal
• 339: Healing Trauma, Rele

My favorite superfood mushroom coffee company, Four Sigmatic, launched a skincare line that is so clean you can actually eat them! I’ve asked Four Sigmatic founder Tero Isokauppila to come back and tell us everything he knows about natural skin care today, from products to diet to superfoods that nourish skin from the inside out.

This should be a great conversation since I’ve also been researching natural personal care pretty intensely to develop my own toothpaste and shampoo formulas.

Bonus for everyone listening (or reading): this episode will go beyond skin deep and really get into how the things that are good for skin health support immunity also. Something we all want to know right now!

Episode Highlights With Tero from Four Sigmatic

• How Tero created a line of skin products so clean you can eat it!
• 10 functions of the skin, our largest organ, and how they give us a clue to how to care for it
• Why ingestible skincare is the next big thing for the beauty industry
• How to respect and nourish the skin microbiome (and why you should)
• The connection between gut health and skin conditions like acne, psoriasis, and premature aging
• Medicinal mushrooms that help immunity
• Prebiotics, beta-D-glucans, and other natural substances that strengthen our natural protection against viruses and disease
• Which mushroom to consume with vitamin C for a strong immune system boost
• Why Tero puts Four Sigmatic body butter in his coffee!
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Four Sigmatic (use code WELLNESSMAMA to save 10%)
• Vitamin C
• Wellnesse

What do you use for skin care? Have you noticed an improvement in your skin with diet or supplements? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

My guest today is Emily Fletcher, founder of Ziva Meditation and author of the best-selling book Stress Less. Emily really caught my attention when we were chatting at an event about meditation. Meditating has never been the easiest thing for me, but something she said that day stuck with me.

She said we meditate not to get good at meditation, but to get good at life. And that’s when I started actually wanting to learn to clear my mind and sit and do “nothing” for a while!

Emily teaches leaders at Apple, Google, and Harvard Business School how to meditate… the question is, can she teach this Type-A mom?

Episode Highlights on Ziva Meditation

• How a certain meditation technique can be 5x as restful as sleep for the brain
• Why one of the top doctors in the US says 15 minutes of meditation gives him an extra three hours of productivity a day
• The difference between meditation and mindfulness
• Why clearing the mind isn’t the point (oops!)
• How meditation can improve sleep, sex, and immune function
• Ways to incorporate meditation with kids for better sleep and calmer interactions
• The way terrible questions lead to terrible answers… and the ones to stop asking yourself internally
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Ziva Meditation
• Stress Less, Accomplish More: The 15-Minute Meditation Programme for Extraordinary Performance by Emily Fletcher
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

More From Wellness Mama

• 162: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics & How to Be 10% Happier
• 141: How to Accept Yourself, Foster Community, & Be Unlimited with Dr. Mark Atkinson
• 313: The Tapping Solution to Reduce Anxiety, Stress, and Pain With Nick Ortner
• 502: Dr Joe Dispenza on Changing Your Thoughts, Emotions, & Life

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

It’s not every day you get to sit down with one of your personal role models! Gabrielle Reece is not only a volleyball legend but an inspirational figure for girls and women everywhere. You may already know Gabby as a former professional beach volleyball player and Nike’s first female spokeswoman, but in this episode, you’ll also get to know her as an entrepreneur, an amazing mom of 3, and a dedicated wife of 20 years.

What I appreciate most about Gabby is the positive message she sends to women everywhere about a healthy body image, the importance of relationships, and creating your own definition of success.

Episode Highlights With Gabby Reece

• Ways to help teenagers learn healthy self-love and body image
• Why freedom is key to motivation
• Strategies for raising kids who learn to be independent
• Why being a good role model doesn’t mean being perfect
• Characteristics of a healthy relationship and marriage
• Ways to model good communication and conflict resolution in a family
• The role of sports in the family
• How Gabby approaches exercise and fitness today (and how you can train with her)
• The benefits of cold plunge
• A powerful mental switch that can lighten any mom’s load
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• XPTLife.com
• My Foot Is Too Big for the Glass Slipper: A Guide to the Less Than Perfect Life by Gabrielle Reece
• Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon by Dr. Joe Dispenza
• Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday
• The Oxygen Advantage: The Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques for a Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter You by Patrick McKeown
• Found My Fitness (Rhonda Patrick)
• Barrel Sauna
• Clearlight Sauna
• 8 Sauna Benefits for Body and Mind
• Ice Bath Benefits: How Cold Therapy Improves the Body and the Brain

More From Wellness Mama

• 250: Sustainable Fitness, Cork, and Benefits of Rolling With Addie Conner

Today we’re going in a different direction but it’s one more closely related to physical health than we often realize. I am here with Dr. Kelly Brogan, MD, whom you have heard from before. (See the show notes below for her first episode.) She’s board-certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine and specializes in root cause resolution as an approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms (not to mention graduating from Cornell and M.I.T.)

Dr. Kelly has a lot of fascinating things to say about the anxiety, depression, and mental health struggles so many women face. She’s reframing the entire conversation and has authored the New York Times bestselling book A Mind of your Own as well as the children’s book A Time for Rain. She’s also co-editor of the landmark (and much-needed) textbook Integrative Therapies for Depression.

In this conversation, we get super vulnerable about life changes that come with being a mother and something she calls a dark night of the soul. We all have a lot to share with each other on this topic I’m sure, so please chime in and let me know if you can related and what you think in the comments.

Learning to Own Yourself: Episode Highlights

• Why we might need to reframe the stories we’ve learned about birth, mothering, and the emotional realm
• What the dark night of the soul is
• How to know if this is what you’re facing
• Why symptoms can be a beautiful invitation
• The things we all have things where we love to be “right about being wrong”
• How emotions get coded physically in the body
• Whether men experience anything similar
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• KellyBroganMD.com

Books by Kelly Brogan

• Own Your Self: The Surprising Path beyond Depression, Anxiety, and Fatigue to Reclaiming Your Authenticity, Vitality, and Freedom 
• A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives
• A Time for Rain (A Book for Parent and Child)

Other Resources

• Books by Byron Katie
• Anatomy of an Epidemic by Robert Whitaker
• Oct 14, 2019

I’m going to go ahead and say it: this is one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done to date! You definitely need an open mind for this one. We’re talking about how a breakthrough technology could change the way we manage, treat, and actually fix things like anxiety, treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and other conditions. I’m here with Dr. David Rabin, the chief innovation officer, co-founder and co-inventor at Apollo Neuroscience. Apollo is the first wearable system to improve focus, sleep, and access to meditative states by delivering gentle layered vibrations to the skin.

Since Dr. Rabin has also spent the last 10 years studying the impact of chronic stress in humans, I figure he’s a great person to also brainstorm with about ways to improve your own sleep, your children’s sleep, and your heart rate variability, which is one of the things most linked to health.

Episode Highlights With David Rabin

• Why Dr. Rabin became so interested in mental health and the topic of stress in particular
• The single biggest factor in any type of recovery and healing
• How he figured out a way to “trick” the body into feeling safe
• What heart rate variability (HRV) is and why we are coming to know it as an important health marker
• The risks associated with low HRV… and ways to raise it
• Why pyschedelics might be the answer for stopping PTSD and other pyschiatric conditions for good
• MDMA and what it does for the brain and the emotions
• What the FDA trials show so far about these controversial medicines
• How the Apollo wearable balances the nervous system in real time (without drugs!)
• Why Dr. Rabin thinks psychiatrists are not just for the mentally ill
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Apollo (wearable device)
• David Rabin, MD
• Oura Ring
• In Search of Memory by Eric Kandel

More From Wellness Mama

• 470: Amy Emerson of MAPS on the Future of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy & Research
• 454: Dr. Jennifer Tippett on Trauma Therapy, Never Wasting Triggers, and Psychedelic Research
• 447: Kambo Frog Medicine for Detox, Healing, and Trauma Release With Todd Shipman
• 162: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics & How to Be 10% Happier
• 147: Using Heart Rate Variability With HeartMath to Stop Stress & Improve Nervous System Health
• 110: How Vibrational Frequencies Affect Our Daily Lives
• 262: Dr. Andrew Weil on Integrative Medicine, Reducing Inflammation & Most Important Factors for Health
• 190: The Easiest Way to Track HRV, Sleep, and Movement With Oura Ring
• Tips to Naturally Reduce Stress… Starting Now!

Dr. Dan Pardi is a researcher at Stanford University in California and at Leiden University in the Netherlands who specializes in studying lifestyle factors like sleep, exercise, and diet. He is the CEO of Human OS, an app designed to take a healthy lifestyle to the next level, hour by hour. This is not your typical health tracker. When I checked it out after meeting Dr. Dan at Paleo FX this year, I knew I had to share it with you!

Part of the reason Human OS succeeds is it operates on a behavior model called the Loop Model, which not only measures activity against your goals, but helps you tap into the “why” and the “how” to keep you motivated and overcoming obstacles. Human OS even takes into account the light (or lack of light) you’re exposed to during the day, memory retention, and other details other apps miss.

Episode Highlights With Human OS

• How Human OS creates highly credible, easy to understand, referenced courses on health topics
• Ways that light affects our bodies and the ideal pattern for exposure
• Why friendship may be the #1 health hack
• A simple way to manage stress better
• Five key development objectives: brain development, mind development, wisdom development, personality development, and real world skill
• Strategies for education in a fast-changing world
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• HumanOs.me (use code WELLNESSMAMA to get the first month for $1)
• LIFX lights
• Blog post on friendship
• Deeper Sleep Hacking (interview with Dan Pardi)
• Book: Thinking, Fast and Slow
• TED Talk on Optimizing Light for Health:

Did you enjoy this episode? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Hormone balance is one of the topics you all ask about most, so I’m excited to bring another hormone expert and doctor on the show today. Dr. Shawn Tassone is double board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology by the American Board of Integrative Medicine and holds a medical degree in addition to a PhD in mind-body medicine. His work includes studies and publications on spirituality and medical care, whole foods to heal the human body, and integrative medicine.

In his 20 years of practice, Dr. Shawn has seen over 40,000 women and is highly regarded as a patient advocate. I’ve read through reviews and testimonials and I can tell Dr. Shawn really stands up for his patients and lets them be an active part of an integrated part of their health. And you all know I’m all about that!

Episode Highlights With Dr. Shawn Tassone

• The various different imbalances that contribute to hormone symptoms and what to do about them
• If you’re a warrior, a nun, a workaholic or a queen (hormonally) and how to find balance
• What to know about hormone replacement therapy
• Some little known facts about various types of birth control
• About breast implant illness and what to do about it
• A novel way he’s helping women suffering from problems after the Essure device
• Why low libido isn’t always hormonal
• But what to do when it is
• And more!

Resources We Mention

• Find Dr. Shawn Tassone at DrshawnTassone.com
• 8 Weeks to Optimum Health by Dr. Weil

More From Wellness Mama

• 453: Dr Tami Meraglia & Ian Mitchell on a Holistic Approach to Hair Loss (with Extreme Results)
• 234: The Keto-Green Way to Optimize Hormones & Libido With Dr. Anna Cabeca
• 196: How the Modern World Is Changing Our Hormones (& How to Create a Balance Plan)
• 192: How to Avoid Rushing Woman Syndrome & Balance Hormones With Dr. Sonya Jensen
• 118: An At-Home Approach to Balancing Thyroid Hormones with McCall McPherson
• 108: Why the Birth Control Pill Screws Up Hormones & What to Use Instead
• 90: A Mind Of Your Own: Tackling Mental Illness and Fixing Hormones with Dr. Kelly Brogan
• 10 Tips to Help Balance Hormones Naturally

Did you enjoy this episode? What other questions do you have about hormones? Please drop a comment below or leave a review on iTunes to let us know. We value knowing what you think and this helps other moms find the podcast as well.

Today’s episode is a little different than normal as I’m here with Lauryn and Michael of The Skinny Confidential to talk business, entrepreneurship and navigating the dynamic of working together as a couple. Lauryn Evarts is a well-known lifestyle and beauty blogger at The Skinny Confidential and her husband Michael Bosstick is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the podcast network Dear Media.

I met them in Finland with Four Sigmatic and wanted to have them on to talk business since I get a surprising amount of questions about that side of things and rarely talk about it. They also interviewed me on their podcast (see resources below) where I share about my own business strategies and some parts of my journey you may not have heard before.

As I said, I know this is a departure from our normal health topics, but if you’re interested in the business side at all, I think you’ll enjoy this episode.

Episode Highlights with the Skinny Confidential

• A recap of all of our lessons from Finland
• What we all thought of the sauna/cold plunge situation there
• The benefit of pushing out of your comfort zone regularly
• What our gratitude alarm is and why it started after Finland
• How The Skinny Confidential started and grew to a massive podcast and platform
• The ways Lauryn and Michael navigate working together as a couple
• How they’ve grown multiple businesses
• Lessons learned from real estate (and real estate failures)
• How they met when they were 12 and how long it took for them to eventually start dating
• The powerful benefit of practice that they use in many aspects of life
• How to handle the negative aspects of social media we all encounter
• Ways to create community in daily life
• Lauryn’s quote (that I’ve adopted): “What you think about me is none of my business”
• All of our morning routines

Resources We Mention

• The Skinny Confidential blog
• Skinny Confidential: Him and Her Podcast
• Four Sigmatic (use code WELLNESSMAMA to save 15%)
• Hydroflask water bottle
• Silk pillowcase
• Dry brush
• 100% Copper Tongue Scraper

Books We Recommend

• May 03, 2019

I’m here today with someone you have probably heard of and possibly enjoy as much as I do. JP Sears is a YouTuber, a comedian, an emotional healing coach, and fun fact which you may not know, a serious world traveler and curious student of health. You’ve probably seen his funny and entertaining videos where he tackles some serious topics with grace and humor. His videos have accumulated over 300 million views, which is no small feat!

I’m excited to find out what JP has to say as we talk about building community, being open-minded, and learning how to have a serious conversation while still having a good time. If you want to hear more from JP, I linked to my favorite videos of his below and also check out The Awaken with JP Sears Show, his amazing podcast.

Episode Highlights With JP Sears

• How a health coach turned comedian (and we’re so glad he did!)
• Why JP loves to tackle controversial topics
• Why humor and difficult conversations actually go together
• A telltale sign that you’re overly controlled by fear
• An empowering method for dealing with anger
• Powerful ways to “mother” ourselves
• How JP and his wife handle their dietary differences (she’s vegan and he’s not)
• Ways to foster more real connection (even with those who disagree with you!)
• The importance of building a “tribe”
• Three steps to deal with negative criticism and stop letting it get to you
• JP’s daily routine and his non-negotiables for a healthy lifestyle
• How he manages his luxurious head of hair!
• And of course, plenty of laughs!

Resources We Mention

• AwakenWithJP.com
• Favorite JP videos:

Books JP Recommends:

• Conversations With God: Book One by Neil Donald Walsh
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

More From Wellness Mama

• 247: Vaccine Injuries, Autism, and Homeoprophylaxis With Dr. Jeff Knight
• 230: How to Protect Your Mindset & Live a Balanced Life: Chalene Johnson’s Story
• 249: How to Harness Energy & Create Success From the Inside Out With Suzy Batiz of Poo~Pourri
• Talking to Yourself With Self-Compassion (& Why It’s Healthy)
• An Open Letter to Moms on Mother’s Day

Do you think JP is a

You’ve probably heard of Poo~Pourri, a spray that traps unpleasant bathroom odors with natural oils (moms/wives everywhere owe her a debt of gratitude for it!). While you may not have heard though of Suzy Batiz, the amazing woman behind the product has an equally inspiring story.

Since Suzy built an empire on the unlikely platform of bathroom stink, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she’s known for her willingness to tackle taboo topics and challenge societal norms. She had to overcome huge challenges and multiple “failures” to reach success. In the end, Suzy credits her mindset and willingness to follow an “alive idea” as the reason she was able to create a company worth $500 million without borrowing a cent or enlisting a single investor.

Episode Highlights With Suzy Batiz of Poo~Pourri

• Suzy’s incredible story of overcoming childhood trauma and later business failure, bankruptcy, and personal breakdown
• How Suzy turned everything around and went on to found a $500 million debt-free enterprise
• The four signs of resonance and how to recognize an “alive idea”
• How the idea for Poo~Pourri came about
• The unique contributions women entrepreneurs have to offer
• What to do if you don’t like where you are in life
• And more!

Episode Quotables

You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller

Resources We Mention

• SuzyBatiz.com
• Poo~Pourri Or get it on Amazon
• Supernatural.com (natural cleaner) – Use code WELLNESSMAMA20 for 20% off! (one per customer please)

Books Suzy Recommends

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
• Loving What Is by Byron Katie
• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Your Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendrix

More From Wellness Mama

• 328: How to Live Fearlessly and Work Through Roadblocks With Rhonda Britten

Did you enjoy this episode? What other questions do you have about Poo-Pourri? Please drop a comment below