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🌿Special Guest: ALEX MUNDT

🌐 Website: wildalexherbs.com

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🎙️ Your Host: ALICIA HAWES

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🌐 Website: holisticallycorrect.com

 

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🎙️Check out my colleague, Lila's new, podcast here: Herbal (R)evolution

Everybody Poops: Ayurvedic Digestion, Stool Signs, and Herbal Support

Alicia Hawes welcomes master herbalist and nutritional therapist Alex Mundt to discuss how holistic care can fill gaps many people experience in conventional healthcare, using digestion as the starting point for better outcomes. Alex shares her background, why Ayurveda “hit home,” and why stool quality is a key indicator of imbalance and prevention, including how Kapha, Pitta, and Vata relate to the digestive tract. They outline what a “normal” bowel movement looks like, how digestion works from mouth to elimination, and how stress and mindset around food affect digestive function. The episode covers common digestive complaints, costs associated with IBS, and accessible starting remedies like CCF Tea, hing, trikatu, and triphala, plus practical cautions about self-treating chronic issues. Alex also announces a June 6 digestion webinar and both invite listeners to follow for deeper future conversations.

00:00 Welcome to Holistically Correct

00:49 Meet Alex Mut

01:30 Alex’s Ayurveda Journey

04:33 Why Digestion Matters

10:09 IBS Costs and Constipation Myths

15:38 What Normal Poop Looks Like

18:13 Gut and Nervous System Link

22:23 How Digestion Works

25:37 Alkaline Water and Stomach Acid

33:01 Agni and Digestive Fire Types

37:28 Balanced Digestive Fire

37:53 When Agni Goes Wrong

39:38 Gut Health By Numbers

40:42 Health Choices Compound

45:29 Mindset While Cooking

48:22 Gratitude And Rest Digest

51:20 Dosha Timing Troubleshoot

52:56 Herbs For Gas And Bloat

54:27 Period Pain Digestion Link

59:33 Hing And Downward Energy

01:02:12 Trikatu And Triphala Basics

01:06:30 Safety Notes And Wrap Up

📅 Book a session with Alicia ----> http://l.bttr.to/xtlny

🌐 Website: holisticallycorrect.com

📬 CONTACT THE SHOW

Have questions, guest suggestions, or feedback? I'd love to hear from you.

✉️ HolisticallyCorrectPodcast@gmail.com

📝 Take Alicia’s free mini wellness assessment https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUB8qEphaxXjjylg2GwgIyLPqjuKnRdefILd5GKAS9TtbBWw/viewform

Check out my colleague, Lila's new, podcast here: Herbal (R)evolution

In the first episode of Holistically Correct, Alicia Hawes reframes “the gap” in American healthcare as an insurance-driven problem, tracing the rise of utilization review and prior authorization from early risk-pooling plans to today’s routine delays and denials—sometimes even AI-driven—shifting decision-making away from doctors and burdening patients. She describes how shrinking reimbursements and growing administrative demands leave physicians with short visits, limited prevention, and little time for education or cross-specialist communication, while urgent care expands to fill access gaps through volume-based care. Alicia explains how holistic practitioners can bridge what insurance won’t fund—time, coaching, prevention, and whole-person pattern recognition—while still valuing doctors’ diagnostics and emergency care, and she invites more collaboration across modalities. Listeners are encouraged to assess whether their doctor truly listens, and to follow along for upcoming episodes, including one on digestion and Ayurveda.

 

00:00 Show Intro and Mission

00:56 Why Patients Still Feel Missing Pieces

03:41 Respecting Doctors While Seeing Limits

05:17 How Health Insurance Began

05:58 Old School Doctor Visits

08:07 Utilization Review Explained

09:29 Prior Authorization Takes Over

10:34 Real World Lab Denials and AI

13:15 Who Decides Medical Necessity

17:57 Doctors Trapped by Reimbursement

20:40 How Holistic Care Bridges the Gap

24:17 Why Labs Cost More With Insurance

27:05 Urgent Care Takes Over

27:24 Volume Based Incentives

28:39 UTI Case Study Fallout

29:51 Herbalism Fills The Gap

32:41 Time As The Missing Medicine

32:57 Seeing Whole Body Connections

35:30 Algorithmic Blind Spots

38:08 After Hours Reassurance

39:17 Bridging Practitioner Languages

42:06 Doctors Warming To Integrative Care

46:22 How To Tell If They Care

47:51 Wrap Up And Next

In this intro episode, Alicia Hawes shares the lived experience that shaped her into a clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic health counselor—from surviving spinal meningitis as a baby, to a childhood of poverty and limited care, to a major scoliosis surgery that left decades of pain, misdiagnosis, and years on hydrocodone before getting sober and finding a better way. She explains how chronic health challenges pushed her into formal herbalism training in 2014, how she now runs a telehealth practice for people who feel dismissed by conventional care, and why this new show carries the same edge and honesty as Herbalism Uncensored—just with room for deeper dives and new guest voices. Expect real talk on women’s health, chronic pain, autoimmunity, trauma recovery, detox myths, parasites, herbs, and Ayurveda, with the first full episode dropping April 19 on “filling the gap.”

📅 Book a session with Alicia http://l.bttr.to/xtlny

📝 Take Alicia’s free mini wellness assessment https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUB8qEphaxXjjylg2GwgIyLPqjuKnRdefILd5GKAS9TtbBWw/viewform

🌐 Website: holisticallycorrect.com ✉️ Email: holisticsolutions108@gmail.com

 

n this introduction to The Holistically Correct podcast, clinical herbalist and Ayurvedic health counselor Alicia Hawes shares the personal health journey that led her into holistic care—surviving spinal meningitis as an infant, living with long-term effects of scoliosis surgery, years of chronic pain management with hydrocodone and muscle relaxers, and a misdiagnosis that resulted in unnecessary hormone therapy. She explains how those experiences pushed her to find better solutions and why she now runs a telehealth practice for results-oriented clients who’ve felt dismissed by conventional care. Alicia outlines the show’s mission: honest, practitioner-level conversations that “fill the gap” conventional medicine often can’t, through time, listening, and personalization. Expect guest interviews and solo deep dives on women’s health, chronic pain, autoimmunity, trauma, herbs, Ayurveda, detox misconceptions, and parasites, with the first full episode dropping April 19. 00:00 Welcome to the Podcast 00:09 Why I Do This 00:30 Childhood Illness and Poverty 01:25 Scoliosis Surgery Fallout 03:00 Misdiagnosis and Hormones 04:18 Breaking Free from Opioids 05:20 Finding a Better Way 06:00 Credentials and Clinical Work 07:05 Yoga and Whole Person Health 08:30 Herbalism Uncensored Origins 10:16 Courageous Wellness Conversations 11:10 What to Expect on This Show 11:53 Topics and Listener Requests 13:34 First Episode and The Gap 15:18 Wrap Up and Where to Follow