The Wellness Mama Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Episode Highlights With Drew Canole

• The real story of how to build muscle, lose fat, and get healthier as we age
• "Whydentity" process — the why that makes you cry and how to find yours
• Feeling creates your reality and how to start here
• How to create a ritual around mindset and healthy habits
• When you change your unconscious mind, you change your reality 
• Why he recommends 1 g of protein per pound of ideal body weight for moms
• Hormone and sleep benefits of sun exposure and how to optimize this
• Sunlight is the most underrated nutrition we have as human beings 
• Why many people eat too much of the wrong food and don’t get enough micronutrients and sunlight
• Melanin is one of the greatest substances in our body
• A reason to really focus on protein and how getting enough can change your life
• His best sleep tips and ways to improve your sleep drastically 
• Tips for improving HRV
• Creating an optimal sleep environment in your home
• A random reason he sometimes has two golden kiwis at night

Resources We Mention

• Organifi
• ButcherBox
• Real Plans
• Levels
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

Episode Highlights With Drew Canole

• There are about 80,000 toxins in the environment each year and why this matters
• Miracle foods that help protect the body and that are higher in nutrition than regular foods
• RDA was created in WW2 but the food supply has changed and they’ve modified the recommendations
• How Drew got into researching superfoods and the ones that will actually make a difference
• The real deal about Moringa and why it's beneficial 
• What adaptogens are and how they can be so helpful and lower stress
• How Rhodiola was used historically and how we can benefit from it today
• His theory on one of the big reasons for the obesity epidemic
• What to understand about greens' fiber and antioxidants
• Why he drinks 32 ounces of water with lemon and salt each morning before getting up
• Tip: Put salt in your mouth first thing in the morning and then drink water
• Ways to support the liver for optimal health and hormone support
• Why he recommends reverse fasting and moving the eating window earlier
• The reason he stops eating at 3 pm each day and how this improves his HRV
• He does a parasite cleanse once a month!
• What binders are and his experience with mold
• The truth about shilajit, why it is helpful, and how to get it without gagging
• What Happy Drops are and why I love them
• Natural ingredients that are tested to be more powerful than SSRIs
• A day in the life of his daily routine 
• TIP: Get 50 grams of protein first thing in the morning

Resources We Mention

• Organifi - Mood and Stress Products
• Organifi - GOLD
• Organifi - Happy Drops
• You Be You: Detox Your Life, Crush Your Limitations, and Own Your Awesome by Drew Canole
• Juicing Recipes From Fitlife by Drew Canole
• The Dust Test

Episode Highlights With Quantum Upgrade

• What quantum energy is, also called source energy, and what we know of it
• We are over 90% water on a molecular level and why this matters
• How we are also over 99% space, but it is not empty space
• A quanta is the most complete and discreet particle of something 
• The zinc experiment and the fascinating results that give insight into how we can benefit from this type of energy
• What studies show about how this technology can impact people on the spectrum in a positive way
• How quantum energy can work at a distance
• Shocking data on how this can impact everything from HRV to spike protein and clotting and even ATP production and wound healing
• What quantum entanglement is and why it matters 
• The difference between the bloc and quantum upgrade
• What they mean by “charge” when it comes to quantum energy
• How the blocs have a quantum-charged energy field

Resources We Mention

• Quantum Upgrade - Use code Katie for a 15-day trial
• Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum Biology

Episode Highlights With Dr. Sam Shay

• How he got into stand-up comedy as a functional medicine practitioner (who supports people on the spectrum using functional medicine)
• His definition of functional medicine: the best of Western medicine diagnostics with the best of natural medicine methods
• How he got into comedy through tragedy
• Art is the receipt for pain
• Stand-up comedy is the way to itemize that receipt in public
• At the root of almost every trauma is separation, and comedy and laughter help with healing
• Laughter is medicine
• How he’s using comedy to help those with Asperger's 
• One is truly healed when he or she can help another person heal
• Comedy is egoic destructive and why this is a good thing
• How to learn stand-up comedy if you are interested (and why it is worth considering)

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Sam Shay - Website
• Stand Up Comedy: A Primer

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why picky eating is on the rise societally
• Kids are feeling extra stress today, and that can contribute to picky eating
• Eating uses all of our senses at once, so if any are overwhelmed for our kids, that can lead to eating issues
• The importance of reducing stress at the table
• Gratitude or prayer can actually help us get into parasympathetic mode before eating
• The three Ls: laugh, learn, love
• A benefit of using family-style serving and letting kids plate their own food
• A phrase to implement: “You don’t have to eat that”
• Another phrase: "Learning to eat"
• The importance of respecting and nurturing kids' agency in eating and food choices
• Her picky eating challenge, where 85% of parents feel less stress in the kitchen after this short challenge

Resources We Mention

• Kids Cook Real Food
• Picky Eating Challenge
• Picky Eating Isn't About the Food - Katie Kimball Tedx Talk

Episode Highlights With Pranitha

• 70% of medical decisions are made based on lab testing
• How to get comprehensive labs at low cost without having to go through a doctor
• Health doesn’t happen at the doctor's office; it happens at home with daily decisions
• What the data is showing them about overall health of people
• Basic lifestyle habits that are beneficial and backed by data
• Data-driven importance of community
• The health trends and data that stand out based on the data they’re getting
• What their autoimmune testing looks at
• Other data they are working on implementing to make their system even more robust

Resources We Mention

• Function Health (use code wellnessmama to skip to the front of the line)

Episode Highlights With Pranitha

• The most affordable way to get lab testing these days
• What Function Health is and how it is changing medicine
• Hormone testing and what to look at and why 
• What can we know about our organ health from lab testing
• Insights from labs that we might not otherwise know
• Latent connections between biomarkers and what to know about them
• What to pay attention to and learn from heart health panels
• 70% of people with a heart condition will still have a normal lipid panel unless you look at particle size
• How to test inflammation and metabolic health
• Biological age and what tests indicate biological age
• Reference ranges on labs are based on averages and are not necessarily optimal
• Inexpensive add-on testing they make affordable and available 
• The 160 biomarkers they test each year

Resources We Mention

• Function Health

Episode Highlights With Caroline

• What are plant-based minerals and how are they different
• Humic and fulvic and what these are
• Our body is designed to heal and achieve optimal health
• Why it’s impossible to receive all minerals in food alone
• All cellular systems use humic and fulvic
• Difference between salt-based electrolytes and plant-based minerals
• How athletes should replenish their electrolytes
• Berkley study on minerals with brain fog

Resources We Mention

• Beam Minerals

Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber

• Her amazing story of overcoming pain, Hashimotos, IBS, depression, and burnout
• How this led to her work in helping women seek answers and make informed choices
• The pivotal event that shifted the course of her career and life
• Why autoimmune conditions are reversible!
• Helpful tools for addressing root causes and partnering with our bodies to find healing
• Why it isn’t the doctor healing you—it's the innate intelligence of your body and its ability to heal
• Your body isn’t betraying you ever… it is always on our side
• Thyroids don’t just fail, so what is actually going on?
• How to reprogram the mental scripts that might be keeping you stuck
• The power of fasting and how to do it as a woman

Resources We Mention

• Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening: Reconnect Your Body, Mind, and Soul for Lasting Weight Loss, Sustained Energy, and Unstoppable Strength by Tabatha Barber
• Dr. Tabatha - Website

Episode Highlights With Dr. Tabatha Barber

• Why conventional gynecology is not just failing women but hurting us
• How she became disillusioned with the mainstream narrative of women's health
• We're asking the wrong people for help in women’s health
• Gynecologists are surgeons
• Birth control pills do not regulate your hormones (and why this lie is told so often)
• How birth control causes serious magnesium and B-vitamin deficiencies
• What questions to ask to find a good practitioner
• Factors within your control that can help support your hormones
• Signs to be aware of for hormone problems and symptoms to listen to

Resources We Mention

• The Gutsy Gynecologist’s Guide to Balancing Your Hormones
• Fast to Faith: A 40-Day Awakening: Reconnect Your Body, Mind and Soul for Lasting Weight Loss, Sustained Energy, and Unstoppable Strength by Tabatha Barber
• Dr. Tabatha - Website
• My flo living app
• Oura ring