The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Nathalie Niddam

• What peptides are and why these chains of amino acids can be so beneficial 
• Peptides are amino acids that are 50 or less amino acids in length, polypeptides are 50-100
• Proteins are chains of 100 amino acids or more
• How peptides act as signaling molecules 
• They are naturally occurring in the body but specific ones can be used in special ways
• Insulin is actually a peptide that we make and that we can take if needed 
• Most peptides we take are naturally occurring fragments of peptides within the body
• What BPC 157 is and how it is effective in a wide range of uses — the Swiss Army knife of peptides
• Other peptides that can be beneficial
• Why peptides are hard to get right now and what to know about them
• Risks and safety information to know about peptides

Resources We Mention

• Nathalie - website and podcast and Instagram

Episode Highlights With Katrina Foe

• Why blood sugar regulation is so important and the parts many of us get wrong
• Blood sugar dysregulation is a root driver in many types of chronic disease
• What markers to pay attention to when it comes to glucose regulation and metabolic health
• At-home testing you can do to check on these things
• The big issues that might be blocking your body from healing 
• Optimal ranges for at-home and lab testing 
• How to support the body in detox and reducing inflammation
• Other things we can do to support detoxification
• Some general supplementation tips
• The deal on coffee enemas and sauna usage
• How coffee enemas can help you get into parasympathetic 

Resources We Mention

• Cancer Freedom website
• Levels
• Keto mojo - Amazon
• HCL Guard - Use code wellnessmama15
• Masszymes

Episode Highlights With Katrina Foe

• The root drivers of cancer and what we all need to know to avoid it
• Less than 10% of cancers are genetically inherited
• The root cause drivers of cancer and the tests that relate to them
• What the metabolic drivers of cancer are
• Preventative tests that can indicate early cancer risk
• How hormones relate to cancer
• Microbiome connections to cancer and what to know to improve it
• What angiogenesis is and why it matters
• How environmental toxins can relate to cancer
• The emotional component to any diagnosis 
• Why she got kicked out of the cancer treatment clinic and why she is so grateful for it
• Her take on coffee enemas 
• Why too much protein isn’t ideal with her cancer protocol
• The therapeutic ranges for ketosis

Resources We Mention

• Cancer Freedom
• Instagram - Katrina
• Nutritional Pilates: Relieve Joint Pain, Lose Unwanted Weight, and Prevent Chronic Disease to Become Your Most Vibrant Self by Katrina Foe
• Tripping over the Truth: How the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Is Overturning One of Medicine's Most Entrenched Paradigms by Travis Christofferson
• The Roadmap to Prevent Cancer Recurrence - Free ebook 
• watercheck.com
• Levels Glucose Monitor
• Keto monitor

Episode Highlights With Kelly Kennedy

• What fascia is and why it is the fabric of the body
• Fascia is connective tissue made of collagen
• How fascia connects every single part of the body
• Fascia is a fiber optic network within the body
• How to address scars and tattoos so they aren’t harming the fascia or lymph system
• Why midline scars are more impactful to the body and what to do to address them
• How they address and treat scars
• Move differently and frequently — the best thing we can do for our fascia 
• Why ballroom dancing is one of the best things to improve HRV

Resources We Mention

• True Wellness Center
• The Flow vibe tool

Episode Highlights With Kelly Kennedy

• What the lymphatic system is and why it's so important
• A new framework for understanding the body
• We have three times more lymphatic fluid than blood in the body!!
• There are between 600-1,000 lymph nodes in the body
• The lymph system doesn’t move on its own
• Fifty percent of lymph nodes are in the gut
• Detoxification isn’t just about supporting the liver but mobilizing the lymphatic system because symptoms indicate the filters are dirty
• What causes lymph to get stuck and the emotional tie-ins
• The body never makes a mistake… symptoms are messengers
• How scars on the body can hurt the lymph
• Things that slow down the lymph system
• How sitting and dehydration contribute to lymph stagnation 
• Why everyone needs minerals and lymph support
• How deep breathing can help move the lymph
• Her advice on using a mini trampoline in the morning and just bouncing, not jumping 
• Conscious breath vs deep breathing
• Benefits of self lymph massage and how to do it the right way
• The real deal on dry brushing
• Self-care over healthcare 
• Why she highly recommends never wearing a bra with an underwire

Resources We Mention

• True Wellness Center
• FLOWE podcast
• FLOW vibe - lymph drainage tool
• Free Manual Lymphatic Stimulation Guide

Episode Highlights With Dr. Molly Maloof

• How it took her a decade to destroy her health and a decade to rebuild it
• Ways to begin creating compounded habits that actually stick
• Fundamental foundational habits to start with
• How to not break your mitochondria, and how to support them
• The reason to only do one thing at a time
• Important reasons to focus on sleep as the first habit
• What somatic experiencing is and how it can help separate the story we tell ourselves about our life from the felt experience
• How to increase motivation and use habit stacking to make them stick

Resources We Mention

• The Spark Factor: The Secret to Supercharging Energy, Becoming Resilient, and Feeling Better Than Ever by Molly Maloof, MD
• Instagram - Dr. Molly Maloof
• Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy by Jaggi Vasudev - Sadhguru
• Wellnesse Tongue Scraper
• Wellnesse

Episode Highlights With Dr. Molly Maloof

• What Adamo is and why she started it
• Adamo means to fall in love in Latin
• Why does love matter to longevity 
• Loneliness is worse for you than smoking, drinking, or sedentary behavior
• The problem of declining sexual connection especially in long-term relationships
• The signal of loneliness is similar in the brain to a pain signal
• Women are oxytocin dominant, men are vasopressin dominant
• The magic of being feminine and the incredible capacity of women for sexual creative energy and capacity
• Your brain can shut down your libido and override your body but this can be rewired
• How to connect to the feminine and step out of the masculine 

Resources We Mention

• Adamo Method
• Instagram - Dr. Molly Maloof

Episode Highlights With Dr. Ruth Roberts

• Why veterinary care has gotten so expensive and hard to find lately
• How Covid changed access to veterinary medicine for many people
• How to find good pet care in today’s world
• Ways to support your pets hormonally, especially after they are spayed and neutered 
• How to find a good vet and how to ask good questions to keep your pets healthy
• Where to find and how to become a holistic pet health coach

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Ruth Roberts - Website
• Holistic Pet Health Coach Program

Episode Highlights With Dr. Ruth Roberts

• What does real food for pets look like
• Home cooking for pets and why to consider it
• What pets need: proteins, vegetables, slow carbs, healthy fats
• Demystifying what pets need and how to feed them optimally 
• The only foods to absolutely avoid for dogs and cats
• Nasty ingredients included in most pet food 
• Incredible results pets have had from changing diet 
• Supplements for pets
• Why our pets are exposed to more toxins than we are in our same environment

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Ruth Roberts - Website (use code wellnessmama for a discount)
• Holistic Pet Health Coach Program

Episode Highlights With Jodi Cohen

• Why the vagus nerve is such a key to healing and nervous system health
• How pathogens in the mouth contribute to lymph and vagus nerve issues
• Where to focus on the neck and clavicle as a natural facelift 
• There are more lymph nodes in the neck than anywhere in the body
• Why we might not actually be relaxed or in parasympathetic while we are sleeping
• Ways to help get the body into parasympathetic
• The opposite of I don’t feel safe is “I have choices”
• How we can help our kids develop good nervous system health and habits
• The “how we eat” is often more important than what we eat and why digesting in parasympathetic is important 

Resources We Mention

• Vibrant Blue Oils
• The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
• Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated
• Man's Search for Meaning

Episode Highlights With Jodi Cohen

• Why topical remedies can be so effective
• How topically applied remedies enter the body and can be helpful even if you have digestive or other issues
• Topical remedies bypass the liver
• Ways to support topical remedies and get them through the skin
• Essential oils are so concentrated, and often less is more
• How to open up lymphatic points and help your body get the congestion out
• We drain 75% of our lymph on the left side 
• Fascia wraps around the lymph, and how fascia is involved in lymph congestion

Resources We Mention

• Vibrant Blue Oils

Episode Highlights With Raj

• How to start identifying the cause of the triggers when we're triggered by our kids
• Ways to help kids not learn that their emotions are bad or create patterns of shutting down emotions
• Learning to create space between a trigger and a reaction to have more choice in our reactions
• What the core childhood wounds are, and where they often come from
• Many subconscious beliefs are formed before age seven, and what to understand about this in parenting
• Ways to create nervous system safety in your home
• Studies about adverse childhood experiences and how things like emotional neglect can lead to nervous system dysregulation
• How to get to know your inner child and understand your core needs and wounds 
• Common triggers and themes among parents
• Feelings of rejection as a parent can trigger a deeper core wound

Resources We Mention

• Liber8 - Use the code wellnessmama

Episode Highlights With Raj Jana

• What led him to do the work he does now after running successful companies
• How he learned he didn’t really know how to love himself
• What happened when he tried hypnotherapy, and what it led to
• The nervous system is like the soil of the body from where everything else grows
• Understanding nervous system health and how to improve it
• How to learn to develop a healthy relationship with your emotions
• What emotional triggers are and how to turn them into treasures 
• How to use emotional lab reports to find the tools that will work best for you
• Tools for regulating the nervous system
• How to build a healthy relationship with your emotions and your thoughts
• What parts work is and how to use it 

Resources We Mention

• Liber8
• Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender by David R. Hawkins, MD

Episode Highlights With Dr. Sam Shay

• What puffy weight is, and why it's different
• Puffy weight is weight that rapidly comes on and off and isn’t just fat or water weight
• The muffin test to know if this is affecting you
• Have you ever eaten a small amount of something and gained a disproportionate amount of weight… here’s why
• How inflammatory chemicals in foods can lead to drastic weight fluctuations
• Dilution is the solution to the pollution, so rapid puffy weight is a signal of an inflammation response
• The exercise test for exercise-induced obesity 
• Why some people actually gain fat from exercise based on specific genes
• Symptoms and inflammation are both gifts and how to learn from them!
• All inflammation is not bad, but how to keep inflammatory responses in the right range
• How to help your liver detox estrogen more effectively 
• Your body is always trying to help you, and there might just be a mismatch between the environment you are in and the genetics you have
• What genetic salt intolerance is, and how to know if you have it
• Vitamin D may control up to 5% of the human genome and is super important

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Sam Shay - Website
• Dr. Sam Shay - Instagram
• Your Missing Genes

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