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The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

963 episodes

4 days ago

Episode Highlights With Shefaly The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each doMost plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiberWhat fiber does in the body and its roles in the bodyHow fiber benefits gut ecologyWhat resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic healthWhat bitters are and why bitter foods are importantDark chocolate is a bitter food, let i...

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Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness,

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Episode Highlights With Shefaly The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each doMost plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiberWhat fiber does in the body and its roles in the bodyHow fiber benefits gut ecologyWhat resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic healthWhat bitters are and why bitter foods are importantDark chocolate is a bitter food, let i...

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Self-Improvement,

Health & Fitness,

Episodes (20/963)

The Wellness Mama Podcast

All About Fiber: Soluble, Insoluble, Resistant Starch & Why We Need Them With Shefaly Ravula

Episode Highlights With Shefaly The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each doMost plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiberWhat fiber does in the body and its roles in the bodyHow fiber benefits gut ecologyWhat resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic healthWhat bitters are and why bitter foods are importantDark chocolate is a bitter food, let i...

3 days ago

34 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Vitamins J & C: Two Vitamins You Might Be Missing With Shefaly Ravula

Episode Highlights With Shefaly What Vitamin J is and why it is a crucial nutrient in our life (and not a typical nutrient)Vitamin C, which stands for community and why it is so importantHow these in particular can have such a profound impact on our healthThe downstream effects of joy and community on so many aspects of physical healthHabit stacking in a way that builds joy and community into daily lifeThe benefits of gratitude journaling and just writing 7 things per dayWhy it is hard for us...

5 days ago

33 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Hidden Stress Might Be Keeping You Sick + How to Fix it With Dr. Tiffany Caplan

Episode Highlights With Tiffany What stress actually is and how it is more far-reaching than you might expectYour body can be experiencing stress even if you don’t “feel” stressedEven things like nutrient deficiencies are a form of stress for the bodyIf we are in fight or flight, we can’t rest, digest, and healWe actually need stress, and not all stress is bad- how to get it in balanceExercise is an example of good stress, and why we do not want to avoid all stressThe stress factors we can ad...

1 week ago

30 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Why Autoimmunity Happens & How to Reverse It With Dr. Tiffany Caplan

Episode Highlights With Tiffany Her first home birth story was also a breech birth, a connection she and I share!What is happening in the body when someone is diagnosed with autoimmunityWhen the immune system gets confused and attacks part of your bodyAutoimmune diseases are treated as different problems, but they share a common component and causesWhy are women affected by autoimmunity more than men, and some reasons whyThe rise of autoimmunity in kids and factors that may contribute to this...

1 week ago

37 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

How Food Reflects the Soul: Using Mindfulness to Heal Wounds and Cultivate Deep Self-Love With Gina Worful

Episode Highlights With Gina How our relationship with food is a mirror into our inner world and how this starts the day we are bornEvery single person on the planet develops a relationship with food and how this impacts usAssociations we can develop around food, like food being a source of love and affectionKnowing how to eat healthy is only about 5% of our drive and decision making when it comes to behaviors95% of what influences our behaviors comes from the subconscious mindSomething impor...

2 weeks ago

55 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

You Are Not Your Past: Overcoming Childhood Trauma and Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) With Dani Williamson

Episode Highlights With Dani Her own story and dramatic experience with adverse childhood experiencesThe childhood trauma she had and how her health problems started in high school from those experiencesData on ACE (adverse childhood experiences) and how a score of 4 or more is linked to a 20 year reduction in life expectancyHow she addressed her own trauma and what she recommends to her patientsMany people who come see her have never addressed or even considered childhood traumaShifting the ...

2 weeks ago

35 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Inflammation is the Devil: Dialing Down the Number One Reason for Chronic Lifestyle Disease with Dani Williamson

Episode Highlights With Dani Her 24 years spent with chronic lifestyle diseases like IBS, Lupus, urticaria, and othersShe was 24 years in before a doctor asked what she was eating If you were born healthy… you do not have to live sick!How quickly the body can adapt when given the right inputsHealing is incredibly simple, but not easyShe starts with diet first and then builds from there… the importance of single-ingredient foodsReal food goes bad… auditing your food choices, and cooking i...

2 weeks ago

39 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Light Masterclass: How to Transform Light from Health Sabotaging to Your Greatest Superpower With Roudy Nassif

Episode Highlights With Roudy The fun way that drinking cacao at night leads to him being super energetic and extroverted while usually an introvert How he incorporates dance into his lifeWhat he learned by living with no artificial light and how it drastically changed his lifeYou can’t get healthy in the same light environment that got you sickThe quality of our life is entirely dependent on the quality of light that enters our eyesHow light impacts us at a cellular levelWhy most blue l...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 49 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Reframing Mindset Around Fevers, Health, and Healing with Dr. Sharon Stills

Episode Highlights With Sharon A massive reframe in understanding fevers and the approach to handling themWhat homotoxicology is and how understanding this response is helpful Supporting vs repressing the body’s natural immune and detoxification responses What a fever actually is and why it is so helpfulReasons to consider not bringing down a feverWhat happens when we don’t let our bodies have a natural fever responseChronic inflammation vs acute inflammation, which can be helpfulTh...

3 weeks ago

31 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

It’s Important to Pause in Meno(pause) with Dr. Sharon Stills

Episode Highlights With Sharon Why we can forget the pause part of menopause and why this can mean much more than just the pause or end of the menstrual cycleThis is a physiological process and also an important emotional and spiritual inflection pointWhy she suggests women write their eulogies at this age as a way to recenter How to reverse engineer the life we want to have as we go through menopauseThe different ways that other cultures approach menopause and how this even impacts the ...

3 weeks ago

40 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Baking Soda Benefits: Energy, Endurance & pH Balance (Quick Tip- Solo Episode)

Episode Highlights With Katie Why baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) helps regulate your body’s pH and CO2 levelsHow it boosts endurance and athletic performance (and why it was once banned in sports!)The surprising ways baking soda supports kidney health, inflammation, digestion, and moreSafe dosing guidelines and how to use it for energy, recovery, and even oral healthWhen and how to take it for maximum benefits—and who should be cautiousResources Mentioned Baking soda BiOptimizers Magne...

1 month ago

28 minutes

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The 8 Pillars of Functional Women’s Health With Dr. Meg Mill

Episode Highlights With Meg The eight pillars of women’s health and the connections between themOrder matters when it comes to these pillars, especially with things like detoxificationWhy starting with detox can be counterproductive and a helpful order to work throughMost women are living in fight or flight and the importance of balancing the nervous systemA two minute practice that can really help your nervous system and make health changes more effectiveUnderstanding hormones, nutrient defi...

1 month ago

32 minutes

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Histamine Masterclass and Incorporating MCAS With Dr. Meg Mill

Episode Highlights With Meg What histamine is and how it can be causing symptoms you may not even realizeThe different parts of the immune system and how they're important to understandLink to stomach acid and digestionWhat’s happening when histamine is out of balanceSometimes anxiety and insomnia might be the only responses and symptoms of histamine issuesWhy histamine purposefully causes inflammation We have four different types of histamine receptors in our bodiesHow hormone shifts ca...

1 month ago

40 minutes

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Chocolate As a Health Food: The Power of Chocolate + Adaptogens with Jonathan Pantalis

Episode Highlights With Jonathan How he almost opened a pie shop- a wild story and his journey into the world of chocolate What the real story of chocolate is, and all of the components that can be in chocolate The dark side of chocolate and how it can be a healthy food when it’s done rightHow heavy metals can be in chocolate if it isn’t sourced wellWhy you crave chocolate and why this might not be a bad thingWhat true chocolate is and why raw, fresh cacao beans actually taste horri...

1 month ago

52 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Fascia and The Pelvic Floor + Deep Core Strength with Erica Ziel

Episode Highlights With Erica The role of the fascia in the pelvic floor and deep core musclesWhy this is important, especially if we’ve been pregnant and had vaginal or c-section birthsAn at-home test and analysis of the pelvic floorAn alternative viewpoint on kegels and what might be more effectiveWhat to do for optimal pelvic floor function and how this involves our deep coreHow using your feet more can actually help your pelvic floorGetting started with incorporating breath + movement and...

1 month ago

29 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

The Power of Fascia to get your body out of pain with Erica Ziel

Episode Highlights With Erica What fascia is and why it's so importantWhy fascia is our body’s superpower and how we create more and stronger fasciaMuscular strength vs fascial strength and how these are differentFascia will form the way our body movesBody-mind vs mind-body connection Ways to support fascia to elongate it and help get us out of painHow to wake up the deep core and support inner fascia Fascia and low back pain…. What to knowHow breathing supports fascia when we know ...

1 month ago

41 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

My Biological Age is 21.7- Factors that I Think Helped Most (Solo Episode)

Episode Highlights With Katie Which test I took that showed my biological age substantially lower than my actual ageDifferent ways to test biological age and how they're calculatedThe things this particular test looks at and things I think helped me in each categoryFactors I think contributed to my biological age being so lowResources Mentioned Just ThriveEidonBeam MineralsCarolyn Dean's MineralsFunction Health for testingMethylated B- vitaminsCholineCollagenMagnesium BreakthroughLevels for b...

1 month ago

30 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

The Brain, Gut, Vagina Connection with Dr. Betsy Greenleaf

Episode Highlights With Betsy The microbiome you might not have even known you have! How the gut and brain microbiome connection comes into playUnderstanding the vaginal microbiomeThe feedback loop to the vagus nerve. If vaginal microbiome is off this can affect fertility and libido as wellHow the vaginal microbiome is connected to birth and the baby’s healthThe direct fertility connection and how understanding this can help women improve fertility A connection between microbiome an...

1 month ago

1 hour 4 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Setting Women Free From the Chains of Dieting With Shay Pascale

Episode Highlights With Shay The common problems with most conventional diet models What’s going on when we feel like we're doing everything right but nothing is changing We start losing muscle in our 30s if we aren’t working to increase it. How this affects metabolism and what to do about itThe problems with calories in and calories out and why there's more to the storyMindset shifts away from restriction to fueling the bodyWhat a reverse diet is and how it can be so helpful!Why pr...

1 month ago

55 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

The Brain is the Most Powerful Healing Tool We Have With Dr. Darin Ingels

Episode Highlights With Darin Why the mind is the most powerful healing tool we have and how mindset comes into play with healingYou have more nerve endings in the gut than in the brain, and the gut/brain connection comes into play here in a big wayHow to utilize the brain to influence what happens downstreamPrimal trust and other programs that can help with the mindset pieceThe subconscious mind doesn’t respond as much to words as to imagesHow to hold an image of yourself when you are ...

1 month ago

25 minutes

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Shefaly The difference between soluble and insoluble fiber and what they each doMost plant foods that are fiber rich have a mix of both soluble and insoluble fiberWhat fiber does in the body and its roles in the bodyHow fiber benefits gut ecologyWhat resistant starch is and how it works differently in the body and are connected to short chain fatty acids and gut and systemic healthWhat bitters are and why bitter foods are importantDark chocolate is a bitter food, let i...