The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Mira

• Why preparedness is a growing trend
• How financial concerns are leading to more interest in having preparedness pantries
• The problem with most long-term food storage — highly processed foods
• Why access to clean water is so important with stored foods
• How much food and water do we need to store ahead
• A reason to have a regular pantry and a preparedness pantry
• How to figure out what your family eats over a two-week period to know what to store
• Freeze-dried vegetables and fruits are a good option
• What canned goods to consider for food storage
• Why you should keep a few things in your car to be prepared

Resources We Mention

• The Kitchen Table
• The Kitchen Table membership
• Theingredientguru.com
• Thrive Market

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar

• The science of the mind-body connection and why it matters so much
• Ways foreign things enter the body and why understanding this is important
• What guardian sites are and how to support them
• How to get the mind, body, and emotions in alignment
• It is only within a parasympathetic state that the body will heal
• Your nervous system responds to the neurochemicals you pump out in relation to your emotions
• The biggest needle movers for supporting the nervous system and spending more time in parasympathetic
• The real deal about blue light and how it impacts the nervous system
• Getting light exposure right for nervous system health
• Easy things you can do at home to manage your light exposure at night and help your body get ready for sleep
• The importance of melatonin and how it helps address inflammation in the body
• Why shift work is now considered a carcinogen
• How animal products in the diet are a signal of safety to the body and nervous system

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Olivia Lesslar - Website
• Dr. Olivia Lesslar - Instagram

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Olivia Lesslar

• What psychoneuroimmunology is and how understanding it can help improve our health
• How everything relates to everything and why understanding this is important
• What polyvagal therapy is and how addressing nervous system health is beneficial
• The dorsal vagal response of fawn and how this affects the nervous system
• How she looks at hormones differently than her peers
• Getting to the why of hormone imbalances
• Symptoms as messengers and how to learn how to listen to your body
• What a food matrix is and why it is important
• Why we actually get more nutrients from food than from the same amount in a supplement
• How to send safety signals to your body
• Yet another reason to get morning sunlight and what photo prevention is

Resources We Mention

• Dr. Olivia Lesslar - Website

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Episode Highlights With Katie Kimball

• Why life skills are still important (and maybe more so) in today's world
• How life skills foster confidence and relate to mental health
• The reason for the rise in anxiety and depression in kids
• Chore wars and balancing responsibility and life skills with kids doing too much work
• Require the work, not the results
• The downside of being overprotective and giving kids the idea that they need someone else to keep them safe
• How the correct level or risk for kids is a way to build resilience against fear
• Navigating the progression of toddlers to teens and handing off responsibility
• Ways to encourage critical thinking with kids
• Why young kids are wired for critical thinking and how to nurture it

Resources We Mention

• Life Skills Now - summer camp
• Kids Cook Real Food course

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Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell

• Ways to create more space and sanity, especially as a mom
• Sanity is available right now if you can figure out what your mind is doing or needing
• How to figure out what your mind is doing and say yes to it
• Why women are often not told things that are in alignment with the complexity of who we are
• The unconscious scripts running in our minds at all times
• It isn’t necessarily what we think, but what we think about what we think
• Learning to ask, "What is the invisible thought happening that is creating the pain?”
• How to say yes to your mind and to your pain in order to release it
• The process of becoming best friends with your own mind
• Why women are wired for success as entrepreneurs and how to tap into this if you want to
• Commonalities of the most successful businesses and why women innately do these things through building community and solving pain

Resources We Mention

• Dane's business course for women (limited time opportunity!)
• Start from Zero: Build Your Own Business. Experience True Freedom by Dane Maxwell
• Start from Zero Podcast
• Startfromzero.com

Episode Highlights With Dane Maxwell

• How his journey led him to write a children’s book for his daughter
• His journey from high-achieving entrepreneur to singer
• How Hatha yoga helped him process energy in his body after trauma
• The therapies that helped him resolve past trauma
• How he's working to avoid passing on negative patterns to his daughter
• What dual sympathetic reset is and how it helped his PTSD
• How this led to writing a book for his daughter
• The formula you can use to write a book for your children and the resources he shares

Resources We Mention

• The Mermaid Who Couldn't Pick A Tail by Dane Maxwell

Episode Highlights With Nazlie Lafefi

• Why most OTC medications are outdated and were created before we understood inflammation and its role
• The reason many products don’t address root causes and aren’t helpful in the long-term
• Surprising ways that many OTC medications work
• How to address the root cause of colds and flu at the inflammatory level
• The respiratory lining is similar to the gut lining and ways to support it
• OTC products can damage the respiratory lining just like we can damage the gut lining
• Yet another reason to avoid sugar
• The fascinating way she discovered this new approach when studying signaling molecules
• Problems with the conventional approach to handling allergies
• How some OTC products get in the way of the body's natural repair process
• Why taking allergy medication can make you more prone to getting sick
• How aspirin plus omega-3 can help the body build resolvins and shorten the duration of illness

Resources We Mention

• Biovanta
• Ready, Set, Food

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

• Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this
• The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle
• Why not to train to get better and what to do instead
• How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time
• Why high-intensity training even just once a week, can make a huge difference
• When you exercise, you sensitize muscles to glucose
• The long-term benefits of training on hormones and aging
• Differences between women and men with training and hormones
• The most important workouts women can do
• What to know about sarcopenia and what we can do about it
• Sarcopenia is not a disease of aging but a disease of inactivity
• How this relates to cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's
• What the normal recommendations get wrong about protein consumption
• Quality of protein matters and how to optimize this
• Dietary protein is essential to building and maintaining muscle but quality matters a lot
• The normal dietary protein numbers are just the minimum to avoid deficiency and are not adequate for building muscle and being metabolically optimal
• Standards vs goals for getting better
• How to use technology and tracking to your advantage in making these changes

Resources We Mention

• Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - website
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - Podcast
• Hand Grip Strengthener

Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

• Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned
• The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory
• Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better
• Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle
• What happens when a person doesn’t have healthy skeletal muscle
• The myth of “healthy sedentary individuals”
• Having healthy skeletal muscle is the only way to be healthy
• Skeletal muscle is its own organ system and why this is important
• Why muscle is the best protection for having a healthy pregnancy
• Skeletal muscle is the only organ system
• What a DEXA is and what it measures
• The division between muscle mass and strength
• What is happening in the body and the blood with unhealthy skeletal muscle
• The loss of lean muscle mass is more detrimental than excess body fat!
• How waist-to-hip ratio is helpful in understanding where fat is

Resources We Mention

• Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - website
• Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - Podcast

Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan

• What plant-based minerals are and how they are much different than other forms of minerals
• How we can get minerals from decomposed plants
• The molecules inside humate: humic and fulvic
• Minerals fuel the cells via mitochondria in the cells
• Fulvic is an intracellular molecule that removes toxins from the cell and humic hangs out in the blood to help remove inflammation-causing elements
• These can actually be helpful in removing heavy metals
• There are 70+ minerals in plant-based minerals in the ratio that the body needs
• How quickly these can work within the body
• The reason these can be absorbed even without a healthy gut lining!
• How humic interacts with the cell wall to help it and can improve hydration
• Specific tips for athletes with minerals
• Minerals drive all the biosynthesis processes in the body!
• How minerals relate to bone health and why to think about this differently
• The problem with megadosing specific minerals without balancing minerals in the body
• One theory of why some athletes end up with osteopenia at earlier ages
• Mineral usage for kids and pregnant or nursing mothers
• How humic can help with glyphosate exposure

Resources We Mention

• Beam Minerals