The Wellness Mama Podcast
by Katie Wells
The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com
Episodes
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You are Probably Dehydrated Even If You Drink Enough Water With Carrie Bennett
Episode Highlights With Carrie What true hydration actually is and why it isn’t just about water Hydration inside the cells and how this happens - it isn’t the water we drink Mitochondria in the cells make water for us! How do we hydrate our blood and the link to histamine issues What ocean-based...
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The Healing Effects of Winter - Fascinating Science with Carrie Bennett
Episode Highlights With Carrie Winter was never meant to make us feel miserable Why some people feel worse in winter and what it means in our bodies The unique aspects of winter that can make it deeply healing Understanding circannual rhythms and how this impacts the body Many of us try to live...
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Nothing Is Missing: Lessons From 1,100 Episodes on Health, Healing, and Being Human (Solo)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why, after 1,100 episodes, health was never really the destination How my view of the body shifted from something broken to fix to an intelligent, adaptive system The difference between supporting your body and obsessively monitoring it Why optimizing health is a…
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You are Solar Powered: How to Supercharge Your Body With Peter Forhan
Episode Highlights With Peter Humans are photosynthetic and why this is important to understand Photosynthetic means synthesizing usable energy from photons Water is photoelectric and what this means Humans are photosynthetic because water is photoelectric We are 99% water by molecule count and…
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What Are We Teaching Our Children About Being Human with Laurie Emery
Episode Highlights With Laurie What children are subtly learning about being human by our own presence and reactions Our children can bump into places in us that are not resolved What they learn about if sadness or anger is welcome even within themselves How to shift so your child isn’t...
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Why Knowing Your Patterns Isn’t Enough to Change Them with Laurie Emery
Episode Highlights From Laurie Why just knowing why we do something isn’t enough to shift it Her start in psychology and what she learned through her own experience as well How to be freer inside moments that used to run you What does the body have to do with changing emotional patterns It isn’t...
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What Iridology Reveals About Your Health With Dr. Angel Hill
Episode Highlights With Angel What iridology is and how it actually works Her work with thousands of people and how the eye can be an insight into health How she got into this work and how this has been practiced for centuries There are 28,000 nerve endings that come into the eye Iridology can’t...
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A Spark of Greatness: Building a Strong Life and Strong Family Foundation with Laila Ali
Episode Highlights With Laila How to create a strong family foundation with structure, values, healthy habits and connection Boxing was her outlet when she was younger and what she learned through that Why she wrote a children's book to inspire kids to follow their spark The importance of…
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Saliva Hacker: How Oral Health & Inflammation Impact the Body with Lora and Dr. Elmira
Episode Highlights With Lora and Elmira How they got into looking deeper at the oral microbiome and the connection to oral health Root cause factors of oral health that many people don’t realize Oral health can be a missing part of the puzzle that most people don’t look into What oral testing is...
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How to Break the Cycle of Over-functioning & Deepen Intimacy With Christine Hassler
Episode Highlights With Christine Over-functioning and why capable, efficient people end up doing everything, but how to break the cycle This can look like competence but be connected to control and safety starting in childhood How can we actually break the pattern of over-functioning “If I stop...
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The Light Diet: 10 Rules for Using Sunshine & Darkness to Optimize Health (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why light is the most important “nutrient” your body receives each day How natural light and darkness influence metabolism, hormones, gut health, and circadian rhythm How blue light after dark affects melatonin, glucose, mood, and inflammation Why sunrise light is...
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Hair Loss in Women & What To Do About It With Colleen Renee
Episode Highlights With Colleen How hormones affect hair health for women Why hair loss can increase in perimenopause The reason thyroid and medication can affect hair Nutritional deficiencies that affect hair How PCOS affects hair health and growth Insulin resistance can come into play as well...
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Hidden Factors Affecting Health & How to Fix Them With Dr. Torrie Thompson
Episode Highlights With Torrie How living in Thailand inspired her current work and what she learned about Eastern medicine Her own health story and how this inspired the work she does Biggest missing factors in health and wellness that some people miss In Asia, they look at lifestyle first, and...
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The Identity of Health: How “I Am” Statements Shape Biology (Solo Opinion Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why your identity (especially your “I am…” statements) shapes biology more than any protocol How the nervous system responds chemically and electrically to the language you use about your body The difference between identifying with your symptoms vs. identifying as...
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You Can’t Hack Your System, The Body is Way Too Smart With Ian Clark
Episode Highlights With Ian Understanding detox and why harsh ones can be too much for the body The things you don’t know that you’re breathing in and how to avoid accumulating it How to avoid becoming an aggregator of air toxins All of us have been poisoned in some way in the modern world Can we...
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What did Jesus Really Say & What Did Humans Change? With Lauren Geersten
Episode Highlights With Lauren How she went from health blogger to an incredible inner and outer journey to writing about some even bigger topics Why healing the body can also lead to questioning deeper topics It’s hard to open to truth when we’ve been manipulated by fear unless we know there is...
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Is a College Degree Worth It Anymore? (& What Might Be Better) With Degree Free
Episode Highlights With Degree Free The shocking data around college now, and how many jobs actually require a degree What has shifted in the last couple of decades, and why new data is important to consider Most people who are employed in the US do not have college degrees Less than one in five...
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Dying of Embarrassment: One Part of Health We Don’t Talk About As Much With Scott Hickle
Episode Highlights With Scott How we track so many things, but often don’t know what’s going on with bowel and urinary health His path into this- both of his parents are doctors Is there something we can learn from our poop that we are missing? How stress comes into play with gut health The big...
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Fast Like a Girl, Eat Like a Girl, and Age Like a Girl With Dr. Mindy Pelz
Episode Highlights With Mindy Cutting through the myth… can women fast and what we need to do differently How to navigate fasting with a female hormone cycle and why it is so important The three types of women and how each fasts differently There are times when women shouldn’t fast and times when...
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Why We're Attracted to What Hurts Us (& How to Change It) With Stef Sifandos
Episode Highlights With Stef His work with gold medalists, special forces soldiers and elite entrepreneurs and the wound that always shows up What people call chemistry is actually nervous system dysregulation We move toward what feels familiar even if it is dysfunctional The nervous system is a...
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The Art of Letting Go: What I Learned From a Decade of Unlearning (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why healing often requires unlearning more than learning The invisible beliefs, identities, and patterns that kept me stuck … even when I was doing “all the right things” How clinging to control, perfection, and certainty created more stress than peace The surprising...
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Why Everything We Know About Alzheimer's Is Wrong With Dr. David Perlmutter
Episode Highlights With David Why living an adventurous lifestyle is so good for your brain and body Being sedentary is one of the biggest things that threatens brain health- here’s why Why he considers brain defenders the most urgent and important thing he’s ever written What the brains immune...
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Healing with the Sun and Transformation From Grief With Nat Collier
Episode Highlights With Nat Her experience with homesteading, homeschooling and native plants Reasons to plant some native things in your yard! Her recovery from Autoimmune disease with circadian health How she reversed Hashimoto's naturally We are circadian beings, and our cells need light to...
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Mineral Balancing, HTMA + Safe and Effective Detoxification With Matt Coffman
Episode Highlights With Matt His wild health journey and how he got into the work he does now Overcoming Lyme, Babesia, Epstein-Barr, parasites, mold, and heavy metals What mineral balancing is and how it is important Why he prioritizes hair mineral analysis as a form of testing over a blood test...
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How I Build Sun Tolerance & Solar Callus in Early Spring (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why sunlight is essential for hormones, energy, mitochondria, circadian rhythm, and Vitamin D production What a “solar callus” is and why the skin needs gradual training — just like muscles How to safely build sun tolerance in early spring without burning The…
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The Mineral Reset of all Cellular Systems With Caroline Alan
Episode Highlights With Caroline Her story with minerals and fertility and what she learned the tough way The long road to having her two kids and how her health suffered after What makes fulvic and humic minerals different and why her job is to make these famous Why she considers these compounds...
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My Birth Story with Baby #7- My Physically Easiest Pregnancy at Almost 40 (Solo)
Episode Highlights With Katie What my birth was like this time The things that I think made it easier What I’m doing differently now with ten more years of parenting and context How simple I’m keeping things this time Resources Mentioned Bioptimizers I love and use so many products from them, but…
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Hypochlorous Acid: The Non-Toxic Healing Molecule Every Mom Needs to Know About with Justin Gardner
Episode Highlights With Justin Is he the real most interesting man alive? How he got hit by a train! What is hypochlorous acid and how he discovered it The body already makes this, but what makes it so unique What makes this such a strong antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, speeds up healing…
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Fast Food is Bigger Than Food and How to Choose Cleaner Supplements in an Ultra-Processed World with Eddie Stone
Episode Highlights With Eddie How fast food goes beyond just food and navigating a hurried culture Some simple ways we can shift the nutrient quantity of food Why nutrient levels matter more than macro levels with food When supplements are necessary and why he became concerned with the supplement...
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The Modern Toxic Burden and What We Can Do About It With Eddie Stone
Episode Highlights With Eddie What the modern toxic burden is and reducing everyday toxin exposure We are exposed to over 100k chemicals that have been produced and not cleared for safety Microplastics, chemicals and other toxins found in general everyday living What zeolite is and how it works...
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The Year That Almost Broke Me (& Surprise Baby #7) - Solo Episode
Episode Highlights With Katie The real story behind baby #7 and the hardest year of my life — not the polished version, but the honest journey of what it looked like behind the scenes. The unexpected prayer that changed everything and what happened when I asked life to shake up anything that…
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What's the Deal with Infrared Saunas: Facts vs Myths with Connie Zack
Episode Highlights With Connie What makes infrared different than traditional saunas How infrared combines light energy with heat What infrared actually is (we also get this from the sun!) Light and heat as energy medicine How this can help with emotional resilience What we know about the...
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You Can’t Hate Yourself Happy: The Key to Lasting Change with Jessica Ortner
Episode Highlights With Jessica What tapping or EFT actually is and how it is such a powerful nervous system reset Understanding the nervous system and what a lot of sources get wrong Tapping has over 300 peer-reviewed studies behind it Why always being calm isn’t the goal of nervous system...
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Synthetic Fragrance Is the New Secondhand Smoke — Here's the Science
Episode Highlights With Michael Why he thinks synthetic fragrance is the new secondhand smoke and how he can back this up with data Secondhand smoke was such a brilliant marketing push and why fragrance needs this now The worst offenders and what to look for What “fragrance” actually is when you...
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What the Mold Industry Doesn't Want You to Know With Michael Feldstein
Episode Highlights With Michael What he learned from years in working on mold remediation When he learned that the mold industry had a serious integrity problem Mold remediation - what does this actually mean What companies are doing wrong that leaves families sicker than before Lessons learned...
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The Body Is Electric: A Voltage-First Approach to Health (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why the traditional biochemical model of the body is incomplete...and why the body is electric first The shocking amount of energy your body generates each day (about your own body weight in ATP!) Why 90–95% of chronic diseases have mitochondrial dysfunction at the...
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The Gut-Hormone Connection: What Your Symptoms Are Actually Trying to Tell You With Ninu Lammens
Episode Highlights With Ninu What the gut hormone connection is and why it matter so much How supporting the gut supports hormones and can improve cortisol and sex hormones Why most women are chronically constipated and how to remedy this Why high cortisol is a good thing at the right time of day...
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Why You Feel Exhausted, Inflamed & Stuck (Even When You're Doing Everything Right) With Ninu Lammens
Episode Highlights With Ninu The reason women can still feel stuck even if they’re doing all the “right” things with nutrition and exercise Why those are only two pieces of the pie and the other things that can be really helpful Women hear all the time that their labs are normal and still don’t...
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The Invisible Upgrade: How Quantum Entanglement Is Changing Health with Todd Shipman
Episode Highlights With Todd What quantum energy actually is and how Todd went from skeptic to deep understanding How this term gets misused a lot and the important things to actually understand What quantum entanglement is and how this can benefit us practically The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics…
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Resilience and Adaptability: Real Benchmarks of Health (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why resilience and adaptability...not restriction...are the true markers of vibrant health. How rigid diets and “perfect routines” often reflect a dysregulated nervous system The mindset and language shifts that changed your health from the inside out. The nervous...
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The Money Habit: How to Consistently Direct Money to the Outcomes You Want With Mike Michaelowicz
Episode Highlights With Mike What the money habit is and how this differs from traditional budgeting Why most financial systems fail to change behavior long term The psychology behind money habits and how to change them What commitment devices are and how they can help How this works if you're at...
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My Honest Thoughts on College For My Kids (And Why I’m Asking New Questions) Solo Episode
Episode Highlights With Katie Why I never even thought to question college when I was 17... and why I’m rethinking it now with my own kids. How college became the default safe choice, and why that may no longer be true in today’s world. The emotional side of this decision for parents: fear…
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The Male Fertility Crisis and Future-Proofing Fertility With Dr. Ann Shippy
Episode Highlights With Ann Key ways to future proof fertility and protect mitochondria to have healthy pregnancies, even as we get older New studies show mitochondria in eggs are preserved better than other parts of the body How minimizing toxins is protective of fertility in a major way Ways to...
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The Preconception Revolution: A Science-Backed Approach to Fertility With Dr. Ann Shippy
Episode Highlights From Ann Why she decided to write this book on preconception health Surprising thing she’s found in her work as a functional medicine doctor Decline in fertility isn’t just about age, there are some major biological and lifestyle factors behind the fertility decline Top…
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Minerals Part 5: The Ultimate Mineral Matrix Masterclass: Pulling It All Together (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie How all minerals form your body’s electrical field Why minerals are the foundation for hormones, sleep, detox, digestion & mood The 4 layers of the Mineral Matrix: Sodium = the charger Potassium = the stabilizer Magnesium = the conductor Humic/Fulvic = the activators...
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Addressing Pediatric Neurological Conditions Through Addressing the Perfect Storm & Coregulation with Dr. Tony Ebel
Episode Highlights With Dr. Tony Ebel The perfect storm of what is affecting our kids We are our own primary healthcare provider, and that of our children His background work in genetics and how it led to his current work Where he starts with the top triggers in addressing these conditions in…
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Minerals Part 4: Humic & Fulvic Minerals: The Missing Layer for Cellular Signaling (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie What humic and fulvic minerals actually are ... and why they’re not electrolytes The difference between fulvic (small, cellular) and humic (larger, gut-supportive) Why these minerals used to come from rich soil… but don’t anymore How humic minerals bind toxins gently...
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Minerals Part 3: Potassium: Blood Sugar, Hormones, Mood, and the Sodium–Potassium Pump (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why potassium is the #1 most underconsumed mineral today How potassium runs the sodium–potassium pump that powers the entire body Why potassium is the mineral of calm electricity and inside-cell stability How potassium affects insulin sensitivity, blood sugar, and...
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From Imbalance to Alignment: Natural Hormone Support for Women With MenoPLUS
Episode Highlights With Meno Plus Hormone shifts beyond just menopause and understanding the other shifts outside of just menses stopping Sometimes up to ten years before menses stops, hormone shifts can be more What is happening in the perimenopause state and what changes women tend to notice...
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Minerals Part 2: The Real Story on Magnesium: Electricity, Relaxation, and Repair (Solo Episode)
Episode Highlights With Katie Why magnesium is the master mineral your body burns through fastest The real reason magnesium powers 700+ reactions in the body How magnesium activates ATP and mitochondrial energy Why stress, pregnancy, and modern life create chronic depletion The difference between...
About this show
The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com
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