Episode Highlights With Devon 

• What is happening mentally and biologically when a child is not calm and feeling triggered
• The lower part of the brain is more developed in young children and they aren’t as strong in impulse control and other skills yet
• All parenting moments are opportunities for learning and growth
• How to start asking questions from a place of a growth mindset vs a fixed one
• Awareness is the first step in creating change and how to cultivate it in parenting
• Learning the pause and why it is easier in theory than in practice, plus, what to try instead
• How to disrupt the stress response and create safety physically and emotionally 
• Ways to validate our own emotions and find inner calm again 
• How to ground yourself in stressful parenting moments
• Holding space for your child’s emotions and not sending subtle messages that their emotions aren’t ok
• Why not to punish a child for feeling upset or not having control of their feelings and not to distract with screens when they get upset either 
• A subtle thing to think about before encouraging a kid to stop crying and how to help them put words and context while accepting the feeling (not always condoning the action)
• Her recipe for effective discipline and how to align discipline with their development 
• How to create a connection with children at all ages and connection is the balm that can soothe feelings 
• Ways to create awareness as a parent

Resources Mentioned

• Transforming Toddlerhood by Devon Kuntzman
• Follow Devon on Instagram

Episode Highlights From Katie

• Why controlling kids’ food often backfires and leads to power struggles
• The surprising research on kids’ natural ability to self-regulate food intake
• How to create structure without micromanaging meals
• Why removing “good” and “bad” food labels helps prevent negative food relationships
• Practical strategies I use to raise intuitive eaters at home

Resources Mentioned

• Commonsense Childrearing by Thomas Cowan MD

Episode Highlights With Robyn

• How she came to question supplements and how this led to a deep expose book
• Why what we call “vitamin D” as a supplement isn’t actually vitamin D and why she questions taking it
• It isn’t just about good supplement vs bad supplement, but how to evaluate to know what's helpful and what's not
• Why some vitamin D supplements have poison control warnings for pets 
• When supplements are not just not helpful but directly harmful
• Things to know about fish oil, rancidity, and what the metadata says
• Understanding B vitamins and why many aren’t what they seem either
• B vitamins don’t exist in isolation in nature or in the body and most supplements are not made of any food substance but of chemicals 
• Questioning vitamin C and iron 
• Are minerals one of the few deficiency stories that's true due to overfarming?
• The one supplement she actually takes and why

Resources Mentioned

• Take Daily: How Supplements Hijack Your Health - Book 
• Follow Robyn on Facebook, Instagram, and X

Episode Highlights With Leedia

• Why sugar isn’t the only problem when it comes to kids' oral health and it isn’t even the main thing
• It's the microbiome, not the sugar, and what to know about this in kids
• The things that are just as bad as sugar for our kids' teeth
• Safe forms of toothbrushes and oral care for babies and kids
• How to reverse early dental cavities 
• The one most important thing she would tell new moms (hint: it’s about breathing)
• Breastfeeding is the first orthodontic treatment
• What it means if your baby or child is grinding their teeth and what to do about it
• Signs to pay attention to early on for kids that are related to mouth breathing and airway obstruction
• What the proper position for the tongue is and what to do if yours isn’t naturally there
• Her top tips for parents and special tips for teens 
• What to know about ADD and ADHD medications, related concerns, and a lesser-known possible dental link. Check for mouth breathing. The symptoms are often similar.

Resources Mentioned

• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
• Sleep Wrecked Kids by Sharon Moore
• 7 Essential Tips for Optimal Oral Health For Ages 0-18
• Reversing Dental Cavities In Kids Course
• Dr Leedia's website and her Instagram

Episode Highlights With Leedia

• The incredible links between the oral cavity and the womb, from physical to energetic
• Why this connection is so strong and what to know about it
• Her own story with oral health during pregnancy and how it led to her research
• Over 65-70% go through reversible dental issues in pregnancy
• Vaginal tissue and oral tissue are very similar tissues with quick cell turnover and progesterone and estrogen receptors
• How relaxin affects oral health
• Why tooth movement can occur during or after pregnancy
• The link between periodontal disease and prenatal risks and poor birth outcomes
• What we can do before, during, and after pregnancy to protect oral health
• All of this actually starts in puberty 
• Your oral microbiome is responsible for 60-70% of your gut microbiome, and that gets passed on to baby
• Sugar isn’t the biggest problem for oral health. Acidity is a big problem and how to find the balance

Resources Mentioned

• Dr Leedia's website and her Instagram
• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price
• Copper tongue scraper

Episode Highlights With Bradley

• What led to his most recent work, The Heart Code, and what makes it different than his other books
• How emotional energies can become stuck in the body
• Our bodies are made of nothing but energy, and we are beings of pure energy
• Everything is energy, including emotions
• What a trapped emotion is and how these can happen in three ways: we bury it, unchecked big emotions, and an overwhelming circumstance we can’t process
• The single biggest common denominator for all his patients, and what he learned from this
• 90% of his patients' physical pain was linked to emotional baggage
• What is a heart wall, and how can we address these?
• About 93% of people put up a wall of some sort 
• Ancient civilizations all believed that the heart was the core of the soul and of our being
• What heartache actually is, and what is happening in the body during this
• More communication goes from heart to brain than from brain to heart
• How can we test our own subconscious mind to see if we have a heart wall
• Our bodies communicate with us through symptoms. As an example, migraine headaches 
• How to do this work on yourself or find a practitioner who can help release heart walls on you
• His parting grandfatherly advice for everyone

Resources Mentioned

• Get the Heart Code book and special gifts here
• Discover Healing
• Dr. Bradley's Books

Episode Highlights With Nagina

• What changes in metabolism during midlife and why a different approach is needed
• Why the body needs more nutrients as we get older
• Switches to turn on in the body so we can burn more fat in midlife
• Why we become more insulin resistant during the midlife years
• Our hormones shift in midlife as women and what these hormone changes do in the body
• Why muscle mass declines at this phase of life and what to do about this
• The real reason restriction doesn’t work and what does work sustainably for women
• One of the most important things we can do to prevent weight gain in midlife is to eat enough food!
• How this ties into thyroid health as well
• What gut changes happen in midlife and how to avoid these
• The real deal about sugar in the body and why it's especially bad during midlife
• Ingredients you can add to your diet that help your blood sugar be more stable
• The best metabolism-boosting foods that help support metabolism 
• Why protein is especially important for women in midlife and how much we actually need
• The thermic effect of protein and how to use this to your advantage
• Top carb choices that boost metabolism and why skipping them entirely leads to cravings
• Key nutrients we need and have trouble getting from food in the modern world

Resources Mentioned

• Sweet spice cheat sheet
• Fat burning food framework 
• FREE 5-Day Metabolism Boost Workshop (starts January 12!)
• Masala Body website and on Instagram

Episode Highlights With the Holistic Kids

• The problem with ultra-processed foods and how these are destroying kids' health
• Why they consider ultra-processed foods to be fake foods and a science experiment
• What actually is an ultra-processed food?
• How kids get addicted to ultra-processed foods created in labs for this reason
• The “global diet of doom”
• These foods are linked to dozens of chronic health conditions

Resources Mentioned

• The Teen Health Revolution: Unlocking Lifestyle Secrets for the Mind, Body, and Soul - book
• The Holistic Kids Show podcast

Episode Highlights With Holistic Kids

• What the current generation of kids is facing, without even always realizing it
• How mindfulness applies to kids today
• Why they started their podcast and why this topic is so important to them
• Their insight into why kids and teens don’t want to open up to parents and what parents can do to create a more open environment
• Parents should listen to learn, not listen to reply and give advice
• Problems from not being mindful and the benefits to kids and teens of mindfulness
• The key challenges that teens are facing today and ways to help
• How to go from a state of mindlessness to mindfulness, especially for teens
• Their top tips for kids and teens to be more mindful
• Habit stacking for kids
• The importance of nature, especially for kids and teens
• How kids and teens can cultivate purpose in their own lives
• The importance of gratitude and the physical benefits to kids
• Their habit of finding ten things to be grateful for each morning

Resources Mentioned

• The Teen Health Revolution: Unlocking Lifestyle Secrets for the Mind, Body, and Soul - book
• The Holistic Kids Show podcast

Episode Highlights With Tyler

• How often he talks about stress with patients and why this is such an important factor
• Women handle stress differently than men, and why this doesn’t have to be a bad thing
• What our cycle and our digestion directly tell us about our health
• Why women and men handle stress differently (hint: there’s an adrenal reason)
• What happens when we are stuck in fight or flight long term
• The effects on gut health and gut lining when we have chronic stress
• Top steps to support the gut and address the nervous system in high stress
• Universally helpful techniques, like breathing techniques, to help address stress
• The role of sleep and fasting

Resources Mentioned

• The Wellness Way on X and on Facebook
• Dr. Tyler Kruse and The Wellness Way on Instagram
• The Wellness Way Coralville