The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Chloe

• Her experience as an investigative journalist and how it was so much harder to ask the hard questions about her own body
• What she learned from interviewing victims of abuse and covering high-profile trials
• The gut symptoms to really pay attention to
• Tips for advocating for yourself and getting your doctor to work with you
• Reasons to pay attention to your stool and what you can learn from it

Resources Mentioned

• Follow Chloe on X, Instagram, and Facebook
• The Girls Guide to Guts book

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

Episode Highlights With Alexis

• How she went from a background in molecular biology to a focus on light
• What circadian biology is and how she got into it
• How a mouse study first opened her eyes to circadian biology
• What happens biologically when we interact with light
• Lux, brightness and temperature of light and how they impact us differently 
• Mitochondria control health and life and your ability to sense your environment
• How mitochondria control the aging process
• Sunlight is not just about vitamin D and that idea is very unproductive
• What POMC is and why we need to know about it
• Beta-endorphins from sunlight- a powerful endogenous opioid molecule
• Our bodies are built to make their own healthy “drugs” when we get enough sunlight
• Many humans are effectively living in a forever winter and why this causes problems 
• The primary signal from blue light and when it is problematic
• What the SCN is and why this master clock matters a lot!
• The sun doesn’t age us and actually does the reverse when we understand it
• How to practically age in reverse using natural light
• Blue light in isolation (screens) is inhibitory to the mitochondria
• How reptile bulbs and infrared light can help our internal light environment
• Benefits of winter and what to shift to get maximal benefit
• How to lean into winter biology

Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Alexis' website and Instagram
• Reptile lightbulbs

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

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 minerals are and how they support cellular hydration
• The earth and ocean-based protocol for truly hydrating cells 
• Her take on magnesium and why it is actually beneficial
• Light and movement and how they relate to hydration
• Mitochondria take electrons and at the fourth step water is made and this only happens if we can send oxygen to the cells
• Dysfunctional breathing can be connected to cellular hydration issues
• Yet another reason red and near-infrared light exposure are important 
• Blue light can inhibit the mitochondria in making water
• How to add infrared light to your environment and the benefits of doing this
• Her practical steps to improving cellular hydration
• Rapid fire learning about leptin, EMFs and hydrogen

Resources Mentioned

• Carrie's website and Instagram
• My Circadian App - use code Mama25 for a discount
• Carrie's Hydration protocol and all her protocols
• Prep for Winter Guide
• The Fourth Phase of Water book
• Magnesium lotion

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

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 winter like it is perpetual summer
• How this creates a mismatch in the body
• What happens in the body starting around the autumnal equinox as we prepare for biological scarcity and why this is important
• The innate wisdom of wanting to rest more in winter and how to honor it
• Melatonin in winter is uniquely beneficial and we can make more in winter
• Why we don’t need elevated vitamin D all winter long!
• Melatonin binds to vitamin D receptors so in winter it can do some of the same work!
• Winter= melatonin season and summer = vitamin d season
• We make melatonin during the day when we are exposed to infrared light
• How to optimize infrared exposure 
• The potential downsides of taking oral vitamin D
• Why Vitamin D testing isn’t comprehensive enough to tell us what’s going on
• How to prepare for winter in a way that your body understands
• How to actually use cold exposure to your benefit for winter (and it isn’t ice cold plunges always!)
• Ways to optimize cellular clean up and brown adipose tissue in winter
• The dietary changes that support healing in winter

Resources Mentioned

• Carrie's website and Instagram
• My Circadian App - use code Mama25 for a discount
• Carrie's Hydration protocol and all her protocols

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

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 means to living more fully, not the end goal
• How attachment to identity and others’ perceptions can quietly create suffering
• The freedom of not needing everyone to understand you
• What the Stoic idea of amor fati means and how loving what is differs from resignation
• How these lessons have reshaped my approach to parenting and honoring children as individuals
• Why being willing to say “I might be wrong” is a sign of growth
• A personal reflection on consciousness, impermanence, and the gift of being human
• What I’d tell my younger self about peace, control, and enjoying life now

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

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 70% by weight so we are essentially a water solar panel
• Why many humans are a solar battery operating at 1% of their optimal solar energy intake
• What happens with mitochondria and ATP when we interact with light
• Mitochondria absorb infrared light and use this stored energy to boost cell energy
• Mitochondria are photoelectric 
• The fourth phase of water and why this is important to our biology
• Our body heals itself, and light gives us extra energy
• What it might mean if sunlight makes you feel tired and get burned easily
• Water is a solar panel, and melanated water is 100x better at being a solar panel
• Melanin is the darkest naturally occurring molecule in nature and does much more than just protect us from sunlight and UV. it isn’t that it shields but it absorbs and converts it to electricity
• The highest concentration of melanin in the body is in the middle of the brain
• Hormonal implications of light exposure
• His 25 practical tips for maximizing benefit of hydration, minerals and radiant energy/sunlight
• No amount of drugs or supplements can fix chronic light dehydration or chronic mineral and water dehydration
• How this relates to iron and anemia in women
• Some practical tips you would never guess that are deeply impactful (and often free and easy)

Resources Mentioned

• The Light Body book by Peter Forhan - free to download
• Peter's website
• The Fourth Phase of Water by Gerald Pollack
• Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor
• Mayu Swirl water structure pitcher – code wellnessmama gives 10% off

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium and digestive enzymes. Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama and use wellnessmama15 at checkout to get the best deal

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

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 inadvertently responsible for managing our nervous system for us
• The most powerful things we can model for our children and it isn’t being perfect
• How can my child know what I feel without making them responsible for what I feel
• Children don’t need a parent who never gets activated; they need to know that they won’t be abandoned because of the activation
• How do we listen and communicate in a way where each person is taking responsibility for their perspectives
• Empathy and boundaries can exist together, and the downside of doing everything for our kids is that it makes us feel good, but they learn that we don’t think they are capable
• Not every childhood pattern looks dysfunctional from the outside. Maybe I became patient because anger wasn’t safe. Or I do everything because being needed feels like love
• Questioning: “Am I choosing this or am I compelled to do this?”
• Our job is not to make our children happy, it is to alow them to struggle and teach them they can handle it, to teach them all parts of them are welcome and they are still responsible for their actions 
• Moving away from reactive parenting to intentional parenting and how to repair when needed
• “Who are we committed to being as a family?”
• Learning and teaching the distinction between doing and being
• How to repair when we don’t handle things like we wish we had

Resources Mentioned

• The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
• The One Thing Underneath Everything
• Follow her on Facebook, and Instagram
• The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! book

Hiya
Hiya created a super powered chewable vitamin for kids that packs twelve organic fruits and vegetables plus fifteen essential vitamins and minerals into every dose. Try it at hiyahealth.com/wellnessmama.

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!

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 that behavioral change is unimportant; it is just a doorway, not the destination
• Often, the pattern starts in the body before the mind, but we think it starts in the mind, and that we can change it only with the mind
• The body becomes a doorway into slowing down and how this is so important
• Can you notice what is happening inside of you without trying to change it or explain it
• Experience is made up of three things: thoughts, feelings, and physical experience
• What does SEE - BREATHE - STAY look like in an ordinary moment?
• Differentiating what happened vs. what we make it mean
• Healing in a relationship: Can I bring those old activations into the relationship 
• The difference between mindfulness and actually staying with ourselves in emotional moments
• Being aware of not bypassing or abandoning when staying with a feeling
• Not “can I get rid of this feeling” but “can I remain with myself while the feeling is still here”
• We spend so much of our life trying to control our external world so we don’t have to feel certain things, and how to shift this

Resources Mentioned

• Follow her on Facebook, and Instagram
• The Return Experience - Use code wellnessmama
• The One Thing Underneath Everything

BONCHARGE
I like so many of their products - from their red light products to their sauna blankets. Red light has been so helpful for me during my recovery from Hashimoto's. To find out more, go to boncharge.com/wellnessmama

LMNT
I talk often about the health benefits of salt and electrolytes and I am a big fan of LMNT canned drinks and packets. Go to drinklmnt.com/wellnessmana for a special offer.

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 see blood pressure or blood, but can see most other things
• This is not a diagnostic tool but a complementary one
• What stress lines are in the eyes, and what they can indicate
• Personality lines in the eyes and what they can tell you about someone 
• What shows up most in women and moms, and the patterns she sees most
• Her Iris-Hormone map and what she can see based on these
• Cortisol is the base of the hormone hierarchy, and she sees this in many people
• Her one-week plan to help start moving cortisol in a positive direction
• Eyes do not lie (but people can)
• There are four spots in the eye that show the pancreas and can indicate a person is consuming too much sugar for them, even if they think they are low-carb
• Importance of real food protein
• Thyroid deep dive related to the eye
• Some easy and free tools to improve insulin sensitivity 
• Too much exercise and under-eating can be big problems, especially for women
• She looks at the gut whenever the thyroid is off

Resources Mentioned

• Dr. Angel's website and free gift
• Follow Angel on Instagram and Facebook

Just Thrive:
Just Thrive Health has been one of my longtime favorite brands for gut health and they have an amazing Daily Gut Detox. Your immune system, gut barrier, and digestion get the support they need to stay strong and healthy. You can find this and their probiotics at justthrivehealth.com/wellnessmama or use code wellnessmama for 20% off your order. 

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 physical outlets for kids 
• Why her dad didn’t want her to box and why she did it anyway

Resources Mentioned

• Connect with Laila on Instagram and Facebook
• A Spark of Greatness: The Autobiography of a Fighter by Laila Ali
• Reach! Finding Strength, Spirit and Personal Power by Laila Ali
• Free signed, personalized book plates from Laila
• Laila Ali Lifestyle - Spice blends

Bioptimizers
I love and use so many products from them, but I especially love the magnesium (Magnesium Breakthrough) and digestive enzymes (Masszymes). Visit bioptimizers.com/wellnessmama to get the best deal!