The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Ryan

• We're operating in a way that is not according to our design and how this is impacting our mental and emotional health drastically 
• 61% of people say they are depressed, anxious, or lonely 
• Why we are in a global emotional recession
• We have an exploding population of therapists, but we aren’t seeing a change in the underlying problems
• His incredible journey to healing and the tough lessons he learned along the way
• How do we change our emotional experience and what are the parameters that actually move the needle 
• The answers are always internal and in alignment with our design — we are our own healers
• What are the 8 paths for emotional healing and resilience 
• The natural sequence our bodies, minds, and hearts want to go through to build emotional health and resilience
• We are wired for healing and the sticky things that can get in the way
• How to set the environment for healing 
• What DEAP is and how it can help shift emotional experience 
• Why we often aren’t intentional about how we approach our nervous system and how we can increase our capacity by being aware and intentional about this
• Ways to expand the capacity of the nervous system 
• How to remind your body of it’s ability to shift between sympathetic and parasympathetic 
• What the RISE program is… and how to do it with me! 

Resources We Mention

• Ryan's Website
• RISE Program

Episode Highlights With Gary Vee

• How he feels he was perfectly parented and the things his mom did that made the biggest difference
• Why this led to a book called Meet Me in the Middle 
• It stands out to him that his mom found balance and how this impacted him
• How his mom helped him feel capable and remarkable but didn’t create delusion or entitlement
• What inspired him to write this book and expand into the children's world 
• His definition of success — peace of mind 
• Ways to integrate balance and accountability with our kids
• Start with parenting, not looking for external validation from the outside
• What things do we push our kids toward that are based on positive validation for ourselves
• Surprising things he found out from the 15- to 25-year-olds that message him
• What you cheer for is what they strive for
• His mom gave the most positive reinforcement when he was nice
• Be very thoughtful about what you cheer for
• Hurting from losing is one of the great foundational blocks of human development
• A parent's job is to eliminate indifference 
• Do you want to avoid judgment? Stop deploying it

Resources We Mention

• Meet Me in the Middle: A VeeFriends Book by Gary Vaynerchuk
• Veefriends.com

Episode Highlights With Hilda

• The best health hacks in life are free
• Ancestral wisdom trumps modern technology
• How 6 ancestral secrets can boost your energy and vitality
• Easy ways you can incorporate these secrets into your daily life
• Ways to show your kids that these secrets are important instead of just telling them
• How the work of a dentist from the 1930s can (and should) change your approach to diet
• The benefits of the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet (hint: not kale or goji berries)
• Reasons why community is important and ways to seek it out or ideas to create your own

Resources We Mention

• Holistic Hilda - Website
• Wise Traditions Podcast
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters

Episode Highlights With Hilda Gore

• Her amazing experiences with visiting and studying indigenous populations around the world
• How Dr. Weston A. Price inspired her work and her experiences
• Why technological community can’t replace the importance of in-person community 
• The happiest people she's met around the world and the surprising things they had in common
• Stories from her trips to Cuba, Peru, and Ethiopia and how these experiences shifted her life
• The recurring theme of gratitude in these beautiful people around the world
• Loneliness is worse than smoking, but how to build a community 
• What she learned from the Maasai tribe 

Resources We Mention

• Holistic Hilda - Use code HHwell for a discount on the Health for the Long Haul: 6 Ancestral Secrets Course
• Wise Traditions Podcast
• Weston A. Price Foundation
• Deep Nutrition by Dr. Cate Shanahan

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons

• Her very personal experience with hormone replacement and breast cancer
• How she was trained believing that hormones caused breast cancer 
• What she learned instead and her massive paradigm shift 
• How her mindset changed with her own symptoms and when she actually dove into the research
• The real data on hormones causing cancer and why we’ve been told the wrong thing
• Estrogen does not cause breast cancer — the truth is much more nuanced than this 
• When you don’t have estrogen, your body starts to deteriorate significantly 
• Women who are on hormone replacement and get breast cancer actually have better outcomes
• The same number of women die of a complication of a fracture as breast cancer each year, and hormones help protect the bones
• 2-3x more women die of heart disease than breast cancer and BHRT helps protect the heart
• We need to unlearn what we think we know about hormone replacement and learn the proper benefits

Resources We Mention

• The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer by Dr. Jenn Simmons
• Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer by Avrum Bluming and Carol Tavris

Episode Highlights With Dr. Jenn Simmons

• The downfall of imaging as breast cancer prevention is that this is really just early diagnosis and not prevention
• Far beyond cancer, there are a lot of benign changes in the breast that can cause stress for people
• Why screening doesn’t improve outcomes as much as we once thought
• No matter how many women we screen per year, the exact same number die of breast cancer and present with aggressive disease
• Statistically, mammograms don’t save lives or breasts and just have increased the risk of mastectomy 
• How mammography may actually contribute to breast cancer
• Mammography - if you screen 2,000 women, you can potentially save one woman but cause 10 who didn’t need it to be treated for breast cancer
• The new type of imaging that is radiation-free and lower risk with better resolution and results 
• How absurd it is that we are using a method that causes cancer to screen for cancer

Resources We Mention

• The Smart Woman's Guide to Breast Cancer by Dr. Jenn Simmons
• Real Health MD - website
• PerfeQTion Imaging - imaging centers

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan

• The problem with biohacking and why he doesn’t like that word either
• Why I personally prefer bio-love or bio-alignment and working with my body
• Most bankruptcies are due to healthcare cost
• The real story of aging and how inflammation is connected
• Everyone needs to focus on reducing inflammation
• The foundational things that are helpful for all humans and from which we can build based on understanding our own genetics 
• Why he starts with the mind and executive function for lasting health changes
• The body is very simple: you're either in fight or flight or rest and recovery
• What the epigenetic imprint of trauma is and why this is important to address
• The science of how trauma affects us even at a gene expression level
• They haven’t dealt with a single person who has a chronic condition that didn’t have some level of trauma and gut issues
• Why sunlight is so important and how sunlight affects genes
• Every enzyme we need for vitamin D is found in magnesium
• Genetic testing is not the answer, programs and understanding are the answers

Resources We Mention

• Kash Khan - Roadmap to 100 program
• Jaspr air filter

Episode Highlights With Kash Khan

• Why medical gaslighting is a real problem in medicine 
• The real reason women and men aren’t medically the same and why this is empowering 
• Looking at what biology is broken and genetics vs the symptoms to get real answers
• Functional genomics vs genetics and how to understand your genes in a way that benefits you
• Why genes are not our destiny and how we can work with our genes for better results
• The genes they look at that make the biggest functional difference
• Only 5% of the US is actually metabolically healthy right now 
• The genetic factors that affect metabolism and hormones
• How functional genetics relates to chronic disease and inflammation
• Women put an average of 500 chemicals on their bodies per day
• It takes an average of 26 seconds for something to get through the skin and into the blood
• General things we can all avoid for better health
• Insights are useful, but data is useless without the personal experience side
• Learning how to know what is wrong and how to fix it based on your genes 

Resources We Mention

• Kash Khan - Instagram
• Kash Khan - Roadmap to 100 program

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein of Jaspr

• The reason indoor air can be more polluted than outdoor air
• How poor air quality can cause inflammation 
• Humans breathe about one credit card worth of microplastics per week, and what this does to the body
• 100% of all homes tested positive for microplastics in air
• How we can get oxidative stress and accelerated aging from bad air quality 
• Why we don’t have the same biosensors around air that we do around food and water
• We adapt very quickly to air and this is why we get “nose blind” to smells 
• How drastically air quality can impact sleep and performance
• Why sleep is the number one reason people use his air filters
• Most people have horrible air in their bedrooms and usually more pollen in bedrooms than outside!
• What level you want to see on an air filter for good indoor air quality 
• The Jaspr doesn't use WiFi or Bluetooth and there are no EMFs
• A huge list of tips and tricks to improve indoor air quality for free related to cooking, products we use, etc
• Why Jaspr is made with steel and not plastic 

Resources We Mention

• Jaspr Air Filter - Use the code wellnessmama for a discount
• Branch Basics

Episode Highlights With Mike Feldstein

• We breathe so much more than we drink or eat, so air quality can be much more important than even food quality 
• We breathe 11,000-15,000 liters of air per day
• Air is one of our most essential health factors, and we can only go minutes without air
• Why Mike carries a CO2 monitor, and when CO2 levels can affect performance 
• What to do about high CO2 levels
• Why heat might not be the reason you feel fatigued in the sauna
• His fascinating background in catastrophic disaster remediation 
• How Jaspr came to be and why it outperforms other filters

Resources We Mention

• Jaspr Air Filter - Use code wellnessmama for a discount