The Wellness Mama Podcast

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 internal factors that determine whether sunlight helps or harms you: minerals, hydration, antioxidants, and fat-soluble vitamins
• Why people who burn easily are often mineral-depleted
• How I personally use apps like D-Minder to time my safe UVB exposure
• The difference between infrared (IR) light vs UV light and why IR prepares the skin for safe UV
• How to combine morning sunlight, gradual exposure, and internal nutrient support for deeper resilience
• Seasonal strategies: how the body shifts from “winter mode” to “summer mode”
• My exact step-by-step protocol for increasing exposure each spring

Resources Mentioned

dminder app

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. 

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 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 the celebrities of mineral replenishment
• A new way of thinking about the body and fuel 
• Minerals are the fuel that's translated into energy in the body and the real consequences of being low in minerals 
• What humic and fulvic actually are and the way that the earth stores energy for future use 
• What changed for her when she replenished minerals at a cellular level 
• The symptoms that can be connected to low minerals that you may not realize 
• How mineral depletion relates to hormones, hair loss, fatigue, blood sugar and more
• The voltage first understanding of the body’s energy 
• We're meant to generate enough energy to run a light bulb and many of us aren’t! 
• How chronic issues are often connected to mineral depletion 
• What plant-based minerals are and what makes them different 
• The difference between fulvic and humic and why we need both
• Humic (dark): microboost- nature’s janitor. Fulvic- (clear): electrolyze (natures hydration)
• How to introduce these minerals the right way to support the body

Resources Mentioned

• BEAM Minerals
• The Mineral Reset book by Caroline Alan

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.

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

• 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

Hiro Diapers - use code wellnessmama for a discount

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!

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 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 process
• It has the same safety profile as saline but is over 100x more powerful than bleach! 
• The things that matter with hypochlorous acid and what to look for on labels 
• How to know if there is any actual active ingredient and how it fades over time
• How this is antibacterial and antimicrobial and doesn’t sting! 
• Safe to use around eyes, ears and mouth
• Even safe to use as breastfeeding mom and even in nipple care 
• What makes this really unique for eczema

Resources Mentioned

Active Skin Repair - use code WELLNESSMAMA20 to get 20% off

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 industry 
• Big problems you may not realize exist in supplements
• What fractionated supplements are and why the body doesn’t understand them

Resources Mentioned

• Touchstone Essentials Supplements

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.

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

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 gently to support detox 
• Common food and water toxin exposures and how to reduce them
• Zeolite is inert in nature so it is gentle - what form to look at 
• How zeolite is formed and its highly unique structure 
• The unique way that heavy metals attach to zeolite in the body
• Nano zeolite and what makes this different 
• Zeolite is not an essential mineral so it doesn’t store in the body and actually can’t 
• How it processed out of the body quickly 
• Does this help with parasites and how to use it for gut health 
• The acidity component in the body and how this actually matters
• Direct vs indirect impact of zeolite on parasites and detox 
• The mood connection and indirect impact on the gut 
• What I do and why I love zeolite now (after being a skeptic)

Resources Mentioned

• Zeolite from Touchstone Essentials
• Water filter
• Jaspr air scrubber
• Follow Touchstone Essentials on Facebook, Instagram, on X, and LinkedIn

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

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 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 wasn’t rooted in love and kindness.
• What it felt like to walk through a season where I couldn’t fix, plan, or control my way out — and the lessons I learned from finally letting go.
• Navigating an unexpected pregnancy, the emotions I wrestled with, and how this season transformed my relationship with trust, surrender, and acceptance.
• My experience with a darkness retreat and what facing my deepest fears taught me about becoming a different version of myself.
• Why this was emotionally my hardest pregnancy but physically my easiest, and the health practices that supported me through it, including nutrition, movement, circadian rhythms, and stress reduction.
• Redefining what it means to be alone, finding deeper support through family and community, and discovering that a full life doesn’t require everything to look the way I once imagined.
• What I learned about hard seasons: don’t judge the story from the middle. 
• How sometimes the things that feel like they’re breaking us are making space for something new.

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 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 sympathetic nervous system and how sauna can influence this
• FIR specifically for entering a parasympathetic state
• Mood benefits and how infrared helps specifically with depression 
• The cardiovascular benefits specific to far infrared heat 
• Japan uses FIR sauna as a first line for cardiovascular problems 
• Why you can get benefits from an infrared sauna as soon as you turn it on, even before they heat 
• Does it matter what time of day we sauna?
• Finnish vs infrared and which is best? (data and my take)
• Consistency is more important than intensity with infrared 
• What the pulse sauna is and what makes this super unique

Resources Mentioned

• Sunlighten Saunas

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.

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 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 regulation
• How quickly the nervous system can respond to safety signals through tapping
• Tapping meditations that can reduce stress by 30% in a few minutes
• The results they've seen with the millions of people who have learned tapping from the app
• Free part of the tapping app for first responders they can use anytime
• How I use tapping as a mom to help postpartum
• What inspired her to write her new book, Rewired 
• Her own tapping routine and what she recommends for moms 
• Walk through a tapping practice you can use right away

Resources Mentioned

• Rewired: The Breakthrough Tapping Method to Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Body, and Finally Feel at Ease
• The Tapping Solution app
• Tapping cards

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

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 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 see it on a package
• Safe swaps that actually work
• Having safe and beneficial indoor air quality 
• The air freshener industry is a 7 billion dollar industry. The air filtration industry is less than half of that
• People are spending double the money to pollute their air than to clean it
• Fragrance = chemicals
• They work by hijacking your ability to smell
• What to know about candles and which to avoid- some can be great!
• Turning your home into a sanctuary 
• The 80/20 of health: sleep sanctuary, scrub sleeping air, filter water.

Resources Mentioned

• Jaspr air scrubber - use the link for a discount
• Organic bedding
• Healthy mattress I love
• Water filters
• Healthy lighting
• Non-toxic dishwasher and laundry detergent
• Branch Basics non-toxic cleaner

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. 

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!