The Wellness Witch Podcast

Do you want to know more about how to take care of your dental health? In this episode, I share some steps that you can take with your diet to support your teeth and reverse cavities. Also, the dental routine that you can do to have the whitest, brightest, and healthiest smile ever! 

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode67.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Reversing cavities with Salty Kisses Toothpaste and the Hippie Floss Oil
• What your teeth can tell you about your health
• How we get tooth decay
• Healing and preventing cavities
• What to eat to prevent cavities
• Things to note about oral care products
• What your daily dental routine should look like

Key Takeaways:

• Your teeth can tell you a lot about your health, from cardiovascular health to inflammation.
• Your teeth and gums have a direct impact on certain organ systems and vice versa.
• If you have certain issues or symptoms you’re experiencing systemically in your body, this can be a sign that something might be going on with your teeth.
• Tooth decay is a serious issue. In fact, it’s a true disease.
• Toothpaste should be safe to ingest.
• 50% of the bacteria in your mouth is actually on your tongue, so it’s vital to also clean your tongue.

Action Steps:

• Care for your teeth and gums regularly.
• Follow the dental diet. Eat clean, whole foods:
• Organic fruits and vegetables
• Fresh and dried spices and herbs
• High-quality fats
• Pasture-raised, grass-fed meats and dairy
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Phosphorus-rich foods
• Mineral-rich and quality carbohydrates
• Invest in a tongue scraper.
• How to make a salt rinse:

1. Fill a mason jar with some warm good-quality water.
2. Drop in a chunk of Himalayan sea salt.
3. Let the sea salt dissolve.
4. Feel free to add some antibacterial essential oils.

Samantha said:

“We don’t often relate the health of our teeth to the health of our overall body. But the reality is we build up hundreds of bacteria on our teeth and our gums on a daily basis simply just by what we eat and what we drink.”

“I want you to really become your own self-dentistry specialist because then you can visit the dentist less and save more money.”

Thanks for listening!

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Links to things I talk about in the show:

• EWG.org (The Dirty Dozen List and the Clean 15)

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Summer is often a time of the year where many of us can really fall off track of our health and fitness goals. But summer is no excuse to not take care of our bodies. Here are 4 strategies that we can implement to reset our metabolism and successfully get rid of excess weight.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode66.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• 4 simple ways to reset your metabolism for successful weight loss
• Why you should quit snacking
• Why you should eat an apple a day
• The importance of drinking enough water
• The things to consider when doing intermittent fasting
• Simple strategies to help heal your adrenals

Key Takeaways:

• If you take a 4- to 6-hour break between your meals, this allows your insulin levels to drop, which means you can burn more fat.
• Apples contain lots of vitamins and minerals and help to lower cholesterol and uric acid. They also provide a lot of fibers that really help your body detoxify.
• You should be drinking at least half an ounce of water per pound of your body weight.
• Water really supports and speeds up fat loss.
• When doing intermittent fasting, take into account your level of stress and your adrenal health.
• When it comes to intermittent fasting and fasting overall, it will have a negative impact on your cortisol and your adrenal glands.

Action Steps:

The 4 Rules to Resetting Your Metabolism For Successful Weight Loss

1. Stop snacking and focus on eating 3 meals a day.
2. Eat an apple a day.
3. Drink lots of water.
4. Practice intermittent fasting.

Samantha said:

“When it comes to weight loss, when it comes to healing and supporting our body overall, we think that we need to swing the pendulum from A to Z and revamp everything… It’s all about the baby steps and the things that you can implement every single day.”

“Oftentimes, I feel like the easiest things are the things we overlook. We feel like because they’re so easy, they’re not going to have the biggest impact. But that couldn’t be farther from the truth.”

Thanks for listening!

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Sign up for the Summer Edition of the Metabolic Reset Program! We welcome women from all over the globe to learn more and get to the root cause of their excess weight and address some underlying issues.

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• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

What are the stories and the excuses that you tell yourself? How can you step out of the limiting beliefs that are going on in the back of your head? Oliver Manalese shares how we can move forward into our future with power and possibility, and create a life with more joy, more freedom, more empowerment, and more satisfaction.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode65.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• Self-care Mondays and why it’s important
• What our excuses tell us about ourselves
• How we can get past our excuses
• Oliver’s one-liners and what they really mean
• Going to Vipassana and Oliver’s takeaways from the experience

Key Takeaways:

• To Oliver, Self-care Mondays is really about creating a day where we get to rest, recharge, relax, and slow down a little bit.
• How you live your day is how you live your life.
• It’s an important practice to visualize and have an idea of where you want to aim towards, like maybe a day or a week. Sometimes it’s not really helpful to look too far into the future because we might be dealing with really challenging situations where we’re really forced to grow and stretch.
• When you give your word to something, deep down, if you betrayed your word, you know that your words are flimsy and that you can’t trust what you say to yourself. And that leaks into the other areas in your life.
• When you break down what you did to sabotage your growth, it’s a lot of subtle, tiny things that descend you into hell.
• As human beings, we need to feel that we’re useful, that we’re making a contribution, that we’re here for a reason, and part of that is having something to aim towards.

Action Steps:

• Reinvent your relationship with Mondays.
• Look to nature for answers and inspiration.
• Spend some time vividly visualizing what you want for your life.
• Take a good, hard look at your excuses.
• Get intimate with the ways you sabotage yourself.

Oliver said:

“All meditation is, is you’re trying to understand the nature of your mind. And the nature of the mind is to constantly look forward and look backwards through time. It’s constantly trying to avoid this present moment.”

“We need to distinguish that there’s stress that we manufacture, that we make up. Because if you look at the half-life of your stress, it actually is gone within moments. But it’s us remanufacturing it... because we obsess over it in our heads.”

Thanks for listening!

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Links to things I talk about in the show:

• Peaceful Cuisine YouTube Channel

Past episodes mentioned that you shouldn’t miss:

• Podcast Episode 6 – Oliver Manalese – Owning Your Power, Creating Possibility & Achieving Success Without Losing Yourself

More from Oliver Manalese:

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Oliver’s Facebook

Oliver’s Website

The Oliver Manalese Show

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• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Are you looking to boost your fertility? A nutrient-dense diet that’s full of antioxidants and vitamins and minerals along with an adequate intake of healthy fats and herbs will not only improve your overall health and cycle but also improve your chances of conceiving. Here are the 12 best foods and herbs to boost your fertility and optimize your hormones overall.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode64

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Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• The factors that affect your fertility
• 12 foods and herbs that support fertility and hormonal health
• Foods rich in omega-3
• Quality fats
• Eggs
• Foods rich in folic acid
• Leafy greens
• Sunflower seeds
• Bee pollen
• Maca
• Nettle
• Turmeric
• Red raspberry leaf
• Dandylion

Key Takeaways:

• Fertility goes beyond just having babies. It’s having a healthy cycle, not having ridiculous PMS symptoms, and regularly ovulating.
• One in eight couples struggles with infertility.
• Our bodies are extremely sensitive to our environments, especially when it comes to food.
• Omega-3 helps support hormone levels.
• Vitamin D is essential for supporting healthy ovulation.
• Folate plays a crucial role during pregnancy.
• Leafy greens provide you with a ton of vitamin E, calcium, and magnesium, all of which help to promote a healthy menstrual cycle.
• Detoxification is essential to fertility because it helps aid the liver in metabolizing hormones better and ridding the body of excess toxicity.

Action Steps:

• Rethink what you’re eating and change your diet to boost your fertility.
• Keep your diet as clean and nutrient-dense as possible to really increase your chances of conceiving and increase your chances of supporting your health, your body, and your hormones long-term. What you do now with your hormones, your health, and your diet is going to be a reflection of what shows up in the next couple of years.
• Consistently eat foods rich in omega-3, and increase your fat intake.
• Consider supplementing with folic acid during pregnancy. Look for folate, or specifically the 5-methyltetrahydrofolate or the L-methylfolate or metafolin.
• Include many detoxifying herbs and foods in your diet to ensure you’re eliminating toxic build-up, which could and may have an effect on your chances of conceiving.

Samantha said:

“Whether you want to get pregnant or not, we still want to remain fertile because it means our hormones are in check.”

“Make sure that you’re eating a clean whole foods diet, and your body and your health will benefit you greatly.”

Thanks for listening!

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• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s

Welcome to another Q&A episode! Listen in as I answer some of your questions and give tips on how to stay healthy despite working night shifts.

You can find all the info and links about this episode at https://holisticwellness.ca/episode63.

Topics Discussed in this Episode:

• My thoughts on breast implants and autoimmunity
• What essential oils to use to create wasp and mosquito repellents
• How to deal with adult acne
• Tips on how to stay healthy despite working night shifts

Key Takeaways:

• There is definitely toxicity in silicon and saline implants, and more women who have had breast implants are now choosing to take them out because they have been causing so much inflammation and pain. After doing so, these women are reported to experience a better quality of life and health.
• There could be a lot of reasons as to why you have autoimmunity. It could be heavy metal toxicity, environmental exposure, and toxicity from implants among other things.
• How to make a DIY bug repellant:
• In a small spray bottle, put 3 to 6 drops each of clove + lemongrass + geranium, and top it off with a small amount of water.
• Fill a 2 to 3-ounce bottle, fill it with two-thirds of water, and add about 15 drops each of lavender + lemongrass + peppermint.
• The biggest factors that contribute to inflammation are dairy, gluten, and sugar.
• When your circadian rhythm is disrupted, you can end up craving more sugar and wanting to eat more because it can impact our insulin and cortisol levels.

Action Steps:

• Pop a vitamin B1 before you go to where there are mosquitoes. There’s something in the B1 that gives off this aroma from your skin that deters them from biting you.
• If you’re dealing with adult acne, eat anti-inflammatory foods and avoid dairy, gluten, and sugar.
• If you’re working night shifts, make sure to schedule your sleep. Use blackout blinds and blue light blocking glasses.
• Support your gut health by eating clean whole foods.
• Incorporate a lot of relaxation and meditation in your daily life.
• Spend some time under the sun and get vitamin D in.

Samantha said:

“Your wellbeing and our self-care has to go up to the next level when you are working a night shift because you really are flipping your circadian rhythm and it’s really unnatural for your body to be in that phase”

“Even though you may not have physical stressors going on in your life or psychological stressors going on in your life, the fact that you’re just working night shifts and you are up during the wee hours of the night, it is a stressor to the body.”

Thanks for listening!

Important Announcements:

Join the Healthy Hormones for Women Online Program! Experience all kinds of incredible results just from supporting your hormones and eating and supplementing in the right way. At the end of the day, we just want you to have happy, healthy, thriving hormones and vibrant health.

Connect with me over on Instagram, @holisticwellnessfoodie! And it would mean so much if you would leave us a rating or a review over on iTunes or Spotify or Stitcher, or whichever platform you’re listening to us on. Take a screenshot of your review and email it over to us, and get our FREE 3-Day Hormone Balancing Meal Plan.

Recommended Products:

• doTERRA TerraShield Spray and Oil
• Seabuckthorn Best Skin Ever (Living Libations)

*Shop at the Holistic Wellness Shop. If you’re in Canada, you can order directly off of our shop page and use the coupon code save15 and get 15% off.

Where you can find me:

Samantha’s Facebook

Samantha’s Instagram

Samantha’s Website

Samantha’s Twitter

Healthy Hormones for Women Podcast Private Community on Facebook

How you can work with me:

• 6-Week Healthy Hormones for Women Intensive - Use the coupon code PODCAST at checkout to save 60%.
• Healing & Dealing with Hashi’s