The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Betsy

• The microbiome you might not have even known you have! 
• How the gut and brain microbiome connection comes into play
• Understanding the vaginal microbiome
• The feedback loop to…

Episode Highlights With Shay

• The common problems with most conventional diet models 
• What’s going on when we feel like we're doing everything right but nothing is changing 
• We start losing muscle in our…

Episode Highlights With Darin 

• Why the mind is the most powerful healing tool we have and how mindset comes into play with healing
• You have more nerve endings in the gut than in the brain, and the gut/…

Episode Highlights With Darin 

• Lyme disease is actually a bacterial infection
• The mysterious collection of symptoms associated with Lyme disease
• There are over 100 symptoms associated with Lyme and why …

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why your body needs safety, not just supplements, to heal
• The difference between stress signals and safety signals—and how your body is always listening
• How under-eating, p…

Episode Highlights With Dr. Anne Marie Fine

• What happened with autism and why rates have risen from 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 31
• Some of the multi-faceted reasons that it might be on the rise
• What the literat…

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Dim lights, not willpower, is the best sleep hack
• Creating a nighttime ritual helps your nervous system feel safe
• Sleep is a multiplier—optimize it and everything else gets…

Episode Highlights With Deborah

• When to consider hormone testing and symptoms to be aware of
• One big clue that your hormones could be the issue 
• Symptoms of too much or too little estrogen and progester…

Episode Highlights With Deborah

• Why testosterone is important for women and often not talked about as much
• Women can have up to 10x as much testosterone as estrogen
• Testosterone is important for sexual …

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Why sunlight and salt first thing supports energy and hormones
• The oral detox ritual that supports your microbiome and immune system
• Which supplements to take on an empty s…

Episode Highlights With Robyn

• Common misconceptions about nutrition and skin health
• Food fears around skin health: i.e., dairy/gluten is bad for the skin
• Top ways to support skin from the inside out
• Fixi…

Episode Highlights With Robyn

• Her own journey with acne and all the extreme things she tried before discovering what worked
• The functional approach to healing that changed her life
• What to understand ab…

Episode Highlights With Sarah

• What AMH is and how it comes into play with fertility 
• Her own journey with fertility 
• AMH does not predict your ability to get pregnant naturally and it doesn’t test egg q…

Episode Highlights With Ashley 

• What are the foundational differences between Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine? 
• It’s all about constitution in TCM and what the differences are here
• What it migh…

Episode Highlights With Katie

• What the research actually says about the benefits of walking
• Is there any magic in the 10K steps a day number?
• Timing considerations for maximum benefit
• The physiological b…

Episode Highlights With Jill Foos

• Her background in equestrianism as a kid and how she has five kids
• She essentially grew up in a barn 
• How she took charge of her own health by age 16 after deciding she…

Episode Highlights With Katie

• My recovery journey from Hashimoto's
• What my most recent labs show with no medication for over two years
• All of the factors I feel contributed to my healing
• How long this ap…

Episode Highlights with McCall McPherson

• Why we can’t put our blind trust in practitioners when it comes to thyroid health and the tools to step into being your own primary healthcare provider for thy…

Episode Highlights with McCall McPherson

• How GLPs were developed and how they became popular for weight loss
• What GLPs actually are and how they work 
• The inflammatory pieces related to GLP use and her …

Episode Highlights With Katie

• Teen athletes need lots of protein—one gram per pound of body weight
• How a protein-packed breakfast boosts energy and recovery
• Creatine helps muscles, the brain, and ATP en…