The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

The Wellness Mama Podcast is a weekly series covering the topics of holistic health, real food, stress, sleep, fitness, toxins, natural living, DIY, parenting, motherhood, and other health tips to give you actionable solutions to improve your family’s life! Brought to you by Katie Wells of WellnessMama.com

  • 34 minutes 18 seconds
    Why I Let My Kids Eat Whatever They Want (Solo Episode)

    Episode Highlights From Katie

    • Why controlling kids’ food often backfires and leads to power struggles
    • The surprising research on kids’ natural ability to self-regulate food intake
    • How to create structure without micromanaging meals
    • Why removing “good” and “bad” food labels helps prevent negative food relationships
    • Practical strategies I use to raise intuitive eaters at home

    Resources Mentioned

    21 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 2 minutes
    Take Daily: How Supplements Hijack Our Health with Robyn Openshaw

    Episode Highlights With Robyn

    • How she came to question supplements and how this led to a deep expose book
    • Why what we call “vitamin D” as a supplement isn’t actually vitamin D and why she questions taking it
    • It isn’t just about good supplement vs bad supplement, but how to evaluate to know what's helpful and what's not
    • Why some vitamin D supplements have poison control warnings for pets 
    • When supplements are not just not helpful but directly harmful
    • Things to know about fish oil, rancidity, and what the metadata says
    • Understanding B vitamins and why many aren’t what they seem either
    • B vitamins don’t exist in isolation in nature or in the body and most supplements are not made of any food substance but of chemicals 
    • Questioning vitamin C and iron 
    • Are minerals one of the few deficiency stories that's true due to overfarming?
    • The one supplement she actually takes and why

    Resources Mentioned

    19 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 38 minutes 20 seconds
    Raising Cavity-Free Kids: A Holistic Approach to Children’s Oral Health With Dr. Leedia Riman

    Episode Highlights With Leedia

    • Why sugar isn’t the only problem when it comes to kids' oral health and it isn’t even the main thing
    • It's the microbiome, not the sugar, and what to know about this in kids
    • The things that are just as bad as sugar for our kids' teeth
    • Safe forms of toothbrushes and oral care for babies and kids
    • How to reverse early dental cavities 
    • The one most important thing she would tell new moms (hint: it’s about breathing)
    • Breastfeeding is the first orthodontic treatment
    • What it means if your baby or child is grinding their teeth and what to do about it
    • Signs to pay attention to early on for kids that are related to mouth breathing and airway obstruction
    • What the proper position for the tongue is and what to do if yours isn’t naturally there
    • Her top tips for parents and special tips for teens 
    • What to know about ADD and ADHD medications, related concerns, and a lesser-known possible dental link. Check for mouth breathing. The symptoms are often similar.

    Resources Mentioned

    14 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 36 minutes 43 seconds
    The Oral-Womb Connection: How Oral Health Shapes Fertility, Pregnancy, and Postpartum Healing With Dr. Leedia Riman

    Episode Highlights With Leedia

    • The incredible links between the oral cavity and the womb, from physical to energetic
    • Why this connection is so strong and what to know about it
    • Her own story with oral health during pregnancy and how it led to her research
    • Over 65-70% go through reversible dental issues in pregnancy
    • Vaginal tissue and oral tissue are very similar tissues with quick cell turnover and progesterone and estrogen receptors
    • How relaxin affects oral health
    • Why tooth movement can occur during or after pregnancy
    • The link between periodontal disease and prenatal risks and poor birth outcomes
    • What we can do before, during, and after pregnancy to protect oral health
    • All of this actually starts in puberty 
    • Your oral microbiome is responsible for 60-70% of your gut microbiome, and that gets passed on to baby
    • Sugar isn’t the biggest problem for oral health. Acidity is a big problem and how to find the balance

    Resources Mentioned

    12 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 53 minutes 54 seconds
    The Heart Code: Releasing Trapped Emotions and Breaking Down Heart Walls With Dr. Bradley Nelson

    Episode Highlights With Bradley

    • What led to his most recent work, The Heart Code, and what makes it different than his other books
    • How emotional energies can become stuck in the body
    • Our bodies are made of nothing but energy, and we are beings of pure energy
    • Everything is energy, including emotions
    • What a trapped emotion is and how these can happen in three ways: we bury it, unchecked big emotions, and an overwhelming circumstance we can’t process
    • The single biggest common denominator for all his patients, and what he learned from this
    • 90% of his patients' physical pain was linked to emotional baggage
    • What is a heart wall, and how can we address these?
    • About 93% of people put up a wall of some sort 
    • Ancient civilizations all believed that the heart was the core of the soul and of our being
    • What heartache actually is, and what is happening in the body during this
    • More communication goes from heart to brain than from brain to heart
    • How can we test our own subconscious mind to see if we have a heart wall
    • Our bodies communicate with us through symptoms. As an example, migraine headaches 
    • How to do this work on yourself or find a practitioner who can help release heart walls on you
    • His parting grandfatherly advice for everyone

    Resources Mentioned

    7 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 49 minutes 26 seconds
    How to Boost Your Metabolism in Midlife by Adding, Timing, and Pairing Foods With Nagina Abdullah

    Episode Highlights With Nagina

    • What changes in metabolism during midlife and why a different approach is needed
    • Why the body needs more nutrients as we get older
    • Switches to turn on in the body so we can burn more fat in midlife
    • Why we become more insulin resistant during the midlife years
    • Our hormones shift in midlife as women and what these hormone changes do in the body
    • Why muscle mass declines at this phase of life and what to do about this
    • The real reason restriction doesn’t work and what does work sustainably for women
    • One of the most important things we can do to prevent weight gain in midlife is to eat enough food!
    • How this ties into thyroid health as well
    • What gut changes happen in midlife and how to avoid these
    • The real deal about sugar in the body and why it's especially bad during midlife
    • Ingredients you can add to your diet that help your blood sugar be more stable
    • The best metabolism-boosting foods that help support metabolism 
    • Why protein is especially important for women in midlife and how much we actually need
    • The thermic effect of protein and how to use this to your advantage
    • Top carb choices that boost metabolism and why skipping them entirely leads to cravings
    • Key nutrients we need and have trouble getting from food in the modern world

    Resources Mentioned

    5 January 2026, 10:00 am
  • 43 minutes 11 seconds
    The Teen Health Revolution: Getting Teens to Eat Real Food With The Holistic Kids

    Episode Highlights With the Holistic Kids

    • The problem with ultra-processed foods and how these are destroying kids' health
    • Why they consider ultra-processed foods to be fake foods and a science experiment
    • What actually is an ultra-processed food?
    • How kids get addicted to ultra-processed foods created in labs for this reason
    • The “global diet of doom”
    • These foods are linked to dozens of chronic health conditions

    Resources Mentioned

    17 December 2025, 10:00 am
  • 37 minutes 43 seconds
    Mindful Living For Kids & Teens (For Kids From Kids) With the Holistic Kids

    Episode Highlights With Holistic Kids

    • What the current generation of kids is facing, without even always realizing it
    • How mindfulness applies to kids today
    • Why they started their podcast and why this topic is so important to them
    • Their insight into why kids and teens don’t want to open up to parents and what parents can do to create a more open environment
    • Parents should listen to learn, not listen to reply and give advice
    • Problems from not being mindful and the benefits to kids and teens of mindfulness
    • The key challenges that teens are facing today and ways to help
    • How to go from a state of mindlessness to mindfulness, especially for teens
    • Their top tips for kids and teens to be more mindful
    • Habit stacking for kids
    • The importance of nature, especially for kids and teens
    • How kids and teens can cultivate purpose in their own lives
    • The importance of gratitude and the physical benefits to kids
    • Their habit of finding ten things to be grateful for each morning

    Resources Mentioned

    15 December 2025, 10:00 am
  • 37 minutes 31 seconds
    Why You Can’t Heal Your Gut If You’re Constantly Stressed With Dr. Tyler Kruse

    Episode Highlights With Tyler

    • How often he talks about stress with patients and why this is such an important factor
    • Women handle stress differently than men, and why this doesn’t have to be a bad thing
    • What our cycle and our digestion directly tell us about our health
    • Why women and men handle stress differently (hint: there’s an adrenal reason)
    • What happens when we are stuck in fight or flight long term
    • The effects on gut health and gut lining when we have chronic stress
    • Top steps to support the gut and address the nervous system in high stress
    • Universally helpful techniques, like breathing techniques, to help address stress
    • The role of sleep and fasting

    Resources Mentioned

    10 December 2025, 10:00 am
  • 41 minutes 18 seconds
    The Gut-Skin Connection: Why Clear Skin Starts Inside With Dr. Tyler Kruse

    Episode Highlights With Tyler

    • How he got into gut and skin health work and his personal story with it
    • Peeling skin on his fingertips led him to a deep dive into this topic 
    • Gut health shows up on the skin - if there are skin issues, something is going on underneath
    • The autoimmune connection and how almost everything can be resolved 
    • Looking at gut and diet and what IGG food allergies are
    • A lot of people are constipated and don’t realize it 
    • Key signs that an issue is more than just skin deep
    • Surprising things related to autoimmune disease 
    • Why fast food is one of the worst things we can do for our digestion and health, and it isn’t what you think
    • The biggest triggers he sees for skin issues

    Resources Mentioned

    8 December 2025, 10:00 am
  • 30 minutes 29 seconds
    Catch It Early: Data-Backed Ways to Shift Disease Risk Before It Happens (Solo Episode)

    Episode Highlights From Katie

    • The concept of the “Four Horsemen” of chronic disease and why 85% of people over 50 die from one of these conditions.
    • What these diseases share in common: long, silent development over years or decades before symptoms appear.
    • Why traditional screening often catches disease too late. And how new data and AI tools can identify risk far earlier.
    • The difference between 10-year risk scoring and lifetime risk (and why most people never receive the latter).
    • Why cancer screening is age-based rather than risk-based and how this overlooks key early indicators.
    • How AI-driven assessments like Catch use massive datasets to calculate disease risk more accurately than traditional methods.
    • What I learned from my own cancer risk assessment and why it shifted my thinking about proactive health.
    • Why foundational lifestyle inputs (sunlight, vegetables, oily fish, hydration, minerals, sleep, movement, and avoiding chronic inflammation) are more powerful than supplements in reducing long-term disease risk.
    • The connection between allergies, immune signaling, inflammation, and long-term disease patterns.
    • How early lifestyle patterns influence future metabolic, cardiovascular, and cognitive health.
    • Simple, data-backed ways to lower lifelong risk starting today without fear, overwhelm, or chasing expensive solutions.

    Resources Mentioned

    3 December 2025, 10:00 am
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