25 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan - What plant-based minerals are and how they are much different than other forms of minerals - How we can get minerals from decomposed plants  - The molecules inside humate: humic and fulvic  - Minerals fuel the cells via mitochondria in the cells - Fulvic is an intracellular molecule that removes toxins from the cell and humic hangs out in the blood to help remove inflammation-causing elements - These can actually be helpful in removing heavy metals - There are 70+ minerals in plant-based minerals in the ratio that the body needs - How quickly these can work within the body - The reason these can be absorbed even without a healthy gut lining! - How humic interacts with the cell wall to help it and can improve hydration - Specific tips for athletes with minerals  - Minerals drive all the biosynthesis processes in the body! - How minerals relate to bone health and why to think about this differently - The problem with megadosing specific minerals without balancing minerals in the body - One theory of why some athletes end up with osteopenia at earlier ages  - Mineral usage for kids and pregnant or nursing mothers - How humic can help with glyphosate exposure Resources We Mention - https://www.beamminerals.com/WELLNESSMAMA

24 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Caroline Alan - Why modern humans are experiencing so many mineral deficiencies - The reason modern humans can’t get enough minerals from food - How minerals impact mitochondria and why this is so important - Your body makes amino acids but minerals must be ingested  - We are often operating at 40% of the mineral levels we actually need - Symptoms of mineral deficiency - How mineral depletion affects the nervous system and cellular health - Her own experience with mineral depletion - How to get minerals back into the cells correctly - What fulvic and humic minerals are and what they do  - Macrominerals vs microminerals - The problem with megadosing minerals - your body is not a car Resources We Mention - https://www.beamminerals.com/WELLNESSMAMA - http://www.mineralgeek.com - Website - https://www.instagram.com/mineralgeek - Instagram

23 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko - What resilience is and why it is important  - Common traits of people who are resilient  - What kinds of things can lower our resilience  - How the language we use toward ourselves and our children can impact us drastically - A way to become the observer in a situation to shift focus and become more resilient - Ways to cultivate resilience with small daily practices - How resilience can help us when we go through difficult situations Resources We Mention - https://www.drolga.com/- website

22 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Dr. Olga Stevko - What emotional intelligence is and how it affects all areas of life - We need to be able to feel to have emotional intelligence - What happens when people feel too little or too much - Problems that can arise if someone has very high emotional intelligence - Ways to improve emotional intelligence  - How unconscious programs are formed from trauma and life events or passed genetically - What mirror neurons are and how they can be helpful - How pets can help with emotional intelligence - Ways to deal with unconscious programming  - Her term: what artificial emotional intelligence is - How she helps people with the unconscious level without using hypnosis - Genetic trauma and how it can affect the unconscious level without you even being aware of it Resources We Mention - https://www.drolga.com/ - website

18 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Veronica - How we can befriend our bodies and nervous systems to help create the life we want - The pitfalls that women especially can fall into when it comes to nervous system health - How this relates to reproductive health, especially for women - Deeper nervous system healing that goes beyond just affirmations and talking - How to make amends with your body and start to signal safety - Ways to build a nervous system healthy environment in our homes and teach our kids good nervous system habits from a young age - How to integrate nervous system health into your whole day - What co-regulation is and how to create it with your partner and kids Resources We Mention - https://waking-womb.com/about - website - https://www.instagram.com/wakingwomb/?hl=en - Instagram

17 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Veronica - What somatic healing is - The way this ties into nervous system healing - Somatics is a broad term that includes all things that mean healing through the body - Modalities that are included in somatic healing  - What somatic experiencing is - How we can use the body to help resolve trauma and promote mental wellness - What polyvagal theory is and why it is important  - 80% of thoughts, emotions, and experiences are moving from the body up - Why nervous system healing isn’t just deciding not to be stressed… we have to show our bodies that we are safe - What the “four Fs” are and why they matter: Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn  - A ventral vagal state is a state of safety - How to build capacity for safety in the nervous system Resources We Mention - https://waking-womb.com/about - website

16 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina - How hormone changes affect the skin - Why the skin changes at menopause and what to do about it - The reason menopause isn’t a bigger part of the conversation  - Why acne can happen again in menopause  - The reason hair loss happens sometimes during menopause - What to know about different skincare procedures  - Procedures that can be helpful and what to avoid (plus risks and downsides) - At-home devices that work and ones to avoid Resources We Mention - https://www.theskinreal.com/habits - http://www.MitoRedLight.com/discount/WellnessMama?redirect=%2F%3Fafmc%3DWellnessMama

15 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Dr. Mina - What a minimalist skincare routine is and why keeping it simple can be best  - Skincare is self-care but it doesn’t have to be elaborate or expensive - The basics of a skincare routine that works and what you don’t need - Products that can help you age gracefully without any extreme procedures - Over-the-counter products that can work - How a vitamin A cream can be beneficial - Vitamin C serums and if they can be helpful - What different skin types actually need and the real truth about skin types - How to build skincare habits around your skin type and skin goals - An inside-out approach to good skin - Skincare is whole body care Resources We Mention - https://www.theskinreal.com/habits - https://lddy.no/1erqi - https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=2255870&u=774148&m=102446&urllink=&afftrack=

11 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme - You have about 100 billion nerve cells in your body and they're all orchestrated by the vagus nerve - The vagus nerve was discovered in 1872 in medicine but is still not understood in the Western world - Vagus comes from the Latin vaga, which means to wander, and it wanders throughout the body - The things that get in the way of the vagus nerve working optimally - How emotions come into play here - What brain freeze teaches us about the vagus nerve - Where Western medicine recognizes the connection of emotions to the vagus nerve - Liver toxicity can lead to wakeups from 1-3 a.m. - Ways to support the vagus nerve - How we can sometimes intuitively avoid foods that are harmful to the vagus nerve Resources We Mention - https://nectarhealth.typeform.com/migraine-test - https://www.mynectarhealth.com/about-us

10 APR 2024 · Episode Highlights With Diane Ducarme - She speaks seven languages - English is actually her third language - The genetic aspects of migraines and why they're so intense - The health benefits of letting go and how this relates to migraines - Hope for migraine sufferers and how to actually resolve migraines through a root cause approach - How not letting go impacts our brain and also our body in a massive way - An incredible story about someone completely recovering from migraines - The actual process of letting go and some easy tactics to use to do it - Why emotions are actually positive but staying stuck in a single emotion is detrimental - How to consciously change emotions - Practical suggestions for processing and moving emotions - How to use foods to help dissipate negative emotions Resources We Mention - https://www.mynectarhealth.com/about-us - Diane Ducarme - https://nectarhealth.typeform.com/migraine-test - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-migraine-heroes-podcast/id1701796800 - https://www.amazon.com/Letting-David-Hawkins-M-D-Ph-D/dp/1401945015?crid=23VTBCESI1JZ9&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.GUtGDeDC03GCP19j7Q-HgsxBXeGfQhYuoHzfIU4HPIO9oiF6eBI975EIEtOeeCw_vW5xGGezbyKUeDh4fY7_ae4ifbt6Xn1kb54yg-lqetxfrNUft699uJ5BMRVCRnFSVjh015m_5B9v0bwABVqU6Fk6ABNn70WB4JFg25KYFjWRacAF7xEcCVwGnaGc42wrVD511Jj0NarNsYX4aUFrhyfmQ06NtDN6V6IwE9sGlyY.3S_vxErhKrs17sHRbEG_yqx0BTpsZFK7ixmVuw8vPig&dib_tag=se&keywords=letting+go&qid=1710978632&sprefix=letting+go%2Caps%2C102&sr=8-1&linkCode=ll1&tag=wellnessmama-20&linkId=1f73ee3ab12e07df5e0d06753fd14696&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl by David R Hawkins, MD, PhD