The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With the Holistic KidsThe problem with ultra-processed foods and how these are destroying kids' healthWhy they consider ultra-processed foods to be fake foods and a science experimentWhat actually is an ultra-processed food?How kids get addicted to ultra-processed foods created in labs for this reasonThe “global diet of doom”These foods are linked to dozens of chronic health conditionsResources MentionedThe Teen Health Revolution: Unlocking Lifestyle Secrets for the Mind, Body, and Soul - bookThe Holistic Kids Show podcast

Episode Highlights With Holistic KidsWhat the current generation of kids is facing, without even always realizing itHow mindfulness applies to kids todayWhy they started their podcast and why this topic is so important to themTheir insight into why kids and teens don’t want to open up to parents and what parents can do to create a more open environmentParents should listen to learn, not listen to reply and give adviceProblems from not being mindful and the benefits to kids and teens of mindfulnessThe key challenges that teens are facing today and ways to helpHow to go from a state of mindlessness to mindfulness, especially for teensTheir top tips for kids and teens to be more mindfulHabit stacking for kidsThe importance of nature, especially for kids and teensHow kids and teens can cultivate purpose in their own livesThe importance of gratitude and the physical benefits to kidsTheir habit of finding ten things to be grateful for each morningResources MentionedThe Teen Health Revolution: Unlocking Lifestyle Secrets for the Mind, Body, and Soul - bookThe Holistic Kids Show podcast

Episode Highlights With TylerHow often he talks about stress with patients and why this is such an important factorWomen handle stress differently than men, and why this doesn’t have to be a bad thingWhat our cycle and our digestion directly tell us about our healthWhy women and men handle stress differently (hint: there’s an adrenal reason)What happens when we are stuck in fight or flight long termThe effects on gut health and gut lining when we have chronic stressTop steps to support the gut and address the nervous system in high stressUniversally helpful techniques, like breathing techniques, to help address stressThe role of sleep and fastingResources MentionedThe Wellness Way on X and on FacebookDr. Tyler Kruse and The Wellness Way on InstagramThe Wellness Way Coralville

Episode Highlights With TylerHow he got into gut and skin health work and his personal story with itPeeling 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 underneathThe autoimmune connection and how almost everything can be resolved Looking at gut and diet and what IGG food allergies areA lot of people are constipated and don’t realize it Key signs that an issue is more than just skin deepSurprising 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 thinkThe biggest triggers he sees for skin issuesResources MentionedThe Wellness Way on X, on Facebook, and on InstagramDr. Tyler Kruse and The Wellness Way on InstagramThe Wellness Way Coralville

Episode Highlights From KatieThe 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 MentionedCatch