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1: How to Reset Your Health: In this inaugural episode of The Wellness Mama Podcast: Simple Answers for Healthier Families, I discuss my personal journey and my reason for starting this blog and the podcast. I also talk about what is next for the podcast and topics I’ll be covering in the future, especially my core topics on how to “RESET” your health: Why A Podcast? When my oldest son was just six weeks old, I was reading a magazine in the doctor’s office at my follow-up appointment and I read a line that hit me like a ton of bricks: “For the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children in America may have shorter life expectancies than their parents.” The article continued to talk about the coming rise in cancer, heart disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease and other problems. I looked down at my tiny, perfect infant and every cell in my body rebelled against the idea that he would have to suffer these problems. I decided that a 50:50 chance of diabetes wasn’t good by The Wellness Mama PodcastUNLIMITED
The 80/20 of Health: Light, Protein, Nutrition, and Hormones with Dr. Leland Stillman
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The 80/20 of Health: Light, Protein, Nutrition, and Hormones with Dr. Leland Stillman
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68 minutes
Released:
Sep 11, 2023
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Episode Highlights With Dr. StillmanHow he got into functional medicine and conventional medicine and now works with many familiesThe importance of light, sunlight, and how to optimize thisWe are each our own primary healthcare providers and his approach of partnering with families for better outcomes How to create an optimized natural light environment and know the level of lux in the light exposure you getAverage indoor light exposure is about 20 lux and it can be 100k+ outdoors even on a cloudy dayHow hormones and neurotransmitters are impacted by light exposure The real problem with sunscreen and sunglasses and the amazing health outcomes from increasing light exposureHow much light exposure do we actually need?What the literature on sunscreen and skin cancer prevention actually says and why certain ones can be especially harmfulThe sun reduces all cause mortality What UVB light is and how it's beneficial (this research was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904)Reasons not to wear sunglasses and the surprising history of how they became popular The connection between nutrition and lightWhy skin cancer rates double every few decades even with more sunscreen use and what to do about thisHow to “eat your sunscreen” and nourish your body from the inside out with folate and other nutrientsLentil sprouts: an easy hack for consuming folateHis take on high dose iodine Why we need more minerals and how to get them effectively The stress and mineral connectionResources We MentionDr. Stillman - Website and group coaching programsSkindeep databaseBook: The Influence of Ocular Light Metabolism by F. HollwichBook: The invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
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Sep 11, 2023
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