The Wellness Mama Podcast

Episode Highlights With Nazlie Lafefi

• Why most OTC medications are outdated and were created before we understood inflammation and its role
• The reason many products don’t address root causes and aren’t helpful in the long-term
• Surprising ways that many OTC medications work
• How to address the root cause of colds and flu at the inflammatory level
• The respiratory lining is similar to the gut lining and ways to support it
• OTC products can damage the respiratory lining just like we can damage the gut lining
• Yet another reason to avoid sugar 
• The fascinating way she discovered this new approach when studying signaling molecules
• Problems with the conventional approach to handling allergies
• How some OTC products get in the way of the body's natural repair process 
• Why taking allergy medication can make you more prone to getting sick
• How aspirin plus omega-3 can help the body build resolvins and shorten the duration of illness

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

• Why the body becomes less efficient at protein turnover with age and how to counteract this
• The biggest needle movers when it comes to building muscle
• Why not to train to get better and what to do instead
• How to build an effective structure for getting stronger that doesn’t have to take a ton of time
• Why high-intensity training even just once a week, can make a huge difference
• When you exercise, you sensitize muscles to glucose
• The long-term benefits of training on hormones and aging
• Differences between women and men with training and hormones
• The most important workouts women can do
• What to know about sarcopenia and what we can do about it
• Sarcopenia is not a disease of aging but a disease of inactivity 
• How this relates to cardiovascular disease and Alzheimer's
• What the normal recommendations get wrong about protein consumption
• Quality of protein matters and how to optimize this
• Dietary protein is essential to building and maintaining muscle but quality matters a lot
• The normal dietary protein numbers are just the minimum to avoid deficiency and are not adequate for building muscle and being metabolically optimal
• Standards vs goals for getting better
• How to use technology and tracking to your advantage in making these changes

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Episode Highlights With Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

• Why she went back to study nutrition after becoming a doctor and what she learned
• The one patient that changed her life and her career trajectory 
• Why we’ve been trying and failing to fix an obesity epidemic for 50 years and why we’ve gotten worse, not better
• Fat is just a symptom of unhealthy skeletal muscle 
• What happens when a person doesn’t have healthy skeletal muscle
• The myth of “healthy sedentary individuals”
• Having healthy skeletal muscle is the only way to be healthy
• Skeletal muscle is its own organ system and why this is important 
• Why muscle is the best protection for having a healthy pregnancy
• Skeletal muscle is the only organ system
• What a DEXA is and what it measures
• The division between muscle mass and strength
• What is happening in the body and the blood with unhealthy skeletal muscle
• The loss of lean muscle mass is more detrimental than excess body fat!
• How waist-to-hip ratio is helpful in understanding where fat is 

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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

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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

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