Water Fasting, Trauma Release For Fat Loss, Homeschooling, Hidden Nasty Ingredients In Your Personal Care Products & Much More With Katie Wells TheWellnessMama!

Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, Founder and CEO of WellnessMama.com and Wellnesse is my guest on today's show.

A mom of six with a background in journalism, she took health into her own hands and started researching to find answers to her health struggles. Her research turned into a blog and podcast, and she’s now written over 1,500 blog posts, three books, and was named one of the 100 most influential people in health and wellness.

When she’s not reading medical journals, creating new recipes, or recording podcasts, you can find her somewhere outside in the sun with her husband (who she met walking across the country) and kids or undertaking some DIY remodeling project. Obligatory additional unrelated randomness: doula, speed-reader, hates bananas, loves baseball, scuba-diver, INTJ, highly experienced in answering the question, “why.”

Her new company Wellnesse is her debut line of high-quality, all-natural, and clean personal care products. It is based on the DIY creations she has been making in her kitchen for years and is set to launch January 2020. Cruelty-free, GMO-free, and paraben-free are important personal care product qualities for Katie Wells, CTNC, MCHC, award-winning blogger, author, podcaster, and real-food crusader.

The first products in the Wellnesse product line include:

-Whitening Toothpaste -Cleansing Shampoo for All Hair Types -Smoothing Shampoo for All Hair Types -Nourishing Conditioner for Wavy, Curly Hair -Enriching Conditioner for Wavy, Curly Hair

Katie spent more than ten years researching the personal care market and perfecting her own recipes using safe and natural ingredients.

Unable to find commercially-available products that lived up to their clean and green labels, she developed a mission to bring simpler, safer personal care to the homes of families across the country with Wellnesse.

During our discussion, you'll discover: -Why Katie was doing a water fast at the time of recording the podcast...5:41

• Begin w/ time-restricted eating; progress to 24-hour water fast, eventually a 10-day water fast
• Every major religion includes fasting as part of their lifestyle
• Katie does it for the mental benefits, more so than the physical
• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Book: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Benefits of water fasting:
  • Give the gut time to replenish
  • Increase autophagy in the body
  • Lowering age-related inflammation
  • Immune benefits

-How Katie has lost over 50 pounds in the last 12 months...10:10

• Tried doing it "by the book" to no avail; saw real change when she dealt w/ the emotional elements of weight gain
• Suffered a sexual trauma as a teenager, and did not properly address it emotionally at the time
• Hormonal distress; sympathetic nervous system always on alert
• Therapy that involved being picked up, learning to trust others, adrenaline shake, etc.
  • Similar to Trauma Release Exercise (TRE) therapy
  • What is TRE® | Tension, Stress and Trauma Release : TRE®
• Book: The Healing Code by Alexander Loyd

-Biohacks or technology that are efficacious for weight loss...19:10

• Sauna
  • Clearlight Saunas
• Cryotherapy
• Nutrition Genome
• 23andMe

-How Katie balances multiple businesses while raising 6 children...24:09

• Wellness M