The Modern Ancestral Mamas Podcast

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Wholestix 100% Grass-Fed Organ Meat Sticks: use code MAM5 to try 5 Stix for $15 – https://wholestix.com/mam?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=modern-ancestral-mamas 📍 Vintage Traditions Whole-Food Skin Care: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://www.vintagetradition.com This conversation with Heather Brown, host of the Healthy by Heather Brown podcast and author of the upcoming book The Sunday Reset, digs into why so many Christian moms are running on empty, and what the Bible actually says about it. If you have ever felt like "self-care" and "dying to self" are pulling you in opposite directions, this episode is for you. We talk about Heather's own postpartum depression story, the framework she uses to rebuild health from the ground zero, and why almost none of it starts with a workout plan. Getting to a healthier, less frantic season of motherhood is not about overhauling your whole life on a Monday. It is about identifying your rocks, protecting a few non-negotiables, and bringing your stress to God instead of white-knuckling through it. Heather breaks down her Triple Threat Triangle for spiritual, physical, and mental health, tackles the "you can't pour from an empty cup" debate head-on, and gets honest about whether a clean home and a peaceful mom can actually coexist. Subscribe for weekly ancestral motherhood conversations, and comment below with the mom trend you think is most overhyped right now. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Heather Brown / Healthy by Heather Brown – https://mylifewellloved.com/ 📍 Pre-order The Sunday Reset (releases January) for free bonuses, including a 30-day meal plan and meal-planning masterclass – https://mylifewellloved.com/reset 📍 Church of the Highlands' 21 Days of Prayer – search "21 Days of Prayer" on YouTube for past years' content 📍 Baja Gold Sea Salt, Spice Blends, and Tidal Hydrate/Perform – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ The most overhyped and underhyped mom trends right now, from barrel jeans to morning sunlight ✔️ Heather's raw story: a fourth-degree tear, postpartum depression, and the identity crisis that followed ✔️ The Triple Threat Triangle: a simple framework for spiritual, physical, and mental health ✔️ "You can't pour from an empty cup" — is that even biblical? Heather weighs in ✔️ What chronic stress is silently doing to your body, your marriage, and your faith ✔️ A different reset for every season: newborn to 5, elementary years, and high school ✔️ Can you have a clean home AND a peaceful mom? Heather's honest answer ✔️ The hair-tie trick Heather uses to stop complaining about her husband ✔️ Why Heather calls Church of the Highlands' 21 Days of Prayer one of the most revolutionary habits in her faith walk ✔️ How Heather's years in meal planning (including writing a plan for Publix) shaped her new book ✔️ Inside The Sunday Reset: what's in it, and the free bonuses for pre-ordering ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Wholestix 100% Grass-Fed Organ Meat Sticks: use code MAM5 to try 5 Stix for $15 – https://wholestix.com/mam?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsorship&utm_campaign=modern-ancestral-mamas 📍 Vintage Traditions Whole-Food Skin Care: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://www.vintagetradition.com This conversation with Megan Lyons, a doctor of clinical nutrition, functional medicine practitioner, and one of the top-ranked nutritionists in Dallas, unpacks why losing weight feels so much harder after 35, and what is actually going on underneath. If you have been told your metabolism just falls off a cliff at 40, this episode is for you. We get into the five real reasons weight loss gets harder as women move through their late 30s, 40s, and 50s, stress and the nervous system, shifting hormones, declining sleep, everyday movement, and the slow loss of muscle, and why almost none of it is about willpower. Getting stronger and leaner in this season is not about crash diets or four a.m. workouts. It is about fueling your body well, protecting your muscle, and working with your hormones instead of against them. Megan breaks down how much protein women really need, why breakfast is the missed opportunity of the century, whether cheat days help or hurt, and how to think about fasting as a woman. Subscribe for weekly ancestral nutrition breakdowns, and comment below with the health "rule" you would like us to put to the test next. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Megan Lyons / The Lyons' Share website – https://thelyonsshare.org/ 📍 Megan Lyons on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelyonsshare/ 📍 The Lyons' Share Wellness Podcast – https://thelyonsshare.org/podcast/ 📍 Mary Ruddick – researcher on indigenous cultures and the nervous system 📍 Bill Schindler – "the diet that heals you is not the diet that sustains you" 📍 HYROX – the fitness race Megan trains for 📍 Baja Gold Sea Salt, spice blends, and Tidal Hydrate – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why your metabolism does not actually "crash" at 40, and what really changes after 35 ✔️ The five real reasons weight loss gets harder: stress, hormones, sleep, movement, and muscle ✔️ Why lifting weights will not make you bulky, and how to know a movement is actually working ✔️ The breakfast mistake costing women all day, and how much protein to aim for ✔️ Sprints, HIIT, and "exercise snacks" — who they help and who they hurt ✔️ Why walking and dancing may be the best medicine for a stressed nervous system ✔️ The best and worst time of day to work out ✔️ Why "cheat days" backfire, and a saner way to enjoy the brownie ✔️ How sugar rewires your taste buds and gut in as little as three days ✔️ The BURP diet: a gentle gut reset for after the stomach flu (or vacation) ✔️ How much protein women really need, and whether it shifts with age and your cycle ✔️ Intermittent fasting for women: who should, and who definitely should not ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ This conversation with Dr. Cate Shanahan focuses on what industrialized seed oils do inside the body at the cellular level. If you have heard that seed oils are bad but never understood why or how, this is for you. We discuss how these oils are made, why oxidation and free radicals damage cell membranes, and what that means for pregnancy, metabolic health, and your children's development. Avoiding seed oils is about making informed choices with the food you already buy. By learning to read a label and recognize the worst offenders, you can reduce your family's exposure without turning every meal into a project. Understanding the difference between a saturated fat, a monounsaturated fat, and a polyunsaturated fat gives you the confidence to trust your own judgment at the grocery store. Subscribe for weekly ancestral nutrition breakdowns, and comment below with which food myth you would like us to take apart next. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Dr. Cate Shanahan's website and newsletter – https://drcate.com/ 📍 Dark Calories by Dr. Cate Shanahan – https://drcate.com/ 📍 Deep Nutrition by Dr. Cate Shanahan – https://drcate.com/ 📍 Dr. Cate on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/drcateshanahan/ 📍 Weston A. Price Foundation – https://www.westonaprice.org/ 📍 Baja Gold Sea Salt, spice blends, and Tidal Hydrate – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ The Hateful Eight, the three C's and the three S's you need to memorize ✔️ Why not all seed oils are bad, and why peanut and sesame get a pass ✔️ Saturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fats explained simply ✔️ The oxygen and double bond connection, and how seed oils plasticize cell membranes ✔️ What actually happens inside the factory, from crude oil to the bottle on the shelf ✔️ Why cold pressed and organic labels do not mean what you think ✔️ The smoke point myth, and whether you can really cook with olive oil ✔️ Seed oils, insulin resistance, and why sugar cravings are metabolic, not a willpower problem ✔️ Toddler tantrums, blood sugar crashes, and early signs of metabolic dysfunction in kids ✔️ Palm oil, avocado oil, and how to pick the better option in a normal grocery store ✔️ Why Dr. Cate does not believe children can thrive on a vegan diet ✔️ Bone broth, connective tissue, and the sports injuries she predicted years ago ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #SeedOils #DarkCalories #DrCateShanahan #RealFood #AncestralNutrition #ModernAncestralMamas #AncestralWisdom #MomLife #holisticmotherhood #MetabolicHealth 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | @ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ Learn how to support your hormonal balance for a smoother transition. Get practical steps to age gracefully and feel grounded. This conversation with Ali Miller focuses on how to optimize your body during significant life shifts. If you are navigating changes in hormone levels and want to enjoy the process of womanhood rather than just managing symptoms, this is for you. We discuss how to nurture your system to minimize the common side effects that often occur when your biology shifts. Achieving hormonal balance is about creating a sense of ease as you move through these different stages of life. By focusing on how we support our bodies, we can reduce the intensity of fluctuations and maintain energy. Understanding these rhythms allows you to feel more in control of your health during this pivotal time. Subscribe for weekly women's health breakdowns, and comment below with which aspect of aging gracefully you would like us to cover next. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Ali Miller RD website, clinic, and supplement line – https://alimillerrd.com/ 📍 Ali Miller RD on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/alimillerrd/ 📍 Use code ancestral10 for 10% off Ali's supplement line – https://alimillerrd.com/collections/all 📍 Relax and Regulate – https://alimillerrd.com/products/relax-and-regulate 📍 Calm and Clear – https://alimillerrd.com/products/calm-and-clear 📍 Functional lab panels with customized review, including the DUTCH – https://alimillerrd.com/collections/labs 📍 Work with Ali in her virtual clinic – https://alimillerrd.com/pages/our-clinic 📍 The Anti-Anxiety Diet by Ali Miller – https://alimillerrd.com/collections/books 📍 Our first episode with Ali, Ep 99: How to Nourish Your Kids Naturally – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvaj1bXDXwY 📍 Our episode on adrenal fatigue with Kristen Files – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA2jvOA8Its 📍 Weston A. Price Foundation – https://www.westonaprice.org/ 📍 Baja Gold Sea Salt and new spice blends – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Is perimenopause real, and is it made worse by diet and lifestyle ✔️ Why perimenopause is not linear, and how it can span 10 to 15 years ✔️ The HPA axis explained, hypothalamus to pituitary to adrenals ✔️ Ali's own story, from a vegan diet and Hashimoto's to steak, oysters, and balanced hormones ✔️ Four foundational supports Ali reaches for, vitamin C, magnesium, green tea, and red meat ✔️ Why the form of your magnesium matters more than the label ✔️ Leptin, insulin, and how to tell whether fasting is actually right for your body ✔️ Morning light, evening light, and simple circadian shifts ✔️ Mood swings, sleep, weight gain, brain fog, and hot flashes, what is driving each one ✔️ Vaginal pH and the vaginal microbiome in the perimenopausal years ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #Perimenopause #HormoneHealth #AdrenalHealth #WomensHealth #RealFood #ModernAncestralMamas #AncestralWisdom #MomLife #holisticmotherhood #AntiAnxietyDiet 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ Overcoming fear of legalism allows us to apply faith to everyday life. Learn why avoiding topics not explicitly commanded limits your growth. Many Christians struggle with a fear of legalism that keeps them from discussing relevant cultural or practical topics. This hesitation often prevents us from applying our faith to areas of life that fall outside of strictly commanded biblical mandates. We discuss why this mindset can be a hindrance to spiritual maturity and how to expand your perspective on integrating faith into daily decisions. By moving past the fear of legalism, you can begin to see how biblical principles apply to broader life choices. This conversation helps you identify where you might be limiting your worldview and encourages a more robust application of scripture. We address the tension between strict adherence to rules and the freedom to pursue wisdom in all areas, ultimately helping you navigate complex topics with confidence. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Kat Owens website – https://www.eatbyfaith.online/ 📍 Kat Owens on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/eatbyfaith_biblicalnutrition/ 📍 Eat by Faith, available for pre-order from Founders Press – https://founderspress.org/products/eat-by-faith?srsltid=AfmBOooR2ZiNWH708aeJhVx4R_RsCcGR86d5GjhSgPsXP7EtToY4wXTo 📍 Our episode with Andy Felton – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeg1-r0WRI&t=1s 📍 Our episode with Charles Mayfield on pork – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_B-v4O5tnQ&t=393s 📍 Bonus episode on the biblical perspective on pork – https://www.patreon.com/ModernAncestralMamas/posts/exclusive-with-154464560 📍 Weston A. Price Foundation – https://www.westonaprice.org/ 📍 Nourishing Junk Food – https://www.fornutrientssake.com/shop/p/nourishing-junk-food-cookbook 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why the fear of legalism keeps Christians from talking about food at all ✔️ The keto argument that contradicts itself, cholesterol versus glucose ✔️ Ancestral eating without evolution, and why Weston A. Price lands closer to a Christian worldview ✔️ Dominion over creation as the foundation for food quality ✔️ What the Daniel fast actually teaches, and why it takes a miracle to thrive on a plant-based diet ✔️ The spiritual picture in eating meat, and why you cannot avoid death in a fallen world ✔️ Gluttony, appetite, and why restriction is what makes us feel out of control ✔️ Seed oils, endocannabinoids, and how low quality fats hijack normal hunger signals ✔️ Trusting kids' intuition without letting them run the kitchen ✔️ Donuts in the foyer and goldfish in children's church, what we can actually do about it ✔️ Bread, alcohol, and pork, quality over prohibition 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Baja Gold Signature Minerals: use code MAM10 for 10% off – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ Is eating before working out actually necessary? Learn how food manages exercise stress and balances your hormones. Many people view physical training as the primary stressor on the body, but the reality is that your nutrition dictates the response. Eating before working out acts as the critical first step in a cascade that helps your body handle physical exertion. By focusing on proper pre-workout nutrition, you provide the fuel necessary to manage the physiological impact of training. When you give your body food, it signals that resources are available, which is key for cortisol management. This approach allows you to keep progesterone levels stable rather than spiking stress hormones unnecessarily. If you are struggling with balancing hormones while maintaining a fitness routine, understanding this relationship is essential to long-term health. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Kelsey Moore on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/crunchystrengthcoach/ 📍 Kelsey's website and training programs – https://www.kelseemoore.com/ 📍 Episode 96 with Kelsey, Nourishing Young Athletes – https://youtu.be/WBLjPPUjSC4 📍 Training for Two by Gina Conley – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0760387540?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback 📍 MamasteFit on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mamastefit/ 📍 Dr. Stacy Sims, women's exercise physiology – https://www.drstacysims.com/ 📍 Creatine Supplementation in Women's Health: A Lifespan Perspective, Abbie Smith-Ryan et al. – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7998865/ 📍 Thorne Creatine Monohydrate – https://www.thorne.com/products/dp/creatine?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23086295444&gbraid=0AAAAADLUbJURmPCjEkY6SYs_6OpRSvqVw&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm8bTBhDWARIsAC9Hi8kgqbSAZcxZ8atNRkHNTzsf6tnBvARlOFk6rxtKejh4bJAO37tyEA0aAq_BEALw_wcB 📍 Baja Gold Sea Salt and new spice blends – https://bajagoldminerals.com/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Food loads the gun and exercise pulls the trigger, the reframe that changes everything about training stress ✔️ Why fasted workouts hit women differently, and the cortisol to progesterone connection ✔️ What 20 grams of protein and 20 grams of carbohydrate before training actually looks like on a plate ✔️ Why hauling water, kneading bread, and carrying babies was always strength training ✔️ Type one versus type two muscle fibers, and why women lose their power muscles first ✔️ The exercise regimen that heals you is not always the one that sustains you ✔️ Muscle mass as the biggest buffer for your quality of life at 60, 70, and 80 ✔️ Getting 12,000 to 15,000 steps a day when you are home with kids, and the walking pad case ✔️ The $50 home gym ✔️ Bringing your kids into your workout ✔️ Creatine monohydrate, protein powder, and why collagen is not doing what you think ✔️ Pelvic floor as a barrier to entry, and what to do when a PT is not accessible ✔️ Cycle syncing, or just a well written program with a de load week already built in ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas Are you questioning child medication side effects? We discuss finding alternatives to standard pediatric prescriptions. In this episode, we tackle the difficult reality of navigating pediatric health and the pressure to conform to conventional treatments. We share our personal journey of looking beyond the prescription pad to find sustainable wellness strategies. Whether you are curious about natural parenting or simply looking for a community that prioritizes long-term vitality over quick fixes, this discussion provides a space to rethink your options. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Dana Kay on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/adhdthriveinstitute/ 📍 ADHD Thrive Institute on YouTube – ⁨@ADHDThriveInstitute⁩ 📍 Dana's website – https://www.adhdthriveinstitute.com 📍 The Soaring Child Podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soaring-child-thriving-with-adhd/id1619834565 📍 ADHD Thrive Institute Facebook community – https://www.facebook.com/groups/AdhdAnxietyParentSupport 📍 Medicating Normal (our earlier episode on the documentary) – https://youtu.be/4aNoSDf9lYM 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Four medications by age five, and the Costco meltdown that became a turning point ✔️ Why Dana sees ADHD symptoms as signals that the body is under stress ✔️ The overdiagnosis question, and how many kids in her program she believes have true ADHD ✔️ What genetic testing actually showed about ADHD tendencies, methylation, and detox pathways ✔️ The trash can analogy, and why cumulative load matters more than any single root cause ✔️ The gut brain connection, and the kids with no digestive symptoms at all ✔️ Gluten, dairy, and artificial colors: the three she sees come up most often ✔️ Blood sugar crashes that look like attitude, and the no naked carb rule ✔️ Why a tired brain can look a lot like an ADHD brain ✔️ Screens, dopamine, and adding brain regulating activities instead of only cutting screen time ✔️ The medication conversation without the guilt, and asking how healthy the body receiving it is ✔️ Skipping the gimmicks and using lab data instead of guessing ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #ADHD #ADHDkids #guthealth #rootcausehealing #bloodsugarbalance #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MomLife #holisticmotherhood #ancestralwisdom 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas Understanding a women's cycle is a superpower that helps you align your daily energy with your natural rhythm. Most school and work systems are built around a 24-hour productivity model, which mirrors the male cycle. This creates a disconnect for women who operate on a longer, more dynamic internal clock. Learning to recognize how your body changes throughout the month allows you to stop fighting against these shifts and start leaning into them for better performance. We discuss why standard 9-to-5 expectations often fail to account for female physiology and how menstrual cycle awareness can change your approach to daily tasks. By acknowledging these natural patterns, you can plan your workload more effectively and reduce burnout. Integrating cycle syncing into your routine is about working smarter, not harder, by respecting your biology rather than ignoring it. Subscribe for weekly hormonal health breakdowns, and comment below: how do you adjust your work schedule when your energy levels shift? 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Hilda Labrada Gore on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/holistichilda 📍 Holistic Hilda on YouTube – ⁨@HolisticHilda⁩ 📍 Hilda's website – https://www.holistichilda.com 📍 The Mother Code (course + free Sunshine module) – https://www.holistichilda.com/mothercode 📍 Wise Traditions Podcast / Weston A. Price Foundation – https://www.westonaprice.org/wise-traditions-podcast/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=415527510&gbraid=0AAAAADiY3lqR0IYmH9rCmcfU79-qA9AA6&gclid=CjwKCAjwsfzSBhB5EiwAOGyqSWqstm-iv73YF5g7c7dxgVBC2hQLfCJrdo5Zcw4Jq853PMUM1JCM4RoCAi8QAvD_BwE 📍 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price – https://www.amazon.com/dp/0916764206?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback 📍 Farm Match (find local farms near you) – https://www.farmmatch.com/ 📍 Dr. Jack Kruse (quantum biology) – https://jackkruse.com/ 📍 Knead Your Cure Conference, Mississippi, August 14 to 15, 2026 – https://www.kneadyourcure.com/general-8 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why mothering across generations, not just with same-age friends, is the village we are missing ✔️ Doing less in a healthier rhythm, and releasing the pressure to perform ✔️ Sunrise before screen rise, and getting outside before you touch your phone ✔️ Polyphasic sleep, and why broken nights can still be restorative ✔️ Light hygiene after dark: red bulbs, blue blockers, and candlelight rhythms ✔️ Becoming a qualitarian and eating the LOST way: Local, Organic, Seasonal, Traditional ✔️ How "nutrient dense" got hijacked, and how to find real nutrient density ✔️ Trusting your body over the endless food trends and the algorithm ✔️ Living cyclically as a woman in a world built around a 24-hour "man's cycle" ✔️ Getting ahead of the meltdown with mealtime rhythm and family routine ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Dream Walkers glasses & circadian lighting – https://dreamwalkerz.ai/ (code: MAM10 for 10% off) 📍 Dream Walkers on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/dreamwalkerzai 📍 Primal Hacker on YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@primalhacker 📍 The Ketogenic Hibernation Diet by Thaddeus Owen – https://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Hibernation-Diet-survival-anti-aging/dp/B0BSFYR3MQ/ 📍 Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival by T.S. Wiley – https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Sleep-Sugar-Survival/dp/0671038680 📍 The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore – https://www.amazon.com/The-Last-Days-of-Night-audiobook/dp/B01JSJ6QJW/ 📍 f.lux blue light software (free) – https://justgetflux.com/ 📍 GembaRed red & infrared light panels – https://gembared.com/ 📍 Daylight Computer – https://daylightcomputer.com/ 📍 Episode 124 with Heidi Sime – https://youtu.be/KZHAgB6FS9E 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) What if the single most powerful thing you could do for your hormones, your metabolism, and your mood is free, takes five minutes, and is waiting outside your front door every morning? Corey and Christine sit down with Thaddeus Owen, co-founder of Dream Walkers and the other half of this two-part husband-and-wife series. Thaddeus is a chemical engineer who spent seven years in pharmaceutical research before walking away from the industry, then earned a master's in holistic nutrition while trying to solve his own decades-long insomnia and anxiety. Nothing worked until he put on a pair of blue-blocking glasses in 2009 and got his light environment right. He has been teaching light, EMF, and cold since 2015, and between him and Heidi they have raised six kids. In this episode he makes the case that light is not just something you see. It is an actual drug your body is metabolizing all day long. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why the first hour after sunrise turns on testosterone and estrogen ✔️ How dawn light sets your metabolic rate and your cravings for the entire day ✔️ Why blue light at night tells your body winter is coming, so store fat ✔️ "Malilluminated" and why we do better lighting for tomatoes than for humans ✔️ You do not have to see the sun, or even have clear skies, for morning light to work ✔️ Why sunglasses, contacts, and some eye surgeries block the signal your body needs ✔️ Biphasic sleep, the Prussian school system, and who really invented Daylight Saving Time ✔️ Sleeping less in summer and more in winter, and why that is biologically correct ✔️ Nightlights, teenagers, screens, and what parents can realistically do ✔️ Rolling down your car window on the school run actually counts ✔️ Why working out at 5am under artificial light may be working against you ✔️ Meals at dawn, noon, and sunset, and letting the sun program your amino acids ✔️ How to wear blue blockers in public without feeling like a weirdo ✔️ The red refrigerator, revisited, and why never to put red bulbs in your kitchen ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #ancestralliving #circadianrhythm #morningsunlight #bluelight #metabolichealth #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #hormonehealth #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Dream Walkers glasses & circadian lighting – https://dreamwalkerz.ai/ 📍 Dream Walkers on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/dreamwalkerzai 📍 Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés – https://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Run-Wolves-Archetype/dp/0345409876 📍 The Queen's Code by Alison Armstrong – https://www.amazon.com/Queens-Code-Alison-Armstrong/dp/B01DAYC348/ 📍 Alison Armstrong's work – https://www.understandmen.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) Christine sits down with Heidi Sime, co-founder of Dream Walkers and a circadian living coach who has worn blue-blocking glasses every single night for over eight years. Heidi didn't come from science. She's an artist with a Master of Fine Arts degree, a former welder, a mindset coach, and a mama of four who stumbled into the biohacking world through her husband Thaddeus and never looked back. In this first half of a two-part husband-and-wife series, she makes the case that light is information your body is reading every second, and that getting it right is the lowest-hanging fruit in all of health. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why the first light you see each morning sets your hormones for the entire day ✔️ "Sunrise before screen rise" and the cortisol crescendo that wakes your body gently ✔️ Why the sun is not the enemy, and how to build a "solar callus" ✔️ The surprising history of sunglasses, invented for movie sets, not the sun ✔️ What blue light after dark does to your melatonin, thyroid, and sleep ✔️ Why we're diurnal, not nocturnal, and what night-shift living costs you ✔️ The "10 before 10" morning walk and why it works ✔️ Red light in the evening, and yes, the story of the red refrigerator ✔️ How to bring your family along without going guns blazing ✔️ Standing your ground as the mama duck of your home ✔️ Why the phone in your hand is stealing the oxytocin from your arms ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #ancestralliving #circadianrhythm #bluelight #morningsunlight #sleephealth #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #hormonehealth #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas What if almost everything draining you as a mother, the isolation, the touched-out exhaustion, the sense that you were never meant to do this alone, isn't a personal failing but the predictable cost of a world built against your biology? Corey and Christine sit down with Mary Ruddick, an ancestral nutritionist and experiential anthropologist often described as a modern-day Weston A. Price. Mary never set out to work in health at all. She was training to be a marine biologist when an infection reached her brain and left her with severe nervous system damage, a condition called dysautonomia, which trickled into full disability and organ damage for roughly twelve years. After years of conventional medicine brought her close to kidney failure, she found the anthropological medical writings of the early 1900s, changed her diet and lifestyle, and slowly reversed a condition she'd been told was permanent. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why connection and safety matter more than the food on the plate ✔️ Flipping Maslow's hierarchy: relationship before food and shelter ✔️ What "peak health" actually looks like in uncolonized cultures ✔️ Why perimenopause, PMS, and painful periods are largely absent in traditional communities ✔️ Family structures where no one, ever, sleeps alone ✔️ The hormonal reason women need safety and men need to provide ✔️ Testosterone as the "statesman hormone" and why men need daily action ✔️ Vasopressin: why men bond by working for something ✔️ How babies bond differently to mothers and fathers through oxytocin ✔️ The isolation of modern motherhood and its link to postpartum depression ✔️ Rites of passage for boys and girls, and what initiation really means 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Mary Ruddick's website – https://www.maryruddick.com 📍 Cows for Kids (Mary's foundation project) – https://www.maryruddick.com/cows4kids 📍 Mary on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/maryqueenofheart 📍 The Weston A. Price Foundation & the Wise Traditions Conference 📍 Nourished by Deborah McNamara – https://www.amazon.com/Nourished-Connection-Food-Caring-Everyone/dp/0995051240 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #ancestralliving #hormonehealth #traditionalcultures #femininehealth #ancestralwisdom #community #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas What if every meal you sit down to is meant to be a rehearsal of your faith, and the church has completely missed it? In this episode, Corey and Christine kick off a brand new series on biblical eating and how physical health is treated in the church, starting with Andy Felton, author of Nourished by Design: A Christ-Centered Approach to Nutrition. Andy isn't a doctor or a theologian. He began his career as a nuclear submarine officer, where seeing the sun through a periscope every few days was the norm and circadian rhythm was an afterthought. When he started battling anxiety and he and his wife faced fertility struggles, he went looking for answers, and found that nearly every health book was either secular or, on the Christian side, theologically skimpy. So he wrote the book he couldn't find. Together they ask the questions the church has gone 2,000 years without really answering: Are Christians called to care about what they put in their bodies? Why is scripture so saturated with food, hunger, and feasting from Genesis onward? Andy makes the case that food is one of God's great object lessons, a physical thing pointing to a spiritual reality, and that our daily hunger is ultimately a hunger for God. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ How physical health is (and isn't) represented in the church, and why it dropped the ball ✔️ Whether Christians are actually called to care about what they eat ✔️ Why scripture is a story about a hungry people, from manna to the bread of life ✔️ Food as object lesson: physical things pointing to spiritual truths ✔️ The "just eat junk and meet your maker faster" objection, answered ✔️ Three meals a day as three daily reminders of our hunger for God ✔️ Fasting as a both/and practice, spiritual first and physical second ✔️ Old manna, the dietary laws, and what clean vs. unclean really meant ✔️ Are the dietary laws still binding? Hebrews 8, Romans 14, and the new covenant ✔️ What Weston A. Price's traditional cultures reveal about "unclean" foods ✔️ Blood, the Council of Jerusalem, and a surprising take on Acts 15 ✔️ New manna: Jesus as the bread of life in John 6, and the temple parallel 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Nourished by Design (Andy's book) – available on Amazon 📍 Andy's website – https://www.nourishedbydesignbook.com 📍 Earlier episode with Deborah McNamara on why humans eat three times a day 📍 Corey's Christian women's book club – message her to join 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #biblicaleating #christianhealth #theologyoffood #ancestralliving #wholefoods #faithandfood #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas Corey | @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ Christine | @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust.Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas What if the reason you can't lose weight isn't your willpower, but the wrong goal entirely? In this episode, Corey and Christine continue their weight loss series with Brenna Kennedy, a strength and conditioning coach who has spent over a decade in the fitness industry helping women, especially women over 40, break free from stubborn fat loss. Brenna grew up rough-and-tumble between two brothers in Oklahoma, started working in gyms the day she turned 16, and was three and a half years into a dietitian degree when a personal health crash sent her in a new direction. Navigating multiple autoimmune disorders of her own, she pivoted to exercise physiology, interned at Equinox in Boston, and eventually built her own coaching practice so she could help people the way the gym-floor model never let her. Together, they get into the difference almost nobody explains: weight loss means getting the scale number down, no matter where it comes from, while fat loss means strategically holding onto muscle and shedding fat. Brenna walks through why the scale can drop six pounds and more than half of it be muscle, why "eating clean" and high-fat ancestral eating can quietly stall fat loss, and why so many women feel healthier than ever but still don't look the way they hoped. The conversation gets honest about what it really takes after 30, why most trending workouts won't preserve your muscle, and how to navigate all of it as a mom without passing diet culture on to your kids. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ The real difference between weight loss and fat loss, and why it changes everything ✔️ Why you lose 3 to 8% of your muscle every year after 30 if you're not strength training ✔️ How "eat less, move more" oversimplifies what's actually happening in your body ✔️ Why "eating clean" means a hundred different things and none of them guarantee fat loss ✔️ The high-fat ancestral trap: too much fat, not enough protein or carbs, and dropping muscle ✔️ How to find your real maintenance baseline before trying to lose fat ✔️ Protein, carbs, and why cutting carbs too low costs you muscle ✔️ Body composition vs. the bathroom scale, and what DEXA and BIA scans actually measure ✔️ Why Pilates, swimming, rucking, and mobility training won't preserve muscle on their own ✔️ Strength training, bone density, and protecting against osteoporosis ✔️ Doing fat loss postpartum and breastfeeding, and how to navigate it with grace ✔️ Feeding your family nutrient-dense food without modeling diet culture at the table 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Limited Edition Training (Brenna's website) – https://www.limitededitiontraining.com 📍 Brenna on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/coachbrennak/ 📍 Brenna's second handle – https://www.instagram.com/le_coachbe/ 📍Listen to the first episode in the weight loss series with Deanna DeWitt 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas #fatloss #strengthtraining #womenshealth #musclemass #ancestralliving #postpartumfitness #bodycomposition #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com What if everything your garden needs is already sitting in your kitchen? In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome back Sophie Eng, author of The Nourishing Asian Kitchen and the forthcoming The Nourishing Asian Homestead. The daughter of Vietnamese refugees, Sophie grew up beside her grandfather's garden, learning to ferment, compost, and work with the land long before she knew it had a name. She and her husband Tim traded Silicon Valley for six acres in California and now homestead on 40 acres off the side of a mountain in East Tennessee, where they're raising their two daughters in the traditions their family carried across an ocean. Together, they dig into Korean Natural Farming (KNF), the centuries-old Asian approach Sophie and her whole family got certified in, built on one deceptively simple idea: feed the soil, not the plant. Sophie shares how she turns rice rinse water, leftover milk, fish scraps, and fast-growing weeds like kudzu into free, truly organic fertilizers, the same "liquid gold" her grandfather made on a tiny scale in Vietnam. The conversation gets honest about food freedom in a fragile supply chain, why a single ton of fertilizer nearly doubled in price overnight, how community is the missing half of self-sufficiency, and the real challenge of raising grounded kids in a Doritos-and-Monster world. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ What Korean Natural Farming (KNF) is and how it differs from regenerative agriculture ✔️ The core principle: healthy soil grows healthy plants, animals, and people ✔️ How to make free fertilizer from rice rinse water you'd normally pour down the drain ✔️ Lactic acid bacteria (LAB): one ferment for your gut, garden, coop, and laundry ✔️ Fermented plant juice and fish amino acids, and why kudzu is perfect for it ✔️ Indigenous microorganisms (IMO 1 through 5) and collecting wild soil microbes ✔️ Why grocery-store produce isn't as nutrient-dense as it used to be ✔️ Food freedom and breaking free from imported, supply-chain-dependent inputs ✔️ Trading milk, butter, and yogurt for hay and honey instead of cash ✔️ Simple starting points: bone broth, one daily ferment, and stretching protein with soup ✔️ Raising mature, grounded kids who choose real food over fitting in 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Sprinkle With Soil (Sophie's family blog) – https://sprinklewithsoil.com 📍 Pre-order The Nourishing Asian Homestead & shop The Nourishing Asian Kitchen – https://sprinklewithsoil.com 📍 Joy and Jolie (her daughters' organic pho spice mixes) – https://joyandjolie.com 📍 Call to Farms Podcast – https://calltofarms.com 📍 The Homesteading Agent (find & fund your homestead) – https://thehomesteadingagent.com 📍 Sophie on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/sprinklewithsoil/ 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one kitchen scrap you'll never throw away again? #koreannaturalfarming #homesteading #soilhealth #foodfreedom #ancestralliving #fermentation #regenerativeagriculture #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com You're eating clean. You're working out. So why is the scale still going up? In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome functional nutritionist Deanna DeWitt, a women's hormone specialist who spent her late 20s and early 30s battling gut issues, anxiety, and hormone chaos before the conventional medical system left her with little more than an IBS label and a handful of prescriptions. After healing herself, she traded her fast-paced LA career for functional nutrition school and has now spent nearly a decade helping women lose weight without starving themselves, over-exercising, or counting a single calorie. Together, they take apart the "eat less, exercise more" advice that fails most women after 35, why chronic stress signals your body to store fat for safety, and how cortisol quietly spikes blood sugar even when you're eating the cleanest diet imaginable. Deanna explains metabolic flexibility, the sugar-burner vs. fat-burner switch, and why your thyroid actually needs carbs. The conversation gets honest about calorie restriction, the keto and carnivore crash so few are talking about, 4am workouts that backfire, and how to start syncing your nutrition and movement with your cycle. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Why "eat less, exercise more" stops working after your mid-30s ✔️ How chronic stress puts your body into fat-storage survival mode ✔️ The hidden link between cortisol and blood sugar (even on a clean diet) ✔️ Metabolic flexibility and the sugar-burner vs. fat-burner switch ✔️ Why your thyroid needs carbs, and the keto/carnivore crash no one talks about ✔️ Calorie restriction and why 1,500 calories may be keeping you stuck ✔️ The truth about 4am workouts and how they backfire on your hormones ✔️ Strength training vs. HIIT vs. Pilates for women's hormones ✔️ Cycle syncing your food, fasting, and movement throughout the month ✔️ Why morning sunlight is a non-negotiable metabolic reset ✔️ Blue light, circadian rhythm, and evening snacking ✔️ Navigating perimenopause and menopausal belly fat naturally ✔️ The body's "whispers" — early signs your hormones need support 🧠 More About This Episode: This episode is for every woman who's doing everything "right" and still feeling stuck, frustrated, and betrayed by her own body. It's for the mom in her late 30s and 40s wondering why the rules suddenly changed, and for anyone navigating perimenopause, weight-loss resistance, or the exhaustion of chronic stress. Practical, validating, and full of micro-habits you can start tomorrow morning. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Deanna's Nourish Program & Website – https://deannadewitt.com/ 📍 Deanna on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/deannadee/ 📍 The Minnesota Starvation Experiment (referenced study) 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 NEW Website – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one piece of weight-loss advice you've stopped believing? #weightloss #perimenopause #hormonehealth #ancestralliving #cyclesyncing #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife #functionalnutrition 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas Website | https://www.modernancestralmamas.com

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The crunchy movement has a dogma problem, and even the homesteaders are starting to question it. In this episode, Corey and Christine sit down with Sarah Stutsman of Wellfolk Revival, a homesteading mom of three teen daughters in Pennsylvania who has spent nearly two decades raising chickens, milking cows, fermenting everything, and teaching community classes in her renovated garage. But Sarah comes to the conversation with a confession: she's been holding her ancestral lifestyle a little too tightly. She's reading *The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry*, taking candle-light showers, and just last week, she bought cereal at the regular grocery store. Not the organic kind. And she's wondering if some of what she's been doing has cost her joy. Together, they unpack the trap of "perfect" ancestral living, why Sarah is rethinking the high-fat carnivore-leaning approach as she enters her mid-40s, the truth about perimenopause (and whether the word itself is a pharmaceutical invention), and how chronic stress may be spiking our blood sugar without a single bite of food. Corey and Christine also get into the cultural addiction to busyness and self-sabotage, the power of effort-based dopamine, and why Sarah installed a landline in her farmhouse to fight the constant phone reach. ✨ *Topics Covered in This Episode:* ✔️ Why ancestral living can become its own form of diet culture ✔️ Sarah's countercultural rhythms: candle-light showers, dry brushing, castor oil packs ✔️ Installing a landline in 2026 (and why more families are doing it) ✔️ Cory's no-baby-containers approach with her newborn ✔️ The truth about perimenopause and whether it's a modern construct ✔️ Why indigenous women historically didn't experience perimenopause ✔️ How stress alone can spike blood sugar without food ✔️ Effort-based dopamine vs. instant gratification (and why your brain needs the hard stuff) ✔️ "Power-down hours" for the whole family, including teens ✔️ Raising three daughters with one shared phone ✔️ Why busyness is its own addiction and self-sabotage is a cultural pattern ✔️ The lost art of doing hard things together (canning, processing, putting up food) ✔️ Why your friends actually want to be your burden ✔️ Sarah's Wellfolk Revival community classes and how she built them from scratch 🧠 *More About This Episode:* This episode is for any mama who's deep in the crunchy world and starting to feel the weight of it, anyone questioning whether perfect ancestral living is actually serving her family, and every mom navigating the messy middle of hormonal shifts, teen daughters, and modern motherhood. It's honest, reflective, and a little bit of a permission slip. 📚 *Resources & Links Mentioned:* 📍 *Wellfolk Revival* (Sarah's website, classes, and upcoming hormone guide) – https://www.wellfolkrevival.com 📍 *Sarah on Instagram* – @wellfolkrevival 📍 *The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry* by John Mark Comer 📍 *Join our Patreon Community* – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 *NEW Website* – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 *Knead Your Cure Conference* (August 2026 in Oxford, MS) - https://www.kneadyourcure.com/ 📍 *Earthley* – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ *Support the Show!* 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one part of crunchy living you've started to question? #homesteading #perimenopause #ancestralliving #crunchymom #slowliving #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #MotherhoodWellness #MomLife #WellfolkRevival 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The fourth trimester is a lie, and your body knows it. In this episode, Corey and Christine sit down for a long-overdue catch-up after Christine's maternity leave from the podcast. Now six weeks postpartum with baby #4, Christine shares the realization that's reshaped how she thinks about motherhood: humans aren't built to bounce back. We're "carrier mammals," biologically wired to hold our underdeveloped babies for months after birth, and the cultural expectation to return to "normal" in 12 weeks is working against every instinct our bodies have. Together, they unpack the three types of mammals (and why it matters for new moms), why Christine says it took her three full years to feel like herself after her last baby, and how doing postpartum #4 with real support, including family, a postpartum chef, and extra help in the home, opened her eyes to what previous postpartums had cost her. Corey and Christine also push back on mommy wine culture, talk about why the most chill moms they know are the ones with the biggest families, and reflect on six years of doing this podcast together. ✨ *Topics Covered in This Episode:* ✔️ The three types of mammals (nesting, carrier, and follower) and why humans are carriers ✔️ Why babies are essentially "born three months early" and need to be held ✔️ Christine's six-week postpartum update with baby #4 ✔️ Why the fourth trimester is closer to two or three years than three months ✔️ What it's like to do postpartum with a real village vs. completely alone ✔️ Hiring a postpartum chef and why nourishment matters more than restriction ✔️ Why big-family moms are often the most joyful and relaxed ✔️ Pushing back on mommy wine culture and motherhood-as-drudgery ✔️ Corey's new cookbook *What Do I Feed These Kids?*, a real food cheat sheet ✔️ The launch of the Modern Ancestral Mamas website ✔️ Upcoming conferences in 2026, including Need Your Cure in Oxford, MS and Weston A. Price in DC ✔️ Why women were never meant to do postpartum alone 🧠 *More About This Episode:* This episode is for any mom in the trenches of postpartum, any mother who has ever wondered why she didn't feel like herself for years after having a baby, and anyone who needs the reminder that motherhood is a calling worth celebrating, not a chore to survive. It's warm, honest, and a little nerdy about mammal biology. 📚 *Resources & Links Mentioned:* 📍 *What Do I Feed These Kids? A Real Food Cheat Sheet* by Corey – https://www.fornutrientssake.com/shop/p/4xp1fet4qsg0260nqneem6ahlpkq54 📍 *Join our Patreon Community* – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas 📍 *NEW Website* – https://www.modernancestralmamas.com 📍 *Knead Your Cure Conference* (August 14-15, 2026 in Oxford, MS) - https://www.kneadyourcure.com/ 📍 *Weston A. Price Foundation Conference* (October 2026, Washington DC) - https://www.westonaprice.org/get-involved/conferences/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=415527510&gbraid=0AAAAADiY3lq80cXhgOfdh2V-vU5CtgjOj&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlLDQBhDjARIsAPlIefHdvKOKIxAO69qxYuEjEKK1IvRjeA0k2V-qnS4C5pnW3p4Y8IOy3pIaAoxHEALw_wcB#gsc.tab=0 📍 *Masienda* – nixtamalized masa for homemade tortillas - https://masienda.com/?srsltid=AfmBOoq1OGBPk3ti3xPzBeHk167J8DKl1hBkJa4H0xcWfFPQNUm-sNCz 📍 *Vitamin T* cookbook by Masienda - https://masienda.com/products/vitamina-t?srsltid=AfmBOop82fVnQmXWMFdXjoehRWzJm_m68M8jT74Zf1R-2qUb6lWUzaYC 📍 *Earthley* – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) ✨ *Support the Show!* 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one thing you wish someone had told you about postpartum? #postpartum #fourthtrimester #carriermammals #AncestralLiving #MotherhoodWellness #ModernAncestralMamas #RealFood #PostpartumSupport #MomLife #NewMom 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The generation raised on ultra-processed food is starting to fight back. In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome Bishaka Chowdhury, a Gen Z health advocate and content creator behind @foodlicious444, for the third installment of their series: Gen Z and How One Generation Is Changing the Future of Food. Born in Bangladesh and raised in the U.S., Bishaka shares how growing up between two food cultures, going vegan and watching her health crash at 80 lbs, and finally returning to nutrient-dense, ancestral eating shaped her mission to wake up her generation to what's really in their food. Together, they unpack why Gen Z is fed up with ultra-processed everything, how Bishaka's parents developed diabetes after moving to the U.S., and why her mom still drives hours to source real ingredients from her home country. Bishaka gets honest about the cultural pressure to grab fast food on every corner, the "cheat day" mindset that keeps her peers stuck, and why she thinks millennials were "the guinea pig generation" — raised on the food experiment Gen Z is now refusing to continue. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Bishaka's journey from vegan health crash to nutrient-dense eating ✔️ Growing up between Bangladeshi food culture and the standard American diet ✔️ How her parents developed diabetes after moving to the U.S. ✔️ Why traditional fats like ghee are being replaced with seed oils — even in cultural cuisine ✔️ The Seed Oil Scout app and finding real food when you eat out ✔️ Why Gen Z is "fed up" and demanding better food quality ✔️ How millennials became the guinea pig generation for ultra-processed food ✔️ Why convenience culture and fast food on every corner keep Gen Z stuck ✔️ The "cheat day" mindset and why it's keeping people sick ✔️ How to date and find like-minded partners outside the club scene ✔️ The rise of Botox, fillers, and plastic surgery in girls as young as 18 ✔️ Practical first steps for parents and teens transitioning to real food 🧠 More About This Episode: Bishaka Chowdhury is a Gen Z health advocate and content creator who shares nutrition and ancestral eating content with her growing community on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Facebook under the handle @foodlicious444. Born in Bangladesh and raised in the U.S., Bishaka studied health sciences in college and quickly realized how little emphasis is placed on real nutrition in mainstream education. After a vegan diet left her depleted and underweight, she returned to nutrient-dense, whole-food eating and now uses her platform to help others — especially her peers — reclaim their health through real food. This episode is for any parent raising Gen Z or Gen Alpha kids, anyone curious about how the youngest generation is reshaping food culture, and anyone who needs a reminder that whole food living doesn't require a degree — just the willingness to start. It's honest, hopeful, and a little bit feisty. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Follow Bishaka – @foodlicious444 on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube & Facebook 📍 Seed Oil Scout app – for finding restaurants that don't cook with seed oils 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one ancestral food tradition from your family or culture that you want to bring back? #genzhealth #RealFood #AncestralLiving #WholeFood #AntiProcessedFood #MotherhoodWellness #ModernAncestralMamas #SeedOilFree #GuineaPigGeneration #NutrientDense 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The generation raised on ultra-processed food is starting to fight back. In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome Penelope, a Gen Z health advocate and co-founder of both the MAHA Girls account and the Step It Ups natural weight loss program, for the second installment of their series: MAHA Girls Gen Z and How One Generation Is Changing the Future of Food. From weighing 320 lbs at 15 and hiding pizza boxes from her health-conscious mom to losing 160 lbs naturally without Ozempic, surgery, or starvation, Penelope's story is a raw look at what ultra-processed food addiction really does to a teenager's body, mind, and family. Together, they unpack how doctors and therapists told a 320 lb teenager she was "totally fine and healthy," why her therapy sessions served Swedish Fish and gummy bears to kids with anxiety and depression, and what it actually took to break free. Penelope gets honest about stealing money for DoorDash binges, the friends who enabled her eating, and the moment during lockdown when she looked in the mirror and didn't recognize herself. She also shares the simple but powerful approach that changed everything: cut the sugar and flour, make your favorite junk food at home with real ingredients, and move your body every day. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Penelope's journey from 320 lbs and pre-diabetic at 15 to losing 160 lbs naturally ✔️ How ultra-processed food addiction mirrors drug and alcohol addiction ✔️ Why her doctors, therapists, and friends all told her she was healthy at 320 lbs ✔️ The role body positivity culture played in keeping her stuck ✔️ How therapy sessions fed junk food to kids with anxiety and depression ✔️ The hidden dynamics of friends enabling food addiction ✔️ What withdrawal from sugar and flour actually looks like ✔️ How her PCOS, pre-diabetes, and depression disappeared with whole foods ✔️ Why moms speaking negatively about their own bodies deeply impacts daughters ✔️ The Ozempic Chronicles: concerns about GLP-1s being given to children ✔️ Practical advice for college students eating in campus cafeterias ✔️ How to teach kids to read ingredient labels and cook with what they have ✔️ The founding of MAHA Girls and what gives her hope for Gen Z 🧠 More About This Episode: Penelope is a Gen Z health advocate who lost 160 lbs naturally after years of ultra-processed food addiction. Born in Switzerland and raised in California, she went from being unable to walk up stairs at 15 to becoming a passionate voice for whole food living and natural weight loss. Alongside her mother Helen, a nutritional psychology expert, Penelope co-founded the Step It Ups program, helping women lose weight naturally and titrate off GLP-1 medications. She is also a co-founder of the MAHA Girls account alongside Grace and Lexi Noel, where they empower young women to ditch processed food and reclaim their health. Penelope has testified before the Arizona legislature to ban ultra-processed foods from public school lunches. This episode is for any mom navigating a child's relationship with food, any parent wondering what the body positivity movement is really teaching their daughter, and anyone who needs to hear that dramatic health transformation is possible without drugs or deprivation. It's deeply personal, brutally honest, and full of hope. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Follow Penelope & Step It Ups – @stepitups on Instagram, TikTok & YouTube 📍 Follow MAHA Girls – @mahagirls on Instagram & TikTok 📍 Book – Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell 📍 Upcoming Series – The Ozempic Chronicles on the Step It Up Podcast 📍 Earthley – https://www.earthley.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: Have you or your kids ever experienced what it feels like to cut out processed food? What changed? #genzhealth #MahaGirls #RealFood #AncestralLiving #WholeFood #AntiProcessedFood #MotherhoodWellness #ModernAncestralMamas #NaturalWeightLoss #NoOzempic #ProcessedFoodAddiction #StepItUps 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas

🌿 Earthley creates truly natural, non-toxic herbal remedies made with simple, real ingredients you can trust. Use code ancestral10 for 10% off → https://www.earthley.com The generation raised on ultra-processed food is starting to fight back. In this episode, Corey and Christine welcome Lexi Noel, a 19-year-old Gen Z health advocate, baker, and co-founder of the MAHA Girls account, for the first installment of their new series: MAHA Girls Gen Z and How One Generation Is Changing the Future of Food. From being diagnosed with anorexia at 13 to healing through real, whole foods, Lexi's story challenges everything we've been told about what "healthy" looks like for young people. Together, they explore what Gen Z actually grew up eating, why protein greenwashing is the new fat-free era, and how a generation glued to social media is both the problem and the solution when it comes to nutrition education. Lexi gets honest about navigating social events with her own food, the accusations that promoting real food "creates eating disorders," and what it's actually like to be the only one in your friend group who cares about ingredients. ✨ Topics Covered in This Episode: ✔️ Lexi's journey from anorexia to healing through real food ✔️ Why eating disorder clinics may be getting recovery wrong ✔️ What Gen Z actually grew up eating vs. what millennials ate ✔️ The protein greenwashing trend and why labels like "organic" aren't enough ✔️ How to navigate social situations when you eat differently ✔️ Practical swaps for going from standard American to real food ✔️ Budget-friendly tips including Dollar Tree real food finds ✔️ How teens living at home can talk to parents about healthier eating ✔️ Advice for college students in dorms with no kitchen ✔️ Why peer-to-peer health advocacy matters for Gen Z ✔️ The MAHA movement and what gives Lexi hope for the future 🧠 More About This Episode: Lexi Noel is a Gen Z health advocate and the founder of Divine Eats, a paleo and keto bakery rooted in real, single-ingredient foods. After being diagnosed with anorexia at 13 and healing through whole food nutrition, Lexi began sharing grocery store swap videos and ingredient education on social media, building a following across Instagram and TikTok. She is also a co-founder of the MAHA Girls account alongside Grace and Penelope, where they empower young women to reclaim their health through real food and non-toxic living. Lexi and the MAHA Girls were recently featured on CNN. This episode is for any parent raising kids in an ultra-processed world, any Gen Zer trying to eat better on a budget, and anyone who wants to understand what's actually shifting in the youngest generation's relationship with food. It's honest, practical, and full of hope. 📚 Resources & Links Mentioned: 📍 Follow Lexi – https://www.instagram.com/lexinoelv 📍 Book – Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon Morell 📍 Book – Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan 📍 Book – Eat Like a Human by Dr. Bill Schindler 📍 Book – Good Energy by Casey Means 📍 Earthly – https://www.earthly.com (code: ancestral10 for 10% off) 📍 Join our Patreon Community – https://patreon.com/modernancestralmamas ✨ Support the Show! 👍 Like & Subscribe for more ancestral motherhood conversations ⭐ Leave a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify 💬 Comment below: What's one food swap you've made that changed everything? #genzhealth #MahaGirls #RealFood #AncestralLiving #WholeFood #AntiProcessedFood #MotherhoodWellness #ModernAncestralMamas 📲 Stay Connected: Patreon Community | https://www.patreon.com/c/ModernAncestralMamas @fornutrientssake | https://www.instagram.com/fornutrientssake/ @nourishthelittles | https://www.instagram.com/nourishthelittles/ @modernancestralmamas | https://www.instagram.com/modernancestralmamas/ YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@ModernAncestralMamas