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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

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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

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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.

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📍 Relax and Regulate – https://alimillerrd.com/products/relax-and-regulate

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📍 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

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✨ 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

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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.

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📍 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/

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✨ 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

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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.

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📍 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

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✨ 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

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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

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📍 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

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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.

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📍 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

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