The Modern Ancestral Mamas Podcast

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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
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✨ 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

 

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📚 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

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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

 

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📚 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

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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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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

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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

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