Not Your Typical Wellness Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ashley Smith | Anna Galle
NYTWP is a celebration of acupuncture and herbal medicine with Ashley Smith, L.Ac, Dipl. O.M., and Anna Galle, L.Ac, two practitioners in Los Angeles.Ashley and Anna are the co-founders of Elemental Wellness, an integrative wellness clinic in West L.A. that uses Chinese Medicine, functional medicine, and Theta Healing to help patients feel their best.In this show, Ashley and Anna interview experts covering a broad range of topics including women’s health, fertility, natural beauty, mental health, and more to share the most updated and powerful implications of these healing modalities.For more information about Ashley and Anna, please head to: https://www.elementalwellnessacupuncture.com
In this episode we talk with the inimitable Nicolas Gregoriades--entrepreneur, world traveler, psychonaut, 4th degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, among many other things--about how he found his way to multiple healing modalities and the impact they have had on his life.
Furthermore, we cover a variety of topics including ayahuasca, meditation, UFC and combat sports, Chinese medicine and emotional symptoms, living according to the seasons, and so much more.
In this episode, our guests are herbalists Peter and Amy Galle, co-founders and owners of Yin Dew, a Glendale-based custom herbal medicine company.
Peter and Amy describe the process and creation of our product, Endure Blend, and how they chose the specific formulation.
You can learn more about Yin Dew HERE.
In this episode, our guests are herbalists Peter and Amy Galle, co-founders and owners of Yin Dew, a Glendale-based custom herbal medicine company.
Peter and Amy describe the process and creation of our product, Endure Blend, and how they chose the specific formulation.
You can learn more about Yin Dew HERE.
In this episode, our guests are herbalists Peter and Amy Galle, co-founders and owners of Yin Dew, a Glendale-based custom herbal medicine company.
Peter and Amy describe the process and creation of our product, Endure Blend, and how they chose the specific formulation.
You can learn more about Yin Dew HERE.
In this episode, our guests are herbalists Peter and Amy Galle, co-founders and owners of Yin Dew, a Glendale-based custom herbal medicine company.
Peter and Amy describe the process and creation of our product, Endure Blend, and how they chose the specific formulation.
You can learn more about Yin Dew HERE.
Ashley and Anna offer a crash course in postpartum care for expecting and new mothers.
0:00 Intro
1:04 What Ashley and Anna knew about postpartum life before studying Chinese medicine
2:33 What is postpartum like in American culture?
3:10 What you should be doing during the postpartum time
3:50 25% of women in the U.S. go back to work within 10 days of giving birth
4:39 What happens to your body during and after pregnancy
7:18 Ashley’s postpartum recovery miscalculation
9:17 Postpartum planning in the Netherlands and Belgium
10:46 The First Forty Days exploration
15:40 Anna’s birth injury circumstances
16:49 In a perfect world…
17:49 Things you can do to prepare for the postpartum period
18:52 Eating bone broth to rebuild blood and repair the body’s connective tissues
20:15 Why you should purchase waist and hip binders
21:10 Why you should stock up on cooling pads
22:34 Why you should use a Sitz Bath
23:39 Why you need a support system
26:18 Anna’s home birth plan and why you should be prepared
29:32 Ashley’s labor, penicillin experience, and getting C dif
30:52 The donor milk possibility
33:39 The key to making more breast milk
35:40 What really happens after you have a baby
38:00 All about the placenta
41:39 Wrap up
In this inaugural episode, Ashley and Anna detail their paths to pregnancy, including the specific steps they took to improve their odds of conception.
00:00 Intro
01:42 Infertility statistics across men and women, definition of infertility https://rb.gy/7j986n
03:05 When you can actually get pregnant
04:23 The importance of adding biomarkers to tracking to get pregnant
05:45 Using wearable tech to track biomarkers
07:11 Old-fashioned charting to get pregnant
09:00 Wives’ tales about when to have sex to get pregnant
10:40 “Let’s just hit on cervical mucous.”
12:45 Acupuncture increases egg production by 50%: https://rb.gy/xv3spk
13:45 Anna’s fertility journey
15:15 Book for fertility supplements for men: https://rb.gy/uzaxpi
17:00 Anna’s experience at a Beverly Hills fertility specialist
18:35 Society’s message to older women trying to get pregnant
20:00 how stress impacts fertility: https://rb.gy/ijg7dm
- How acupuncture impacts stress: https://rb.gy/bdbjsu
- Psychology Today, 2010: https://rb.gy/nbh2ie
https://tinyurl.com/v6naj5yw23:29 Acupuncture increases IVF rates by 20+% https://tinyurl.com/2j3mr9nj
23:40 Ashley’s fertility journey
28:35 Link to The Infertility Cure https://tinyurl.com/fw72t7c9
30:41 Ashley’s miscarriage and how it paved the way for success
32:59 Ashley gets pregnant and the steps she took to confirm it
35:18 Ashley finds out it’s twins!
38:33 Choosing adoption
39:28 Surrendering to the outcome
42:00 What does Anna do in her free time?
42:59 Who was Ashley in a past life?
47:45 Who was Anna in a past life?