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Welcome to my Mommy’s podcast

This episode is sponsored by Ritual and their essential women’s vitamins and women’s prenatal. I’ve been able to personally experience Ritual and their really well-rounded multivitamins supplements specifically geared towards women. And I wanted to share a little bit of my experience and research about them today. I love that their 100% ingredients are made tradable, which means that they share their sources, their studies, and their suppliers. You can actually see and verify the supply chain! They are non-GMO product verified. They are gluten and major-allergen-free. And they’re vegan. And they’re a certified B Corp, which means that they’re holding themselves accountable long-term, not only to think about their company’s financial health, but also the health of other people and the planet. They also make it easy with a subscription-based free shipping model that gives you a 30-day money-back guarantee all the time.

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Katie:

Hello and welcome to the Wellness Mama podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com and this episode won’t apply to everybody but will be extremely applicable to some listeners. This is all about understanding breast implant illness and addressing the chronic inflammation that can go with it, whether or not you ever get the implants removed. And I’ve gotten an increasing number of questions about this topic. So I wanted to address it directly, even though it’s not something I have personal experience with. I hear from so many people who are on some part of that journey and I wanted to be able to provide some good answers or at least food for thought and a starting point for research on this topic. And I’m here with someone who I consider one of the foremost experts in the world on this particular topic, who is Dr. Robert Whitfield. He’s been a plastic surgeon for 26 years and board certified for over 16. And he specializes perhaps a bit more than anyone else I’ve ever heard of in breast implant illness specifically, as well as breast implant removal surgery and other advanced procedures. And he’s highly sought after in this realm for his Holistic Accelerated Recovery Program, otherwise known as HARP, which help reduce systemic inflammation and assist patients who are both preparing for or recovering from surgical procedures.

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