201 - Natural Detox for Kids: A Parent’s Guide to Gentle Healing w/ Kate Tietje

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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In today’s episode, Kate shares her journey into herbalism, which began when she sought better solutions for her first child who struggled with food allergies and eczema. Her passion led her to create Earthly Wellness, a holistic brand known for its herbal remedies, magnesium lotion, and educational resources. Here are some highlights from our conversation: Natural Remedies for Kids: Kate discusses her top five herbal remedies that every family should consider, including the benefits of elderberry and calendula. Balancing Natural and Conventional Care: We dive into how to find the right balance between using natural remedies and seeking conventional medical care when necessary. Managing Fevers: Kate shares her approach to handling fevers in children and why it's important to support the body's natural healing process. Detoxing for Kids: We explore what detoxing means for children and how to recognize when it might be beneficial. Kate also provides practical tips for parents, including how to get kids to take tinctures and the importance of magnesium for better sleep and overall health. Tune in now and take the first step toward supporting your family’s health more naturally. Bio: Kate Tietje is the owner and lead herbalist at Earthley Wellness, a popular holistic brand that offers herbal tinctures, magnesium lotion, curricula, and much more. Kate is a passionate advocate for medical freedom and works to increase access to and education on alternative health modalities. She is the author of Natural Remedies for Kids, now in its second edition, as well as The Green Family series of children’s books. Kate is passionate about living a holistic lifestyle, and she lives on a small homestead in Ohio, where she homeschools her 6 children and raises chickens, turkeys, and tends a small orchard. Connect with Kate Tietje: Instagram: earthleywellness For 10% OFF at Earthley Use code JUSTINGREDIENTS at https://www.earthley.com/ref/justingredients/ Looking for more Just Ingredients content? Instagram Stories: @just.ingredients Podcast Instagram: @just.ingredients.podcast Facebook Community: Join our group Discover our non-toxic product line: Shop Just Ingredients Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:23 Kate Tietje Bio 0:56 Welcome Kate Tietje 2:40 Creating Earthley Wellness 4:01 Deciding Which Products To Create 6:27 Approaching Balance of Conventional Medicine vs Natural Remedies 8:23 Favorite Natural Remedies 10:14 Elderberry Benefits 11:31 Immune Support 12:21 What To Do When You Have a Fever 14:49 Downsides To Tylenol and Other Alternatives 19:05 Antibiotic Overuse 23:23 Earthley Wellness Ad 24:23 Detoxing For Children 26:32 Symptoms and Frequency of Detoxing 28:40 Where To Start When Wanting To Do A Detox 31:00 Earthly Wellness Detox Products 31:32 Gut Oil 32:20 Caster Oil Packs 34:19 Detox Bath 35:19 Top Selling Earthley Wellness Product 36:33 Parasite Cleanse For Children and Adults 37:25 Frequency of Parasite Cleansing 39:06 When To Do A Cleanse 40:35 What To Know About Tinctures 41:23 When To Know You're Done With A Parasite Cleanse 42:50 One Simple Step To Implementing Natural Medicine 44:03 Surrounding Yourself With A Team To Help 45:43 Resources Available 46:13 What Is The Best Ingredient In Life? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Just Ingredients podcast. I'm Kar-Linn, and here we talk all things nourishing to the mind, body, and soul.
0:15.5	This is a place where you can find just good ingredients to life.
0:23.2	Welcome back to the show, everyone.
0:25.3	Today, we are excited to welcome Kate TG, the owner and lead herbalist at Earthly Wellness,
0:31.7	a holistic brand that many of you probably know for its herbal remedies, magnesium lotion,
0:37.2	educational resources, and more.
0:39.9	Kate is a dedicated advocate for medical freedom and natural living. She's the author of
0:45.1	natural remedies for kids and the Green Family Children's Book series. When she's not
0:50.5	formulating tinctures or writing, she's homeschooling her six kids and tending to her homestead in Ohio.
0:57.2	Welcome to the show, Kate.
0:59.1	Thanks for having me.
1:00.6	That is fascinating that you do all that, that you have six kids at a homestead and you do these tinctures.
1:07.3	So before we dive into the topic today, will you just tell my listeners a little bit
1:12.4	about yourself and your background? Sure. So I got started with natural health back in about
1:19.3	2009 officially because I was pregnant with my second baby. And my first baby had a bunch of
1:26.9	food allergies and eczema and just a lot of different stuff
1:29.6	going on and the doctors kept telling me, oh, that's normal. This just how, you know, that happens
1:34.2	to all kids. And I didn't like that answer. I wanted something better for my baby. So I started to
1:40.6	do a lot of research and try to figure out like what else might be out there for her.
1:44.8	And I stumbled upon like Weston A Price and I found an herbalist. I was taking a childbirth
1:51.5	ed class for my second pregnancy and I asked her a bunch of questions, figured out a lot of stuff.
1:56.1	Started my blog, Modern Alternative Mama in the fall of 2009 to kind of tell everybody about it and just really
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