Age Like a Badass Mother: Healthy Aging, Plant-Based Nutrition & Longevity
Lauren Bernick reversed her heart disease, lost 20 pounds, lowered her cholesterol and blood pressure by following a plant-based diet. Her doctor told her that it could not be done. She started wondering what else she had been lied to about health, longevity, and aging well. She set out to investigate.
Irreverent, provocative, and wildly entertaining, Age Like a Badass Mother brings you real talk about health, vibrancy, and disease prevention and reversal through plant-based eating, menopause, midlife reinvention, manifesting, fitness, relationships, style, sex, and owning every year you've earned.
Make the rest of your life the best of your life! Please listen, new friend.
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Episodes
116 episodes
Ep. 116: Why Are You So Bloated? The Chinese Medicine Solution with Dreena Burton
Why are you suddenly so bloated, gassy, or uncomfortable after eating? In this episode, Lauren Bernick and Dreena Burton explore bloating, gas, digestion, fascia, jaw tension, stress, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, including the Chinese medi...
Ep. 115: Health Misinformation: The Hidden Agendas Behind What We’ve Been Told About Food & Disease with Nelson Campbell
How much of what we’ve been told about food, nutrition, and disease is actually true? Nelson Campbell joins Lauren Bernick to unpack the health misinformation that has shaped how we eat, think about disease, and understand what it means to be h...
Ep. 114: Holy Sh*t, I’m 58! I Had a Freakout, Then I Realized Something
Holy sh*t. Lauren is 58.And for a minute, she has some feelings about that.Sixty suddenly feels close. And Lauren realizes that some of what she's feeling isn't actually about how she feels at all; it's about how she th...
Ep. 113: Dr. Ellen Langer - The Mindful Body: Thinking Your Way to Chronic Health
Dr. Ellen Langer is a Harvard professor who literally wrote the book on Mindfulness in 1989. She has been referred to as the “Mother of Mindfulness.” Through her famous counterclockwise study, where she put men in their 70’s and 80’...
Ep: 112: Has Healthy Aging Gone Too Far? Finding Balance in the Age of Biohacking
Between face yoga, red light therapy, lymphatic drainage, dry brushing, supplements, meditation, strength training, and the endless stream of health advice flooding social media, taking care of ourselves has become a full-time job.In thi...
Ep. 111: What Toxins and Psychedelics Taught Me About Being Authentic with Dr. Nikki Siso
What do toxins, psychedelics, and authenticity have in common?More than you might think.Dr. Nikki Siso shares her personal and professional journey toward deeper self-awareness and healing. We explore how environmental toxins, emo...
Ep. 110: Can Fascia Work Improve Lymphatic Drainage, Reduce Puffiness, and Support Immunity?
In this mini-episode, Dreena Burton joins Lauren Bernick to explore the surprising connection among fascia, lymphatic health, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Dreena explains the role of the San Jiao, also known as the Triple Burner meridian, ...
Ep. 109: Think You've Heard Enough About Hormones? Not If You Have Brain Fog, Hot Flashes, or Low Libido
Hormones can feel like a mystery, especially when symptoms like brain fog, weight gain, hot flashes, low libido, UTIs, and even frozen shoulder seem to come out of nowhere. In this episode, I sit down with hormone specialist and pharmacist Dr. ...
Ep. 108: You're Not Broken, It's the Food With Julieanna Hever, MS, RD, CPT
Julieanna and Lauren talk about the concept of healthspan versus lifespan, the mechanisms of aging, the importance of a plant-based diet, and the role of phytonutrients. Then they get into a deep conversation about new evidence that women do ne...
Ep. 107: How to Eliminate Limiting Beliefs with Shelly Lefkoe
Have you ever wondered why you keep repeating the same patterns, even when you know better?Maybe you struggle to speak up for yourself, set boundaries, stop people-pleasing, or finally go after what you want. You know what to do. You've ...
Ep. 106: What Waking at 1:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m., or 5:00 a.m. May Reveal About Your Body
Could your sleep struggles be connected to your heart meridian?In this week's mini-episode, Dreena Burton returns to explore the wisdom of Chinese medicine for summer, the season associated with the fire element, joy, connection, ...
Ep. 105: Dr. Joel Fuhrman: Live to 100 in Good Health, Eat These Foods Daily
Dr. Fuhrman introduces us to the Nutritarian Diet; a diet of excellence that can help us live to 100 in good health. He also discusses the dangers of keto and paleo diets, emphasizing the negative impact of animal protein on lifespan. Additiona...
Ep. 104: How to Get Glowing Skin and Healthy Hair Naturally
In this mini-episode, Lauren Bernick tells you what really works to get glowing skin. She even admits to some embarrassing practices. Lauren believes that if you wouldn't want a product in your mouth, you shouldn't put it on your skin. She has ...
Ep. 103: Lessons: Embrace the Suck, Don't Squeeze the F'ing Cat, and Eat Plants with Molly Patrick of Clean Food Dirty Girl
We are hearing good stories and getting important lessons with Molly Patrick of Clean Food Dirty Girl. From her parents' incredible meet-cute to living in a teepee without running water or electricity as a child to her quitting smoking and drin...
Ep. 102: What's the Deal With Lymphatic Drainage? Dreena Burton Explains
Curious to know what lymphatic drainage is, what it does, and how to do it? Tune in. In this mini-episode, Dreena Burton joins Lauren Bernick to explain the connection between fascia health, lymphatic flow, and overall wel...
Ep. 101: How Intuition Can Heal You: Banya Lim on Depression, Gut Health & Body Wisdom
In this episode of Age Like a Badass Mother, Lauren sits down with spiritual acupuncturist and healer Banya Lim to explore intuition, emotional healing, and the connection between the body, mind, and spirit. Coming from a long lineage ...
Ep. 100: Why a Plant Based Diet Is the Real Fountain of Youth: Healthy Aging Explained
Can food really help you age better? In this episode of Age Like a Badass Mother, Lauren Bernick breaks down why a whole-food, plant-based diet is often called the closest thing we have to a fountain of youth.Lauren shares how nutrition ...
Ep. 99: Revolutionizing Health: Dr. Michael Klaper on Nutrition's Power to Reverse Disease
What if the key to preventing and even reversing chronic disease is already on your plate?Dr. Michael Klaper shares why nutrition is still missing from medical education, how a plant-based diet can transform health, and what every doctor...
Ep 98: Angry, Stuck, or Agitated? Spring Reset With Dreena Burton
Fascia might be the most overlooked system in your body, and it affects everything.In this mini-episode, Dreena Burton joins Lauren Bernick to explain how fascia supports movement, connects every system, and why keeping it healthy is key...
Ep. 97: Aging Well at 93: Simple Habits That Actually Work (Lessons from the Mother Behind Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day)
What does it really take to age well?In this episode, I talk with Monica Nassif, founder of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day, but the real spotlight is on her 93-year-old mother, Thelma.Thelma still lives independently, gets outside every d...
Ep. 96: Softening Is the Upgrade: Let That Sh*t Go
In this episode, I’m talking about what it actually means to “let that sh*t go," not in a bypass-y, pretend-it’s-fine way, but in a deeply human, nervous-system-level shift that can change how you feel in your body, your relationships, and your...
Ep. 95: Reinventing Life at 50: Plant-Based Health, Confidence & Dating with Brandi Doming
Years ago, Brandi started The Vegan 8, as a way to help her husband manage gout. That turned into a career, a thriving community, and a whole new chapter of life.Lauren chats with Brandi Doming, creator of The Vegan 8, to d...
Ep. 94: Chuck Carroll’s Health Crisis After 275-Pound Weight Loss
Chuck Carroll didn't just struggle with his weight; he grew up expecting to die young. By the time he was a freshman in high school, he was already on blood pressure medication, and by his mid-twenties, he genuinely believed he wouldn't make it...
Ep. 93: What Perfectionism Is Costing You
In this episode, Lauren Bernick explores the hidden costs of perfectionism, especially the fear of judgment, and shares personal stories of failing forward in comedy, podcasting, and life. She encourages listeners to embrace imperfections, take...
Ep. 92: Too Much, Too Nice, Too Old, Too Single: The Impossible Tightrope Women Walk - Live from SXSW
Age Like A Badass MotherLIVE from SXSW 2026: Too Much, Too Nice, Too Old, Too Single — The Impossible Tightrope Women WalkRecorded live at SXSW 2026 in Austin, Texas, from Conscious Kitchen, this special e...