Low Tox Life

Ever experienced pain?  Have a pain in your back that won't go away?  How about your elbow?  Having a range of chronic issues with muscles, joints, swelling that won't leave you alone?  Well, it turns out one of the least effective things you can do is chase that pain - the answer is often in a bigger picture look at your body, emotions, the way you're moving - the lack of move...

Reacting to everything? Itchy itchy scratchy scratchy? Maybe you can't sleep? Wired and unable to calm down? Everything sore and achy all the time? Brain feeling like you have to pass through thick mud to form a clear thought and action? This week continuing our health series, I interview a naturopathic doctor who I believe is going to transform the lives of thousands with her work on mast cell ac...

Got thyroid challenges? Turns out that a staggering 80% of people being treated for thyroid conditions, wished there were new treatment options to consider - only 7% are happy with their treatment. Yikes! This week I have Dr Alan Christianson back on the show talking dietary research, thyroid and most specifically, iodine balance, sharing what he learned through research and clinical trials in his...

This week continuing our health series, I interview Dr Rosalba Courtney, PhD, who did her PhD in the area of breathing: How to define through testing what is optimal, what is suboptimal, and how to get a patient to regain breathing flexibility - all will be explained in the show, trust me. We talk about breathing ‘cult followings' and how to know what works for you and what won't as well as...

How much do you know about the electrical system of the body? Do you know whether yours is working optimally, why it may not be, and what to do about it? In this year's first show, I invite Dr Melina Roberts back on the show after a great chat about gut health last year on show #201, to talk about the electrical system in the body, what the relevance of ph balance, minerals, electrolytes are as we...

Dr Carrie Jones is a Naturopathic Physician with a Master's in Public Health having over 12 years in the field of functional and integrative medicine. She is the medical director of Precision analytical, the creators of the Dutch Test - a hormone test with a difference. Carrie is back on the show, this time talking about mitochondria and celebrating - those bumps in the road that if our mitochondr...

This week on the show a dear friend joins me to discuss openly and honestly what it is to really struggle with yours and your child's health, how surrounding yourself with supportive people and practitioners is key and then we go on to have delicious chats about Christmas festivities, our menu plans, cooking from scratch to success and more. Jo Whitton is an author, businesswoman and founder of po...

Every once in a while a brand comes along that sets the standard for many to follow. One of those companies is indeed Weleda, founded by Rudolph Steiner 100 years ago next year, on the biodynamic principles he was defining at the time before being condemned by the Nazis - by Hitler himself - for his progressive ideas of oneness. From those first preparations, one of which is the still famous today...

Our second Eco-Building special release this week is with Australian business owners of Blue Eco Homes, Joe and Merylese Mercieca, from the Blue Mountains region. In this show we focus on Passivhaus building philosophy and implementation to help you understand not only what some of the drawbacks are to a regular house build, but what the many benefits are to getting it right for your health and th...

Building and renovating is something we get asked about a lot and anyone who's met me knows, I am NOT the best person to ask. I do however know how to find the best people to help us all navigate these bigger low tox goals and substantial investments to make the most of what is often one's life's savings and dream home vision. Enter one of two builders I've got on the show this week bringing you a...

I am thrilled to bring you the “brain retraining” work of Ashok Gupta this week, one of the wonderful resources I've found, investigating a long term issue of mine that I'd so dearly love to nip in the bud. Ashok suffered from ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, around 25 years ago when he was studying at Cambridge University. Through neurological research that he conducted, he managed to...

Sometimes I have a guest on the show that makes me feel like I've had an hour-long hug and a cup of tea and all is just going to be fine in this topsy turvy world. Jane Milburn is such a guest. Author of Slow Clothing: Finding Meaning in What we wear. Her forever strategy is to use what you have to do what you can to ensure a resilient future. In today's show I inched forward a few extra steps in...

I'm thrilled to continue an “Under the hood” fashion series, this week looking at jewelry after last week's denim show. Pyrrah jewelry are one of the few jewelry brands with full transparency and commitment to ethics in the supply chain and for their team who make the pieces so founder Danielle is.  In 1993, Wade and Danielle Papin met, fell in love and began handcrafting jewelry...

On this week's show and for the next 3 weeks we're talking fashion - denim, jewelry and becoming a confident textile repurposer and fixer! So this week, I have the wonderfully determined James Bartle on the show, sharing his purpose-led journey to creating Outland Denim. It's a brilliant example of business for social change and human rights justice and while this is a big feature in today's show,...

Wade Lightheart is someone who knows by sheer experience of failure, trial, test, measuring and eventual success, what the keys to optimal health are for humans. From his experience competing in the Mr Universe, to putting on a lot of body fat shortly after, to a tragic family story in his youth and much, much more, Wade arrived at the acronym A.W.E.S.O.M.E and turned his focus to supporting peopl...

Do you have a strange relationship with your dreams? Run to a dream dictionary to check the meaning of them? Not have them at all or struggle to remember them? Today I chat to Eric Tyrone-Brown all about dreams and how we can start to work more actively with them to have a richer dream-state life as well as using them to our advantage in our waking hours. It's a fascinating deep dive into dreams c...

Something like food waste isn't a very sexy front page story on the topic of global warming, but if you made food waste a country, according to Project Drawdown research, it would be the 3rd largest emitters behind China and the USA. True story. So food waste is huge, but then the modern person busy with a calendar full of to do's, sometimes finding it hard to get something on the table for dinner...

What do finances and low tox living have to do with each other? A lot as we explored the first time the brilliant Melissa Browne was on the show (show #90). Think about one of the biggest stress drivers in a person's life or relationship? Money. Think about what chronic stress does to a person? Bingo. So, with a new book out that strives to unlock some truths about ourselves so that we can move fo...

I've known this week's guest for years and been on his podcast, and when I heard Dr Brett Hill had been spending the past few years on the topic of emotional resilience after a life event that floored him - a marriage ending suddenly and not by his choosing - I wanted to bring this topic onto the show, given such events and their aftermath can be such a stressful time in our lives and also how Bre...

I am thrilled to welcome our first fiction author to the show this week, looking at the power of fiction in a time when reality can be very confronting. It can give us strength, raise our levels of compassion and curiosity for all sorts of issues and we explore all that and more looking at Charlotte McConaghy's new book The Last Migration. We talk about what Charlotte found while researching her b...

On this week's show, I interview global expert on colour, the colour psychologist Karen Haller and boy was it a fascinating deep dive into the significance of colour in our lives - Have you got a colour you have ‘never liked?' or are you a lover of brights or muted tones? Learn why pink and boy became our gender stereotype colours; why black isn't actually slimming; how an event in childhood...

If ever there was something we needed this year - for ourselves and to give to others, it's encouragement. Enter this week's guest who popped into my inbox just as I was looking for a guest to encourage us all regardless of the challenges in our lives! Michael Arterberry, Master Encourager, and Dynamic Motivational Speaker. As a teenager, Michael was fortunate to receive guidance from positive adu...

This week we're taking another look at Gut Health - this time with Canadian Naturopath doctor, Dr Melina Roberts. We look at gut wall integrity, enzymes, stomach acid, inflammatory foods, histamine, probiotics and more in this week's show. Melina is the author of Building a Healthy Child and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary. She is recognized as one of the top Biological...

This week, we celebrate 200 shows! I take you through some of the highlights of the past 100 shows on food, body, home, mind and what I think the best thing for us to be focused on during these rocky times to quell fear and uncertainty and feel empowered. I also answer 10 community questions I received last week when I did a call-out on everything from washing soda, to hand sanitizer, my top 3 swa...

So many of you loved Dale Bredesen's first interview last year, show #143 for you to go back and listen to the Alzheimer's 101 interview so that you're up to speed for today's show. I just had to invite him back given he has produced a wonderful program to nurture and protect our brains as well as to support the reversal of cognitive decline. Amazing times to be living in, right? Dale E. Bredesen,...