Low Tox Life

Dr. Shefali joins us this week: Clarity and Wisdom in 50 Minutes, looking at two aspects of psychology and personal development with the clinical psychologist and renowned best-selling author:  1️⃣ Conscious Leadership: Level up your life, starting with yourself!  • Unlock your authentic self • Vision boarding done right - you may be focused on the wrong things!  • Create your dream...

A food system show with a difference today and I can’t wait to hear from our global audience how these issues play out where you live, too!  What if eating a particular type of red meat - even just a couple of times per year - made a huge amount of environmental, economic and nutritional sense? Well, if you have an invasive species deer problem, like Australia does at the moment, then it make...

Trauma: Have you read books full of all the reasons why trauma is linked to disease but felt a crucial piece missing?  What to actually DO?  This week, Dr. Aimie Apigian, double board-certified physician, trauma specialist, and author of the upcoming book The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Holds Fear, Pain, and Overwhelm, and How to Heal It, is going to make you feel seen and SO much mo...

Herbs: Do you have the confidence to use them in certain situations? Do you only turn to herbal supplements when things are wrong?  This week with clinical herbalist and author, Rachelle Robinett, we are growing our herbal medicine vocab. Rachelle Robinett is a Clinical Herbalist, writer, educator, and thought-leader and is here to inspire you closer to herbaceous confidence. From the things...

Do you take any medicinal herbs? This week we have an hour of power with pioneer herbalist, entrepreneur and now regenerative farmer and research philanthropist, Ric Scalzo. Some of the parts to the show:  • Ric's journey from philosophy student to herbal medicine and naturopathy • Fascinating insights on herbs like hawthorn, wormwood and schisandra and the role of herbs in spike protein deto...

Mental Health - The more we know, the more overwhelmed and confused we are?  That’s not how it’s supposed to be. Enter Dr Katelyn Kalstein and this powerful conversation I had the privilege of hosting. Dr. Kalstein, a naturopathic doctor, acupuncturist, psychotherapist and ketamine-assisted therapist on the cutting edge of integrative treatments, practicing in Nashville in the USA. From her p...

🚨 TABOO ALERT: Vaginas 🚨 Giggles. Squirms. Shushes.  Why are we STILL so awkward about women's health and body parts? 🔍 Journalist Marina Gerner investigates: • Who's REALLY innovating in women's health? • Is the tide finally turning on shame and taboo? Prepare to fist pump... or facepalm 🤦‍♀️this show. ALSO, MYTH-BUSTING ALERT: "Femme tech" isn't about robots taking over.  It's abou...

Have you experienced eco anxiety? Worry about topsoil? About extinctions? About everything ‘going on’ in the world?  Welcome to an hour of Eco-Optimism with my guest, author and ecologist of 30 years, Simon Mustoe, where we unpack stories to restore your faith in what’s possible.  What if I told you that right now, beneath the surface of our daily lives, a monumentally positive shift in...

Clean air is something we think more about in the context of pollution from cars and factories, but in the low tox community we know it to also include pollution from synthetic fragrance, VOCs, excess carbon dioxide and of course, mould.  In the built environment mould can become excessive in the indoor environment due to either humidity, poor builds, waterproofing failures, water leaks, floo...

What would your dream grocery store look like?  Chances are, like many, you see a lot of injustice in the land of ‘food giants’ with corporate CEOs paid millions and large percentages of families skipping meals due to food insecurity:  Is it hopeless? Will it all just get worse?  It doesn’t have to. That’s why this podcast is here with you today.  My guest, Jon Steinman, author...

What if our lack of understanding about our inner mamma selves was what was holding us back from living more fulfilled lives. Loretta Breuning, PhD was frustrated as a professor and a mom, about how we were studying, teaching and applying learnings on motivation and happiness, and so she retired early from academia to study the mammalian brain and see if we might better optimise our natural wiring...

We think we’re so sure about what we know about science - did you know, though, that there are 48 catalogued forms of bias? There exists, and I was excited to learn this, a catalogue of bias that is constantly tweaked and updated. Which leads me to today’s show with Dr Lewis Ehrlich - one of our most popular guests over the years. When I saw Lewis had been accepted into a one-of-a-kind postgr...

Are you happy with how your gut feels?  What if some of the most common things we thought were ‘right’ about gut health are wrong, now that we have more research findings and peer reviews in the bank?  Chances are you want to improve your gut health, and so: Let’s do it! This show with @drbradleech is a must-listen. We cover:  The No 1 gut health no no: And it isn’t “food!” Testing...

Gabriela Rosa realised she was onto something, when her clinic started producing healthy baby after healthy baby in partnership with their patients, when they’d ‘tried everything’ before finding her. That journey has led her to where she is now - in the final throes of her doctorate in Public Health at Harvard University in the USA - also now the epicentre of uncertainty for international stu...

What’s your relationship with the meditative arts? Tried meditation but gave up because of being ‘too busy brained’? Think Tai Chi and Qi Gong is for the elderly only? Find it hard to keep a regular practice? Maybe it’s just overwhelming as to ‘what’ to exactly do and it’s a worry it’s ‘not working’? On this week’s show I invited Jeff Patterson who has been practicing, studying and teaching i...

A treat on the podcast this week as we lift this epic class with @healthykidshappykids renowned paediatrician and author, Dr Elisa Song, out of our Low Tox Kids course vault for you. With empowering knowledge and upgraded habits, we can keep medications for when they really do save the day - we’re lucky to have them, but the aim is to ensure a ‘genuine need’, not ‘quick repeat fix’ if there’s a br...

Fatigue?  Low Resilience when you know deep down you’ve usually ‘got this’?  Anxiety?  Thyroid problems? (especially conversion issues)  On this week’s show, I invite back to the show, one of Australasia’s leading nutritional Biochemists and 13 x best-selling authors, Dr Libby Weaver to discuss IRON and it is SUCH a helpful literacy-building conversation to help you:  Know...

Cult thinking. Groupthink. Black and white thinking. “Loud, vocal thinkers’ and how extreme sound bites dominate the modern media landscape thanks to algorithms, painting a ‘majority picture’ when most people are not living out those extremes in day-to-day lives. It’s quite a time to be alive, and also a time when it’s very easy to let the fear of something cloud our ability to judge the reality o...

Can one podcast hour cover how eating carbs before bed likely puts you in progesterone deficiency and explain the many reasons that play into a female “turning out to be them/do what they do” in life?  Yep. @drleahhectman and I start with ‘what happens from the moment you have the extra X chromosome and are defined as female, and go where the exploration took us: It’s quite a ride.  You...

Do you use a sauna? A specific type of favourite sauna or temperature or frequency? Never tried it but sauna curious? Dr Joy Hussain was a practising physician for many years before realising there was something very special about the sauna. She had Reynaud’s syndrome, which affects circulation, and noticed that using a sauna while living in Alaska improved her Reynaud’s. Moving to a warm climate...

Over the past 2 decades, Gardiner Harris has been covering and collecting data on Johnson&Johnson. Now, as an independent and award-winning investigative journalist, he releases the fruits of 2 decades of research, interviews, analysis and findings in No More Tears: The dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson exposed.  In this show we explore:  The collapse of a strong public health fr...

One day your child is their “healthy normal” self, and the next day they’re radically changed, displaying neuropsychiatric symptoms that can scare and bewilder the child, their families and carers/teachers. The heartbreaking thing is it can take months if not years, to find a doctor who can identify and start treating the cause of this sudden change. Enter Dr Nancy O’Hara. We look at PANS/PAN...

What does the UK’s best-known Dr, Rangan Chatterjee, want you to do? He want to help get you to a place in your health and intuition where you are the one who knows what’s best for you. If you sometimes feel more confused about health than ever before? This is the show for you! Jumping from protocol to Instagram follow to book to podcast, we’ve never had more information on ‘health’ than...

What Matthew England, a “Scientia” Professor at UNSW (a renowned globally as the top expert because of his research and contributions to the subject) didn’t know would happen when he chose his field of study, Oceanography in the 80s, would be that he and his colleagues would quickly become climate scientists. In this week’s show, we discuss: The ocean’s role as an absorber, filter and producer (th...

What is your understanding of “Intuition? Do you feel yours is fine tuned?  Well, it turns out what we ‘think’ is our intuition is often instead our: Instinct - which comes from fear and keeping us ‘safe’ Bias influenced by multiple layers of external conditioning  Suspicion - seeking the pleasure or assuredness of confirmed bias until we find it Thought - Rationalisation based on what w...