Low Tox Life

Did you feel like kids connected with kids and adults with adults regarding food? Separate times, separate tables, dumbed-down ‘fun’ food?  This week we are talking food and little people - Toddlers to be specific given the wonderful Luka from Book to Food has a new book available for pre-order and soon for real “Toddler to Table”.  It is a stunner of a book but what I love most about th...

Being a teen is harder than ever before and it’s showing in the stats and research.  BUT, this is not about going down the fear road, nor is it all about crying “it’s social media” as an over simplified solution.  We also need to do a LOT more to diversify the ‘success’ picture during school years, help them matter, feel the love and find themselves as they journey through individuation...

If you’ve been confused about hormone testing - this week’s show is here to help.  @drleahhechtman PhD, takes us through hormone testing options for age, stage and situation, as well as things that impact the accuracy of a test.  We cover:  Saliva, Urine and Blood testing - when which one or all are helpful and for whom.  What reference ranges are based on - and most of us aren...

As promised: Part 2 is here, with microbiologist @kiranbiome and it is a deep dive into the mechanism for “leakiness” of our body’s barrier functions. He took my nightclub bouncer and ran with it and I think you’ll find more empowerment when it comes to understanding and working with issues related to:    Leaky Gut Leaky Skin Leaky Brain  …as we explore:  Why does it happen?&nb...

This week we talk MILK with @fat_pig_farm Matthew Evans - the dairy kind, the plant kind and the many aspects to consider when considering either.  Do you consume dairy products?  Do you have issues with lactose, casein or both?  Do you think plant milks are nutritious and planet-friendly?  Do you think plant milk has a lighter footprint?  Do you think Raw milk is safe? Da...

Are you frustrated with the medical system when it comes to chronic illness? Perhaps frustrated with the obvious hold industry has over public service institutions?  What if you had the power to cultivate a level of safety for your system that helped you feel more well and resilient in today’s world and less reliant on the system in the first place?  Today we explore both of these with D...

What a rite of passage should be: A powerful graduation into a new phase of life - something one grows into and is supported into during the transition.  What they often are instead because we lack proper rites of passage? A piss up for your 18th or 21st with gloating about who got the drunkest A sexual encounter you might not feel ready for but ‘all your friends have’ and you’re X age now, s...

Habit-making / Habit breaking got you down?  This week’s new show is for everyone who’s ever made or broken a habit - or felt like they’re a constant failure at doing so.  You are not the failure!  One curve ball moment, day or week where you don’t stick to your plan doesn’t mean “you have failed and it’s over”.  The cookie-cutter approach to habits is the failure I’m genuinely...

Pop Quiz: How do you feel about aging?  Do you feel bad about your age?  Wish you were younger?  Go to serious lengths to come across as younger?  Did you turn 32 AGAIN this year?  This week’s show, @carlhonore invites us to stop buying into the cult of youth, and explore what the world might look like when we do.  If you’d love nothing more than to change the way you...

Nervous system, somatics and what true regulation means. We go there again with a brilliant practitioner. It’s a biggy this week. It’s going to be a cause for reflection and compassion for many of us, I think!  I wanted to have @irenelyon on the show because I’ve become concerned myself about AI and the impact on education online - models hired to demo a few ‘easy exercises’ to regulate syste...

You know what’s in this week’s show on metabolic health? YOU ARE.  No one is left behind in Lara’s book “The Metabolic Reset” which just came out, nor is anyone left behind on this week’s show where we explore these and so much more: Sleep, circadian rhythms and individuality within that Struggling to achieve ‘satiety’ after meals and how food is the OPPOSITE of ‘one way for all’! How a deep...

Have you ever felt super passionate about making a change for people or planet in the low tox sphere, only for it to land like a lead brick with your kids, partner, family or friends? Maybe you’ve joined groups, watched documentaries, and read books, and you can’t understand why people aren’t excited? Maybe your family members think you’re overreacting, or an annoying parent/partner just wanting t...

What a treat this Part-1 of microbiome explanation is with @kiranbiome this week on the podcast. We explore:  Different types of bacteria and their various roles in the gut, including the importance of their balance and diversity to overall well-being and resilience.  The gut/immune connection The importance of working on growing your window of tolerance of food variety and the potential...

Immune support and health and tips and tricks to boost ourselves this time of year with changing seasons, is common and normal to be chatting about, and of course, often very helpful.  BUT.  I knew when I invited my dear friend and wise sage, Shalani McCray @livealivehq who is a naturopathic nutritionist, practitioner of many years, an EFT, MAPS and GAPS practitioner, an herbalist and an...

This podcast is a big exploration of several important topics of our times (Das hates the word ‘conversation’ and shares why in the show)  People feel jaded seeing injustices inflicted on people, from corporate to political to personal, without a sense of real accountability for actions taken and how that’s impacting everything from polarization to lack of success in environmental care and re...

How do you go putting your shoes and socks on while standing and not leaning against anything? How about 1-legged toothbrushing?  Amidst the discussions on the finer points of VO2Max, perfecting your form with the bench press and focusing on protein prioritisation, Mobility and Stability too, deserve pride of place in your physical fitness but they’re not extra and exhausting ‘new to-dos’ for...

Big tech poses a double issue regarding tech and kids and family concerns.  No1. For Parents trying to learn practical skills about parenting and caring in the age of so much technology and now AI, we’re often very quickly scared to death: The algorithms favour sensationalist, fear-based marketing: the worst of the worst facts get preference over moderate, nuanced skill-building messaging and...

There could be a million different reasons this hour might improve your life. You will have to listen and find out, but all I will say is don’t delay.   That we have Gay and Katie Hendricks, their separate and collaborative bodies of work and their books to share so much wisdom, makes me feel good about the world and I’m overjoyed to bring them to you in the show this week.  We talk...

We have more specialists than ever before, yet we are sicker than ever before. That’s why I am thrilled to bring you this week’s show, because it’s a story of two practitioners. This is a treat if you are a parent and:  You’re struggling to pinpoint what your child’s breathing, behavioural, focus, congestion, crooked teeth or headache issues are stemming from when you’ve tried lots of things....

Quantum Biology is the study of teeny tiny, complicated subatomic particles and energy that blow your mind. Being a beneficiary of it can be as simple as standing watching the sunrise or sunset or walking barefoot in the ground.  So, if you’ve been daunted in the past, today that ends as we deep dive into this topic with Dr Catherine Clinton, naturopathic physician and Quantum Biology educato...

Allergies - Nearly 1 in 5 kids has an environmental allergy today, and nearly 1 in 10 has a food allergy. While these differ from person to person in severity, they are a challenge on the mental load, in the home and even more so out and about. My good friend and one of my favourite doctors in the world - she’s SO DANG SMART - Dr Elisa Song @healthykids_happykids and I deep dive into the reason so...

This show is all about emotions. As Cedric Bertelli, founder of the Emotional Health Institute, explains, our culture is obsessed with trying to control our emotions. It turns out however, it is this desire to control our emotions that inadvertently prevents many of us from developing emotional resilience. So, in this show, we unpack:  How our responses to situations are often formed from eve...

This conversation with @drcaseyskitchen is my perfect podcast cocktail:  Equal Parts: Rally cry - Systeming change needed in crisis/consumer culture.  Clarity on the foundational health problem - metabolic health and cellular energy.  Empowering solutions that we can focus on from today to move the needle in the right direction.  Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician...

What is Frugality felt good? What if it was about abundance and positive mental health and a great contribution to wasting less and doing more of what you love?  Well… that is what Jen and Jill from Frugal Friends Podcast have made it about and I love it so much I’ve recorded a show with them. We discuss:  Why the negative connotation of frugality and how to flip the script in your life?...

Lisa Mosconi PhD, renowned neuroscientist with over 200 published papers, says: Menopause is having a moment. She’s right, and she’s written the book to meet that moment. The Menopause Brain, a book being celebrated around the world. Gen X has arrived mid-life, with all the state-of-flux symptoms that come with peri-menopause and menopause and said: Enough! Why are we not talking about this? Why a...