Low Tox Life

This week Alexx has you guys all to herself. After her recent travels, she has been asked a load of questions over and over again about travelling low tox. So? It's just her this week and she's sharing her best low tox travel tips when it comes to food you can and can't take aboard, movement, preventing swelling, indispensable products to take with you and sustainable choices you can make to...

In this week's show, Alexx chats to Nick Ritar after promising to bring him back again to discuss bees. If you were never really interested in bees before, trust us when we say you will well and truly fall in love with them, as well as understanding what you can do to protect them. Nick's positive attitude and gentle way of helping people If you were never really interested in bees before, trust u...

There's a lot of stress around exercise and there need not be. Alexx has brought Alex Fergus PT & Health coach to top executives back on the show (remember their sleep chat last year?)  Alex's down to earth nature and relaxed attitude will have you understanding the importance of exercise, sure, but how little one needs to to to get big returns as well as tips to incorporate movement thro...

Dr Gina Martins and Dr Evan Sgamotta are wonderful holistic practitioners that Alexx has invited on the show to discuss not only the field of Chiropractic and to give you a better understanding of its breadth, but also one of its star components - Neuro Emotional Technique. NET is a mind-body technique that uses a methodology of finding and removing neurological imbalances related to the physiolog...

What do the mouth and sleep have to do with each other? Well, it turns out one heck of a lot. Dr Ron Ehrlich, a holistic dentist talks us through the many ways that our oral health can affect our sleep. As Ron says, to treat just the mouth is crazy, when it's attached to a whole body. Grab a paper and pen to make notes for this amazing show lifting the lid on sleep through the lens of the holistic...

In this show Alexx chats to Sustainable Salons Australia co-founder Paul Frasca about his incredible, community building business, recycling as much as 95% of the hair salon's waste and turning it into some seriously useful things. We talk about just how much wastage there is in the hair industry, what the various waste items can actually be recycled for, how he's set the business up and where to...

Sea vegetables to save the world. In this episode, Alexx chats to Dr Pia Weinberg. Winberg has a PhD in marine ecology from the University of Wollongong. She now heads a company, Venus Shell Systems, which is working to take the science of marine biological systems and apply it commercially by creating a new Australian aquaculture industry: the sustainable growing and farming of seaweed and algae....

In this show, Alexx chats to counsellor and TRE therapist Sharon Mullan. If you've not heard of TRE before, basically it's a series of exercises that enable a tremor to develop in your legs, then onto your upper body and arms. It is proving to be an incredible way for the body to release trauma and tension and in the chat they discuss how it came about, the science behind it as well as the science...

Permaculture is a term that people feel they understand but when we dive right in there, it means so very much more than having a compost and growing veggies with sustainability in mind. Nick shares with Alexx how he came to found Milkwood permaculture and shares the breadth of what permaculture design actually covers. There are so many little nuggets of wisdom to take away from this chat to help...

In this show, Alexx invites Brodie Welch, Chinese Medicine practitioner and self-care strategist to return on the show and discuss the Horary cycle and the many things we can do to support a healthy cycle with yin and yang energy, optimising digestive fire, liver health, sugar balance and even tackling travel and shift work situations. It's a show packed with information to take you deeper in...

In this heartfelt personal chat, Alexx discovers Billabong Retreat founder Paul Von Bergen's deeply personal motivations for creating a retreat as well as the rather big learning curves he experienced along his way to a less ‘ego and stuff' driven life. Paul, now a meditation and yoga teacher, was once an ad exec attracting children towards smoking. Paul shares beautiful wisdom to help us al...

This week Alexx chats to Steph Lowe, sports nutritionist and avid proponent for a real, wholefoods approach. What they chat about however, goes beyond the basics and into food for various types of movement goals and habits, ad how best to support your movement with your food choices and vice versa. Covering carbohydrate levels for activity types as well as for fat loss and sugar balancing, it's a...

In this week's show Alexx chats to Brooke McAlary about how we can incorporate simple ideas and habits into our lives to live, well, more SIMPLY. They discuss her new book “Destination Simple”, practical tips on dealing with overwhelm, making more space in the day to go slow and find a sense of peace as a greater constant for preventative feel good factor as opposed to waiting until yo...

Alexx loves featuring the odd brand on the show, that is pioneering in some way in the low tox movement. Malcolm Rands started eco brand ecostore with his wife, shipping out of their garage some small batch products for home cleaning. Cut to today and it's a huge business that Malcolm Rands the creator sees as only the beginning to the big picture difference he wants to make, facilitating more soc...

In keeping with the last show of 2016 being on goal setting, the first show this year is on training our brains to not procrastinate, with some delightfully nerdy facts and hacks from neuroscientist Dr Fiona Kerr who explains all things brain is such insightful, totally understandable ways. She shows us how we can build up a resistance to procrastination and become immune to it over time, by gentl...

How to pick a good goal. For the last show of the year, Alexx invites Julia Bickerstaff the queen of effective goal creation and completion, onto the show to discuss why resolutions don't work, why goals that are for too short or long a time frame don't work and to pinpoint the things that actually DO work when it comes to achieving the things we really want to. The Low Tox Life isn't just about f...

Psychological health is a huge factor in our low tox life and this show, we talk to psychologist Alison Hill to look at how we end up drowning in overwhelm, burn out and things we actually aren't aligned with in both our personal and professional lives. We explore her awesome new book “Stand Out” and delve into super simple strategies to defining what's truly important to you in life,...

Professor Marc Cohen joins Alexx Stuart this week to discuss his incredible career and breath of study to date, as well as what he's found to contribute the most to wellness in his study, patient care, research papers and teachings so far. As well as being a GP, he holds Phd's in Chinese Medicine, Psychological medicine and physiology and works through from patient care, to research, to teaching,...

America's renowned integrative cardiologist is back on the show. Dr Stephen Sinatra and Alexx talk about Stephen's book: Health revelations from heaven and earth . Dr Sinatra's chance meeting with Tommy Rosa, someone who had a profound near-death experience and came back as a powerful healer. He was fascinated by Tommy's gift, and had had a few patients on his operating table who'd had near death...

This week, Alexx chats to naturopath Jules Galloway. Pyrroles disorder is something, it turns out, many of us have. Problem is, we don't know it and Jules and I connected earlier this year when we were both diagnosed. It has been such a blessing. Also known as kryptopyrroles or pyrrole disorder, pyroluria is an inherited condition where the body makes too much of a substance known as pyrroles, dur...

In Show #17 on anxiety Alexx chats to holistic practitioner Shalani McCray who also happens to be an interfaith minister. She brings such soothing and practical wisdom around anxiety - its causes, what you can do to lessen it when experiencing it and what protocols to perhaps follow or areas to explore should you need help. In this chat she suggests we take superfoods off their universal pedestal,...

In this show, Alexx chats to nutritionist Michele Chevelley-Hedge about hormones. We go through many of the major hormones - including stress, thyroid and sex hormones, look at what the symptoms of ‘out of whackness' are, as well as explore tips on how to keep our hormones in check. With the amount of hormone disruptions from food and environmental sources in modern times, there's never been...

In Show #15, Alexx has dug up a wonderful start up already amassing incredible impact by saving spent coffee grounds from major locations such as airport terminals, and the using them to grow mushrooms. Phillip White founded Fungimental with tagline “Gourmet Taste from coffee waste” and aims to break the cycle of wastefulness through sustainable processes that utilize every possible mo...

In Show #14 Alexx and Kelly both discuss strategies for not letting these typically busy months get the better of us - the buying, the eating, the drinking, the overwhelm...It doesn't have to be that way. If you want to explore setting some strategies to protect yourself from ‘silly season' overwhelm, then this show will help you make it the ‘smart season' instead. Be sure to check out...

In Show #13, Alexx chats to renowned integrative cardiologist Dr Stephen Sinatra. He's a nutritional therapist and psychotherapist and a big believer that patients are a doctor's greatest teachers. They talk about rigidity in the medical profession. Rigidity is the They talk about rigidity in the medical profession. Rigidity is the Achilles heel of the doctor - believing that whatever we learn in...