Low Tox Life

This week, I welcome one of the most respected voices in regenerative agriculture: Nicole Masters . She’s an agroecologist, educator, systems thinker, and author of For the Love of Soil - one of the best books I read while researching my second book FOOD.  With over 25 years of hands-on experience across North America, Australasia and globally, Nicole helps farmers, land stewards and business...

How much do you know about Homeopathy?  Are you in a ‘thats woo woo’ camp?  Are you sold and sworn by it?  Do you dabble somewhere between those where you’ve found it interesting and even useful at times, but when it comes to putting things in practice confidently and knowing what you can own, vs when you need a practitioner?  Well, by the end of this hour of power you will def...

You have to see it to be it, right?  Well for the better world we want and more prosperous, healthy communities we want to be, this week gives you exactly that sense of optimism that it’s possible to build.  “Serenbe” just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, was an idea that instead of ‘urban sprawl’ with endless streets of concrete, houses and lawns, towns could be built to preserve 70% agricu...

Heart Health and Repair - A naturopathic approach on this show.  It’s packed with practical support you can implement from today, as well as speak to your practitioner more confidently about. Kath McFarlane’s first career was on the chaotic trading floor of the stock market as an investment banker… until she felt she felt naturopathy was a better fit, with a focus on helping people uncover th...

Men, and those who love them, listen up!  The stats show us that men’s concern for their health tends to be a case of “I’m fine… I’m invincible… crisis…ok I guess something has to change”. But what if we could focus on the most important things to have a prevention strategy in place?  Gerald Quigley is back on the show, with a 40+ year career as both a pharmacist and master herbalist, to...

The power of seeds to future proof our food system. That’s what we’re looking at in this show.  If you’ve ever tasted an heirloom vegetable or fruit, you’ll know it.  Somehow more delicious, more intense in flavour, the power of the heirloom seed grown in healthy soil is something everyone deserves to connect with.   Ambre Whatley joins us - naturopath, herbalist and CEO of Ede...

Does everything hurt and you feel like you’re in a ‘down hill from here’ phase of life?  Nope. You need this week’s show if those thoughts have been creeping in! Enter Dr Jocelyn Wittstein, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. She has been in practice since 2010 and is fellowship trained in sports medicine. She’s a clinician researcher wit...

“Why don’t you just go mix up those horsefeathers in your backroom or whatever it is you do” Andrea said to the naturopath after he suggested she become a naturopath. She laughed it off quickly that day, but here we are today, speaking with her, now 40 years into being a naturopathic physician.  Dr Andrea Sullivan is a phoenix who’s risen from more than one pile of ashes to be the wise sage j...

Marianne Williamson has been a force for good for decades.  The author of 16 books, 4 of which are New York Times best sellers, running for President, twice, thousands of events and countless free lives and blogs almost daily for her global audience…  She has also been a grass roots activist, from facilitating nearly 20 million meal services for palliative care patients and their familie...

Have you heard of German New Medicine? I was intrigued by a theory and practice shrouded in scandal and criticism. Why? Because it wasn’t disproven, and because some of the results are truly astounding. So I set out to find a practitioner who had a lot of experience with it but who also hadn’t abandoned other tools in clinical practice, diagnosis, treating and healing.  Enter Dr Katherine Wil...

Why are we more susceptible to coming down with something like a cold or the flu at the turn of a season or change of humidity or temperature? And what really helps?  Gerald Quigley joins me on the podcast this week. He’s a 50+ year pharmacist, a 40+ year herbalist, Fellow of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia and Fellow of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society. Wit...

IRON: It’s a part 3 of sorts, as we’ve covered Iron twice on the show previously but given the questions that continue to come in: This is the show to round it all out thoroughly.  We unpack:  Iron - when it’s a friend, foe and how to get into a ‘healthier relationship with it’.  Why your body might think it needs to protect you from iron  Understanding inflammation to understa...

What if, though, we knew the tools and techniques we needed to focus on to keep joy and connection centre-stage in our relationships?  Dr Kathryn Ford has been working with couples to grow together for over 2 decades to do just that, and in this week’s show you will learn:  Why having a vision of yourselves as a couple is important How becoming a couple is something that you LEARN how to...

It’s a Farmer Insights show this week, designed to inspire eaters to upgrade their food sourcing practices and for farmers, whether organic or regenerative farming curious, to gain insights into how others are achieving success, saving money, transitioning, managing weeds and pests, and more. Lawson and Laura from Margaret River Organic Farm in Western Australia embarked on a mission to relocalise...

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...