Low Tox Life

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...

Who doesn’t want a better quality of life for longer, right?  This week, we’re talking about oxidative stress and the role of Glutathione:  How we get pushed, slowly, slowly out of homeostasis in our first 3 decades of life How the disease/medication cycle is inadequate and we need to focus on homeostasis recalibration to heal, not just manage disease.  How a dietary focus on cystei...

On this week’s show… Something like “being tough on immigration” can so easily become political capital, and, of course no one wants unfettered streams of people, unchecked, moving through one’s country’s borders. But what happens, when a hard-line policy ignores nuance, ignores affected industries and is also hard on human rights while implementing policy? Enter this week’s show guest,...

We don’t naturally think when we have recurrent sinusitis or cognitive decline: “Well I guess I should book with the dentist!” Right? Well, today’s guest Dr. Michelle Jorgensen who is a dentist, naturopath, author and speaker,. says, you might want to make that dentist appointment! As she’s seen as both a dentist and a naturopath, oftentimes what’s happening in the body can originate from den...

Is it possible for a person who stubs their toe to feel more pain than someone who breaks their foot!? YES. Wow.  This week on the LOW TOX LIFE podcast, we take a deep dive into PAIN with our guest Ananda Mahony, who is a highly experienced practitioner who holds a Bachelor of Science in Naturopathy, a Graduate Diploma in nutrition and a Master of Medicine (majoring in Pain) and cov...

Anyone else feel like they need a light, personal ‘goal kicking’ type of podcast to feel better about our immediate spaces around us and how they impact our wellbeing?  Well, I do, and a lot of friends who are rattled about the world feel like they do too, and so I present this week’s show: Feng Shui for your work and home spaces and for your life! We go into:  The clutter-free home: Mor...

The Gut-Brain Paradox is Dr Steven Gundry’s latest book, now available for pre-order.  People know Dr Gundry as ‘the guy who told us plants were evil foods’ but have they read his books, I wonder?  The key to enjoying the wide variety of foods we must enjoy to have a healthy, diverse microbiome that promotes overall health, is to have a robust and diverse terrain - it’s a positive feedba...

How can 20 years of fraudulent science pass? It’s complicated. It’s not just vested interests but humans, desire, ego, hope and poor checks and balances.  “Doctored”, the new book by investigative science journalist Charles Piller, is an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of companie...

When I started low tox life, for years I’d get excited when, say, Campbell’s soup or Hershey’s would announce they were banning GMOs from their products… or when M&M’s announced they’d stop using petroleum based colours. “We’re winning” - but were we?  In recent years I’m way less excited when mega corporations change their recipes to be better - even though it is still a good thing - it’...

Food is a brilliant unifier across political divides, if we’re brave enough to let it be. We all eat. And in this community, regardless of ‘diet type’ we all want food to be:  Accessible Nutritious Good quality Good for the planet in the farming methods used  Fair for the farmers - especially small holder farmers!  Culturally appropriate and respectful I don’t know if anyone else is...

Erikas Schwarz, MD is the kind of doctor that once you’ve spoken with her, you want her to be yours - how ‘bout it, Erika? Gosh I loved meeting this woman, who fearlessly and thoughtfully guides her patients, calls out the medical establishment as cult-like and how we need to look bigger picture and get better reads on research before taking action with patients given it’s people’s lives and menta...

Fashion - Despite what we’ve known for over a decade now, our fashion predicament is getting worse - petroleum-based colours and fabrics, faster and ‘cheaper’ fashion than ever before and awful conditions for most garment workers internationally - and? Landfill from throwing it all away is getting dire.  It’s kind of hard to feel a sense of hope but Jeff Garner, fashion designer and founder o...