In this week's show after the 3 part series on GMOs, pesticides and organics, we are travelling to the moon - Well, almost. I thought it would be lovely to take a closer look at how the phases of the moon can impact us and Jordanna is the perfect beginner's guide for us. We look at productivity, action, retreat and reflection, setting intentions vs, sitting back and analysing and when is the best time in the moon's cycle to optimise various plans in our month and lives. Jordan also takes us thro...
Jul 23, 2017•45 min
Fran Murrell was just going about her science degree in the mid 90s, a new mum horrified by pesticide use and its implications concerning our health in the long term. She decided to do a thesis on how these new GM crops back then, were going to be these amazing developments that would allow farmers to use minimal to no pesticides. What she found in her research was quite the opposite and in today's episode, we share her deeply personal realisation as both a scientist / researcher and a parent as...
Jul 16, 2017•48 min
A solo show today to follow on from last week's sobering exposé by Profession Michael Antoniou on pesticides, namely those containing glyphosate with his ground breaking lab study on low level exposure and the damaging effects. Rather than freak out today's show helps you do the opposite. Freaking out is SO not the vibe of living low tox, where KEY is positive, delicious change rather than being paralysed fear, doom and gloom! So, stop feeling guilty about what you've done up until now, start fe...
Jul 09, 2017•41 min
We hear about genetically modified foods now and then in the media but do we REALLY hear unbiased information, whether it be farmers that use them or manufacturers that tout their ability to ‘feed the world' or whether it be on blogs and natural health click bait sites warning that they are the root of all evil, bringing the world closer to impending doom? Alexx met Professor Antoniou at his King's College London lab at Guy's hospital (yes that's the kind of visit Alexx likes to make on holidays...
Jul 02, 2017•1 hr 20 min
There's a lot of buzz around intermittent fasting and the 5:2 diets over the past couple of year BUT: Are they for everyone? What do we need to consider before embarking upon either? How do they differ? And are there therapeutic benefits or dangers in either of them? These are the questions and more that Alexx asks Naomi to shed light on today so that if you were to consider giving them a go, you've taken your own health factors into account and you know what the signs of either success or them ...
Jun 25, 2017•43 min
Alexx launched this podcast nearly a year ago, with a passion for bringing you all aspects of the low tox life - toxin reduction information, inspirational eco businesses doing right by people and planet, health topics for the body and mind to help us live our best lives… The very first show was the infamous “Poopcast” all about poop, and if you thought there was only one show in the topic, you'd be wrong ;-) This week we talk all about constipation with Lynda who is highly specialised in the th...
Jun 18, 2017•46 min
This week Alexx your host, chats to the wonderful Meik Wiking - A man with an idea to research happiness who then founded the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark - the happiest country on earth. In this show they discuss 2 things. Firstly, The Happiness Paradox - what makes Denmark a recurring winner of the title “Happiest country in the world” and why the happiest countries in the world don't have the lowest suicide rates. Secondly, they go on to chat about Hygge and his New Yor...
Jun 11, 2017•51 min
Alexx absolutely adores meeting a fellow nerd - someone who passionately digs and digs into all the wonderful areas we can go on various aspects of health and wellbeing. Like Alexx, Kirsty Wirth came to start her journey of digging due to health challenges - her gut woes and her son's autism diagnosis. What that diagnosis did was propel her to become an expert on all things related to gut health, including an encyclopaedic knowledge of the role of individual probiotic strains. In today's chat Al...
Jun 04, 2017•1 hr
In this week's show, Alexx chats to Cole Clayton, who after career searching for much of his 20s, he tuned into his sadness for the state of health of so many kids today and became a health coach, specialising in kids. His passion for helping kids thrive matches Alexx's own but his approach is different and she found it wonderful to chat to him about his passion for Oral Myology and helping mouth-breathing kids correct the reasons they're mouth breathing (not having mouth closed as default posit...
May 28, 2017•43 min
What do you do when you drive yourself to the ground - or in this case, to the hospital bed - amidst a successful acting career, working, partying non-stop and being super unkind to your body? You pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and teach all you've learnt about rebuilding a healthy life for yourself, to 1000s of women around the world through coaching, motivation, and mean girl mastering. Melissa exudes health, joy, and an unashamed appreciation for her own self-care, that inspires all who...
May 21, 2017•50 min
This week Alexx chats to a household Australian name - Indira Naidoo. From being the youngest anchor on the ABC to creating the “shonky awards” for CHOICE magazine, targeting false advertisers and crazy claims, to chance meeting that meant becoming a best selling author inspiring 1000s of people to grow food no matter how much or little space you have at home, Indira has plenty of interesting stories to share this week while she gives us a peek inside her life, her why and how we can all be a pa...
May 14, 2017•1 hr 23 min
This is a cracker of a jam-packed show where Alexx discusses the relevance of the MTHFR mutation with naturopath Carolyn Ledowsky along with a few other key genes, and why, for people who've hit a real road blog in bettering their health, gene testing can be not only useful but essential - especially in the matters of chronic illness and preconception care. If you know someone who hasn't had a baby yet or has struggled to fall pregnant - please, Alex implores you to share this show with them. Fo...
May 07, 2017•1 hr 1 min
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 save on single-use plastics. By the end of this show, you will be brimming with ideas to make your next t...
Apr 30, 2017•37 min
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 us when we say you will well and truly fall in love with them, as well as understanding what you can ...
Apr 23, 2017•50 min
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 throughout the day that doesn't need to be in the form of a ‘focused class'. If you want to learn about If you...
Apr 16, 2017•42 min
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 physiology of unresolved stress. NET is a tool that can help improve many behavioral and physical conditions ...
Apr 09, 2017•44 min
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 dental profession. Find the show notes here https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ See omnystudio.com/...
Apr 02, 2017•40 min
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 next. It's an inspiring chat with a guy who instead of leaving his industry to ‘do something more su...
Mar 26, 2017•34 min
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. They talk about the sustainability potential of responsible sea vegetable farming, the nutritional ...
Mar 19, 2017•52 min
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 that continues to emerge, who it can be of help to, and how it can become a tool for the rest of ou...
Mar 12, 2017•58 min
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 you think about your beautiful life in the context of how we design it and what we can learn to do t...
Mar 05, 2017•48 min
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 understanding Chinese medicine philosophy for a strong, z body and perfect if you've always wanted to kn...
Feb 26, 2017•57 min
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 all, as he calls it, sprinkle meditation throughout our day along with his favourite breathing exercise to g...
Feb 19, 2017•56 min
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 chat packed with nuggets to help you towards your best energy and results. Check out the show notes ...
Feb 12, 2017•56 min
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 you feel overwhelm and then needing SOS time out. It's a beautiful chat full of empowering information to inspire ...
Feb 05, 2017•45 min
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 socially and ecologically conscious businesses and developing healthy and happy connected communities. ...
Jan 29, 2017•54 min
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 gently training our brains to become doers. Learn some truly practical ways to stop putting things off an...
Jan 22, 2017•49 min
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 food, health and consumer choices, but about feeling good in the skin we're in - our whole life's ski...
Dec 18, 2016•51 min
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, to see how easy it is for you to fill your calendar with things to nourish you and we set a brilliant “line down...
Dec 11, 2016•59 min
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, association charing to policy making - Without a doubt on of our brightest minds in the quest for ma...
Dec 04, 2016•59 min
