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 of "A Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants," and I discuss the history and evolution of t...
Jul 05, 2025•58 min•Ep. 440
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 - what she found has seen her produce 10 books, translated into 16 languages and today we explore: ...
Jun 28, 2025•49 min•Ep. 439
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 postgraduate program in Evidence-Based Medicine and Healthcare at Oxford University last year, I was already ex...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 438
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 relevance and research improvements Supplementation - benefits and pitfalls How treatment approaches shift as research...
Jun 15, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 437
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 students as well as the research funding that many don’t realise benefits millions of people around the worl...
Jun 09, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 436
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 in the meditative arts for over 30 years and I can confirm, even just speaking with Jeff, by the end of ou...
Jun 01, 2025•50 min•Ep. 435
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 broader piece to work on for a better long game. I never knew with all my migraines in my late teens/e...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 434
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 what to ask for when testing Know what to do/explore when supplementing Know what to watch for as a parent with your kids and as ...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 433
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 of a situation fully. Is “Apatheism” a new way forward? I’ve always been fascinated by people we turn...
May 11, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 432
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 were never meant to be like ‘every other female’. What a relief. This week we unpack this science - there’s so m...
May 04, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 431
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 next, she assumed that this would be the solution to Reynaud’s but a funny thing happened: It intens...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 430
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 framework The infiltration of industry into public service The specific ways in which Johnson&Johnson has caus...
Apr 20, 2025•1 hr 37 min•Ep. 429
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/PANDAS and the genetic, environmental and incidence-based reasons something sudden like this can happen to a...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 428
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 in the past decade. And we’re sicker? Make it make sense. Part of it of course is a Western world erosion of ...
Apr 09, 2025•56 min•Ep. 427
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 (think of our liver: Overloaded? Stops functioning effectively and all hell breaks loose!) “But it’s ju...
Apr 06, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 426
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 we rationally know rather than what we intuitively know. Lately in my own self awareness I’ve been exploring all ...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 425
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 cysteine is the most accessible antioxidant move we all have access to. How glutathione delivery is often not worth the many...
Mar 23, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 424
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, Brian Reisinger, author of Land Rich Cash Poor, from a multi-generation farm, a journalist, author and ex Whit...
Mar 16, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 423
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 dental work that’s been done in the mouth - common procedures millions of us have had. I was blown away by s...
Mar 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 422
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 cover: What pain IS. What brings it on and makes it as mild or severe an experience as it is for someone. How our nervo...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 421
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: More sustainable for the planet - more happiness for you! The power of a welcoming entrance and what NOT to do! Ori...
Feb 23, 2025•56 min•Ep. 420
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 feedback loop we must create, and when we don’t? A whole host of issues can occur that eventually lead to a whole host...
Feb 16, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 419
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 companies for the past nearly 20 years. I genuinely believe it’s one of the most important conversations I’ve host...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 418
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’s not a slightly better ingredient list on an ultra processed ‘gluten free’ cheesy puff that’s going to ma...
Feb 02, 2025•59 min•Ep. 417
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 sick of all the nit picking on socials about food and ‘which whole food does it better’ for our health and the planet...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 416
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 mental health at stake. Dr. Erika is a pioneer in the use of bio-identical hormones for preventing illnes...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 415
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 of Prophetik (with Taylor Swift and Kinds of Leon among his clients!) is determined to give us that today -...
Jan 12, 2025•46 min•Ep. 414
There is so much outrage online and in communities these days - what can we do about it? How can we bridge divides, tackle polarisation and even deal with different ideas on a good life in families (like simply changing cleaning products or ditching processed food and everyone in your family thinking you’re nuts, crunchy and woo woo!) Enter Dr Kurt Gray; a Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the...
Jan 05, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 413
Well here it is - the last show of 2024! Thank you for being with me these past 50 shows, as we’ve expanded into more Low Tox Mind and Life topics, both family and personal, with a view to supporting the whole picture of a healthy life, not just all the things that go wrong and how to fix them - which of course shall always be a part of it, but where our attention goes our energy flows and there is so much goodness and life to be lived - even when it can all feel like it’s falling apart at times...
Dec 15, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 412
What can a homeopath with 6000 hours of experience supporting people’s health teach us? A lot of fascinating things about the art and science of homeopathy, of course - as mysterious as it is clever, homeopathy can be and has been used for centuries, and is still used with pride of place in hospitals in India, and is a recognised form of medicine in several European countries and in the UK - a favourite of the British Royal Family’s! Eugenie Kruger accepts my barrage of questions on: When we can...
Dec 08, 2024•56 min•Ep. 411
