Low Tox Life (Low Tox Life 2016)

What is an ex-criminal lawyer doing on the podcast you ask? Well, Dr Ali Walker wasn’t satisfied in that line of work and went on to study executive coaching and obtain a PhD in group dynamics. She wants all of us to have a framework and literacy around our own personality, energy, communication style and how we can contribute to group dynamics with our eyes wide open as well as understanding others better - at work, in our families in leadership. You’ll learn about high, mid and low-frequency types, as well as high, mid and low-intensity types and how we are all one of each in different combinations. You’ll even see Ali profile me live and absolutely nail my frequency and intensity combo type. Very cool. Knowing ourselves and being able to spot other people’s types helps us understand each other rather than have unnecessary misunderstandings and friction - Ali will help you take things way less personally about other people’s behaviour. Her new book “Click or Clash” is worth a read if you found today’s show interesting and want to go deeper. Profound work making relationships and group dynamics profoundly simpler! Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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In today's show - Show # 2 - Alexx chats to Lisa Bronner, of Dr Bronner liquid soap fame. Her grandfather was Dr Bronner, reknowned soap maker, peace lover and believer that we all were one, and it's for that reason and many others that we need a little Dr Bronner in our lives today.

Lisa and Alexx talk about her grandfather's wonderful and at times sad story, how Dr Bronner is still family owned today and how they lead an incredibly committed, sustainable business - you will LOVE their pay equity commitment and their disruption of the palm oil industry.

They also talk about all the uses for this wonderful liquid soap as well as what to do when you're the "lone low toxer" in the house to help others understand why it's important.

It's an inspiring story - there's laughter, there's tears, there's inspiration!

Thanks for joining us for today's show, and be sure to check out the show notes over at http://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast and #lowtoxlife for your ideas for Dr Bronner's Magic soap.

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Perhaps the best doctors to usher us into the new integrative era of medicine and root cause approaches, are the conventional doctors for whom a health crisis occured and they realised the tools they had been given we’re enough. This is a pattern I’ve noticed in interviewing now hundreds of doctors over the years and Akil is one such person. In today’s show we discuss why the integrative approach is far superior to conventional when it comes to the chronic disease epidemics we’re seeing all ovewr the world and how the protocol he has researched and developed over the years in his practice combines the best of multiple disciplines to support people in losing weight, gaming energy and reversing disease. Dr. Akil Palanisamy is a Harvard-trained physician, integrative medicine expert and author of  The T.I.G.E.R. Protocol. Akil practices integrative medicine, blending his conventional medical expertise with holistic approaches including functional medicine and Ayurveda. 

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Ever been to a climate change talk or watched a documentary and felt heavy, powerless, despair? Well, this conversation is going to leave you feeling different - can do, ra ra and empowered. Sound better?  

Let me tell you a bit about Professor Will… 

Will Steffen has a long history in international global change research, serving from 1998 to 2004 as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), based in Stockholm, Sweden, and before that as Executive Officer of IGBP's Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems project. 

Will was the Inaugural Director of the ANU Climate Change Institute, from 2008-2012.  Prior to that, he was Director of the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. From 2004 to 2011 he served as science adviser to the Australian Government Department of Climate Change. He is currently a Climate Councillor with the Climate Institute, and from 2011 to 2013 was a Climate Commissioner on the Australian Government's Climate Commission; Chair of the Antarctic Science Advisory Committee, Co-Director of the Canberra Urban and Regional Futures (CURF) initiative and Member of the ACT Climate Change Council. 

Steffen's interests span a broad range within the fields of sustainability and Earth System science, with an emphasis on the science of climate change, approaches to climate change adaptation in land systems, incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and the history and future of the relationship between humans and the rest of nature. 

So: We have a wonderful scientist with a long list of accomplishments in his career that has spanned decades and the best part is that he so passionately and simply states the issues, shares and helps us understand the science, looks at the future projections and what you and I can do to keep on the good side of mother nature. I've wanted to do a show on climate change for a long while and finding Will has meant the perfect show embedded with the low tox values of empowered joyful change, rather than paralysis and overwhelm in the face of the world's biggest issue. I hope you enjoy the show as much as I enjoyed putting it together for you. As usual you can find show notes and our sponsor offers over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Here's to a happy planet, Alexx x 

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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 cross her path to ditch the guilt and have the darn massage. If you struggle with finding the space in your life to be kind to yourself and fill up your cup, you absolutely need this chat in your ears while you take a walk in your favourite spot and remind yourself that with your own health and vitality comes the ability to do all the things you want for others.

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It's a brilliant science nerd alert this week for you on the show as I bring you Jonathan R Latham, PhD who is co-founder and Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and the Editor of Independent Science News. Dr Latham is also the Director of the Poison Papers project which publicizes documents of the chemical industry and its regulators. Dr. Latham holds a Masters degree in Crop Genetics and a PhD in Virology. He was subsequently a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published scientific papers in disciplines as diverse as plant ecology, plant virology, genetics and genetic engineering. Dr Latham talks frequently at international events and scientific and regulatory conferences on the research conducted by the Project. He has written for Truthout, MIT Technology Review, the Guardian, Resilience, Salon.com, and many other magazines and websites. 

It's so important that if we're going to be ‘pro' a certain type of food that we need to truly understand what we're ‘against' so that when challenged we don't just heatedly say “it's toxic”. It's not enough and we need to meet curiosity with science so that people understand the informed position we're taking. Here's the frame work for the chat Jonathan and I had:   

QUESTIONS 

Re the food movement: the 'feed the world' debate / your views / solutions that don't involve gmos in their current usage / soil depletion / ecological disruption etc... And what you're most excited about right now with the grass roots ground swell happening all around.  

The poison papers - how they came about / what the objective is / As a contributor - what does your role entail? / The records date back to the 1920s, so in looking back do we see - as with so many things supposedly 'safe' then found harmful - timelines of examples (ddt / other chemicals)... Glyphosate / RoundUp got bumped back up to the top of conversation with the recent court ruling ordering Monsanto to pay $289USD to the groundskeeper of a school, finding that his cancer was caused by RoundUp usage: What can the poison papers reveal about RoundUp / Glyphosate? We can nut this section of the chat out more precisely before we hit record...  

Understanding genetics - What do we need to understand about the current GMO paradigm that isn't  working for our health / planet's health? How does what's going on now negatively impact our health (BT toxin / Glyphosate ) and the planet's (monocropping / high herbicide / pesticide use etc) Is there any circumstance / example / technology that you've seen either in the works or currently used, which GMOs might work in our food system? And then more on what you want us to understand... dangers / evidence that's come to light etc. 

And of course, the usual tangents and twists you've come to expect on the show.  

Hope you love the show and as usual you can access the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x 

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How deep is your understanding of the thyroid? Dr. Eric Balcavage is my guest this week and is a chiropractic physician who has been in private practice in Glen Mills, PA since 1996. He received his Bachelor's degree in 1990 from Kutztown University and his Doctorate degree in 1995 from Palmer College of Chiropractic. Dr. Balcavage is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Board Certified in Integrative Medicine, along with being a licensed Chiropractor in Pennsylvania. Dr. Balcavage is continuously advancing his knowledge with post graduate studies. In this week's show you'll have a clear and deep understanding and feel more empowered to connect with doctors and other practitioners who can support you. So often people experience a range of symptoms caused by thyroid imbalances but did you know that A LOT is happening in the cells before the gland gets affected. And here's the kicker: It's often the TSH that's tested (that's the test that tells us if the gland is damaged. This show with Dr Eric Balcavage is your guide to not just the thyroid gland but what's happening at the cellular level WAY before problems with the gland show up. We go through testing, what to test as well as thyroid markers to see what the big picture is, the cell danger response, thyroid health at a cellular level, identifying your key stressors and bringing your body back to balance. Hope you enjoy this one as much as I did. As usual the show notes and show supporter offers can be found at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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I've loved Pukka teas ever since I came across them. Their packaging, their combinations of herbs, and later learning about their pass for the growth of organic agriculture and helping farms create viable businesses as their suppliers - needless to say it all sang to me. I knew I wanted to take a look into how it all began and discuss the power of the humble herbal tea, with co-founder Sebastian Pole.

Recently I was also interested to learn of Unilever acquiring them and then seeing a few ‘hate threads' online, threatening abandonment, I thought: No. This is a chance for us to hear from the horse's mouth about what is taken into consideration in such an offer.

The main body of this brilliant chat with Sebastian, however, goes way beyond that recent event, and we look at how it all began, how the blends are created and what they want to achieve into the future. We even talk “What are your desert Island tea choices?” Big hearted business. Big goals. Change on a huge scale. Inspiring stuff.

I hope you enjoy the show and to check out our amazing show sponsor offers and the show notes and resources, head to www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast  

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Nutritionist Georgia's passion for superfoods is so infectious and it's not what you think when you hear that word. We talk Natto, Liver, Heart and Marrow - Why they are unbelievable powerhouses for our health and how to easily incorporate them into our weekly planning.

Getting a super clear understanding on the vital need for K2 and its role in transporting minerals to where they're needed is a brilliant look at how a few tiny changes to the weekly meal planning, can pay off big dividends in your preventative health strategy.

I hope you enjoy the show and to check out our always amazing show sponsor offers and the show notes and resources, head to www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast  

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Today, Alexx speaks with Dr Leila Masson, a paediatrician she's invited on the show to discuss deficiencies. And while Dr Masson is a paediatrician, the information she shares is as much for adults as it is for kids - there's plenty for everyone in this show.

So often we have symptoms that leave us feeling below par, and so often there are simple fixes - whether it's lifestyle change, supplementation or another little tweak to something going on.

Today's chat with Leila Mason walks through super common nutrients and their deficiencies - magnesium, zinc, selenium and omega 3s. There are so many symptoms connected to these deficiencies and so many things we can do to correct them - whether by the food we eat, the stress we expose ourselves to, or working with a practitioner to address a bigger need and supplementation required.

Enjoy today's show and as always you can head to the show notes www.lowtoxlife/podcast for more info and further resources, as well as our very first partner offer - 10% off with Ettitude organic lyocell bamboo bedding via our special link www.ettitude.com/lowtoxlife, and using the offer code: sleepbetter. We spend a 1/3 of our lives in bed, so make it good for you and for the planet, right?

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Alzheimer's disease: It's something you dread that your future might reveal, and sadly the statistics are showing it to be more and more likely. 10 million cases of dementia are diagnosed worldwide each year, around 70% of those being an Alzheimer's diagnosis. This is all compounded by the fact that there's been very little progress in the past decades when it comes to treatment, much less reversal, so it's costing families and public health departments much heartache and money with the frustration of no real solutions in conventional medicine at this point. So where does that leave us in the hope stakes? Enter Dr Dale Bredesen. Dr Dale Bredesen, the author of New York Times bestseller “The End of Alzheimer's”, is my guest this week and I am so, so thrilled to present this interview that contains bucket loads of hope. He is at the forefront of cognitive decline science, treatment and reversal and holds the noble pursuit of solving the irreversible nature of many cognitive decline diseases before his time's up. In his paradigm-shifting book, Dr. Bredesen offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimer's disease and cognitive decline. This conversation goes deep into the why and the how of cognitive decline the different root causes of Alzheimer's disease, what exactly is happening in the brain to cause decline and how best to navigate options and protocols. Dale also reveals that we have 20 years of signs that are treatable and reversible before the onset of Alzheimer's so this illustrates to me just how empowered we can be when it comes to our health in the face of much doom and gloom surrounding this difficult disease on not just the patient but everyone in the family. Enjoy the show and if you fancy that free meditation this week, do pop over to the show notes for the link lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Well, I still haven't quite come down from this conversation. So much to unpack from all the revelatory juice. I welcome with great enthusiasm, Dr John Demartini this week. He is considered one of the world's leading authorities on human behavior and personal development. He is the founder of the Demartini Institute, a private research and education organization with a curriculum of over 72 courses covering multiple aspects of human development. He travels 360 days a year to countries all over the globe where he shares his research and findings in all markets and sectors. He is the author of 40 books published in 29 different languages. He has produced over 60 CDs and DVDs covering subjects such as development in relationships, wealth, education and business. High achiever, much? And all from such humble beginnings with health adversity, homelessness and dropping out of school early. The only limits we have are those we place on ourselves and John not only proves it in his own life, but helps many around the world prove it to themselves.  

QUESTIONS I asked John along with some juicy tangents along the way… 

• So many people live their current life and future projections, based on the bad stuff that might have clouded them from their past. You have such an inspiring story that PROVES it's not our past that defines our 'lot in life' but the values and priorities we decide on for ourselves. Seems despite some massive adversities in your life at such a young age, that you just knew you weren't going to be bound by limitation - Can you explain how that might be? Why were you able to 'just know' when so many people can't see beyond hardship? 
• And then... what are some of the steps we could take to free ourselves from what we think might limit us and live freer / bigger lives? Is it doing deep work on our values first and foremost? 
• We can spend whole days, months and years doing all the little things that aren't so important if we stop and think about our values / priorities - how do we shift this and lead with the big stuff that matters on a deep personal level instead of 'what everyone is asking of us societally / culturally?  When is it 'rude / inconsiderate' to priorities our needs - is there a point at which this becomes selfish?  
• What are some of the traps we can fall into, sacrificing our true selves for the demands of others?  
• When it comes to the idea that people doing something meaningful with their lives tend to live longer - What about the person stuck in 2 jobs as a janitor / burger king cashier just to keep food on the table / kids clothed. One might argue that's not feeling very meaningful for them - Can the 'meaningful part' be our 'why' rather than the work itself... Caring for our kids is surely the most valuable endeavour of them all, right? So whatever it takes makes it meaningful?  
• Illness: We've shifted from an infectious disease mortality to a chronic disease mortality and while a lot of the contributing causes are from the environment / the toxins in food / not enough nutrient dense foods / sedentary lifestyle etc - you also place a strong link between psychology and illness. Are we also 'thinking' ourselves sicker? 

Hope you love the show and as usual you can access the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x 

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Nicole Bijlsma is a household name for the Low Tox Life community and in this week's show we deep dive into the concerns over 5G technology and how you can protect your family. We also take a look at common questions about reducing your exposure to EMFs in the home - especially when you have solar, metal furniture or a steel roof. If you haven't come across Nicole's work before, you're in for a treat. Nicole is a woman of passion, and her passion lies in environmental medicine. Nicole was a former naturopath and acupuncturist with 15 years of clinical experience who changed her career pathway to become a building biologist after noticing a strong correlation with many of her patients illnesses and health hazards in their home. Nicole is the author of the best seller Healthy Home, Healthy Family, was a columnist for Body+Soul (Herald Sun) and is frequently consulted by the media to comment on health hazards in the built environment. Nicole has thirty years experience lecturing at tertiary institutions in nutrition, Chinese Medicine and environmental medicine, and has published in peer-reviewed journals. Her extensive knowledge in environmental medicine has seen her speak at various conferences both in Australia and abroad (USA, Thailand and New Zealand). Nicole single handedly established the building biology industry in Australia, was the former President of the Australasian Society of Building Biologists and established the Australian College of Environmental Studies in 1999 to educate people about the health hazards in the built environment. The college is the only institution in Australia to provide nationally accredited training in Building Biology and Feng Shui. Nicole is currently completing her PhD investigating health hazards in the built environment. Enjoy today's show and head to the podcast show notes for resources and this week's show supporter offer. www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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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.

It's a super interesting chat with a very smart man, on a life long journey of doing good for people and planet.

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Today, Alexx chats to naturopath Liezel Barnard about the major skin disorders - psoriasis, eczema, hives and dermatitis.

They chat about their differences, causes, prevention (1 in 3 people get at least one of these!) and the support we can get both with our own lifestyle changes and what foods we eat, the sun we get and products we use, as well as what to do and when to see a doctor or naturopath when needed.

Strong skin often comes from within, so they discuss gut health AND how to have a super healthy immune system, which is inextricably linked to gut health. As always, you can check out today's show notes at www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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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 part of the progress we want to see towards a healthier planet.

Enjoy the show and connect with her work as well as making the most of our show sponsor offer over in the show notes https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ 

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Very rarely do you find a company so transparent, so vocal about social and environmental injustice and so good at growing a healthy business, as Dr Bronner's. A family run business from way back, it's one of my favourites for many reasons. I wanted to bring on their VP Gero Leson a phd in environmental science, who works to set up incredible partnerships with communities in developing countries to set up their supply chain. Rarely do you get to look under the hood of a procurement and production cycle like this. It will also highlight that nothing is black and white and yes - shock horror - there can be such a thing as sustainable, ethical palm oil. This is for the nerds who just love digging into how business can be a HUGE part of the change towards a better world. Gero doesn't hold back. SUCH a good chat. I hope you love it and think even more fondly of your humble castile soap the next time you pick it up. As usual, our show notes, new PATREON supporter page and sponsor offer are available over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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Do you have a strange relationship with your dreams? Run to a dream dictionary to check the meaning of them? Not have them at all or struggle to remember them? Today I chat to Eric Tyrone-Brown all about dreams and how we can start to work more actively with them to have a richer dream-state life as well as using them to our advantage in our waking hours. It's a fascinating deep dive into dreams culturally, and also what some of the biggest scientific and cultural moments have been that were born from dreams. Enjoy the show and be sure to head to the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast to connect to our show sponsor offers and more details on Eric's work, Alexx x

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One of my favourite things to do for the show is to research people who are thought leaders and boy have I found one in Steve Nygren, co creator of “Serenbe”. Imagine a land plan that could provide for 20% more housing while saving 70% of the land for agriculture and recreation. Sounds impossible, right? In 2004, the Nygrens began development of Serenbe the community to demonstrate that it was absolutely possible and I talk to Steve about how it came to be that he could imagine this place and then bring it to life. The result is reminiscent of century-old communities connected to current technology. Steve has chaired many local and state boards and currently serves on three national boards dealing with environmental issues.

Enjoy this show and inspiring story that will have us challenging the need to build concrete jungles to house everyone, and reimagine our urban futures. I'll fight you for the plane ticket to go visit and maybe move there! You can find the details and general show notes with this month's sponsor offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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In this week's show, we have the wonderful Dr Gabrielle Lyon talking muscles. What happens when you cross a woman with a head cold (me that day!) and a Dr who's about to give birth to her first baby? Well, of course, you get a very interesting show about muscles and the key role they play in the research when it comes to longevity and not just age as a number, but thriving into old age. Dr. Lyon attended the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and is board-certified in Family Practice. She also completed her research fellowship in Nutritional Science and Geriatrics at Washington University in St. Louis. The mix of study she's done - a whopping 17 years worth - puts her in a unique position to be able to wade through all the research and cut to the chase on what brings results for people, especially those who seek to reach peak physical state. She has brought unparalleled results to her patients with personalized advanced nutritional interventions, metabolic and genetic testing, and behavioural action plans that leave no stone unturned. When you work with Dr. Lyon, you will enter into a partnership that will bring you long-term success and life-changing breakthroughs in every aspect of your life. You can feel this in the no-nonsense way she responds to questions. If you've struggled to build muscle and have suffered long and chronic states and want out, muscle - and Dr Gabrielle Lyon - may just be your answer. I hope you enjoy the interview. Show notes and the sponsor offer can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast and click on that show's tile. 

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Building and renovating is something we get asked about a lot and anyone who's met me knows, I am NOT the best person to ask. I do however know how to find the best people to help us all navigate these bigger low tox goals and substantial investments to make the most of what is often one's life's savings and dream home vision. Enter one of two builders I've got on the show this week bringing you a northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere perspective: First up, Canada's Casey Grey, aka the Conscious Builder. Casey was born to build as demonstrated by a voracious lego habit as a child, a passion for construction and seeing how things fit together, leading to his first job in construction at 17 and his own construction business a few years later. One day asking “WHY?” he realised he wanted to fulfil a bigger purpose than simply building houses for people, but making the experience a conscious, low impact one from start to finish: The Conscious Builder was born and the rest is history. We talk passive house, building materials, renovation vs building pitfalls and more on today's show. 

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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 York Times best seller: The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living well.

It's a meaningful chat and one Alexx knows you'll be able to take on the challenge we set for all listeners this week with gusto.

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Helena Norberg-Hodge is this week's show guest, continuing our planet series on asking the biggest questions we can and finding the simplest, local solutions we can. So if you're interested in local-economy thinking and seeing how we can move forward, this is the show for you. Helena is a pioneer of the new economy movement and recipient of the Alternative Nobel prize, the Arthur Morgan Award and the Goi Peace Prize for contributing to “the revitalization of cultural and biological diversity, and the strengthening of local communities and economies worldwide.” She is author of the inspirational classic Ancient Futures, and Local is Our Future (2019). She is co-author of Bringing the Food Economy Home and From the Ground Up, and producer of the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness. Helena is the founder and director of Local Futures and The International Alliance for Localisation, and a founding member of the International Commission on the Future of Food and Agriculture, the International Forum on Globalization and the Global Ecovillage Network. I adored this conversation with Helena - what an opportunity to learn from someone in the field of true environmentalism for so long. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for details of her work and sponsor offers lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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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 morsel of waste.

Another central purpose of Fungimental is to reconnect people with the origins of the food they eat – showing everyone how easy it is to grow your own food! Yes - check out the show notes to see how you can buy a kit to pop spent coffee grounds from your local cafe into to get a kilo of gorgeous mushrooms in just a few weeks!

Enjoy the show and be prepared to be inspired by Phillip's simple idea already proceeding incredible results.

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At long last, the stars align and Dr Libby is joining me for a chat. If you've been under a rock, Dr Libby Weaver (PhD) is one of Australasia's leading nutritional biochemists, an author, a speaker and founder of the plant-based supplement range, Bio Blends. Armed with an abundance of knowledge, scientific research and a true desire to help people regain their energy and vitality, Dr Libby empowers and inspires people to take charge of their health and happiness through her books, live events and nutritional support range. Having sold over 350,000 books across New Zealand and Australia, she is an eleven-times bestselling author and published internationally including in UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Russia and Italy. 

What I love most about Libby is her passion transference capability - it's one thing to be extremely knowledgeable, it's a gift to be able to then share that knowledge passionately and inspire action in others. Here are the questions I ask Libby today - and of course we go off on the usual tangents!  

Cave Woman vs Modern Woman which laid the foundation for your Rushing Women's Syndrome book and general awareness.  How is this modern world affecting women at the biochemical level? How do we see our A to our B of de-stressing? (Often there are feelings of disempowerment / feeling trapped that prevent us from stepping into our power to make the necessary changes)   

Pulling back the covers on what's really driving your stress... Let's talk about the major potential factors here and how we go about looking into our lives for our personal stress drivers 

Something I've loved hearing you talk about also to challenge the idea that all busy-ness is 'bad' in the past, is "Is 'stress' stressing you out / could you view 'having a lot on' in your life, as NOT being stressful in the negative sense. Can you talk us through that for those who haven't heard you talk about this before? How do we go about reframing 'SO BUSY' to "A rich and fulfilling life" so that in the busy times of a life we're loving full of things we love doing / people we love seeing, we're not mounting a harmful stress response?  

Now onto your latest book - 11th best selling book to be exact! 

What called you to write The Beauty Guide?  

How are you seeing comparison culture play out for people? It's not just women either... men being constantly told how to have rock hard abs etc... Is it really that different having online in the mix now? (Will add anecdote about a friend recounting her "who's got the best legs" lunch time school yard comparisons in Year 9... My friends all having to lay our bras out to discuss them / who had the coolest one. Are the teens, and then later women, of today feeling it even more with the added 'never switch off' potential fort comparisons to be made?  

How do we go about loving our bodies - many women just wouldn't know how to unpack their body hatred / how it started / how to move towards a conversation of love with their bodies.  

If we've time: Botox and other obsessions with never feeing that we're enough in our natural states? Is botox dangerous? Any research coming out yet?  

What to put on your skin – hormone-disrupting substances 

A topic after my own heart as you know...  

How do we go about repairing the damage that possibly decades (and generations) of endocrine disruptive chemicals have caused us? Detoxifying fat soluble / water soluble chemicals / obesogens...  

We're often told by the holistic-health-skeptics "Oh it's nonsense that people need to actively seek out additional detox protocols / programs, we have a liver!" BUT... We have never had a liver burdened by the level of things it's burdened by these days: What are some of your favourite liver support and repair strategies as we reduce every day toxins and start to ease the load.  

I hope you enjoy the show, and as usual the show supporter details and all additional resources we discuss in the show can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x 

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How much do you know about the electrical system of the body? Do you know whether yours is working optimally, why it may not be, and what to do about it? In this year's first show, I invite Dr Melina Roberts back on the show after a great chat about gut health last year on show #201, to talk about the electrical system in the body, what the relevance of ph balance, minerals, electrolytes are as well as the top contributing factors to achieving optimal heart rate variability - a sign your autonomic nervous system is working well. It was a fascinating chat where we dove into exercise types, the No1 thing you want out of your water and much, much more. Enjoy the show and head over to the show notes for more details and to join the Low Tox Club.

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Trigger warning: Today's show is about addiction and my guest, Kylie Butler, coming through addiction herself as an alcoholic and moving through and beyond it to support others. Kylie is a career and recovery coach after many years in corporate prior to her facing her addiction. She takes us through what the addiction spectrum looks like, how what you thought was happy might not have been, paving the way for addiction to develop, how to navigate recovery and relapse to truly get the support you need to thrive beyond addiction. It's a powerful show for those who need this in their lives right now. I hope it's helpful and for more info you can head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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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 generate true calm (it happens to be Alexx's favourite too!) 

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Ever wanted to develop a deeper understanding of food and ourselves through the foods we eat? Today we explore intuitive eating with nutritionist and herbalist Esther Cohen and I promise you, you will feel less anxious and doubtful in your relationship to food if either of these is currently in your psyche. We talk: 

• Growing up with the wrong nutritional start
• Social pressures from media and culture in our teens and young adulthood
• Disordered eating - warning signs, ways to move through and beyond it
• Intuition and knowing when it's the ‘good kind' and not cravings from dysbiosis
• Eastern philosophy and food and what the west can learn from the 4 directions
• Energetics of food and how we can look at physical symptoms and the foods we're eating, make tweaks and help the body find balance. 
• How the gratitude we bring to food can ensure it's well-received, even when not ideal.
• Cultural foods and how the answer lies in traditional cultures to find our road back to health.
• Card carrying eating - how our diet orientation and labels stop us from eating for the planet and deep healing and health in the body and mind
• The key things that will bring us back into balance and regeneration, body and planet.

It is such a rich conversation about food and Esther imparts so much wisdom. I hope you love it. The show notes have the details on Esther's work, my new book and the sponsor offer for this month over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week we're taking another look at Gut Health - this time with Canadian Naturopath doctor, Dr Melina Roberts. We look at gut wall integrity, enzymes, stomach acid, inflammatory foods, histamine, probiotics and more in this week's show. Melina is the author of Building a Healthy Child and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Calgary. She is recognized as one of the top Biological Medicine practitioners in North America and is a lecturer for the Paracelsus Academy. She is a leading authority in the field of naturopathic medicine specializing in Biological Medicine effectively treating digestive issues, chronic disease and cancer. Dr. Roberts is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. She did a 2 year post-graduate study in Biological Medicine with Parcelsus Klinik in Switzerland.

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What does “From Scratch” cooking mean to you? In modern times it’s come to mean making food at home, instead of ordering take-out or packaged snacks. Today, we take “from scratch” to it’s true meaning which is hunting, gathering, fishing and then preparing the food, exploring how that looks around the world, through the work of film maker and story teller, David Moscow. David Moscow is the creator, executive producer, and host of From Scratch and co-author of a book by the same name. He made his feature film debut at age thirteen in Big, starring as the young Tom Hanks; years later, he starred with Christian Bale in Newsies. He has appeared in dozens of films, television shows, and theater productions over a thirty-five year career. Most recently, David founded the production company UnLTD Pictures. He has executive produced more than twenty feature films and he also develops mixed-income sustainably green apartment buildings - in his spare time! I hope you enjoy our exploration and his stories, from FROM SCRATCH: Adventures in Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet. Head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week we’re talking Yoga, Yoga Nidra, being open to something helpful instead of suspicious, medication and more, and my guest is Kelly Smith. Kelly is a globally celebrated yoga and meditation teacher, E-RYT 500 /YACEP, founder of Yoga For You, and host of “Mindful In Minutes” to which over 100,000 people tune in each week from around the world. Kelly believes that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to yoga and meditation and encourages her students to find their own personal practice, listen to their bodies, and find inner joy by accessing their most authentic selves and owning their power. Kelly specializes in the non-physical limbs of yoga and is best known for her master trainings in meditation, restorative yoga, and yoga Nidra and her international retreats.

If you’re someone who knows that a little ‘slow’ in your life is required but you just can’t quite make it happen, I’m hoping this week’s show helps you access and prioritise it. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Julia Edgely joined us on the show recently to dive into the world of homeopathy, its history, the theory, the significance of different strengths of remedies and the ways homeopathy can be a big player in your life. Today’s show is actually a Low Tox Club member masterclass, which we run each month for our members, that - because it was just so useful and powerful when it comes to viral and bacterial infections - I felt compelled for everyone who listens to the show to get access to it as well, as well as giving you a window into what our masterclasses are like. In today’s show, we dive into the details of viral and bacterial infections and what remedies you need in your kit to deal with the onset and treatment of the infection at hand - we even go into the significance of different presentations of SNOT and what it tells us/what remedy we might need. We also cover red flags for when doctor/emergency care is warranted. It’s so useful and I’ve already expanded my homeopathic kit accordingly - I know you will too. To join the Low Tox Club you can go to lowtoxlife.com and hit the explore tab and you’ll see “join the club” as your first option. For more details on today’s show you can head to the podcast page. Enjoy, Alexx. 

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This week continuing our parents and kids series, I interview Pip Lincolne, author of the book “Days Like These” which really is a hug in a book for parents, whether you have one child, two or several, whether you have a generally great time as a parent or find it often a very challenging experience, or float somewhere between the two. Parenting is an incredibly expansive experience that fills our days with many, many things to do just to keep our little people alive and growing and as they get older, to support them in starting to make their own decisions in a healthy way. We forget that we might need support and care during this time to help us thrive through the monumental task at hand and so this show, we explore what that help, support and connection looks like. I love the example of the shower, when thinking about the challenges of parenting at the newborn stage. I remember before I became a parent, secretly wondering how on earth my highly intelligent friends who'd had a baby couldn't get showered and changed in the morning and were still in pyjamas at 4pm! Of course all was revealed in time when my boy came along, darn it. I laughed at my pre-mum self as I dragged the bouncer into the bathroom at 3pm one day so that I could have a shower and keep my eye on him if he got upset. Sound familiar? I hope you enjoy and find comfort in today's show and you can head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Got gut troubles? Needing to be on a “different” diet to family or friends stressing you out? Experience anxiety and want to look at how food plays a role? This is a powerful show! The gut, stress and mental health - I invite Integrative nutritionist Elyse Comerford onto the show to discuss food and mental health but it's not just an ‘eat this for anxiety' show - we actually also discuss at length the impact that having to eat differently either due to allergy, health condition or healing protocol can have on our stress and hinder deep healing. Elyse is an Integrative Nutritionist & Certified GAPS(Gut & Psychology/Physiology Syndrome) Practitioner, Holistic Health Coach, Exercise Scientist & Founder of Well Belly Health. 

Passionate about the implementation of nourishing & healing dietary principles, reducing client stress & the GAPS protocol, Elyse & her team at Well Belly Health have helped hundreds of families around the world overcome a host of health issues by focusing on listening to the body & tuning into what it needs. I hope you enjoy the show and it gives you good things to think about on your own journey. You can check out the show notes for more resources and details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Today we talk about how to cultivate cellular wellness to both heal and prevent disease. My guest, Dr Bill Rawls was travelling along routinely as a 4th generation physician in his family, until he became unwell in a way that he didn’t seem to have any tools as a trained physician, to fix. When faced with Lyme disease, everything changed. In his quest to regain his health, Dr. Rawls knew he had to find his own path and new tools to restore wellness. For the past 15 years, he has extensively studied the science behind herbal therapies and new, sustainable approaches for protecting health in a proactive, preventative way, rather than waiting for something bad to happen.

Today, Dr. Rawls shares the revelations that helped him and thousands of others reclaim their lives. He is the best-selling author of Unlocking Lyme, and his most recent book, The Cellular Wellness Solution: Tap Into Your Full Health Potential with the Science-Backed Power of Herbs. 

I hope you love the show and pick up lots of goodness from Bill’s wisdom and wonderful way of explaining things and you can head to the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast for further details on his book and work as well as our sponsor offers.

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How's your relationship with your metabolism going? Are you the person who feels like none of the diets seem to work for you, while you look on at a friend who dropped 6 pounds in a week doing the exact same thing? This is going to be a transformative show, in that case. Dr Jade Teta is an inspiring student of life, an author, and a naturopathic doctor. He's a teacher through and through in the way he helps distil difficult concepts and situations into information you can confidently move forward with. While his speciality as a doctor is integrative endocrinology (the study and treatment of hormones and metabolism) he is passionate about exercise, strength, life coaching and philosophy. I hope you enjoy this interview where Jade helps us demystify metabolism, muscle, calories and hormones to help you feel your best and keep your SCHMEK in check (that'll make sense after the show!) Enjoy and head over to the show notes for the sponsor offer and further details on Jade's work at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week my show guest is farmer, Charlie Arnott who took his family farm reigns in 1997 in Boorowa, where they'd been farming for 50 years. After a series of epiphanies through education, steered them towards regenerative agriculture using biodynamic principles. In today's show we talk about Charlie's farming journey, his decision to move away from trying to get nature to do what HE wanted, and instead working to learn how best to collaborate with nature - something he believes is key to not only a prosperous farming business but also to a farmer's mental health and the land's health. It's an inspiring deep dive into biodynamics and regenerative agriculture, as well as looking at some of the biggest challenges of our time ethically with factory farming and live export, as well as climate change and drought. Enjoy the show, and of course don't forget to make the most of the show sponsor offer and additional resources to do with today's show over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Firstly, as with all shows we've done on food - I'm not here to tell you what to eat. I'll leave that to the doctors to guide you through, but what I am passionate about, is guiding big picture, grey area thinking in this polarised world trying to oversimplify things in black and white narratives which we all end up fighting each other over. No thanks. Not productive and I truly believe there's room for every type of eater to do better for their health and our planet and animals - whether you eat animals or not. To that end, this week we're talking about the impact of wild animals on the landscape - both the wild, native landscape and the farms where food is grown and ask: Could this be the most ethical, environmental meat solution yet? During the pandemic, Billy Staughton & Tara Medina (Discovered Wildfoods) launched their brand of wild-harvested Sambar venison. Coming from diverse backgrounds in events, music festivals, bars, management consulting and even stints as a jackeroo, a wild game near business seemed the logical next step. It posed many challenges but after years of getting the supply chain right, they've not only found a solution to help restore pristine native habitats being threatened by invasive wild game but deliver an ethically harvested, incredibly nutritious meat to Australians. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week I'm sharing a bit about what I did in my journey to finally realising my building was water damaged and moving home, as well as some of the decisions we made around leaving things behind, replacing them and NOT replacing anything that wasn't essential. I share how I cleaned the lego, the clothes and the furniture that we were taking and what sorts of products I used. At the end of the show I launch my first month long trial… The Low Tox life is always about gently building awareness around an aspect of life and stepping up where we can once we KNOW. This trial speaks to my desire to keep things spacious and light at home after all the decluttering as well as saving money to recover from the massive expenditure of couch and beds and moving and I'll be asking myself this: Is it useful, beautiful or necessary? Show notes where you can share your comments or make the most of the sponsor offer and added show resources are at www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast - Enjoy the show, Alexx. 

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Imagine just working through your emails and Gregoire from 1789 comes trotting past you with a smile - don't know about you but I would NOT get much work done if that were to happen to me. This week on the show I interview a psychic - the modern mystic Belinda Davidson. What a special conversation this is and I was quite taken aback by how pragmatic and non woo woo Belinda was. It's not every day that we get to spend time understanding how life must be when you've got a foot in our world, and another foot somewhere else. Belinda doesn't ascribe to any particular religious or spiritual tradition. She simply shares her insights and expertise to help you discover your soul, stay connected to it, and boldly live your unique and magnificent soul purpose. 

To thine own self be true, is her life motto. She is DEFINITELY not a newbie intuitive or spiritual coach who just popped up last week. Belinda was born psychic, and has been working as a professional intuitive for more than twenty years. And when she used to give readings, she had a two-year waitlist. 

Here are the questions I asked Belinda (and a few extra ones where we went on delicious tangents - you guys know how I love those, right?)  

• What's it like to be psychic?  

• What do you remember about your childhood in relation to everything you've come to do so far in your work? Little aha's that it turns out not everyone could see or do as you did...  
• Was being psychic as a child a gift or a curse?  
• Can you read people even if they're not physically with you? How do you find the strongest readings of people come / happen? Is there a pattern to the circumstance?  
• Can you consciously decide to not read someone and by consequence simply not 'see' anything when chatting? 
• You say you've one foot in this world and one foot in another... What other realms do you experience?   
• You've found a way to hone exactly what it is about your own gifts that can best serve others and you see your "life purpose as helping people change their energy to heal their lives". What does that look like in your day to day work?  
• In changing people's energy, do you work with chakras?  
• What are the principals of chakra balancing / healing that you most love?  
• If in certain parts of our lives aren't working properly it's because a chakra isn't working properly, how much can we rely on this? Is this for day to day tweaking? I'd imagine the nay sayer saying "oh yes, I'm going to chakra clear instead of get my ankle surgery. SURE" - There's a place for acute care AND chakra healing to work together / complement, surely?  
• You speak about your enlightened moment/meditation and our purpose being to recognise that we are light when darkness is all around us - that can be hard sometimes with a sensation of everything darkening around us all the time - more death, more threats of war, more hate speech and on and on... how do we best protect our lightness in today's world? 

Enjoy the show, share your comments and enter the sponsor offer of winning a year's worth of Organic, fair-trade coffee over on the show notes at lowtoxlife.com/podcast - Someone's going to win so it may as well be you right? 

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This week on the show we're kicking off a food connection series, talking to farmers rural and urban, co-op founders, intuitive nutritionists, beekeepers and homesteaders - that's the line up coming up. Where do we start? The importance of what's beneath our feet - THE SOIL, with author and farmer Matthew Evans, based in Tasmania, Australia. We talk about the history of soil, nutrition, why our soil became so backing in nutrients, the importance of the microorganisms and what we can all do to make a difference to the health of soil and thus health of the landscapes and all the food that comes from them. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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One day I was researching rice bran oil for our Low tox community. I didn't have to look far when I found Cyndi's research on it and over the years since, Cyndi and I have met and exchanged like minded chats on food industry motive, back door deals done to skew our understanding of what makes a healthy food mix, and I knew there was no one better to invite onto the show to share our listener's biggest food confusion issues today.

We talk about fats, sugars, wheat, meat and more in a serious debunking session to leave you clearer on what ‘eating healthy' really means. Cyndi is a nutritionist on a mission to help people live healthy minus stress and shame.

Life's too short for all that, so enjoy the show and bring your note pad - it's one of those! Show notes and sponsor offers can be found at https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ 

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So the second and last ‘mash up week' of the summer series is a topic I see so many women struggle with in our community and even though we can be the most chilled out person (like me!) stress can be body stress from chronic illness also (like me with CIRS) so it can have a double meaning and root stress, yet a similar physiological cascade down stream. I loved both of these conversations in their entirety so if you love today's mash up I'd encourage you to go back and listen to both the originals. These women champion women's health in a powerful way and today we talk cortisol / cortisone balance and relationship, Estrogen, the HPA Axis and adrenal fatigue, “Rushing women syndrome”, how stress manifests, how we can change our view of stress and how wee get to show up in the world. It's a cracker! I hope you enjoy it. Check out all the extra resources, our sponsor offer and show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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Are you ready to stop hiding from yourself and feel truly empowered in your own life? That is what Dr John Demartini invites us to do and I'm thrilled to have him back on the show where we talk about self love, saying no more often, changing our inner dialogue, the true power of gratitude, actually getting done what is actually important - sometimes we say something is but it's not! Lastly, we talk about parenting kids to raise them to live their highest value and thrive, too. It's a powerful interview and one I have needed to re-listen to, just to ensure the gold soaked in properly. If you've not come across his work before, Dr John Demartini is a human behaviour specialist, International best-selling author, educator, founder of the Demartini Institute and the author of 40 books that have been translated into 39 languages. He has presented along-side Sir Richard Branson, Stephen Covey, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Steve Wosniak and many others. He has been a welcomed guest on Larry King Live, CNN, CNBC, is a contributor to Oprah Magazine and hundreds of other magazines. For more information on John's work visit, http://demartini.ink/web. Enjoy the show and head over to the show notes for more details, for the sponsor offer details and to join the Low Tox Club lowtoxlife.com/podcast. 

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This week, a heads up that in this episode we talk about death and dying a lot so if this is raw for you right now, you might want to skip it and I'm sending you strength and hugs. Micah Truman and Brie Smith from Return Home discuss how they're making an impact on the planet and on the grieving process for the families they support as their loved ones pass away, by creating a system by which families can move through the grieving produce for weeks by their loved ones' side, and receive the gift of fertile soil at the end of that process. I found it fascinating and it just made so much sense to me as I learnt about how it works and what kind of experiences the families have in the process. I think in a culture that has taboos around death and dying and shame around grief, it's time for a new conversation and way forward I interview. Enjoy the show asnd I can't wait to hear what you think. Head to the show notes for more details and extra resources over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Every once in a while a brand comes along that sets the standard for many to follow. One of those companies is indeed Weleda, founded by Rudolph Steiner 100 years ago next year, on the biodynamic principles he was defining at the time before being condemned by the Nazis - by Hitler himself - for his progressive ideas of oneness. From those first preparations, one of which is the still famous today, cult product Skin Food, has grown one of the biggest ethical, sustainable companies in the world. I am thrilled to have Annette Piperidis, International Strategic Sourcing Coordinator at Weleda global with us on the show, to take us under the hood of the brand and show us how they maintain high standards despite their scale. Annette is responsible for ensuring that all raw materials meet the company's high standards such as the highest standard of them all, the UEBT. Enjoy the show and head over to the show notes for our show sponsor offer and more details on Weleda at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week I am thrilled to present you with an example of hope and progress in the regeneration space. With the right tools, funding and action we can rebuild the health of our planet and Professor Adriana Verges and her team are showing us the way with Operation Crayweed on the coast of Sydney, Australia - I’m so inspired to bring you this story because it shows a path of success and once we believe we can be successful in regeneration efforts, we see the evidence and positive effects, we then have more conviction and motivation and the ripple effects are in motion. Professor Vergés’s research focuses on the ecology and conservation of coastal marine habitats. In particular, her team investigates the ecological impacts of climate change in our oceans and develops hands-on restoration solutions to protect and conserve marine ecosystems including seagrass meadows, kelp forests and coral reefs. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details on how to support Operation Crayweed  over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week is all about taking action on food waste - which, if it was a country it would be the 3rd largest emitter behind China and the USA - It’s a BIG deal and instead we seem to keep focusing on what’s on the plate instead of what’s in the BIN! Hannah Churton literally lives to make people feel confident about bringing worm farming or composting solutions into your life and in this show we discuss best options for a range of home styles - including apartments without balconies - and we also discuss barriers to entry, hiccups when getting started and common trouble shoots and what to do. I hope you love it as much as I did. I took extra good care of my worms this week, remembering just how important a job they did, after speaking with Hannah. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Naomi Judge is a naturopath passionate about helping women find their best ‘normal' possible in her work once clearing the path from all the things that jeopordise optimal health. If you've ever wanted to truly understand detoxification, how to detoxify from different things, how and when detoxification is NOT a good idea and what to do about life events that require an uplevelling of detoxification, this show is for you. We also discuss detoxification pitfalls and when to know you're not on the right track. Enjoy the show and the wonderful sponsor offer available this month over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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Is there anything the humble mushroom cannot do? From repair damaged nerves, to fighting cancer proliferation, to improving focus or sleep… the resource is promising and building steadily. Add to that the incredible protein source they provide and their ability to grow from salvaged coffee grounds, and you have the makings for an excellent deep dive into the magic of mushrooms on today's show. I have the founder of Life Cykel Julian Mitchell on the show with me today and I know you'll love this conversation. Life Cykel is an evolutionary focused mycelium biotechnology company that engineers positive solutions to real world problems. Trust me, by the end of the chat, you'll know what that means. By harvesting the Circular Economy and using its valuable fuel in partnership with mushrooms, we are able to offer incredible products and services for our health and planetary harmony. Some of their best examples include the National Mushroom Network, Mushroom Honey and Beemunity, their product that supports the immunity of bees and boy do our beautiful bees need that, sadly! Julian and Ryan co-founded the company back in 2015. From there, it's quickly grown to become Australia's leading medicinal mushroom grower and still expanding rapidly, offering cutting-edge mushroom products and decentralised food security enablement packages (ie, hyper local food growing with their mushroom kits.) I hope you enjoy today's show as much as I did, and the show notes, low tox club details and sponsor offer can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x

Here's what I asked Julian?

• There are a few aspects to LifeCykel - circular economy coffee ground recouping for mushroom cultivation… education/school awareness…. bee activism and bee community healing through a mushroom extract… your mushroom extract range: Where the heck do we start, right?

• Let's start with the type of company you call yourself: mycelium biotechnology company - talk us through what you mean by that?

1. And how did you fund the growth… Lots of people get ideas but get scared they're not going to be able to grow / have enough cash to grow…
2. And you say something rather bold on your website: you believe mushrooms have the power to shape a new future ~ one in which we live in full harmony with our beautiful planet. Mushrooms hold the keys…. how are some of the ways mushrooms can play a role in regenerating the planet?
3. You cultivate mushrooms and grow them from spent coffee grounds but not just the type we're going to stir fry with a little butter and garlic… medicinal mushrooms so we'll get into talking about those in a bit, but first: How did you come to feel called to start a circular economy business centred around spent coffee grounds / mushrooms in the first place?
4. And how did you see this then becoming a fundraising and ag/waste education piece for schools?
5. As you learnt more and more about mushrooms - what drew you to cultivating medicinals?
6. Can you eat mushrooms / take medicinal mushrooms if you're suffering fungal related issues - candida/mold illness etc?
7. Let's talk medicinals… Reishi, Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Turkey Tail, Shitake… a bit about the magic of each one / what best used for. Any juicy studies you want to cite here would be great.
8. Why would we choose a powder and why an extract - difference?
9. And what does ‘double extract' refer to?
10. Can one overdo medicinal mushrooms?
11. Things are all going well with all of these exciting things you guys are doing - what's the BIG picture for you and what you want to achieve?
12. If you had to share a simple way people could have a big impact on their waste and start thinking more circular… what would it be?

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Do you have pets? Know someone who does? This is the episode for them! Animal Naturopath Ruth Hatten takes us into the world of holistic pet care for cats and dogs, from nutrition, to dental hygiene to parasites and vaccinations, we discuss the ins and outs of it all. So if you've ever been wondering if grains are ok for dogs or which kibble to get (newsflash: NONE!) or how often you should worm your cat… It's all in here for you to learn from. We couldn't cover it all so I'm going to do a live session Q&A with Ruth on more home remedies, washing and grooming, coat care and supplements with the Low Tox Club members, which you can join anytime through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/lowtoxlife for just $4USD a month. Enjoy the show and you can get Ruth's dog supplement mix recipe over on the shownotes at lowtoxlife.com/podcast as well as enjoy the show supporter offer for this month. Alexx x

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In a world where conversations exploring the grey area of big, complex situations is rare, I'm thrilled to bring you this conversation with Professor Maurie Cohen, Professor of Sustainability at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Most recently, Dr. Cohen has been looking at what the global slowdown has meant for the environment and sustainable living, and what it could mean if some of the radical changes in our everyday lifestyles and consumption habits persist long-term. His work and areas of discussion in this interview cover Environmental Social Science, Alternative Mobility Futures, Socio-Technical Transition Management, Sustainability Science, Environmental Policy and Sustainable Consumption. It's not an easy listen but you aren't a headline thinker, so let's dive in and I can't wait to see what you get out of it. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week continuing our brain health series, I interview Dr Maya Shetreat - neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer and author of the best selling book The Dirt Cure. This time back on the show, Maya is talking about plants of all kinds for treatments of all kinds - from medicinal plants for every day healing, to plants containing psychedelics and the power of healing treatment-resistant mental health conditions such as depression and PTSD. She even teaches people online how to safely interact with psychedelics (I am not making a recommendation to start treating yourself, simply sharing what we are starting to learn about the power of these interventions, as started on the show last year with psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr Dave Rabin and his work. It's exciting times when we can start to see ways to support people in an area where up to 90% of patients are unsatisfied with how their treatment is progressing. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Wade Lightheart is someone who knows by sheer experience of failure, trial, test, measuring and eventual success, what the keys to optimal health are for humans. From his experience competing in the Mr Universe, to putting on a lot of body fat shortly after, to a tragic family story in his youth and much, much more, Wade arrived at the acronym A.W.E.S.O.M.E and turned his focus to supporting people through education and his renowned supplement company, BioOptimizers. He uncovered much of the shady-ness of the supplement industry in both research and manufacturing (if you want to dig deeper, I interviewed Kate Johnston/Holm on this last year, too!) and then started on a journey to independently support as many people as possible with the issues plaguing us today: Poor digestive health and the flow on effect in all areas of our health. We talk about what the second world war had to do with the food industry history, how what we eat today is very different to what every other animal's diet is, to how to reestablish great digestive health and vitality with some key basic concepts and changes. I hope you enjoy learning from Wade. A wealth of knowledge. Lots of health nuggets. Enjoy and head over to the show notes for the sponsor offer and further details on Wade and BioOptimizers at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week, I interview Dr Stephen Cabral, founder of the EquiLife & the Integrative Health PractitionerInstitute, and Author of the International Best-Selling Book, The Rain Barrel Effect. As a naturopathic doctor, Stephen has helped many around the world and it all started for him when a myriad of health issues in his late teens weren't able to be healed conventionally. Steph has performed his studies around the world and brings an east meets west holistic healing approach to his patients, Today we talk about the most common issues that trouble us today, from metabolic disease to thyroid, digestive and immune and what some of the biggest drivers for whole-body health healing are. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Professor James Trevelyan is an engineer with many accolades for inventions and innovations over the past 4 decades. From sheep sheering robots to landmine clearance technology to many things in between and now? Disrupting the air conditioning industry with something that cools people without cooking the planet - which is what, unfortunately, conventional air conditioning does. It's exciting to have him on the show to discuss his innovation and share with the world how we can revolutionise our sleep in warm climates by cooling ourselves rather than every room in the house. I hope you enjoy the interview and if you want to cut straight to the Coolzy innovation, skip to 20mins in, but if you, like, me, enjoy hearing about how someone comes to be doing what they do today, I found it fascinating to discuss some of his key innovations over the years. Head to the shownotes for more information and the sponsor offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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Show #12 and Alexx chats to the founder of social enterprise “Who Gives a Crap” about how he came to realise social entrepreneurship was going to be his business model style, his desire to help out in the clean water space in developing countries and the many things he's learnt along the way.

This chat is awesome because so often we see these wonder brands online and everything looks perfect and fun and fabulous, but behind them are hard working, honest people with big dreams to change the world in some way and make a positive contribution.

Spending time with such people reminds us so powerfully, that where our dollars are spent is how our world evolves.

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This week we're talking Fashion with Alyssa Couture - It's been a while since we discussed fashion on the show and today with Alyssa, we talk about fashion for health - like did you know that polyester, never mind the horror of microplastics, has an acidic ph and feels unnatural on the skin as well as increasing the chance of rashes, body odour and pore clogging? So today's conversation is one that goes very deep into fashion for people and the planet and I loved it. Alyssa's upcoming fashion book HEALTHY FASHION: THE DEEPER TRUTHS establishes an alternative approach to apparel. Her work Healthy Fashion creates + broadcasts enlightening content on fashion deemed medicinal and I think it's a must read - it's way easier to avoid buying excess or synthetic clothes when we really understand the multiple why-nots, right? Visit www.hfcampaign.com for more info. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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When we think of farming we think of the country, the bush, grass plains, endless acres… unless you're an urban farmer who sees possibility on any patch of land the eye can see - enter Greg Peterson, founder and director of the Urban Farm in Phoenix Arizona who heard his teacher say “Food used to be free” at a workshop as a pre-teen and the rest was history. Greg inspires us to do what we can with what we have. He inspires food growing to come back to cities and towns, balconies, backyards and verges and today we're talking about how he got started and what we can all do to bring food growing closer to home and support urban farms. Enjoy the show and head to our show notes at lowtoxlife.com/podcast to connect with Greg's work and see the sponsor offers.

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Do you have a range of ongoing symptoms affecting multiple systems in the body and no idea what's going on, getting no answers? This week we dive back into a topic close to my heart and  a health challenge I still struggle with 5 years later: Mould/Mold and Chronic inflammatory response syndrome also referred to as Biotoxin illness. Dr Sandeep Gupta, an Australian doctor at the forefront of research and treatment in CIRS is back on the show talking through allergy vs CIRS and what the difference is, treatment advances, detox do's and don'ts, what the leading practitioners around the world are bringing to the table on this subject, choosing a home, further resources to connect to and more. It's a powerful interview for people living with chronic inflammatory response syndrome. Please, if you have a friend, colleague or family member who's been ill and frightened about it for a long time, today's show is worth a listen. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Every day people decide one day to explore what it might mean to ditch the nasty stuff and lower their toxic load across day to day life.

I started 12 years ago and it was hard to find all the information and much of what was to be swapped didn't perform well and felt like a poor cousin to my high performance ‘convenient' cleaners and personal care products. Over time, environmental consciousness has exploded and so many beautiful businesses are producing low tox everything from mattresses to moisturiser, coffee cups to sunscreen and it's getting what seems to be easier - until you realise that labelling loopholes allow for a lot of grey area and high tox ingredients, to be inside tubes and pots that say “Natural” and “organic” on the front.

I created GO Low Tox to be a global resource to learn the low tox vocabulary, get across the latest research and feel that you know exactly what to swap to and where to get it and in today's show, I wanted to invite a few past students to chat about how their journey has been in going low tox - the stress and confusion turned empowerment when like minded people get together and learn and grow together.

I hope you enjoy their stories.

Every day people are going to change the world and these are three short stories to prove it.

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She's BACK: Maggie Dent is here to give us parenting gold as we celebrate her new book “Parental as Anything”. We talk about winning and losing, boundaries, brides, reward, building friendships, learning and teaching covering from 4 to teens - it's a cracker of a show if you're a parent or carer giving you a tonne of tools and vocab to use with your child(ren) to support them in thriving as the individual humans that they are and within the context of living happily in society. Share it with parent and carer friends, this is not a show to be missed. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Steve Posselt is an inspiring change maker whose story I am so happy to bring to the show where we talk about water issues, climate change, activism, personal empowerment and what to do when people vehemently disagree with you on big issues such as this. When he talks about the risks of climate change he does it in the most powerful way I've heard. He's a 66-year-old civil and water engineer, adventurer, and grandfather. He's a Fellow of Engineers Australia and has been a climate activist for well over a decade, using extremely long kayak journeys to promote awareness and education. Currently chair of the Sustainable Engineering Society he is working with Engineers Australia to come to grips with the urgency for climate change action. Old Yella, his wheeled kayak, has served him faithfully for 12 years over 12,000km, with almost 2,000km of that dragging it overland. Using his engineering knowledge his goal has been to alert people to the real risks that climate change presents and to put them into perspective against infrastructure risk calculations that we all depend on. Steve is passionate about doing whatever he can to provide a suitable world for his grandchildren. He is the author of Cry Me a River. Tough Is Not Enough is his second book. I hope you enjoy the conversation and benefit from it, sharing it with family and friends. Don't forget of course, the show supporter offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Enjoy!

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Have you ever thought about where your jewellery came from? Maybe from one of the big name classics, maybe from the local hand made jeweller at the markets. Have you ever thought about whether THEY know where their materials come from? Unfortunately “shiny and sparkly” are words that don't come to mind when I chat to today's guest, Marc Choy, the only ethical, fairtrade gold jeweller in the USA and president of the Fair Jewellery Action Group. He wrote an expose called: Ethical Jewelry Expose: Lies, Damn Lies and Conflict Free Diamonds that we found when we were wanting to do a show on Jewellery and it is seriously confronting to learn that “Conflict free” doesn't, unfortunately, mean all that it conjures. Please don't feel riddled with guilt for what you didn't know yesterday, once you listen to today's show. Feel excited about what you're going to change from now and I've challenged us all to find ethical, fairtrade jewellers in our local area and share them as resources for the community in today's show notes. Enjoy the show and as always, all further resources are in today's show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

And here are the questions I asked Marc:

• Your journey into discovering that jewellery wasn't all that glitters and had a very dark side. Were you already conscious of food system injustice / environmental toxins or was this your gateway into conscious, aware choices.
• Share how you and your wife made the foray into ethical jewellery?
• From what I understand there are a few factors at play in jewellery - It's not just the fairtrade aspects of the workforce / small scale miners it's also mining methods and processing that can be very high tox... other factors?
• Let's start with diamonds (I too want to share a personal story about the effects of the film Blood Diamond) - What do we need to be aware of in terms of where we've come from in the history of diamond mining and trade?
• And gold - I've heard you talk about how it can be a toxic process - can you talk us through it?
• *Let's add in anything else about the process of procurement here before continuing. Can discuss before we hit record*
• So how did you go about becoming certified fairtrade - ONLY fairtrade certified gold jeweller in the USA might I add? What challenges did you run into as you went about establishing the supply chain?
• How can we be better at sourcing jewellery / good questions we can ask when we're in a jewellery shop so that we start to raise awareness and let jewellers everywhere know that we want to know we're not hurting people/planet with our jewellery choices?
• Are there any 'greenwash' labels/associations used in Jewellery that are similar to "All natural" and "Sustainable Palm" labels that often are quite far from what they sound like in fairness and toxicity?
• And if we have time I'd love to chat about your work with Native Americans and what we can all learn from their cultural, spiritual wisdom and bring into our modern lives?

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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 do to protect them. 

Nick's positive attitude and gentle way of helping people make shifts in understanding and appreciation of nature, makes us excited to protect our bees, rather than wrapped in all the doom and gloom of “the bees are dying”. Nick shares many ways we can protect these amazing little nature ninjas into the future, starting from our every day. Enjoy this

Enjoy this heartfelt window into what a bee lover sees and you never know - you may well become one yourself!

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This week as we go into our changemakers series, the first series of the year on the Low Tox Life podcast, I invite an inspiring activist and advocate, Brett Chamberlin, to join me on the show. Brett is the Director of Engagement at the Story of Stuff, known for their high-impact animations that illustrate some of the biggest challenges the world faces, as well as what we can do to be a part of the solution. In today's show we discuss being the change we wish to see, how to be an impactful part of a bigger movement, what the state of the plastic crisis is today and what we can all do about it at every level of society. It will leave you more hopeful and resources than you started and I'm forever inspired by the work Story of Stuff do to drive important pollution issues of all kinds forward. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more information and this week's wonderful low tox partner offer to help you make your low tox swaps over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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This week I interview Shanya Suppasiritad, a serial entrepreneur, recipient of the first TWOGOOD grant and founder of RNTR. Imagine if you could rent your favourite brands in capsule collections to wear for 2 weeks or 4 and then you returned them or the next person to enjoy and for them to find their way into a closed-loop recycling system at the end of their life, to become new clothes. This is what RNTR makes possible and I know you’ll enjoy learning more about fashion, textiles, and slowing fast fashion down while creating new jobs… it’s got a little of everything if you’re a fan of clothes but want to do better by the planet in the process. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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In today's show I share a few quick tips for not being overwhelmed by this super busy time of year, as well as sharing a little about what's in our comprehensive entertaining e book “Celebrate”, now available for just $9.

I then invite a wonderful, passionate biodynamic wine maker onto the show, Vanya Cullen of Cullen Wines, WA to discuss how she and many other grape growers are starting to see that rather than a hindrance and ‘pain' growing biodynamic, it's actually proven a commercial and ecological triumph to do so.

It's one of the best explanations of biodynamics I've heard and she's invited us all to visit the winery in the Margaret River - group excursion?

She shares her family's “why”, a deep insight into biodynamic farming, and also a look at varietals and food matching - what's not to love as we head into December, right?

For notes not the show and some wonderful sponsor offers, head to www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast for the latest show notes. Enjoy!  

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In this week's show we talk about a painful subject for the many that experience it: ACNE, where I invite Clear Skin expert with multiple qualifications and past acne sufferer herself, Asha Evertsz onto the show. Whether you're a teen, parent of a teen or experiencing bouts of or chronic adult acne, this show is for you or for someone you can think of that needs it. Thanks in advance for forwarding it onto anyone out there who needs it. We talk through every aspect of acne to leave you feeling like you know what to do next, from diet and lifestyle, to medications, to prevention and breakout SOS strategy (Loved the ginger tip!) I hope this week's show is useful for you and as always you can check out the show supporter offers over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x. 

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Melissa Browne is back on the show with a nugget-packed show on Financial Wellness. A lot of the time we’re focused on mental and physical health but a key factor in those things is not having financial stress. So, today, we talk about financially thriving and what that looks like. Mel is anti-prescription and all about helping you find what’s for you and we cover: 

1. Financial wellness – it’s just as important as physical wellness
2. Money Stories - figure out what you're telling yourself either consciously / subconsciously and change bad stories
3. Eliminating bad debt  - bad vs good and the 1st thing to paydown/ get rid of
4. Getting comfortable with the uncomfortable – can debt ever be good? Investing vs saving?
5. Budgets don’t work. How you can work smart with your money - however much you have including the importance of cleaning up your environment
6. How much is enough? Goals, figuring out the life you want to live & what you need to reach that
7. Building wealth - where are the most reliable places to start
8. Financial strength, resilience & fitness... What is a routine to promote ongoing financial health?

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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/ 

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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 well as a beautiful chat FULL of nuggets on just how simple it is to change the world from our homes and daily choices.

You are guaranteed to leave this week's show feeling a whole lot more positive about the future and I hope you enjoy the chat as much as I did.

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This week, we celebrate 200 shows! I take you through some of the highlights of the past 100 shows on food, body, home, mind and what I think the best thing for us to be focused on during these rocky times to quell fear and uncertainty and feel empowered. I also answer 10 community questions I received last week when I did a call-out on everything from washing soda, to hand sanitizer, my top 3 swaps, natural perfume picks, best dishwasher products! Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for all the additional resources. 

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This week continuing our people and planet series looking into the evidence for health benefits of an organic diet, with Liza Oates, PhD. Lisa did her doctoral research on the health benefits of organic diets after observing in clinic as a practitioner for decades, the wide-ranging benefits people felt when she transitioned them to organic food. We discuss organics, how the most important difference is ‘what's NOT' in the food, various associations' claims and media claims and how to engage in thorough research when we want to investigate claims, and we talk about nutrition confusion in today's world. It's a great, clarifying listen if you've been confused about this topic. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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I first came across Corrine Segura's work in a google search. It was 2016, I was in an inflammation cascade that seemed to bring me a new and bizarre symptom every day and I was searching for answers that doctors weren't able to give me at the time. I suspected our home was the major culprit with water leaks and issues over the years but it was only an inkling at that stage. Coming across work like Corrine's, someone who'd walked the path of sick building syndrome, chronic fatigue, multiple chemical sensitivity and all the rest, she had turned her mess into the study of building biology to be able to support others. She's been a certified building biologist specialised in North America and Canada for 6 years now after her studies and the level of research she does for clients and her Facebook/Blog community is commendable. I hope you enjoy the show and make the most of the sponsor offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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This week on the show I speak with author Kate Kendall, author of “Life in Flow” out now with Murdoch books. Kate shares myths about yoga and what it means to be a yogi (I learnt something new and it makes perfect sense!), how moving meditation can support us, what 90 seconds of feeling the feelings can do for us to bring us greater strength and joy and more. I‘ve known Kate since she was 12 and I was 17. We went to the same school and she was in my sister's year. Many years later it was so great to bump into her at an event and learn she taught yoga local to me. I'd always wanted to love yoga but hadn't found a way to understand why it was so special. I loved tennis and dance… fast, adrenalin fueled sports and yoga was a mystery, even though it looked appealing - all those calm, cool people looking strong and elegant and peaceful… So I went along to a class of Kate's at Flow Athletic and I was hooked. If you're in Sydney or visiting, treat yourself to a class with Kate and for today, we get to dive into the unlikely yogi journey she had to become one of the best-respected Yoga teachers in Australia and how everything she's learnt has been generously transposed now into her beautiful new book “Life In Flow”.

How did you get into yoga?

What's a yogi? Cause right now instagram says it's ultra-thin, completely stress-free, green smoothie worshipping award-winning photographers… Might make the average person feel like ‘they can't be a yogi', right?

What are some of the myths you hear about yoga?  

In the simplest of terms, how do you define yoga? (You'll be surprised about the answer!)

Was there a turning point that led you to find ‘flow'?

What made you want to write a book?

What are some of the yogic philosophies you explore in the book that we can all use in our every day?

How did you decide what the chapters of “Life in Flow” were going to be?

What are the ‘moving meditations' that you've incorporated into every chapter

Let's talk about what's on the other side of uncomfortable feelings/sensations?

What's the relationship between discipline and joy?

What are your all-time favourite poses?

Of all the inspiring authors you've soaked up, which you often share in class what you're reading at the moment, and what nuggets of wisdom are in the text… Do you have a favourite?

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What's so inspiring about a frying pan, I hear you ask? Today I interview engineer, regenerative farmer and entrepreneur Mark Henry, founder of Solid Teknics and we discuss what it means to run a truly ethical, sustainable business from the products you sell and how they're made, to the employees under your care and the values you uphold. Join us to discuss the future of the planet and what we need to be moving towards for more equity and happiness, as well as having a planet to live on at all. It's an inspiring chat to have with your walk - can't wait to hear how you enjoy looking behind one of the finest low tox brands out there! Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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I love highlighting stories of people who woke up one day and started playing a bigger game to make a difference to health or our planet. This week's guest could be any of us.

In June 2014, Sarah Rhodes, an Australian, attended an intensive training program on climate leadership, facilitated by Al Gore, former US Vice President and became part of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps. More inspired than ever and as part of her commitment to the program, Sarah set about engaging more people to take action against climate change.

In July a friend invited her to join a month long challenge called Plastic Free July – the quest to avoid all single-use plastics for a whole month. This was a huge eye-opener to how much of the main plastics we all use and especially where there is plastic that is less obvious.

In October of the same year, she moved to Siem Reap, Cambodia, where impacts of climate change are already felt – the time for action is now and now that she's heading up Plastic Free July for South East Asia, the future is bright and we talk about her journey and what the plastic situation is like in Asia, as well as what we can do to keep focused on progress instead of ‘how bad it all is'. Enjoy the show and show notes and further resources can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x

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Did you feel connected, supported and ready as you headed into adulthood? Did you know yourself? Well Jeff Lieberman didn’t and had a really tough time of teen life and early adulthood, despite from the outside looking like an all-star student and human with 4 university degrees, a successful large-scale art business and hosting a show on the History Channel. Jeff jokes that he learned quantum mechanics before learning about his emotions but is quick to point out the tragedy of this. He marvels at the fact that we can measure the external universe to 10-decimal accuracy, but most of us don’t learn about our insides: our emotions, what leads to flourishing, how to take great care of ourselves. Years of personal exploration transformed him, leading to a determination to not have the road to joy be difficult for others to find. He has spent the last 15 years training in meditation, personal development, and group dynamics for well being, facilitating high school students through a 3-week intensive and adults through an 18-month program. His new camp Sleepawake has had incredible results and in today’s show you’ll get a window into just how much we can do now, and for our young adults and teens, to steer a happier, healthier course as connected ,purposeful individuals and communities. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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Dr James Khong has been a GP for 5 decades and at age 81, has wonderful wisdom to share with us in this week’s show. The solution to the ‘Stress Pandemic,’ as James calls these times, is a combination of Eastern and Western medicine, as well as following his Pillars of Health and reducing stress. I know you’ll love his calm reasoned and overwhelm-free approach in this show. James outlines his philosophy of wellness in his new book Pandemic Stress, Reflections of Thriving in an Anxious world - a book her wrote as a way to leave a legacy from his career and life. In over fifty years as a surgical registrar, emergency medicine specialist, innovative GP and medical consultant to the Australian Ballet, film and television industry, James Khong has had a front row seat of the medical ‘industry,’ and the view makes him sick. Ironically, it was a near-death-experience twenty years ago, which led to James’ epiphany about changing the status quo medical model. He started to combine traditional Chinese/Western/Functional medicine, which look for causes to illness, rather than just addressing the symptoms. James also introduced meditation and breathing exercises for stress reduction.

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In this inaugural show, Alexx has invited naturopath and clinical nutritionist Helen Padarin, from Nourish-Ed, to talk all things poop. Why? Well, there is a lot that our poop says about us and it's one of the greatest windows into the state of our health.

It's fascinating what they cover in this conversation, from the good, the bad, the ugly, the squatty potties, the how to poop right, the when to get things checked out, the microbiome and your poop, the 18 inch long s bend pooptopia... Yes. You heard that right!

Join in and let's break the tapoo on poop by going deep into the bowels of this subject - Ha! (Couldn't help myself.)

Be sure to head to the show notes afterwards http://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast for some great resources and use the hashtag #lowtoxlife if you share today's podcast episode.

Thanks for joining us for today's show, our very first podcast show - looking forward to keeping the interviews useful and dynamic.

To help us start well and get iTunes to spread the word, a review would be so very much appreciated.

Here's to the low tox life! Alexx.

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I've popped a bonus show on today because we've found this wonderful online publication that's branching out into ethical city guides too, called Pebble. Georgina Wilson-Powell is the founder and it was wonderful to discuss how she came to realise that Pebble needed to happen, and what they're doing to be the change as a publication and share inspiring resources, ethical brands and more, to connect the low tox peeps out there in the world to the kind of investments they want to make for a better world - through something as simple as our wardrobe and more! We talk B Corps, Zero Waste, Permaculture, ethical city guides and more and I hope you take time to connect to Pebble if it's something up your alley. Show notes and sponsor offer for the month can be found over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast  

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This week I have the pleasure of talking to Dr Terry Wahls about her journey towards her diagnosing of progressive MS, how she initially treated it, when she realised things needed to change and how she then went onto become one of the leading researchers on how diet and lifestyle can impact neurological diseases and other diseases. We discuss the holes in pharmaceutical based approach, autoimmune diseases and how the research is working to understand them better, and the aspects of quietening (not curing!) one's illness that can't be eaten from a plate - it's SO much more than food! The chat is so full of nuggets of wisdom for life whether you're affected by a chronic illness, supporting someone who is affected or simply wanting to lead your best life. Catch the show notes and the sponsor offer over at www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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If anyone knows about “this is what I think I want to do” but then climbs that mountain and goes “Oh dear, I think I've been called to do THAT” and has a major career shift, it's me. It was wonderful to meet Elise finally, after having done Mindful In May myself in the past, and discuss her journey from originally becoming a trained Doctor, surgeon and psychiatrist, but feeling to pull to make her principal life's work about teaching mindfulness both in workplaces and creating online spaces and events to motivate a happier and more mindful life. She's the best selling author of The Happiness Plan and founder of the largest online Mindfulness event in the world - Mindful In May. We talk scientific research behind why mindfulness isn't a woo woo left field thing to discount as not being important, we discuss raising mindful kids, managing and quietening anxiety, and so much more! I hope you enjoy the show and all the details for Mindful in May including our pop up Low Tox Life Facebook group we're going to have for the month of May for all of us doing it, are in the show notes lowtoxlife.com/podcast  

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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 a more important time to feel confident identifying when something's not quite right and hormone balancing might be just the ticket!

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In this week's show we talk about the enormous power we have in the way we invest our money: Ethical investing for the world we want to see! (This episode is not sponsored nor am I personally endorsing this exact investment fund as the one you should transfer to! It's simply a discussion about ethical investing, highlighting the great work one company is doing as an example) From today, what I hope this show will do is have us all ask ourselves: What does ethical investment look like for you on the micro-level in terms of what's going in your shopping basket and where is your money invested right now when it comes to finance, superannuation, your 401K etc? And then finally to look and ask: is there a disconnect? Adam Verwey is the founder of Future Super and an experienced ethical fund manager and Kirsten Hunt is the COO, passionate about advancing women's rights and financial opportunity. Together we all discuss the power in where we put our money and it's a wonderful discussion that will leave you with great tools to start asking powerful questions of the institutions where you have your money right now as well as researching the best aligned options when it comes to your values. Enjoy the show and as always, you'll find all the resources and the show supporter offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast Alexx x

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My guest this week is Guy, who I met when we were both speaking at a conference interstate. Guy, who's been in fitness and health for many years, having founded 180 Nutrition, is not just about the high quality protein… 

Turns out he has explored some seriously challenging ideas when it comes to optimising the body and mind, including ayahuasca (which comes with warnings in the show notes), the WIM HOF method where you explore the power of thermogenesis (freezing cold) on the body and mind, and a retreat with Dr Joe Dispenza, famous for his work in helping us rewire our brains.

If way out retreats are your thing, you'll get an insight into what goes on and if they're not - it's so interesting to hear about people's experiences of such things, regardless. 

Enjoy the show, and for show notes with all your resources and sponsor offer details, head to https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ 

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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.  

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This week to round out our brain series, I interview Dr Mindy Pelz, a passionate evidence-based proponent for fasting and what it can do for the human body - while the benefits to the brain are something we discuss towards the end of the interview, the interview is packed with everything you might have ever had a question about when it came to fasting - why should we care? How does it work? How do different time periods work in different ways? How are men and women different when it comes to fasting and considering women, how are pre and post menopausal women different? What if it's not ‘working'? What if I'm hungry? What if it makes me feel worse? But what about breakfast - isn't it important? I can honestly say, this is one of the most efficient, chock full interviews on a subject I've done and I challenge anyone to not at least be curious about fasting by the end of this 75 min conversation. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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This week we are talking composting-for-all solutions, bioplastics soil health and recycling, and how one business is aiming to make things better with all of those things and a passion for accessibility.My guest, Jeremy Lang is the Founder of Pela. Pela is best known for their biodegradable phone cases and more recently, their countertop composter - Lomi. Pela makes everyday products without everyday waste to help educate and inspire a global community of people who are committed to making a positive impact on our planet. Pela is on a mission to eliminate 10 billion pounds of waste from the global waste stream and continues to research and develop the most innovative products to create a waste-free future. It’s always inspiring to have a conversation about how business can move us forward and always refreshing when a guest isn’t afraid to tackle the questions around design challenge, transparency and end-of-life landfill challenges, even when a product ‘does good’ while working. I hope you enjoy the show.
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In this week’s show we talk about the immune system again including what it needs to function, how to boost it and how to save the day when it’s under attack, with the experienced naturopath, Jules Galloway. We cover all the body’s systems that contribute to immune function, nutrients, gut health, herbal and supplement support and more in this comprehensive and supportive road-map style show. I hope it supports you and that you consider sharing it with your friends and family so we can all be our healthiest selves at a time where many infections are floating around, not to mention the main star infection that is making things particularly challenging right now. Missed our shows on immune system disarray with Dr Gary Caplan and on nutrition for immune support with Immunobiologist, Bill Giles? Worth heading back. We’ve got Long Covid coming up too! As always, show notes are available over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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There are some Food series that touch your life profoundly - one such show for me was a series of Food Safari where Maeve toured through France with Guillaume Brahimi. Being half French there was obvious cultural appeal but there was something in the way that show was put together - one of the great story telling, discovery focused food series around. The new series EARTH, succeeds last year's “FIRE” series, this time focusing on the magic of plant based foods and how so many cultures in the world have treasure trove of inspiration when it comes to including more plant foods in your diet. It was such a pleasure to discuss the current series, available on SBS with presenter Maeve - hearing her share people's stories and talk about flavours and certain vegetables - you just feel like heading to a produce market instantly to inspire yourself for tonight's meal. Enjoy the show and to check out our amazing show sponsor offers and the show notes and resources, head to www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast  

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So my last chat with Kirsty Wirth was a popular one indeed - show 42 on the many personalities of gut bacteria. We just had to do a follow up chat with so much more to talk about.

We've answered some of your listener questions on gut health, as well as going into parasites and a look behind the scenes at what her recent US trip to Cerebrum Health in Texas did for Noah, her autistic son.

It's a jam packed episode with tangents and twists and worth having the pen and paper out for notes with all the useful information Kirsty is always so generous to share.

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Got thyroid challenges? Turns out that a staggering 80% of people being treated for thyroid conditions, wished there were new treatment options to consider - only 7% are happy with their treatment. Yikes! This week I have Dr Alan Christianson back on the show talking dietary research, thyroid and most specifically, iodine balance, sharing what he learned through research and clinical trials in his new book, the Thyroid Reset. Alan is a naturopathic physician with over 25 years in the medical field, who shares the vulnerability of his own struggles with weight at a young age (read his full story in the show notes - what a tale!) and why that formed his passion for helping people optimise their health using all tools and research available. It's a great interview from which I know you will learn so much, as I did. Enjoy and head to the shownotes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast and click on today's show! 

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Are you or someone you know experiencing heavy, painful periods or suspecting/diagnosed with endometriosis? Today’s guest, Alexandra Middleton received so little care in her early journey that she quit investment banking and studied naturopathy to better understand and support her disease and then work to support other women in clinical practice. Endometriosis has been vastly underdiagnosed with hundreds and thousands of women complaining of debilitating symptoms and pain with nothing more than a suggestion of a pain killer and rest. In today’s show we discuss what’s at play, what some of the root causes can be that contribute to the development and progression of endometriosis, and how looking after ourselves and our environment is key as we heal and recover - with or without surgical intervention. Please share it far and wide with those who might benefit from the support and guidance. Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast

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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 overseas!) to see first hand the test he was carrying out on what the effects of low level every day residue of pesticide, specifically glyphosate used heavily in GMO agriculture, might do to the body.

They talk about that study and much more in this not to be missed episode for anyone seeking clarity and a deeper understanding of the GM concerns and effects of glyphosate based herbicides.

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Dr Lewis Ehrlich is a highly sought after holistic dentist who graduated from James Cook University (JCU) with the Academic Medal. With a background in professional sport and his passion for holistic health, Lewis focuses on the link between oral health and general overall health in his practice - it's why you'll never hear a bandaid solution for an oral health concern in my interviews with him! 

Before studying dentistry, he completed a Bachelor of Science at Northeastern University in Boston, USA after receiving a soccer scholarship where he played for 2 years. He then moved to Reykjavik, Iceland where he played professional soccer before moving into dentistry and now practicing at Sydney Holistic Dental.  

This show, part 1 of two that I'm recording with Dr Lewis, is the result of my asking the Low tox club chat group and alumni course groups if they had any ongoing concerns and questions about oral health - from teeth (grinding / enamel / cavities) to gums to oral microbiome to jaws to treatments and appliances and preventative health. There I was thinking I was going to be doing a show on grinding and appliance options with ‘a few' questions from you guys but when 100+ questions quickly presented themselves, I changed tack and turned it into a two part “All your holistic dentistry questions” answered. So in this show, part 1, we talk about tooth enamel - when it's weakened / why / what to do as well as various apparatuses you might be thinking about using be it metal wires, myo brace, invisalign, silicon and plastic plates and spacers etc. The show notes have a tonne of resources with toothpaste recommendations that both do and don't contain fluoride, as well as floss recommendations, useful extra-listening podcasts and Dr Lewis's practice details, as well as our show supporter offer. Head over to lowtoxlife.com/podcast for all the details. 

Here are the questions answered in this first FAQ with Lewis and we twist and tangent on all things oral care in between:  

On the enamel... 

My daughter has crap enamel. Tips to improve? She was recommended tooth mousse but has casein ( to which she is allergic). We do do cod liver oil ( Nordic naturals). We were also recommended the clear protective coating that lasts a few years, I believe it's made of plastic though! Would love to know more about that also.

Why do we see such an influx of kids with hypoplasia (enamel not formed properly) and what are the REAL causes?! I just can't quite believe that it is something that happened in utero because the mother was ill or antibiotics may have played a part (neither applied to me and yet one of my kids has a severe case of hypoplasia). I know sooooo many kids with this problem, is there any new research that can pin point the cause of this yet? Maybe environmental causes (wouldn't it be crazy if we all found out it was an everyday toxin that caused this in this generation of kids). This is a really heartbreaking story for us, my son is only 7 and so conscious of his teeth and we are constantly at the specialist dentists, feeding him the best food possible etc. 

I also really want to know about hypoplasia! Is there anything we can do to improve it and strengthen the teeth? Is there some kind if plan we can follow to avoid lots of decay in the future? My daughter had perfect baby teeth and her new teeth have all started coming out blotchy and with discoloured patches. Poor thing is so self conscious already. Thanks for giving us the chance to ask. 

wanting to know about crap enamel and fluoride - is tooth mousse and fluoride in water REALLY necessary?

We went and saw Lewis Ehrlich for my son and he recommended tooth mousse to help improve his enamel but then our current paediatric dentist (not a holistic one) said he doesn't believe the product is necessary and strongly advised to use fluoride to help strengthen the enamel. I would like to know the best option to help strengthen enamel low tox or not.

I'm also very interested in hearing more about reversing and/or preventing demineralisation, particularly for women post birth. Seems to be a problem for many.

Best treatment if any for fluorosis? And is the the prevention of this just avaoiding fluoride consumption? 

My 5 year old daughter has only ever used natural fluoride free tooth paste. She has spots on her teeth that are translucent rather than white. Is this from her natural tooth paste? She has only had antibiotics once in her life and her diet is excellent. 

On instruments / apparatuses / procedures / cosmetic dental  

Any thoughts on children having separators to make room for teeth? Is that a question or just the normal thing to do?

I had invisalign done a few years ago and I'm wondering if there are any negative effects from this treatment and from the metal retainers on my teeth now?

If you have already had Invisalign or have to wear a retainer at night (to prevent grinding) - is there a material that is preferable for construction? Thanks.

Best way to whiten teeth 

Not sure if it's been mentioned but my daughter has stainless steel crowns from poorly formed molars. I want them out. But need some back as to why. Don't have access to holistic dentist.

Are fissure seals necessary in kids? 

I have a bite splint as I'm a chronic grinder. I have been told that the splint material is the only option, it seems very plasticy to me and wondering how toxic it is as I would be grinding that and it would be entering my system. I've been told I need to wear it as I have had to have crowns to replace the teeth that I ground away so badly.

Can you please ask about Mayo braces vs Invisalign?

Young kids who will need braces or similar - is there any holistic early intervention or other options - 

Or mainstream orthodontists ok for that stuff? 

Implants...if despite seeing more than 6 different dentists, you choose not to get an implant, is there any drama just leaving a gap?

I have a root canal which I know has cause some of my health issues. What is the best way to get it removed to ensue all the nastiest are removed & is it OK to just leave a gap or is it important to get an implant or denture.

I need to have two false teeth put in on one post. Or a bridge. It's to replace a very old permanent bridge (Maryland bridge) for a small false tooth next to one of the front teeth. The front tooth it's fixed to also needs to go unfortunately. 

Anyway would love to know if any options are low tox.  

I'm also allergic to wearing stainless steel. I hadn't even thought about that as an issue until I read a comment above about stainless steel crowns.

There were quite a few of us in the last ecourse wondering about the effect of metal wires behind teeth to keep teeth in place after braces etc. what are the long term/short term effects of the glue/metal and can they be mitigated? Is there a better solution?  

Due to the huge amount of people who have undergone teeth straightening it would be great to find out! 

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Continuing our “connecting to source” series interviewing regenerative farmers, futuresteaders, urban farmers and researchers, this week I interviewed Biodynamic Dairy farmer, Rob Watson, of Mungalli Creek in QLD. On Rob's farm you find rainforest, kangaroos and cassowaries all around and if one of the cow's is feeling a little unwell, you'll commonly find them being treated with homeopathics or special essential oil blends - what a life! If you want to look at how Biodynamic dairy farming works, I ask for a lot of technical detail, including details about what makes biodynamic farming and soil special, medical care of the animals, calves, life and death and production of the products. I hope you enjoy the show and it inspires you to support your farmer. Find the show notes over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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So you want to avoid water damage and mould in a new apartment or house: What do you do? In this show, I talk about some of the things I've been finding and looking for as my family looks for a place to live. There are tips and tools in this show to help you identify a potential issue either in your own home or a home you're considering moving into and it's my hope that after listening to this show and taking a look at some of the past shows on mold illness and water damage, that we raise awareness on just how important it is to keep an eye on issues with leaks and drips, the state of our rooves, the way water pools when it rains and start building and demanding healthier houses and maintaining them well for healthier people inside them! Head to the show notes and sponsor offer over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast 

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