Ever grappled with a chronic illness or diagnosis and felt sure that you could do much more than what was being recommended? I have as has this week's guest, ex-professional dancer, medical miracle and famed Zumba Instructor Josette Tkacik. This week's show isn't filled with healing protocols or step by steps for how to heal rheumatoid arthritis, which put her in crippling pain and had her staring at a lifetime of multiple medications in her early 30s. Josette fully reversed her illness and was declared a medical miracle, but acknowledges everyone's journey is different. This show is more about sharing a story of hope and looking at what some of the things might be in our lives that aren't serving us so that we can create change before a crisis. Josette's story of disordered eating as a professional ballet dancer, through to being an overworked lawyer, through to being someone who took illness as a chance to walk through a new door and inspire thousands is uplifting and affirms the fact that if we're truly going to heal, a deep, spiritual and energetic evaluation must happen alongside any practical levers we pull through medication, supplements and diet. As always, this is not medical advice and please don't change anything without the guidance of your trusted practitioner(s). Enjoy the show and head to the show notes for more details over at lowtoxlife.com/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

286. Josette Tkacik - A story of determination and selfhealing

Hello! Welcome to the Low Tox Life podcast - the place to bring your low tox life to life across all low tox pillars: Food. Body. Home. Mind. Planet. We cover it all to support you and your goals with some of the best minds in the world joining me each week. I'm Alexx Stuart, your host, and in 2009 I coined the term 'low tox' and started lowtoxlife.com. From there I've created 10 courses and had 2 books published (Low Tox Life and Low Tox Life FOOD; I've written countless research articles and recipes to inspire a low tox life. I am thrilled to bring this podcast to you as an extension of the online community, filled with multi-passionate people from around the world. The concept of living a Low Tox Life is one that rejects perfection, black and white notions of there only being one way to 'do it right'. Instead, we take a relaxed and curious approach to better choices to incorporate into our lives as and if they fit. Low Tox therefore instead of 'no tox' as people come together from all walks of life; from cities to regional and remote areas to work from our overlaps and all be part of the many solutions toward healthy people and planet. Forget wasting time feeling bad about what you're not doing or you didn't know yesterday. Let's feel awesome about what we can learn and do from today! Thanks for being here. I just know you'll be inspired as I am by each show. Enjoy, subscribe, pop the kettle on and most importantly: Welcome!
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We have more specialists than ever before, yet we are sicker than ever before. That’s why I am thrilled to bring you this week’s show, because it’s a story of two practitioners. This is a treat if you are a parent and: You’re struggling to pinpoint what your child’s breathing, behavioural, focus, congestion, crooked teeth or headache issues are stemming from when you’ve tried lots of things.You think there might be a link between an ‘event’ and your child’s current issues (a fall, a trauma, a bone break…)You want the money you spend on your child’s teeth (it’s a LOT these days!) to actually amount to solutions and lasting results. You crave a new paradigm where we move away from the world where we’re sicker than ever, we have more specialists than ever, and you hate the merry-go-round you’ve been on with your kid, spending lots with few resultsYou love big-picture thinking when it comes to healthYou want to have more empowered conversations about your child’s health with your primary care doctor or dentist and be better versed in issues that could be at play. Share it far and wide with parents you know, and I’ll also say, super useful for adults who’ve had long-term musculoskeletal or dental/jaw structure issues to look at the bigger picture for yourself, too. - Enjoy the show, Alexx x
Cole Clayton and Jalal Khan started The Quantum Kid after a mutual friend insisted they meet or she would force them! Within 6 months their business is achieving goals they set for 2-3 years. After combined 30 years of focused effort The Quantum Kid was an overnight success. Cole and Jalal set about to create a formula unique in healthcare, an approach to helping kids thrive that involves both practitioners working together in the same room to ensure the structures of the face, jaws and skull are ideally aligned.  Connect with Cole and Jalal on the following platforms; Websites — https://www.thequantumkid.com.au/  and https://www.k2calibre.com/  Instagram — @the.quantum.kid @k2calibre @coleclaytonosteopath
Thank you to this month’s show sponsor for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: 
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381. Quantum Kids: Why combined therapies do better justice to our kids’ health, with Cole Clayton & Jalal Khan

Quantum Biology is the study of teeny tiny, complicated subatomic particles and energy that blow your mind. Being a beneficiary of it can be as simple as standing watching the sunrise or sunset or walking barefoot in the ground. 
So, if you’ve been daunted in the past, today that ends as we deep dive into this topic with Dr Catherine Clinton, naturopathic physician and Quantum Biology educator helping you understand what the most accessible, truest form of medicine is, and how to make it a part of your life that you connect deeply to and start to seek out. We discuss 
The science - what we know and what we’re coming to understand about our biologyCoherence - how everything is connected in nature and what ‘tuning in’ feels likeHow your quantum biology check-list becomes a want to; a necessity and not another ‘set of things you have to do for your health’What medicine can you start administering from today, without spending an extra cent on your health? 
 Connect with Dr Catherine on the following platforms; Website — www.drcatherineclinton.com Instagram —@dr.catherineclinton Facebook —@dr.catherineclintonnd
A Note on PFAS being able to be processed which might catch your attention and due to only having 45 mins I didn’t unpack live and asked Catherine about the research in the follow up… 2 research papers to give a little hope.  From Catherine - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38008199/ From past show guest Dr Ben Reebs - turns out there’s a benefit to getting your period! Hehe https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35267175/
Thank you to this month’s 2 show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: 
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Is it time to replenish your @weledaaustralia favourites or try affordable, high-performance low tox products for the first time? You're in luck as Weleda is giving Aussies 20% off site-wide with the code LOWTOXLIFE from April 29-June 3.   https://bit.ly/ShopWeleda
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380. Quantum Biology: The Magic, The Medicine, with Dr Catherine Clinton

Allergies - Nearly 1 in 5 kids has an environmental allergy today, and nearly 1 in 10 has a food allergy. While these differ from person to person in severity, they are a challenge on the mental load, in the home and even more so out and about. My good friend and one of my favourite doctors in the world - she’s SO DANG SMART - Dr Elisa Song @healthykids_happykids and I deep dive into the reason so many families are dealing with allergies and in this comprehensive show, we explore:  
The biggest factors playing into how we got here with allergies and poor gut health.How the gut microbiome has changed in 100 years and what species we know are critical to healthy histamine and mast cell ‘flexibility’ as we grow. How to be better informed when it comes to antibiotics and how to talk to your doctorTesting and screening optionsTherapeutics - conventional and holisticThe SOS game vs the long game - building resilient health and regulated responses to what we eat and what we’re exposed to in our environments. 
 It is PACKED. I usually say go for a walk in nature, but if your reality is dealing with allergies, it’s PAPER-AND-PEN day today! 
I hope it’s useful for you and people you love - share it far and wide + if you want to hear the first show we did together look up show #85 on the childhood epidemics of our times. It’s also a doozy full of practical wisdom. 
And the link to pre-order Elisa’s truly excellent new book is in the bio - her work is seminal in the way she’s put everything together in here. Bravo Doc! 
Alexx x
Connect with Dr Elisa on the following platforms; Website — https://healthykidshappykids.com/  Instagram — @healthykids_happykids Facebook — @DrElisaSongMD
Her amazing book Health Kids, Happy Kids is now available for pre-order on Amazon and Booktopia: https://bit.ly/HealthyKidsHappyKids 
Thank you to this month’s show sponsor for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: 
@ausclimate continues giving 10% off their Winix Air Purifiers and Dehumidifiers at ausclimate.com.au. CODE: LOWTOXLIFE at checkout  https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate 
Is it time to replenish your @weledaaustralia favourites or try affordable, high-performance low tox products for the first time? You're in luck as Weleda is giving Aussies 20% off site-wide with the code LOWTOXLIFE from April 29-June 3.   https://bit.ly/ShopWeleda
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379. The Allergy epidemic in our kids: Can we fix it? Dr Elisa Song say yes.

This show is all about emotions. As Cedric Bertelli, founder of the Emotional Health Institute, explains, our culture is obsessed with trying to control our emotions. It turns out however, it is this desire to control our emotions that inadvertently prevents many of us from developing emotional resilience. So, in this show, we unpack:  
How our responses to situations are often formed from events a long time in our pastWhy emotions don’t make sense and trying to make them make sense is futileWhat happens in our conscious and subconscious at a point of trauma and how can it form long-term imprints? How phobias can be overcome - and it’s not about ‘overcoming’ them. How we can break life-long emotional patterns that things like talk therapy haven’t helped us resolve?
 It is a fascinating exploration of memories, trauma and emotions, and how we can break unhelpful loops we might be stuck in, and I hope you or someone you know finds it to be as interesting and helpful as I did. 
Connect with Cedric on the following platforms; Websites — www.cedricbertelli.com; www.emotionalhealthinstitute.org  Instagram — @cedricbertelli and @emotionalresolution Facebook — @EmotionalResolutionWithCedric and @theemotionalresolutioneffect 
Thank you to this month’s show sponsor for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: 
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378. Stop trying to ‘control’ your emotions, and here’s why... with Cedric Bertelli

This conversation with @drcaseyskitchen is my perfect podcast cocktail: 
Equal Parts: 
Rally cry - Systeming change needed in crisis/consumer culture. Clarity on the foundational health problem - metabolic health and cellular energy. Empowering solutions that we can focus on from today to move the needle in the right direction. 

Casey Means, MD is a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, a health technology company with the mission of reversing the world’s metabolic health crisis. Her book on metabolic health, Good Energy, comes out in May 2024 with Penguin Random House. She received her BA with honours and MD from Stanford, was President of her Stanford class, and has served on Stanford faculty. She trained in Head & Neck Surgery before leaving traditional medicine to devote her life to tackling the root cause of why Americans are sick. She has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Women’s Health, and more.  
Connect with Dr Casey Means on the following platforms: Instagram — @drcaseyskitchen X — @DrCaseysKitchen YouTube @CaseyMeansMD LinkedIn: @casey-means-md Website — caseymeans.com/goodenergy 
Sign up for her newsletter if you fancy: caseymeans.com/newsletter
Grab her book Good Energy: https://bit.ly/GoodEnergy_Book 
Thank you to this month’s sponsor for partnering with our show and helping you make your swaps with their special offers: 
Waters Co. gives you 12% off all NEW systems - including benchtops, jug, mini, shower filters + Under-sink products with code LOWTOXLIFE.
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286. Josette Tkacik - A story of determination and selfhealing

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