Heart Health and Repair - A naturopathic approach on this show. 

It’s packed with practical support you can implement from today, as well as speak to your practitioner more confidently about.

Kath McFarlane’s first career was on the chaotic trading floor of the stock market as an investment banker… until she felt she felt naturopathy was a better fit, with a focus on helping people uncover the underlying drivers of their complex health challenges and supporting wellness through evidence-informed, natural approaches. 

Practising for nearly 20 years, she’s helped people through all ages, stages and challenges, and today we talk HEARTS. 

The kind of blood you do NOT want to have and what to do

Women’s and men’s heart disease patterns: differences and best places to focus

What’s happening 2 decades before you end up in ER

Why baseline scans in your early 40s matter (and why worrying about radiation from the scan is the wrong focus!) 

What you can do to repair minor disease processes and what to talk to your practitioner about

Dietary approaches that are proven for heart health

Gut health - of course! 

Stress - there it is!

So practical. So proactive. Join us and improve your heart health today

Enjoy and share the show

Alexx Stuart, your host. 

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?

- Show #13: Dr Stephen Sinatra on Holistic Heart Health

- Show #91: Men’s health with Dr Ralph Esposito Part 1: sex hormones, fertility, check ups and prostate

- Show #102: Men’s health part 2 – Brain + Heart with Dr Ralph Esposito

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: https://www.kathleenmcfarlane.com.au/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturopath.kath 

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Men, and those who love them, listen up! 

The stats show us that men’s concern for their health tends to be a case of “I’m fine… I’m invincible… crisis…ok I guess something has to change”. But what if we could focus on the most important things to have a prevention strategy in place? 

Gerald Quigley is back on the show, with a 40+ year career as both a pharmacist and master herbalist, to help men feel clear on what matters in a prevent strategy including: 

What you need to test and how often

What lifestyle levers tend to be the most important ones

How to understand results and what to do about them

What issues tend to overwhelm or worry men to the point of avoidance

How to worry less 

I hope you find it useful and share with the men in your life! 

Gerald has a wonderful easy going approach to empowering people into action rather than scaring us into paralysis. 

Alexx Stuart

Your Host & Founder of Low Tox Life

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: houseofwellness.com.au 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealgeraldquigley 

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The power of seeds to future proof our food system. That’s what we’re looking at in this show. 

If you’ve ever tasted an heirloom vegetable or fruit, you’ll know it. 

Somehow more delicious, more intense in flavour, the power of the heirloom seed grown in healthy soil is something everyone deserves to connect with.  

Ambre Whatley joins us - naturopath, herbalist and CEO of Eden Seeds Australia, to inspires us with:

How easy it is to take part in seed saving and swapping

How important it is to preserve heirloom seeds and their stories

How our corporate food system benefits few in the longrun and what we can all do to fall in love with and defend the right to save seeds into the future.

What some of the stories are behind some of Ambre’s favourite seeds - “The Mortgage lifter” the “Mostola Wild Goose Bean” and more.  

Join us. It’s a good-for-the-soul, people and planet show for us all as we unite in our love of food and the right to nutrition, affordable healthy food for all.

Alexx Stuart, your host ❤️

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edenseedsau 

Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@edenseeds 

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Does everything hurt and you feel like you’re in a ‘down hill from here’ phase of life? 

Nope. You need this week’s show if those thoughts have been creeping in!

Enter Dr Jocelyn Wittstein, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. She has been in practice since 2010 and is fellowship trained in sports medicine. She’s a clinician researcher with NIH funded research in ACL injury, sex differences in ACL injury, and cartilage health and she also studies the intersection of women's health and musculoskeletal health. I grilled her for as much as we could get through in an hour for us. 

We unpack:

 🦴 The big players behind musculoskeletal pain and degeneration

 💥 How to prevent issues before they start - osteoperosis & arthritis are NOT inevitable

 💫 How to heal and rebuild when things go wrong

She’s one of the key voices revealing the estrogen–frozen shoulder connection and pioneering better musculoskeletal care for women through sports, midlife and beyond.

It’s one hour that could change how you move — and how you age.

Tune in and share it with every woman and girl you know so we can change the story! 🎧

Enjoy the show, 

Alexx Stuart, your host. 

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jocelyn_wittstein_md 

Their book: https://bit.ly/423u43M 

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“Why don’t you just go mix up those horsefeathers in your backroom or whatever it is you do” Andrea said to the naturopath after he suggested she become a naturopath. She laughed it off quickly that day, but here we are today, speaking with her, now 40 years into being a naturopathic physician. 

Dr Andrea Sullivan is a phoenix who’s risen from more than one pile of ashes to be the wise sage joining us for this show. 

We begin with a fascinating dive into African herbal medicine and the lengths the African people went to to secretly bring their plant medicines across to America when being brought over as slaves. 

We then speak about how Andrea came to study naturopathy after being the first African American woman student at the University of Philadelphia to get her PhD in sociology and criminology, having to sit through lectures about how black people were more disposed to crime because of their ‘smaller brains’. Naturopathy was no easy feat by comparison, as a student, but she has now practiced for 40 years and counting. 

We go on to explore pearls of wisdom from her second book, the Sacrifices of Superwomen, There is a common lived experience for women everywhere of often putting themselves last - sound familiar? Andrea’s strategies are simple, accessible and free from expensive interventions, protocols or supplements, that you can start today! 

I hope you love the show as I loved recording with Andrea, 

Alexx, your host. 

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-andrea-sullivan/ 

https://www.youtube.com/@dr.andreasullivan5530 

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Marianne Williamson has been a force for good for decades. 

The author of 16 books, 4 of which are New York Times best sellers, running for President, twice, thousands of events and countless free lives and blogs almost daily for her global audience… 

She has also been a grass roots activist, from facilitating nearly 20 million meal services for palliative care patients and their families across LA, she co-founded The Peace Alliance in 2004, supporting the creation of a U.S. Department

of Peace, and hosted The Sister Giant Conferences that introduced thousands of

women to ways they could participate more effectively in the political process.

Marianne asks of us to assess our spiritual fitness for these times. 

Mean spiritedness and outrage

Polarisation

Othering and dehumanising

Ideology and dogma over spirituality and common overlaps

Environmental degradation

Human rights erosion

Big tech power and privacy encroachment in our daily lives

A sense there’s nothing that can be done

If you’re living in 2025, it’s a lot. And so, what can we do? 

This show is to help inspire us to pick things and DO them. 

I hope you find it useful and inspiring in your own life. 

Alexx Stuart, 

Your Host

Want to learn more about Marianne Williamson? 

Book a ticket for her upcoming Australian tour here: https://bit.ly/MarianneAUSTOUR

Website: https://marianne.com/ 

Instagram or LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/MarianneWilliamson 

Substack: MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com 

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Have you heard of German New Medicine? I was intrigued by a theory and practice shrouded in scandal and criticism. Why? Because it wasn’t disproven, and because some of the results are truly astounding. So I set out to find a practitioner who had a lot of experience with it but who also hadn’t abandoned other tools in clinical practice, diagnosis, treating and healing. 

Enter Dr Katherine Willow for a conversation that will challenge and amaze and push the boundaries of what many of us think we understand. 

This is not to say ‘ditch everything you know and go all in on German New Medicine, but it is to say what Katherine says: Identifying a shock to the time line as a contributing cause to something is most certainly valid. As is everything we also know to be true of the growing toxic burden of our modern world. It’s also to suggest that how we treat sickness and whether it ‘works’ to treat it, matters greatly on how safe and effective it feels to the patient, not just how ‘proven’ it is. 

Fascinating. I’ve already re-listened to it myself. 

I can’t wait to hear what you think. 

Alexx Stuart, 

Your Host

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: www.ecowellness.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carpridge 

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Why are we more susceptible to coming down with something like a cold or the flu at the turn of a season or change of humidity or temperature? And what really helps? 

Gerald Quigley joins me on the podcast this week. He’s a 50+ year pharmacist, a 40+ year herbalist, Fellow of the Naturopaths and Herbalists Association of Australia and Fellow of the Australian Traditional Medicine Society.

With a wealth of experience and having seen more than a trend or two come and go, Gerald shares the truest things that support you, as well as tackling some of the questions people often have about confusing things they learn/are trying to make sense of in health: 

Is B6 really toxic? 

Is Paracetamol truly that bad for us? 

Do I need medication for arthritis and osteopenia when my doctor or the internet says XYZ?

We discuss how to move forward towards better patient care and greater empowerment of people in our own inspiration for cultivating a healthy state.

I hope you find it as interesting a conversation as I did, 

Enjoy the show

Alexx x

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-quigley-585a189/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealgeraldquigley 

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IRON: It’s a part 3 of sorts, as we’ve covered Iron twice on the show previously but given the questions that continue to come in: This is the show to round it all out thoroughly. 

We unpack: 

• Iron - when it’s a friend, foe and how to get into a ‘healthier relationship with it’. 
• Why your body might think it needs to protect you from iron 
• Understanding inflammation to understand your iron challenges better
• Iron as it travels through the digestive tract - a deep dive into all that has to be ‘just right’ for iron levels and absorption to be healthy. 
• Microbiome factors when it comes to healthy iron absorption
• Why we need a lot more research on iron and women’s heatlh
• Why iron supplementation shouldn’t be your first “go to fix” when it comes to iron deficiency
• What you can do to further investigate your iron beyond iron studies blood tests. 
• How to move forward in your diet and health focuses to maintain healthy iron levels. 

And we explore all of this with Rebecca Edwards, Director of Education at Activated Probiotics. With over 2 decades of naturopathic clinical experience, Rebecca educates clinicians globally in all areas of naturopathy, with a special passion for iron absorption, given the many factors that play into it - so luck to have Rebecca to help us dive further into the fascinating topic of IRON. 

Note: This episode is in no way funded by or influenced by the company Rebecca works for. You can trust that I will never allow for a paid guest spot. Rebecca is an exceptional educator, and our community had more questions on Iron and she was the perfect person. 

On our podcast you can be sure that ads are ads, and show guests are guests because of their subject matter, not because of what they sell. 

Enjoy the show and share it with someone who needs support with their iron, 

Alexx x

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What if, though, we knew the tools and techniques we needed to focus on to keep joy and connection centre-stage in our relationships? 

Dr Kathryn Ford has been working with couples to grow together for over 2 decades to do just that, and in this week’s show you will learn: 

• Why having a vision of yourselves as a couple is important
• How becoming a couple is something that you LEARN how to do
• What a healthy response looks like vs a reaction
• How to argue better - because arguments will happen
• How to be aware of each other’s ‘aperture’
• Whether we can ‘change’

And so much more! 

Kathryn is a wonderful couples therapist of over two decades, and it’s a joy to have her on the show to share her practical wisdom. 

Her Aperture Awareness method is also now in a published book, “The Aperture Effect”, and I’ve popped the link in the bio if you fancy reading it - I have. It’s excellent. 

Alexx Stuart, your host

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: https://www.kathrynfordmd.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/KathrynFordMD/ 

Their book: https://bit.ly/44Ti3hT 

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! 

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@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2025, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their new energy-efficient heating, air-circulating and cooling range. code LOWTOXLIFE (also works over and above their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely! 

Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast? 

Free option: Leave a 5 star review wherever you listen to Low Tox Life - thanks SO much! 

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