Are you happy with how your gut feels? 

What if some of the most common things we thought were ‘right’ about gut health are wrong, now that we have more research findings and peer reviews in the bank? 

Chances are you want to improve your gut health, and so: Let’s do it!

This show with @drbradleech is a must-listen. We cover: 

• The No 1 gut health no no: And it isn’t “food!”
• Testing relevance and research improvements 
• Supplementation - benefits and pitfalls
• How treatment approaches shift as research improves. 
• Terminology myths we need to stop perpetuating
• Practitioner finding: How will I know someone is “good”?
• DIY gut health improvement - can we do it safely? 

Dr Brad Leech is a PhD Clinical Nutritionist and Herbalist renowned for his expertise in addressing chronic autoimmune conditions and complex gastrointestinal disorders. He provides complete and personalised care to his patients using functional nutrition, integrative medicine and holistic wellness.

And much more - Jump in and take a listen! 

Your host, 

Alexx

Want to connect with Brad’s work? 

Website

Instagram

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@forestsuperfoods - Fancy a free $117 welcome pack as a new customer? This Australian, wholefoods high-grade supplement company with a filler-free range of health-enhancing products has got you covered. In June at www.forestsuperfoods.com.au/lowtoxlife you have a very generous gift of Forest Super Foods’ best-selling duo: Ashwaganda and Lion’s Mane + a gorgeous reusable glass bottle valued at $117 for all new subscriptions - even if you subscribe to just one product! Enjoy.

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Gabriela Rosa realised she was onto something, when her clinic started producing healthy baby after healthy baby in partnership with their patients, when they’d ‘tried everything’ before finding her. That journey has led her to where she is now - in the final throes of her doctorate in Public Health at Harvard University in the USA - also now the epicentre of uncertainty for international students as well as the research funding that many don’t realise benefits millions of people around the world in scientific advancements.

On this show, we discuss many aspects to the public health crises playing out in modern day.

• Fertility challenges and needing to dramatically change the way we support people.
• Health care access - how we can avoid elitism and the best health care being for the privileged few
• Arriving at consensus: How is this done? What is involved? Is there the right to question each other in the halls of Harvard?

Gabriela Rosa is a fertility specialist, reproductive health educator, and Harvard University-awarded scholar and an accomplished and experienced business leader and entrepreneur. Gabriela created the world’s first entirely virtual and holistic fertility clinic.

Enjoy the show

Your Host, Alexx Stuart

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Website | Instagram

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

@forestsuperfoods - an Australian, wholefoods high-grade supplement company with over a decade of providing people with the best quality, filler-free range of health-enhancing products. In June at www.forestsuperfoods.com.au/pages/low-tox-life they’re offering a very generous gift of their best-selling duo + a gorgeous reusable glass bottle valued at $117 for all new subscriptions. The super-flexi sub lets you change and try different products each month!

@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

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What’s your relationship with the meditative arts? Tried meditation but gave up because of being ‘too busy brained’? Think Tai Chi and Qi Gong is for the elderly only? Find it hard to keep a regular practice? Maybe it’s just overwhelming as to ‘what’ to exactly do and it’s a worry it’s ‘not working’?

On this week’s show I invited Jeff Patterson who has been practicing, studying and teaching in the meditative arts for over 30 years and I can confirm, even just speaking with Jeff, by the end of our time together I was calm, centred and had a super productive day, despite having just moved house! We dive into the benefits of the meditative arts, how to tailor the experience of mindfulness, meditation and movement-based meditative arts to your life, priorities and curiosity. 

So many golden nuggets!

Alexx x

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

Jeff Patterson has over 36 years of experience, practicing and teaching the meditative and martial arts. As the founder of Northwest Fighting Arts, Portland Tai Chi Academy, and The Yielding Warrior, where he emphasizes the transformative power of meditative and martial arts practices, particularly the yielding concept.

Website or Instagram or LinkedIn

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

@forestsuperfoods - an Australian, wholefoods high-grade supplement company with over a decade of providing people with the best quality, filler-free range of health-enhancing products. In June at www.forestsuperfoods.com.au/pages/low-tox-life they’re offering a very generous gift of their best selling duo + a gorgeous reusable glass bottle valued at $117 for all new subscriptions. The super-flexi sub lets you change and try different products each month!

@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 - and if you haven’t seen my edu-reels on Insta for managing moisture/humidity and preventing mould head to @lowtoxlife and check them out!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

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A treat on the podcast this week as we lift this epic class with @healthykidshappykids renowned paediatrician and author, Dr Elisa Song, out of our Low Tox Kids course vault for you.

With empowering knowledge and upgraded habits, we can keep medications for when they really do save the day - we’re lucky to have them, but the aim is to ensure a ‘genuine need’, not ‘quick repeat fix’ if there’s a broader piece to work on for a better long game. I never knew with all my migraines in my late teens/early 20s, that burning through a pack of Paracetamol/Codeine combo pills a month was not a great idea for my liver. I also became resistant to Amoxycillin by 28 with chronic tonsillitis - that’s what led me to naturopathy, learning about immune system strengthening, addressing food intolerances and then going onto look at more day-to-day products and BOOM: Founding the Low Tox Life as a blog in 2009 when I saw how any good-better-best options there were to switch to - and even more now 15 years later!

Since 2014 I’ve been bringing incredible experts together in more structured ways of learning for specific goals away from the internet noise. We have 10 courses at Low Tox Life to help support your goals. Our in house practitioner, Lisa Waayer, a naturopath and building biologist, has been hard at work with me these past few months, upgrading our 10 courses to ensure they’re 2025-up-to-date. Low Tox Kids is SO helpful and this class with Dr Elisa Song from the course is a topic that a lot of parents want help with: Confidence in a wider range of tools beyond allergy meds, painkillers/fever-reducers and antibiotics for our kids when appropriate. A physician’s guidance is here to help - as powerful and helpful as it was when we recording this for the Low Tox Kids course 7 years ago!

Other shows I’ve done with Dr Elisa Song:

Immune Health in Kids

The Allergy Epidemic in Kids

Connect with Dr Elisa:

Website

Instagram

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

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Fatigue? 

Low Resilience when you know deep down you’ve usually ‘got this’? 

Anxiety? 

Thyroid problems? (especially conversion issues) 

On this week’s show, I invite back to the show, one of Australasia’s leading nutritional

Biochemists and 13 x best-selling authors, Dr Libby Weaver to discuss IRON and it is SUCH a helpful literacy-building conversation to help you: 

• Know what to ask for when testing
• Know what to do/explore when supplementing
• Know what to watch for as a parent with your kids and as a woman going through pregnancy and mid life transitions and how they affect iron
• Know how to apply dietary changes to ensure your iron is centre stage on the plate (all diets)
• Know what cofactors to consider for iron absorption and usage

Just. So. Darn. Useful and with a good side serving of Libby’s incredible knowledge, good vibes and desire to help you feel your best. 

Enjoy - share it with your friends. This is going to help a lot of people, I know, 

Your Host, 

Alexx

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: https://drlibby.com/

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

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu3rc9NVGa6z7fs6xSvxuUg 

Their book: 

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

@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

@ediblebeautyau has put together a generous offer for us - 30% off for the month of May with code: LOWTOXLIFE. Seriously. Why not indulge yourself in the ultimate low tox facial, for some self-pampering this month?! Enjoy Alexx x

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tell me how you enjoyed the show!

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Cult thinking. Groupthink. Black and white thinking. “Loud, vocal thinkers’ and how extreme sound bites dominate the modern media landscape thanks to algorithms, painting a ‘majority picture’ when most people are not living out those extremes in day-to-day lives.

It’s quite a time to be alive, and also a time when it’s very easy to let the fear of something cloud our ability to judge the reality of a situation fully. Is “Apatheism” a new way forward? I’ve always been fascinated by people we turn into our saviours and gurus, as well as charismatic authoritarians who sweep in and seduce us in our personal or collective vulnerable times.. That moment we start rationalising and making excuses for a cult leader, where perhaps a couple of years ago, we’d have been dead against that very thing/person we now defend.

On Monday, I explore the murky waters of freedom, autonomy, cults and social systems with Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law, Adam Scott Kunz, who specialises in cults and political philosophy and has worked alongside the famed Dr Janja Lalich, considered a global authority on cults, until her recent retirement.

This show is NOT an attack on anyone, your beliefs, your religion, the diet you feel healthiest on or other held views, but a show to see how we can ensure we are “critical thinking” and not just believing we are, and how we can balance beliefs with values with freedom and come together on common overlaps that benefit us all and how we all struggle with freedom and belonging and ‘others’. One thing I know for sure after this conversation is that the best thing is to know we don’t know anything for sure. So there you go! 

I hope you tune into this fascinating exploration… Alexx x

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: www.adamkunz.com 

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

@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for 2025, with Winix Air Purifiers, Dehumidifiers 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

@ediblebeautyau has put together a generous offer for us - 30% off for the month of May with code: LOWTOXLIFE. Seriously. Why not indulge yourself in the ultimate low tox facial, for some self-pampering this month?!

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs.

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!

Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

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Can one podcast hour cover how eating carbs before bed likely puts you in progesterone deficiency and explain the many reasons that play into a female “turning out to be them/do what they do” in life? 

Yep. @drleahhectman and I start with ‘what happens from the moment you have the extra X chromosome and are defined as female, and go where the exploration took us: It’s quite a ride. 

You were never meant to be like ‘every other female’. What a relief. This week we unpack this science - there’s so much more that makes you, you and I hope, even for all humans, it makes you feel empowered to know how much plays into ‘you-ness’, whatever your sex or gender. 

This week with Dr Leah Hechtman, we learn the many things that make us our unique selves when we have the XX chromosome: 

• Hormone receptors + qty of them for different hormones, unique to you!
• Types of hormones, 
• Metabolic type
• Genes
• Life stages and transitions
• Environmental inputs laid over the top of these…

You were never meant to be like every other female. There is a reason you’re you and, as you might have guessed, it’s due to many things. The rising awareness of the perimenopause/menopause experience adds the need to ensure we feel ‘true to ourselves’ on that journey into a new life chapter, however we choose to navigate that.

Enjoy the show. Tell your friends - it’s knowledge and understanding everyone should have. 

Alexx Stuart, 

Your Host. 

Connect with Leah:

Instagram— @drleahhechtman

Website— drleahhechtman.com 

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

@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

@ediblebeautyau has put together a generous offer for us - 30% off for the month of May with code: LOWTOXLIFE. Seriously. Why not indulge yourself in the ultimate low tox facial, for some self-pampering this month?! Enjoy Alexx x

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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Do you use a sauna? A specific type of favourite sauna or temperature or frequency? Never tried it but sauna curious?

Dr Joy Hussain was a practising physician for many years before realising there was something very special about the sauna. She had Reynaud’s syndrome, which affects circulation, and noticed that using a sauna while living in Alaska improved her Reynaud’s. Moving to a warm climate next, she assumed that this would be the solution to Reynaud’s but a funny thing happened: It intensified. She reintroduced sauna, and just like that, it was better. This personal experience led her to doing a PhD studying them and here we are years later to discuss: 

• Different sauna types and how the effects vary
• What we know about resilience, immune systems and detoxification when it comes to sauna
• The difference in women’s age stage and cycle timing
• Temperature relevance in sauna therapy, depending on climate ‘norm’
• Health conditions improved with sauna in the research so far
• You can be part of sauna research: Answer this quick sauna survey to support Joy’s work

Want to learn more about Joy? 

Sauna Science - FB/Meta public group

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joy-Hussain 

https://healthwithjoy.com.au/research 

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

@weledaaustralia - global leader in natural science and beauty gives you a massive 20% off sitewide. Code LOWTOXLIFE. Stock up on favourites or make your swaps and experience the power of nature for your skin (our faves are the shower bars, rose face care range, arnica EVERYTHING, rosemary hair tonic, deep cleansing gel - Oh, and Calendula range for the bubs!)

@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!

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! 

Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month! 

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Over the past 2 decades, Gardiner Harris has been covering and collecting data on Johnson&Johnson. Now, as an independent and award-winning investigative journalist, he releases the fruits of 2 decades of research, interviews, analysis and findings in No More Tears: The dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson exposed. 

In this show we explore: 

• The collapse of a strong public health framework
• The infiltration of industry into public service
• The specific ways in which Johnson&Johnson has caused millions harm over decades across a number of their products. 
• The opioid crisis, hip replacements, vaginal mesh, anemia drug EPO in cancer patients and antipsycholotics in aged care and more… 
• The way J&J can stay afloat despite all of the damages and legal fees
• What hope we have of restoring faith in health care? 
• What you and I can do to ensure at the grass roots we are building a better system.

It’s a doozy, I’m not going to lie, but it’s important work and Gardiner has done some extraordinary work to bring this story to light. 

Alexx Stuart

Your Host, Low Tox Life Podcast

Want to learn more about this week’s guest? 

Website: gardinerharris.com 

The book: https://bit.ly/4kkKc8p 

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

Weleda - a global leader in natural science and beauty, gives you 20% off sitewide in April. Code LOWTOXLIFE. Stock up on favourites or make your swaps and experience the power of nature for your skin (our faves are the shower bars, rose face care range, arnica EVERYTHING, rosemary hair tonic, deep cleansing gel - Oh, and Calendula range for the bubs!)  Enjoy!

@ausclimate 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 would love to see your thoughts! 

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! 

Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month! 

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One day your child is their “healthy normal” self, and the next day they’re radically changed, displaying neuropsychiatric symptoms that can scare and bewilder the child, their families and carers/teachers. The heartbreaking thing is it can take months if not years, to find a doctor who can identify and start treating the cause of this sudden change.

Enter Dr Nancy O’Hara. We look at PANS/PANDAS and the genetic, environmental and incidence-based reasons something sudden like this can happen to a child and most importantly, how we can do 2 things. Firstly, mitigate risk by being more literate in causal factors and knowing how to proactively support children’s health and resilience. Secondly, know how to spot the changes in kids - some subtle and some severe, so that you can start treating and healing the child soon and avoid being bounced around to a few doctors and practitioners before they get the support and treatment they need.

We cover:

• What PANS/PANDAS can present as
• Where it comes from biologically and environmentally
• Macro foods that are important for this group and why
• How can we be proactive when an infection hits or tick bite happens
• and more

So. Much. Good. Supportive information in this show. Enjoy + share with as many parents and carers that you can - if we all know more we can all do more! Alexx x

Want to learn more about Nancy?

Website | The Mindd International Event in May | Book

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

@weledaaustralia - global leader in natural science and beauty gives you a massive 20% off sitewide. Code LOWTOXLIFE. Stock up on favourites or make your swaps and experience the power of nature for your skin (our faves are the shower bars, rose face care range, arnica EVERYTHING, rosemary hair tonic, deep cleansing gel - Oh, and Calendula range for the bubs!)

@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!

Paid + Member PERKS: Join the Low Tox Club - monthly practitioner live masterclasses, a suite of low tox store discounts from around the world and the most supportive and lovely chat group on all low tox topics on the internet: Check it out and join here for just the price of a coffee per month!

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