Low Tox Life

Katie Hendricks is a gift of a human who has been a PhD psychologist and movement therapist since 1975. How special to have her here guiding us in a time where most of us feel affected in some way by the current state of the world and the sense that things are harder in our day to day lives.

We cover movement exercises, pain and tension ‘detective work’ and explore differences between anger, fight, fear, contempt and integrity and connection that is up for invitation to co create a better world for all.

This is for the “I’m so scared right now”, the “I’m a bit lost” and the big thinkers alike.

I can’t wait to hear what you think and I do hope you find it deeply helpful,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #382 Genius wisdom to help you in all areas of life, with Gay & Katie Hendricks

Jessie Buckley, Hamnet - A move Katie recommends to lean into grief and sadness to move through it.
Fear melters: Learn more about Fear, its expressions here: https://hendricks.com/resources/body-intelligence/fear-melters/
and what to do when experiencing fear:
https://foundationforconsciousliving.org/big_leap_home/coming-home-to-yourself-through-fear-melters/

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Websites: foundationforconsciousliving.org, hendricks.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@hendricksinstitute
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hendrickscommunity/

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

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@weledaaustralia with 25% off site-wide at weleda.com.au code LOWTOXLIFE to stock up on faves or make your first exciting low tox swaps - enjoy!

@ausclimate is giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2025, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and they have some fab Mother’s Day offers already that your code LOWTOXLIFE works over and above! https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me when you share the show!

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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Dr Brad Leech, PhD, first joined me on the show (#437) for a discussion to update the record on a common practice when addressing pathogens: “weed, seed, feed” which he believes can cause further damage.

In this episode, we explore Autoimmunity and the 4 main ‘feeder lanes’ into it, drawing on the thousands of hours Brad has spent researching it during his PhD and beyond.

We cover
Leaky Gut
Dysbiosis in the gut
Immune dysregulation
Systemic Inflammation
Gut testing: What is ‘good’ testing?
Essential nutrients in an autoimmune picture and how to ensure quality supplements.
Why we can’t label some foods as inherently ‘good for you’ based on certain farming factors that can change a food’s make-up.
Microbes of note in the research that can contribute to healing, disease or both, depending on how much there is in the gut

And MORE

I hope it’s helpful for you or someone you know.

Alexx Stuart
Your Low Tox Life podcast host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #287 – Dr. Gary Kaplan: Why You’re Still Sick And How To Get Better
Show #78: Dr Terry Wahls on her MS diagnosis, autoimmune conditions and the Wahls protocol
Show #360 Complex Chronic Illness: A Unique Puzzle With Dr Ben Reebs
Show #293 – Taking A Tour Of The Immune System And How Best To Support It With Jules Galloway
Show #344 – Dr Anshul Gupta On Reversing Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: www.drbradleech.com
NERVA - Private health - Monash Gut Hypnotherapy - https://www.nervahealth.com/au
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/DrBradLeech

Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps!
@waterscofilters is giving you an added saving off their sale price, giving you 27% off their BIO 500 5.25L benchtop filter until April 30 - Perfect for couples/small families. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au - Use code LOWTOXWATER - a market leader for 40 years, they filter everything bad out, including PFAS/microplastics, and ensure trace minerals are kept IN for deep hydration.

@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!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Another show to add to the powerhouse handful of shows we’ve done with incredible practitioners over the years on Perimenopause/Menopause transition years to further Women’s Health empowerment.

Dr Ceri Cashell, a Sydney Australia-based doctor, is on a mission to improve perimenopause and menopause support for women everywhere by training as many Drs as she can through her Healthy Hormones platform.

Disappointed in the lack of understanding she had about perimenopause until she was in this phase of life herself, she took every course, seminar and book on board to arm herself with the best, most recent evidence-based information she could and it started having a very positive impact on her patients in practice. Fully booked and wondering how to support more women: Practitioner training through Healthy Hormones was born.

In this show, we talk about some of the challenges around both the health care system, Drs’ education and patient access to quality, evidence-based care, as well as discussing the many things going on in perimenopause and menopause to empower you along your way..

Loaded with tips, positive patient outcomes, and ways to build your own confidence in this topic for your own hormone-changing experience, you won’t want to miss it.

I hope it helps you or a woman you know,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host.

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #140: Perimenopause with Dr Carrie Jones
Show #370 Chinese Medicine and the Perimenopause Transition with Dr Keri Krieger
Show #375 It’s Menopause’s Moment: A new conversation about midlife, with Lisa Mosconi PhD
Show #350 – Perimenopause and Beyond with Lara Briden

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: https://www.healthyhormones.au/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drcericashell

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

@waterscofilters is giving you an added saving off their sale price, giving you 27% off their BIO 500 5.25L benchtop filter until April 30 - Perfect for couples/small families. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au - Use code LOWTOXWATER - a market leader for 40 years, they filter everything bad out, including PFAS/microplastics, and ensure trace minerals are kept IN for deep hydration.

@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!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Farmers who are trying to improve our planet and the quality of and accessibility of food from the ground up? Some of my favourite show guests over the years have been farmers.

Nick Holliday of Belvedere Farm here in Australia, QLD, is full-time farming with regenerative principles and providing eggs, pork and beef. He and his family feed hundreds of families each week, through their CSA collective and other distribution partners. He has a background in union and community organising, law and freelance writing.

Nick doesn’t believe that “Vote with your Dollar” is going to fix this. Neither do I.

I had to bring him on the show to discuss what really will help make local, nutritious and affordable food accessible to more people and what will help us step beyond culture wars and political labels and into the overlaps we all have and need, for good quality food, and work together to apply the right kinds of pressure in the right ways to effect real change.

I hope you’re as inspired as I am in this conversation - and that you accept the “group homework” suggestion at the end. Imagine if we all did this homework this week?

Your Host,
Alexx Stuart

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #6 – Regenerative farming with Paul Grieve
Show #136: Charlie Arnott on Regenerative & Biodynamic Agriculture
Show #416 Tammi Jonas PhD: Designing a Food System for All — Culturally Relevant, Nutritious, and ecologically sound
Show #231 – Food Sovereignty with Farmer and Author, Tammi Jonas
Show #250 – Futuresteading: A Return To A Simpler Life with Jade Miles
Show #336 – Jade Miles: What Is A Sustainable Table and How Do We Drive A Truly Regenerative Shift in Farming
Show #251 – Biodynamics and Dairy with Farmer, Rob Watson

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/belvederefarmers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belvederefarmers

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

@waterscofilters is giving you an added saving off their sale price, giving you 27% off their BIO 500 5.25L benchtop filter until April 30 - Perfect for couples/small families. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au - Use code LOWTOXWATER - a market leader for 40 years, they filter everything bad out, including PFAS/microplastics, and ensure trace minerals are kept IN for deep hydration.

@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!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A solo show with me this week, taking your questions and answering them in this show.
Covering everything from low tox shampoo tricky ‘finding’ factor, through to low tox freak outs when it’s a situation you can’t control, how to cultivate agency in a high tox world, and then questions about histamine, mould, paint, kids and tech and referencing a bunch of helpful resources, past shows and experts to connect to the work of, if you want to dig deeper along the way.

I learned many things on my journey going low tox but boy have I learnt SO MUCH from interviewing 500+ incredible people on the podcast and through our courses over the years.

I hope you find this helpful,

Alexx

Resources Alexx mentions during the show to dive deeper into the topics that came up on the show:

Low Tox Paint options
Show #295 – What Makes A Healthy Building? The Building, The Materials, The Maintenance – It All Matters With Andrew Pace
Show #299 – Building a Healthy Home From The Ground Up With Andy Pace
Website: The Green Design Center
Low Tox Club - More information on joining us here: https://www.lowtoxlife.com/the-low-tox-club/

Histamine/Mould
So you think you’ve got Mould?
My whole mold / mould story
Show #222 – Beth O’Hara: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome
Show #237 – Beth O’Hara on Detoxification for Sensitive Peeps
Show #186 – Dr Ben Lynch on genes, supplements and intuitive family health
Histamine supportive supplements to look into with your health professional: Quercetin, Pycnogenol, Milk Thistle, DAO Enzyme. Discuss with a health shop health professional over the phone or locally if budget-conscious/can’t see an integrative doc/naturopath, or book into the Low Tox Clinic.
For more on the Low Tox Clinic or to book a one-off session: https://www.lowtoxlife.com/low-tox-clinic/

Kids and Tech
Show #158 – Digital Nutrition – Seeing Digital Media Interaction in a New Light
Show #383 Kids and Tech: How to cultivate a healthy, safe blend of tech and reality in the digital world with psychologist, and cyberpsychology researcher Dr Jocelyn Brewer
Show #401 Devorah Heitner: Growing Up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World
Community assignment: Reach out to your local council + MP and find out a) what’s available for kids of various ages to do as activities in your area and b) if there’s not much that’s available/affordable/accessible, get a group of parents together and start a conversation that changes that.

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

@waterscofilters is giving you an added saving off their sale price, giving you 27% off their BIO 500 5.25L benchtop filter until April 15 - Perfect for couples/small families. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au - Use code LOWTOXWATER - a market leader for 40 years, they filter everything bad out, including PFAS/microplastics, and ensure trace minerals are kept IN for deep hydration.

@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!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.