Low Tox Life

Reece Proudfoot is my brother-in-law and a very clever guy when it comes to regenerative economy design. So, in the face of what seems a never-ending onslaught of ‘big developer power’ coming in and taking from communities, I’ve brought him on to build our community’s sense of agency in our own little corners of the world.
We explore:
What is a regenerative vs extractive business?
What kind of data centre could be a regenerative business within a community?
How can communities develop their charter for what they will/won’t accept, and what they need as a priority list for anyone who wants to do business near them?
This, for me, is the kind of conversation and action missing to really and truly turn power to the people. Firstly: Believe it’s possible. Secondly: Be a builder.
Reece is Co-founder and Director of Regen Labs, where he works with regional communities to build resilient, prosperous and regenerative local economies. Based in Moss Vale on Gundungurra Country, Reece co-leads Highlands Homegrown Economy and A Better Model for Data Centres, two practical experiments in helping communities move from reacting to major development to shaping their own regenerative economic future.
I hope you love this one. There are some excellent community fights happening globally - now it’s time to design and prevent more effectively so we can fight LESS.
Alexx Stuart
Your Host, Low Tox Life podcast

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: https://www.regenlabs.au/
LinkedIn: https://au.linkedin.com/company/regen-labs

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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!
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Feeling like environmental toxins keep increasing instead of decreasing? You're not alone.
Pesticides have been big news in Australia lately, for two key reasons:
🔹 The expanded approval of isocycloseram, a PFAS pesticide used widely in berries and other tree crops and vegetables.
🔹 The murky regulatory saga of paraquat - a pesticide banned in 70 countries and strongly linked to Parkinson's disease. Australia has "modified" its use rather than banning it, despite scientists, neurologists and Parkinson's groups pointing to a strong correlation between exposure and the disease.
This week on the podcast, I sit down with Josh Davis, Executive Director of Pesticide Action Australia, to unpack how pesticide regulation actually works across different levels of government - and how everyday people can push for safer food and farming policy.
🎙️ Tune in now and explore how we can build a safer food system for farmers and eaters alike.
About Pesticide Action Australia (PAA): a not-for-profit charity working to reduce Australia's pesticide use for the sake of our health and environment. 🔗 https://pesticideaction.org.au/
About Josh: Co-founder and Executive Director of PAA, with a background spanning rural and regional community support, human rights advocacy, and roles across local, state and federal government.

Alexx Stuart
Your Host, Low Tox Life

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Podcast Show #46: Genes, GMOS and Glyphosate with Professor Michael Antoniou
Show #51: Food confusion busting + what’s with wheat, with Cyndi O’Meara
Show #416 Tammi Jonas PhD: Designing a Food System for All — Culturally Relevant, Nutritious, and ecologically sound
Show #109: Joel Salatin on food, soil and regenerative effects of working with nature’s systems
Show #472. What is safe? River, Ground, Tank and Ocean water and PFAS “Forever chemicals” with water scientist, Professor Ian Wright

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: https://pesticideaction.org.au/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pesticide-action-australia
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pesticideactionaustralia/

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

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of 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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When we think about environmental toxins, we often think about the things in our immediate environments, many of which would mean the home, what we put on our body, or what we eat.

This week, I’m introducing you to a wonderful guest and we're talking about the environmental toxins in our rivers. Just a few generations ago, we could drink from our rivers and our guest today is going to unpack this issue for us and her quest to make our rivers drinkable once again.

Li An Phoa is an activist, author, filmmaker, and philosopher. She founded the Drinkable Rivers movement, now in 25 countries! She has walked 21,000km along rivers, gathering momentum from all walks of like who, together, ask the simple question: How can we once again have drinkable rivers?

Li An’s 1000 kilometre walk along the river Meuse was the subject of the documentary ‘Long Walk for Drinkable Rivers’. She has co-written the book ‘Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher’ (2023) and is the protagonist in the documentary film ‘Our Blue World’ (2024). www.drinkablerivers.org

Please connect with the Drinkable Rivers org, and I hope you find this show as insightful as I did being a part of this conversation,

Alexx Stuart
Host and Low Tox Life founder

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: www.drinkablerivers.org
Linkedin and instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drinkablerivers

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

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of 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 o

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If you spend time on an algorithm social media feed, you might have come to believe that parenting is impossible and kids are just not going to be able to thrive, growing up today.

One small problem here: WE are the adults in the room.

So how do we change the stories we’re fed and the realities stemming from this very antisocial ‘food’ driven by the current media landscape and what it preferences and allows for?

Well, that’s what we unpack with Dr Billy Garvey, developmental pediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital; researcher, dad of 3 and fierce champion for compassion and curiosity in parenting, caring for and teaching kids.

There’s a lot Billy wishes we knew about our kids mental health and raising them to be kind and productive members of the community: In his books and in this hour of power, we do our best to share many of them.

Enjoy the show,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #115: Maggie Dent on raising gorgeous boys
Show #398 Beyond academics and accomplishments: What Truly Matters for Teens with Maggie Dent
Show #494. Is Digital Freedom possible for our kids in the age of socials and AI? Maggie Dent says yes!
Show #243 – Maggie Dent: An Hour of Parenting Power with The Queen of Common Sense and Comfort

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
IG Pop Culture Parenting @popcultureparenting and linktr.ee/popcultureparenting
IG Billy Garvey @drbillygarvey
IG GGM @guidinggrowingminds
https://www.guidinggrowingminds.com/
You can find Billy’s books here: Link to Billy’s book Ten Things I Wish You Knew About Raising Boys (pre order) and, Ten Things I wish You Knew About Your Childs Mental Health

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

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of 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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Dr. Carrie Jones has been educating clinicians and supporting women in their hormonal health for nearly two decades. She's a naturopathic physician and based out of the U.S., but her reach is global and her passion is palpable.

What I love about Carrie and why I wanted to have her back on the show after eight years since we first talked about perimenopause together on the podcast is that Carrie is passionate about presenting all of the tools and helping you discover all of the options. You can design and explore a perimenopause that feels aligned and actually works for you.

She says the days of trying to raw dog it through no help, no support, no intervention whatsoever are done. There are many things that can help, and you'll have options that align with your personal beliefs, preferences, and needs. Her job and our job in this show is helping you find the support and tools you need for right now.

We explore:
Pharmaceutical/Bio-identical hormones
Therapeutic
Psychological
Herbal
Nutrient

…in today’s show, as well as adding a splash of navigating this chapter ourselves.

Enjoy the show,

Alexx Stuart
Your Host

Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?
Show #337 – Dr Carrie Jones: Your Hormones That Don’t Get Enough Publicity
Show #366: The Critical Importance of Rites of Passage, Plant Medicine and the Evolution From Conventional Medicine to the Quantum and the Mystical, With Dr Maya Sheatreat
Show #370 Chinese Medicine and the Perimenopause Transition with Dr Keri Krieger
Show #410 No Woman Should Have to Do Midlife Transitions Alone with Ali Daddo and Mary Doube
Show #350 – Perimenopause and Beyond with Lara Briden
Show #477. Dr Ceri Cashell – Women deserve the best in health care through every life stage

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?
Website: https://www.drcarriejones.com/
Instagram or LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/dr.carriejones
Youtube: youtube.com/@drcarriejones

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

@waterscofilters removes all contaminants from modern tap water + keeps all the minerals. 7-15 filtration stages, depending on which filter you choose. Lock in their auto-subscription, cancel-anytime, 10% off + refill subscription price ongoing. No code required. waterscoaustralia.com.au

@ausclimate continues to give you 10% off their range in 2026, with Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used, energy-efficient heating and air-circulating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (often works on top of 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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