Low Tox Life

• 420. Feng Shui: Optimisation for your work and home spaces - and your life, with Jane Langof

  Anyone else feel like they need a light, personal ‘goal kicking’ type of podcast to feel better about our immediate spaces around us and how they impact our wellbeing? Well, I do, and a lot of friends who are rattled about the world feel like they do too, and so I present this week’s show: Feng Shui for your work and home spaces and for your life! We go into: The clutter-free home: More sustainable for the planet - more happiness for you! The power of a welcoming entrance and what NOT to do! Orientation - pitfalls of thinking it has to be ‘Feng Shui perfect or you’ll be cursed!”Knowing there is always something you can do to optimise your Feng ShuiThe power of the “No Fail” set-up for life successWhat you take in from the external affects your internal - design for what you want! Jane Langof is an award-winning Feng Shui Master, blending traditional principles with modern design to create spaces that feel good and look great. Based in Sydney, Jane has spent over 16 years helping people transform their homes, workplaces, and community environments into places that support balance, well-being, and abundance.I hope you love this week’s show - let me know on Insta @lowtoxlife something you might work on optimising in your space or life this week! Alexx x 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/ShopAusclimateIf you want to ditch plastic-related + low tox goals around toothcare, @ohgigi is here to help with their toothpowders: locally made, small batch goodness. They’re giving away a free tongue cleaner with any ohGiGi order $50 or more, with code LOWTOXLIFE. Add your products worth over $50 to the cart, and the tongue cleaner + type LOWTOXLIFE code and your tongue cleaner will be $0! 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 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! https://www.lowtoxlifecourses.com/offers/YzLXThRQ/checkout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 419. The Gut-Brain Paradox with Dr Steven Gundry - how bacteria rule the roost on your health - for better or worse!

  The Gut-Brain Paradox is Dr Steven Gundry’s latest book, now available for pre-order. People know Dr Gundry as ‘the guy who told us plants were evil foods’ but have they read his books, I wonder? The key to enjoying the wide variety of foods we must enjoy to have a healthy, diverse microbiome that promotes overall health, is to have a robust and diverse terrain - it’s a positive feedback loop we must create, and when we don’t? A whole host of issues can occur that eventually lead to a whole host of diseases and diagnoses. We cover a LOT of ground on the show this week: Why the doctor he dedicated his book to, was beaten to death in an asylumHow our terrain matters and why it took so long to understand it better. How you can trace different addictions to different microbiome populations/overgrowthHow “plants don’t kill you” much as many social media accounts might try to tell you - BUT… you have to have what it takes to enjoy and process them.The difference between protein sources The label that Dr Gundry’s been given and is puzzled by “the father of carnivore diets”. The miracles Dr Gundry sees every day in medical practice, as he helps heal people’s terrain - heal the terrain, heal many, many different illnesses, in so many cases. And, believe it or not, we cover even more than that list!Enjoy the show, Your Host, Alexx Stuart, Founder, LOW TOX LIFESteven Gundry, MD, is the director of the International Heart and Lung Institute in Palm Springs, California, and the founder and director of the Center for Restorative Medicine in Palm Springs and Santa Barbara. You can grab the Gut-Brain Paradox on Pre-order, HERE.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/ShopAusclimateIf you want to ditch plastic-related + low tox goals around toothcare, @ohgigi is here to help with their toothpowders: locally made, small batch goodness. They’re giving away a free tongue cleaner with any ohGiGi order $50 or more, with code LOWTOXLIFE. *Offer can’t be combined with any other discounts.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 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 podcast guest deep-dive 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! https://www.lowtoxlifecourses.com/offers/YzLXThRQ/checkout Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 418. Fraudulent Alzheimer’s Drug Research has led to 20 years down the wrong path - Investigative journalist Charles Piller explains

  How can 20 years of fraudulent science pass? It’s complicated. It’s not just vested interests but humans, desire, ego, hope and poor checks and balances. “Doctored”, the new book by investigative science journalist Charles Piller, is an arresting deep dive into how Alzheimer’s disease treatment has been set back by corrupt researchers, negligent regulators, and the profit motives of companies for the past nearly 20 years. I genuinely believe it’s one of the most important conversations I’ve hosted on the show, in a time where many have become blanket skeptics of science - while we explore this hectically fraudulent research: I asked Charles: Is there hope for us to ever believe again in the scientific method? He walks us through his investigative process after the initial tip off, how he gathered information that was robust enough to draw a conclusion, and then how, despite uncovering this research and nearly 20 years of fraudulent claims, he maintains hope and a lot of trust in the scientific method. I hope you find the show as powerful as I did and it doesn’t feel too heartbreaking but rather more like we are finally now closer to knowing how we can make progress by carving a new chapter in Alzheimer's research for cause and cure. AlexxCharles Piller is an investigative journalist for Science magazine and his work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Sacramento Bee, and more. Piller has been honored with many national journalism awards, and is the author of Gene Wars, The Fail-Safe Society, and Doctored. He has reported on public health, biological warfare, infectious disease outbreaks, and other topics from the United States, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Central America.Check out Charle’s latest book Doctored here. Thank you to this month’s show partners for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives 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 range. code LOWTOXLIFE https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate@cleannectarine is giving you 20% off the beauty and personal care ranges with all orders over $99. Code LOWTOXLIFE (excluding water filters) until February 15th. Try awesome low tox brands such as 100% Pure, Kora, Weleda, Moo Goo, Mukti and more as you make your low tox beauty swaps for 2025. Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode.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.

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• 417. From Farm to Eater: Let’s focus on what and who is making a difference when trying to change the food system.

  When I started low tox life, for years I’d get excited when, say, Campbell’s soup or Hershey’s would announce they were banning GMOs from their products… or when M&M’s announced they’d stop using petroleum based colours. “We’re winning” - but were we? In recent years I’m way less excited when mega corporations change their recipes to be better - even though it is still a good thing - it’s not a slightly better ingredient list on an ultra processed ‘gluten free’ cheesy puff that’s going to make us healthier and our planet more resilient. Nope. What excites me is food systems change - less sexy, less algorithm eye-catching and way more complex/multi-faceted It also requires YOU and ME to do the majority of the work for that change. It’s more regenerative, healthy farming methods, family farming, small-holder support, localised food, access to cultural/ecologically sound foods that is going to radically change both planet and people’s health. And so… it’s why I find wonderful farmers and authors like @stephanieandersonwriting who tell farmer stories and explore systems change, to bring powerful conversations to the show for us to think about what really matters most. My conversation companion for this week’s show is Stephanie Anderson, acclaimed author and social justice journalist. With a background in creative nonfiction, a deep understanding of regenerative agriculture, and years of exploring the intersections of equity and sustainability, Stephanie brings a fresh and thought-provoking perspective to the critical issues shaping our future with her first book “One size fits NONE” and new book, From the Ground Up: The Women Revolutionizing Regenerative Agriculture (The New Press, 2024). It’s a powerful exploration of the women who are leading a transformative movement in agriculture, reshaping systems and inspiring hope in the face of environmental and societal challenges. Well worth a read! I hope you love this week’s show.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@cleannectarine is giving you 20% off the beauty and personal care ranges with all orders over $99. Code LOWTOXLIFE (excluding water filters) until February 15th. Try awesome low tox brands such as 100% Pure, Kora, Weleda, Moo Goo, Mukti and more as you make your low tox beauty swaps for 2025. Join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonated! Want to support the 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.

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• 416. "Tammi Jonas PhD: Designing a Food System for All — Culturally Relevant, Nutritious, and ecologically sound"

  Food is a brilliant unifier across political divides, if we’re brave enough to let it be. We all eat. And in this community, regardless of ‘diet type’ we all want food to be: AccessibleNutritiousGood qualityGood for the planet in the farming methods used Fair for the farmers - especially small holder farmers! Culturally appropriate and respectfulI don’t know if anyone else is sick of all the nit picking on socials about food and ‘which whole food does it better’ for our health and the planet - when most people are wondering if they can stretch the budget for those blueberries or that mince this week, but I am. Tammi Jonas has led the charge for many years, in making things better across all of these aspects of a fair food system and we talk this week about how much we can all do to mobilise - taking that active ‘next step’, to ensure a fairer food system is forged for all. She is an agroecologist in principle and in practice, farming heritage-breed pigs, cattle, and garlic with her bricoleur husband Stuart at Jonai Farms and Meatsmiths on the unceded lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung, where they share rent-free land with the young First and Second Nations market gardeners of Tumpinyeri Growers. Tammi is the focal point for farmers with the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), advocating for everyone’s right to participate in decisions about food and agriculture systems. In 2024, she completed a PhD on the rise of agroecology in Australia, and collectivising to deal with the problem of the state, as well as publishing a cookbook to help everyone Eat Like the Jonai.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@cleannectarine is giving you 20% off the beauty and personal care ranges with all orders over $99. Code LOWTOXLIFE (excluding water filters). Try awesome low tox brands such as 100% Pure, Kora, Weleda, Moo Goo, Mukti and more as you make your low tox beauty swaps for 2025.Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs if something resonates! I love to see your thoughts, genuinely! You can also connect with Tammi here on Instagram and the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance here.Want to support the 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.

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