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  • 430. Joy Hussain MD, PhD - The magic of Sauna - think it’s for cold climate dwellers only? Think again!
    Apr 27 2025

    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


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  • 429. No More Tears: The dark secrets of Johnson & Johnson exposed, with award-winning journalist, Gardiner Harris
    Apr 20 2025

    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


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  • 428. Healthy child one day and neuropsychiatric symptoms the next? Dr Nancy O’Hara on risks, tipping points, prevention and healing for PANS and PANDAS.
    Apr 13 2025

    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!


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  • 427. Dr Rangan Chaterjee: Let’s get you telling me what works for you - A health empowerment masterclass.
    Apr 9 2025

    What does the UK’s best-known Dr, Rangan Chatterjee, want you to do? He want to help get you to a place in your health and intuition where you are the one who knows what’s best for you. If you sometimes feel more confused about health than ever before? This is the show for you! Jumping from protocol to Instagram follow to book to podcast, we’ve never had more information on ‘health’ than in the past decade. And we’re sicker? Make it make sense. Part of it of course is a Western world erosion of middle and working class where stress has as pressure has risen, causing a myriad of health consequences, but the other part? Well, it’s a lack of agency. Confused, disempowered and constantly looking ‘out there’ for the answers (darn that addictive big-tech dopamine “drug baron”!) Dr Rangan Chaterjee believes we can move confidently forward with curiosity, listen for feedback, sometimes test and be proactive with change where needed.

    We talk

    • Diet confusion
    • The power of reflection
    • Knowledge ain’t all that if we aren’t getting better!
    • A Blood Sugar story
    • Red Flags in testing - spotting subtle changes rather than waiting for alarm bells and fire extinguishers.

    Dr Rangan Chaterjee is one of the best-recognised doctors in the world, with a podcast with over 200million downloads, a TV show “Doctor in the House” that has reached 70 countries and seen people achieve miraculous health improvements, a Professor, an author of 6 books and umpteen times on the UK Times best seller list.

    Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

    Website

    Podcast

    The Three Question


    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

    And @weledaaustralia kicks off from March 31 throughout April 3 - A huge 20% off sitewide with the code LOWTOXLIFE. Grab your favourites, make your swaps to a global leader in regenerative practices that produce powerful skin and health results. Enjoy!

    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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  • 426. Scientia Professor Matthew England: Oceans, climate and explaining common confusions and questions
    Apr 6 2025

    What Matthew England, a “Scientia” Professor at UNSW (a renowned globally as the top expert because of his research and contributions to the subject) didn’t know would happen when he chose his field of study, Oceanography in the 80s, would be that he and his colleagues would quickly become climate scientists. In this week’s show, we discuss:

    1. The ocean’s role as an absorber, filter and producer (think of our liver: Overloaded? Stops functioning effectively and all hell breaks loose!)
    2. “But it’s just a natural cycle” - a popular phrase often touted and how we can better understand why the picture today is not normal…
    3. All that mould and humidity increasing in the past decades? Climate change. Meet “tropification” 🤯
    4. Transitions and navigating a path forward. Is an ‘a-political approach’ possible?

    I hope soon that instead of arguing if it’s real or not, we debate instead the best ways forward and make climate a-political, and for gosh sake, stop vilifying cows and revering plants as ‘evil vs good’. WASTE and ultra-processed food trumps any whole food you could ever pile on your plate regarding climate impact. I know many people feel conflicted because of the climate conversation being made to ‘be’ a certain way. It doesn’t have to be but it also doesn’t mean we need to choose the ‘it’s a hoax’ either. Matthew England is Scientia Professor of Ocean & Climate Dynamics at the University of New South Wales Centre for Marine Science and Innovation, Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, and the global Academic Lead of the International Universities Climate Alliance (IUCA).

    Want to learn more about this week’s guest? X: @ProfMattEngland | LinkedIn


    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) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimate

    @weledaaustralia kicks off from March 31 throughout April 3 - A huge 20% off sitewide with the code LOWTOXLIFE. Grab your favourites, make your swaps to a global leader in regenerative practices that produce powerful skin and health results.

    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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  • 425. Innsæi: The Power of Intuition (and the cost of not harnessing it) with Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir
    Mar 30 2025

    What is your understanding of “Intuition? Do you feel yours is fine tuned?


    Well, it turns out what we ‘think’ is our intuition is often instead our:

    • Instinct - which comes from fear and keeping us ‘safe’
    • Bias influenced by multiple layers of external conditioning
    • Suspicion - seeking the pleasure or assuredness of confirmed bias until we find it
    • Thought - Rationalisation based on what we rationally know rather than what we intuitively know.

    Lately in my own self awareness I’ve been exploring all of these subtly different things that we can confuse with intuition and I found myself asking: Is the cost of ignoring it as great as the power of using it?


    Enter another new favourite human: Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir. Hrund is an Icelandic thought leader, author, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and TED/keynote speaker. She is remodelling our understanding of intuition, through the Icelandic concept of InnSæi. She helps individuals and organisations rethink and reshape their relationship with change, uncertainty, and intuition, bringing together some of the world’s foremost research and practices on the fundamental role intuition plays for our intelligence and in our lives. She is the author of InnSæi the book. Co-director and script writer of the documentary InnSæi: The Power of Intuition, shown on Netflix worldwide.

    Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

    www.hrundgunnsteinsdottir.com

    TED Talk

    insta

    Booktopia


    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
    • @weledaaustralia kicks off from March 31 throughout April - A huge 20% off sitewide with the code LOWTOXLIFE. Grab your favourites, make your swaps to a global leader in regenerative practices that produce powerful skin and health results.


    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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  • 424. Dr. Nayan Patel on Glutathione: Could it be the most important thing we need for health?
    Mar 23 2025

    Who doesn’t want a better quality of life for longer, right?


    This week, we’re talking about oxidative stress and the role of Glutathione:


    • How we get pushed, slowly, slowly out of homeostasis in our first 3 decades of life
    • How the disease/medication cycle is inadequate and we need to focus on homeostasis recalibration to heal, not just manage disease.
    • How a dietary focus on cysteine is the most accessible antioxidant move we all have access to.
    • How glutathione delivery is often not worth the many forms it comes in in supplements.
    • How getting the research right led to some incredible results - especially for his Dad!


    Great ep for the peeps struggling to heal, feel that homeostasis magic or who love the nerdier health topics exploring the latest research.


    Pharmacist Dr Nayan Patel, who felt that after his top university education landed him in the business of maintaining people’s disease conditions (while acknowledging it was of course often life saving), wasn’t happy with ‘sickness management’ and went on to specialising in compounding medicines and supplements working with doctors. He then began researching oxidative stress and extending health span, rather than just life span, which was the start of @aurowellness.

    He recently published his first comprehensive book, The Glutathione Revolution: Fight Disease, Slow Aging & Increase Energy.


    Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

    Website

    Instagram



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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


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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!


    Want to support the Low Tox Life podcast?

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  • 423. Bridging divides and carving a new path for small and medium-sized farms with Brian Reisinger
    Mar 16 2025

    On this week’s show… Something like “being tough on immigration” can so easily become political capital, and, of course no one wants unfettered streams of people, unchecked, moving through one’s country’s borders. But what happens, when a hard-line policy ignores nuance, ignores affected industries and is also hard on human rights while implementing policy? Enter this week’s show guest, Brian Reisinger, author of Land Rich Cash Poor, from a multi-generation farm, a journalist, author and ex White House agricultural policy adviser, who works on building bipartisan support for improving the lives of farmers and the stability of the food system - from access to consumer pricing.


    We need to think more profoundly and go wider in our search to understand a subject, garnering more perspectives on issues before we ‘know them’. Big tech profits from polarisation and sensationalisation. I feel lucky to bring these considered, intelligent deep dives to the show with experts who can explore all aspects of an issue - not just what they want to promote or politicise. So we talk about:

    How the farm seems to have been the way of the past, not the future and how that feels for small and medium farms (across the world)

    How the evaporation of the middle class promise affects city and rural people TOGETHER - not as adversaries.

    How immigration policy affects small/medium farms and policy often fails farms.

    and much more

    Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

    X: @BrianJReisinger | Facebook | Website | Booktopia


    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

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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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    1 h y 11 m
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