In this engaging discussion, microbiologist Kiran Krishnan dives into the intricacies of leaky gut, skin, and brain. He explains how compromised barrier functions lead to chronic health issues and emphasizes that treating symptoms isn't enough. Kiran highlights the interconnectedness of gut health with skin and brain well-being, recommending dietary adjustments and the importance of a diverse microbiome. Listeners will gain practical insights into managing their health through better lifestyle choices and understanding their body's mechanisms.

This week we talk MILK with @fat_pig_farm Matthew Evans - the dairy kind, the plant kind and the many aspects to consider when considering either. Do you consume dairy products? Do you have issues with lactose, casein or both? Do you think plant milks are nutritious and planet-friendly? Do you think plant milk has a lighter footprint? Do you think Raw milk is safe? Dangerous? We go everywhere on the topic of milk and Matthew’s research into the topic for his latest book, MILK, is thorough and revealing as well as appealing to the deep thinker and person who wants a truer food system. Matthew Evans is a Tasmanian food writer, television broadcaster and chef who lives and works on Fat Pig Farm, a soil-to-stomach regenerative farm and restaurant. He’s been the host of six series of Gourmet Farmer and two documentaries on SBS TV. Matthew is the author of 15 books on food, including On Eating Meat, and his latest cookbook, the updated and revised The Real Food Companion. His book SOIL is a hymn to the remarkable, and underappreciated bit of Earth that gifts us life. His most recent book, MILK, unpacks the truth and lies behind the original superfood.Matthew’s Website — https://fatpig.farm/ . His Books are also available on Amazon.com.Enjoy and let me know what you found most interesting about this exploration. Alexx xThank you to this month’s show sponsors: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@waterscofilters From August 1 to September 15 you have 12% off all new @waterscofilters water filters, including their under-sink and shower filters. Use code LOWTOXLIFE at the check out. Filter out all the nasties, add back in 60+ trace minerals + upgrade your water. https://bit.ly/3WJvOgd@ediblebeautyau is a naturopath-crafted personal care & makeup brand with plenty to rave about. They’re giving us a $79 product for FREE which happens to be my fave in their range (ok, it was my idea! Hehe) Add it to your cart, then all you have to do is spend $75 on whatever else you fancy trying or stocking up on from their range; use code LOWTOXLIFE at check out and hey presto: The price of the serum will magically become $ZERO https://bit.ly/3yxNC4uBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are you frustrated with the medical system when it comes to chronic illness? Perhaps frustrated with the obvious hold industry has over public service institutions? What if you had the power to cultivate a level of safety for your system that helped you feel more well and resilient in today’s world and less reliant on the system in the first place? Today we explore both of these with Dr Olivia Lesslar. Olivia and I discuss: There is a need for more nuance and deeper thinking in medicine today and in what the public takes to be ‘truth,’ whether that be believing something is a silver bullet fix, ‘bad food’, or ‘safe and effective medication’. We ALL need to think more. We look at the path from the research lab to product to clinician and how we can do better in that processWe look at how caring for patients has lost its way, so often reading for symptoms that match up with medication and not seeing the nuance or the opportunities to build a greater independence from needing external medication. We look at the conundrum for many: Complex illness requiring expert clinicians and cost often being prohibitive: Of course the doctors are worth it for all the study and experience they bring, but at the same time, often being a last resort, patients with chronic illness have limited funds. We look at safety signaling in the body and how we can cultivate a mindset of health by looking to the emerging and established evidence in neuro/immune connectionHow can I be less breakable and shakable? Working on that is one of the most powerful health cultivation focuses we can have. A powerFULL episode for all inspired towards a better model of healthcare, and a world with fewer people suffering chronic illness. Thank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low-tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@waterscofilters From August 1 to September 15 you have 12% off all new @waterscofilters water filters, including their under-sink and shower filters. Use code LOWTOXLIFE at the check out. Filter out all the nasties, add back in 60+ trace minerals + upgrade your water. Enjoy! https://bit.ly/3WJvOgd@ediblebeautyau is a naturopath-crafted personal care & makeup brand with plenty to rave about. They’re giving us a $79 product for FREE which happens to be my fave in their range (ok, it was my idea! Hehe) Add it to your cart, then all you have to do is spend $75 on whatever else you fancy trying or stocking up on from their range; use code LOWTOXLIFE at check out and hey presto: The price of the serum will magically become $ZERO https://bit.ly/3yxNC4uBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What a rite of passage should be: A powerful graduation into a new phase of life - something one grows into and is supported into during the transition. What they often are instead because we lack proper rites of passage?A piss up for your 18th or 21st with gloating about who got the drunkestA sexual encounter you might not feel ready for but ‘all your friends have’ and you’re X age now, so you feel you have to or should want to. Depression or anxiety because of a lack of support into a new chapter (adulthood, parenthood, elder life). As a couple of examples… This week, we talk about how long-standing community GP Dr Arne Rubinstein started noticing his patients were suffering all sorts of unhealthy situations in their lives. Many of them stemmed from a lack of solid grounding and really getting to ‘grow up’ properly or enter new phases in life. They lacked recognition, transition, and community support. Arne founded the Rites of Passage Institute as a result and for 3 decades has now been taking groups around the world through programs to reintroduce this vital acknowledgement of growth and ceremony and honouring into our lives and the world is better for his work. I hope you love this conversation as much as I did hosting it. You won’t leave without a thought or two very much provoked, that much I can promise you. Connect with Arne and his team’s work at the Rites of Passage Institute to learn more. Head to the shownotes on lowtoxlife.com/podcast to download the resources - Golden Check In and 7 Parenting Strategies. Thank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@waterscofilters 12% off all new systems from Waters Co for the month of August till September 15 - CODE LOWTOXLIFE - A market-leading filter solution for every budget - not just taking hte bad stuff out, but putting all the good minerals IN for optimal hydration. Enjoy!@ediblebeautyau Receive a free Exotic Goddess SerumBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode.q Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Habit-making / Habit breaking got you down? This week’s new show is for everyone who’s ever made or broken a habit - or felt like they’re a constant failure at doing so. You are not the failure! One curve ball moment, day or week where you don’t stick to your plan doesn’t mean “you have failed and it’s over”. The cookie-cutter approach to habits is the failureI’m genuinely excited to bring you this conversation and the insights that will help any type of person move the needle in the ways you seek to in your life. @drginacleo has a PhD in Habits, and her work, her book and this show help everyone find success regarding habits. She is passionate about translating scientific evidence into simple, actionable strategies to help improve health, wellness, mindset, and lifestyle-related habits – long-term.Gina has a PhD in habit change, is an Adjunct Professor at Bond University and is an Accredited Dietitian who has recently published a book, The Habit Revolution.Enjoy the show + tag me @lowtoxlife on Instastories with your shares and highlights from it. Are you a fellow tooth-brushing overthinker like us? This was possibly my favourite revelation. It’s not just me! Alexx xThank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@koalaeco gives you 25% off all of July CODE: LOWTOXLIFE. It’s a delicious range of home and personal care products using no new plastic, fake fragrances, dyes, harmful preservatives or phosphates. I’m a bit obsessed with their clothes-washing liquid, stain spray and doggy wash are all on repeat order at our house! https://bit.ly/KoalaEcoBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pop Quiz: How do you feel about aging? Do you feel bad about your age? Wish you were younger? Go to serious lengths to come across as younger? Did you turn 32 AGAIN this year? This week’s show, @carlhonore invites us to stop buying into the cult of youth, and explore what the world might look like when we do. If you’d love nothing more than to change the way you view ageing, change the things you say about age, brush off the pressure to be ‘young’ then join us. Words like vitality, energy, enthusiasm, vibrancy and ‘crushing it’ don’t belong to any age - they belong to the people who embody them at any age. Carl has always made us think through his books, and challenge how we think about and do things. In Praise of Slow, challenged Hustle Culture; his book “Bolder” in 2018 challenges us to rethink aging and the notion that at a certain point we should be put out to pasture. I know you’ll love this chat. So good. Can’t wait to hear what ahas come from it for you. Alexx xThank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@koalaeco gives you 25% off all of July CODE: LOWTOXLIFE. It’s a delicious range of home and personal care products using no new plastic, fake fragrances, dyes, harmful preservatives or phosphates. I’m a bit obsessed with their clothes-washing liquid, stain spray and doggy wash are all on repeat order at our house! https://bit.ly/KoalaEcoBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nervous system, somatics and what true regulation means. We go there again with a brilliant practitioner. It’s a biggy this week. It’s going to be a cause for reflection and compassion for many of us, I think! I wanted to have @irenelyon on the show because I’ve become concerned myself about AI and the impact on education online - models hired to demo a few ‘easy exercises’ to regulate system and modules churned out by computers, funnels built by bots and everything geared to algorithm eye catching… it’s the Wild West out there and we’re playing with humans who actually need support. What people ‘think’ doing work to regulate the system might have gone through to need it: WarPhysical or mental abuseDifficult experiences around big moves, big illnesses, bullyingCrime or violence committing, “troubled youth”.What experiences also can mean regulation work can be neededIllness, surgery, difficult birthsContact sportsShaming or being in the care of “overreacting adults” as a childBeing left to cry oneself to sleep as a babyHead trauma such as a fall/hitting head Break ups, grief, job lossAnd the list goes on! We unpack the many ways to know if you’re connecting with a good person/platform to work with - how to spot ‘quick fixing red flags on the internet’ and then some of the common situations where people go through every possible treatment for whatever it is they’re experiencing as adults, only to find it stems from dysregulation. I hope you love the show as much as I love bringing this one to you, Alexx xThank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, 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@koalaeco gives you 25% off all of July CODE: LOWTOXLIFE. It’s a delicious range of home and personal care products using no new plastic, fake fragrances, dyes, harmful preservatives or phosphates. I’m a bit obsessed with their clothes-washing liquid, stain spray and doggy wash are all on repeat order at our house! https://bit.ly/KoalaEcoBe sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lara Briden discusses metabolic health, emphasizing personal needs over willpower, sleep's impact, and societal pressures. She shares tips, hacks, and the importance of a relaxed state for metabolic function. Lara challenges common protocols and highlights the need for individualized approaches. The podcast covers culture, evolution, and the role of fat storage. Listen for real talk on metabolic health and implementing practical tips.

Have you ever felt super passionate about making a change for people or planet in the low tox sphere, only for it to land like a lead brick with your kids, partner, family or friends?Maybe you’ve joined groups, watched documentaries, and read books, and you can’t understand why people aren’t excited? Maybe your family members think you’re overreacting, or an annoying parent/partner just wanting to buy lots of things we don’t need or trying to make everyone do more in an already busy day? Or making up problems when you could "paint over it" (hellooooo mould remediation discussions!).  Whatever it is, in this week’s show, I tackle the first 10 of 20 of the most common objections from family members across all low tox topics and how to make a case for change! The next 10 will be in Part 2 soon. The 10 situations in Part 1 are:Kids with friends obsessed with a certain drink bottleA teen in the cool gang and the gang are starting to vape or use synthetic fragrance sprays. Little Kid starting to get fussy about food once they see how/what other kids eatNarrow diet - encouraging broader variety in kids!Teens and microtrendsPersonal care/hygiene with teensThen at home...Getting new appliances - generalJustifying dehumidifiers/air filtersNon Stick pan upgradesBuilding a case for maintenanceTo be continued!Today is about creating low toxic unity, not ‘annoying overreactor division’, Alexx xThank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier: @ausclimate gives you 10% off their range for the whole of 2024, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their new energy-efficient heating range. code LOWTOXLIFE https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimateIf you’re dealing with eczema, dermatitis, rosacea, psoriasis, dry flaking skin or radiotherapy recovery and you haven’t yet tried @biofirstofficial - you might find your “Finally, something that works!” solution. 15% off till July 7 AUS/USA/NZ CODE: LOWTOXLIFE. https://bit.ly/3ydRS8T@koalaeco gives you 25% off all of July CODE: LOWTOXLIFE. It’s a delicious range of home and personal care products using no new plastic, fake fragrances, dyes, harmful preservatives or phosphates. I’m a bit obsessed with their clothes-washing liquid, stain spray and doggy wash - all on repeat at our house! https://bit.ly/KoalaEco.Be sure to join me on Instagram @lowtoxlife and tag me with your shares and AHAs of this week’s episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Microbiologist Kiran Krishnan discusses the importance of gut bacteria balance, immune system resilience, and the risks of restrictive diets. The conversation explores microbial diversity, the gut/immune connection, and strategies for maintaining a healthy microbiome. Part 1 of the detailed discussion invites listeners to consider the impact of food variety on overall well-being and highlights the significance of building resilience for occasional indulgences.