Low Tox Life
Low Tox Life 2016
Hello! Welcome to the Low Tox Life podcast - the place to bring your low tox life to life across all low tox pillars: Food. Body. Home. Mind. Planet. We cover it all to support you and your goals with some of the best minds in the world joining me each week. I'm Alexx Stuart, your host, and in 2009 I coined the term 'low tox' and started lowtoxlife.com. From there I've created 10 courses and had 2 books published (Low Tox Life and Low Tox Life FOOD; I've written countless research articles and recipes to inspire a low tox life. I am thrilled to bring this podcast to you as an extension of the online community, filled with multi-passionate people from around the world. The concept of living a Low Tox Life is one that rejects perfection, black and white notions of there only being one way to 'do it right'. Instead, we take a relaxed and curious approach to better choices to incorporate into our lives as and if they fit. Low Tox therefore instead of 'no tox' as people come together from all walks of life; from cities to regional and remote areas to work from our overlaps and all be part of the many solutions toward healthy people and planet. Forget wasting time feeling bad about what you're not doing or you didn't know yesterday. Let's feel awesome about what we can learn and do from today! Thanks for being here. I just know you'll be inspired as I am by each show. Enjoy, subscribe, pop the kettle on and most importantly: Welcome!For more, head to www.lowtoxlife.com and for easy back-catalogue exploring of the podcast, by topic type that you're most looking for, head to https://www.lowtoxlife.com/low-tox-life-podcast-index/And if you share a show, be sure to tag me at @lowtoxlife on Instagram so I can share it too! Alexx Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Feb 19, 2017 • 56min
Show #27: Sprinkling meditation through your day with Paul Von Bergen
In this heartfelt personal chat, Alexx discovers Billabong Retreat founder Paul Von Bergen's deeply personal motivations for creating a retreat as well as the rather big learning curves he experienced along his way to a less ‘ego and stuff' driven life.Paul, now a meditation and yoga teacher, was once an ad exec attracting children towards smoking. Paul shares beautiful wisdom to help us all, as he calls it, sprinkle meditation throughout our day along with his favourite breathing exercise to generate true calm (it happens to be Alexx's favourite too!) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 12, 2017 • 56min
Show #26: Food, movement and optimisation with Steph Lowe
This week Alexx chats to Steph Lowe, sports nutritionist and avid proponent for a real, wholefoods approach.What they chat about however, goes beyond the basics and into food for various types of movement goals and habits, ad how best to support your movement with your food choices and vice versa.Covering carbohydrate levels for activity types as well as for fat loss and sugar balancing, it's a chat packed with nuggets to help you towards your best energy and results. Check out the show notes over at https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Feb 5, 2017 • 45min
Show #25: Living simply with Brooke McAlary
In this week's show Alexx chats to Brooke McAlary about how we can incorporate simple ideas and habits into our lives to live, well, more SIMPLY.They discuss her new book “Destination Simple”, practical tips on dealing with overwhelm, making more space in the day to go slow and find a sense of peace as a greater constant for preventative feel good factor as opposed to waiting until you feel overwhelm and then needing SOS time out.It's a beautiful chat full of empowering information to inspire a touch of simple in your day! For your podcast show notes and to grab the book, head to www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 29, 2017 • 54min
Show #24: Ecostore pioneer Malcolm Rands
Alexx loves featuring the odd brand on the show, that is pioneering in some way in the low tox movement.Malcolm Rands started eco brand ecostore with his wife, shipping out of their garage some small batch products for home cleaning. Cut to today and it's a huge business that Malcolm Rands the creator sees as only the beginning to the big picture difference he wants to make, facilitating more socially and ecologically conscious businesses and developing healthy and happy connected communities.It's a super interesting chat with a very smart man, on a life long journey of doing good for people and planet.Find the show notes over at https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jan 22, 2017 • 49min
Show #23: Train your brain to NOT procrastinate
In keeping with the last show of 2016 being on goal setting, the first show this year is on training our brains to not procrastinate, with some delightfully nerdy facts and hacks from neuroscientist Dr Fiona Kerr who explains all things brain is such insightful, totally understandable ways. She shows us how we can build up a resistance to procrastination and become immune to it over time, by gently training our brains to become doers.Learn some truly practical ways to stop putting things off and start your year feeling accomplished and strong in the face of distraction.Show notes and listener survey can be found here https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 18, 2016 • 51min
Show #22: How to achieve goals with Julia Bickerstaff
How to pick a good goal.For the last show of the year, Alexx invites Julia Bickerstaff the queen of effective goal creation and completion, onto the show to discuss why resolutions don't work, why goals that are for too short or long a time frame don't work and to pinpoint the things that actually DO work when it comes to achieving the things we really want to.The Low Tox Life isn't just about food, health and consumer choices, but about feeling good in the skin we're in - our whole life's skin! So when we're constantly down on ourselves or stressed about what we're not achieving, this can affect different areas of our life like our health, so it's important to address the issue of NOT getting stuff done and the unhappiness it brings, and turn our focus to the tools that will help us get stuff done and feel free, accomplished and positive. Doesn't that sound perfect?Pop through to the show notes here and fill out the listener survey and grab today's notes. https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 11, 2016 • 59min
Show #21: Protect your health and empower your self with psychologist Alison Hill
Psychological health is a huge factor in our low tox life and this show, we talk to psychologist Alison Hill to look at how we end up drowning in overwhelm, burn out and things we actually aren't aligned with in both our personal and professional lives.We explore her awesome new book “Stand Out” and delve into super simple strategies to defining what's truly important to you in life, to see how easy it is for you to fill your calendar with things to nourish you and we set a brilliant “line down the middle of a paper” challenge to sort through your regular ‘I do's' over a cup of tea and make 2017 more fulfilling, joyful and empowering. Who doesn't want a whole lot more o' that, right?For full access to links and resources mentioned in today's episode, head over to Low Tox LifeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 4, 2016 • 59min
Show #20: Professor Marc Cohen talks TRUE WELLNESS
Professor Marc Cohen joins Alexx Stuart this week to discuss his incredible career and breath of study to date, as well as what he's found to contribute the most to wellness in his study, patient care, research papers and teachings so far.As well as being a GP, he holds Phd's in Chinese Medicine, Psychological medicine and physiology and works through from patient care, to research, to teaching, association charing to policy making - Without a doubt on of our brightest minds in the quest for making our people and planet healthier, with this show uncovering some crucial basics to achieving wellness.Podcast show notes and partner offer can be found on Low Tox Life.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 27, 2016 • 46min
Show #19: Dr Stephen Sinatra on near death and healing
America's renowned integrative cardiologist is back on the show. Dr Stephen Sinatra and Alexx talk about Stephen's book: Health revelations from heaven and earth.Dr Sinatra's chance meeting with Tommy Rosa, someone who had a profound near-death experience and came back as a powerful healer. He was fascinated by Tommy's gift, and had had a few patients on his operating table who'd had near death experiences themselves - including one who was extremely upset to have been ‘rescued'. Together they decided to explore healing and what lessons we can learn from both heaven and earth to produce the most powerful healing possible.Sinatra shares some incredible stories and principles of healing and how a sense of connectedness is often at the root of great health.Check out the show notes over at https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Nov 20, 2016 • 49min
Show #18: Could Pyrolles be your key to feeling better
This week, Alexx chats to naturopath Jules Galloway.Pyrroles disorder is something, it turns out, many of us have. Problem is, we don't know it and Jules and I connected earlier this year when we were both diagnosed. It has been such a blessing.Also known as kryptopyrroles or pyrrole disorder, pyroluria is an inherited condition where the body makes too much of a substance known as pyrroles, during the everyday production of haemoglobin. These pyrroles bind to your vitamin B6 and zinc, causing these precious nutrients to become excreted rather than absorbed. Eventually the condition manifests as a long term zinc and B6 deficiency, which can have far-reaching consequences for both physical and mental health.Jules and I chat about treatment, identifying you've got it, symptoms and some of the things you can expect to improve if you do have it. It's a great show and if you've ever experienced any mental health challenges or anxiety or symptoms due to these deficiencies, this is something absolutely worth tuning into.Check out the show notes over at https://www.lowtoxlife.com/podcast/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
