Low Tox Life

Jenny Smith @mouldconsultancy has been an HVAC specialist (heating/ventilation/air conditioning) for decades - she’s had clients from NASA to the biggest commercial property developers and even wrote the manual on A/C split system installation for Australia in the early 2000s. And then there was mould and becoming gravely ill to the point she was falling asleep at the wheel and couldn’t walk. She tells that story but also of a pivot to building biology, education and what she’s had build as her home to be well. While this show is going to be incredibly inspiring for people who have fallen very ill due to water damage and those nasty types of species that grow in those situations that can really mess with our health and cause multi-system symptom mahem, it’s also for: People who want to learn some of the places we don’t realise need a good clean.People who want to learn about some of the design features in modern homes that have caused so many water leaking problems. Dehumidifier tips and tricks including cleaning themAnd more. Don’t be overwhelmed by the lengths Jenny has to go for her health when you listen to this week’s show. DO be inspired by her incredible knowledge and some of the things you’ll be able to take away and start doing in your own home. Alexx xFancy a few more podcasts and resources we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Show #483. Preventing common health hazards in your home with Dr Nicole BijlsmaShow #481. PJ Harlow: Turn your home cleaning, disinfecting efforts into health-building ritualsShow #361 Alexx Stuart – Mould and Humidity FAQsHumidity Exposure Mould PreventionPart 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7Part 8Part 9Part 1010 ways to avoid mould/water damaged buildings when hunting for a propertySo you think you’ve got Mould?Have You Looked behind Your Fridge?Before you Spray Vinegar, Watch this.Stop Running Your AC Below 22°Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mouldconsultancy?_r=1&_t=ZS-97It2Gxuk1h Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mouldconsultancy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mouldavoidanceconsultancy/ Website: https://www.mouldconsultancy.com.au/ 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/ShopAusclimateBe 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!

“Stop and smell the roses” is a familiar phrase, yet today’s guest challenges us to make the “roses” our default mode rather than something we try to remember to do. Say What? So… If you feel like you’re trying to stand still on ever-moving ground…Or perhaps, you feel like, on paper, what you’ve achieved should ‘feel more satisfying and less exhausting or lacking’, or that you perhaps don’t deserve to feel content or happy in today’s world, and you find yourself worrying about ‘everything’, then this show is a recommended prescription. I recently came across Joe DeNicholas, MBA, LCSW, whose work bridges the worlds of science, secular spirituality, and psychological healing. Joe believes it’s not only possible but essential to cultivate and connect more often to our ‘ok-ness’ and so he helps people to do that in his work every day and in his book Unbreakable Wellbeing. I felt truly challenged by the idea of even deserving to work on connecting to my ‘ok-ness’ more often before my conversation with Joe; ‘whattabouting’ all the things I find gravely unjust, and worried it would come across as spiritual bypassing to air a show like this, but it turns out: Joe’s approach might just help us make the world a better place. We look at our personal barriers, frame ourselves within the big world without losing ourselves, and learn a couple of very simple exercises we can use to reconnect to a trust that we’re ok. And that, my lovely listeners, is this week’s show. I know we all need it. Take us for a walk and let yourself trust that you’re ok. Alexx StuartYour HostFancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Show #390 Somatics: How to Make your Journey Real and True with Irene Lyon, MSc.Show #408 What would it look like for you to be completely recovered? Thought Field Therapy with Dr Robert BrayShow #479. Feeling Fearful? Drained? Katie Hendricks Ph.D. is here to help with her 50+years of expertise.Want to learn more about this week’s guest? LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-denicholas Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unbreakable.wellbeing Website: www.unbreakableinc.com Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, 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/ShopAusclimateBe 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!

Wow have I got a powerful woman, story and show for us this week. (SA warning)Kerrie Searle was abused when working in the Victorian Police Force, by a senior leader. The experience, and the road to getting justice, left her with severe PTSD, in hospital and heavily medicated. From this awful time came a powerful healing journey that led to Kerrie realising she ‘understood’ animals and could speak with them - she started to understand plants and trees too. And so, we talk about abuse, grief, overcoming awful things that happen and how there can be a lot of good life awaiting us in the brave steps along a difficult path - and? If we tune into our intuition. If you have found yourself stuck in victim mode, in depression, in patterns or grief that owns you, it’s a very powerful show as Kerrie shares her story. It’s also a beautiful show for anyone who loves animals or wants to connect more deeply with the natural world of which we are of course a part - even though we try so hard to fool ourselves otherwise…I hope you love it, Alexx StuartLow Tox Life Founder & Podcast HostFancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Show #454 Dr Katherine Willow – A new way to approach disease, healing and deathShow #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 SheatreatWant to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: www.animal-communicator.com.au Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/kerrie.searle.1 Kerrie Searle Animal Communicator Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.@ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their energy-efficient heating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (also works over and above most sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimateBe 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!

Catie Gett is a naturopath, author and founder of The Staple Store who has made a radical change to her mission. One day, a delivery drive of orders when the courier didn’t come, made her reckon with her younger self who wanted to have a big impact and change the world: This wasn’t changing the world, it was catering to a small group of people who could afford “the best”. In this conversation, Catie and I both share, what it’s meant to have to significantly pair back in our own lives for different reasons, and the gift that has come from finding ways to optimise creatively to do health in the most affordable, simple way possible. You’ll learn: The No.1 Skill that means you can eat nourishing foods, even living below the poverty line. The way Catie has transitioned to writing a cook book that includes white flour and sugar, when her ‘5 years ago self’ would have condemned those ingredients. The unexpected magic in remembering how simple food and life can be and how accessible the most important health-promoters are to everyone.The importance of voting with your dollar and buying the best quality produce and ingredients if you can - but the equal importance of relaxing into whatever the ‘best you can’ looks like, too. This show is for anyone who’s ever felt pressured to live beyond their means to “do things right” or who feels that they’re failing if they’re not doing ‘all the things’. Pull up a pair of head phones and a healing walk in nature and let’s actually change the world, in the different ways each of us can. Alexx StuartYour HostFancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Show #476. A better food system for ALL isn’t about ‘hope’ with farmer Nick HollidayShow #440 What would your dream grocery store be like? Let’s build it with Jon SteinmanShow #416 Tammi Jonas PhD: Designing a Food System for All — Culturally Relevant, Nutritious, and ecologically soundShow #376 Can “Frugal” mean “Abundance”? Jen and Jill from Frugal Friends say YESWant to learn more about this week’s guest? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestaplestore https://www.instagram.com/catie_gett Website: https://thestaplestore.com.au/ Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.@ausclimate is our major partner, giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, with brilliant Winix Air Purifiers, the best Dehumidifiers I’ve ever used and their energy-efficient heating range. code LOWTOXLIFE (also works over and above their sales - pro tip!) https://bit.ly/ShopAusclimateBe 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!

Concerned about plastics in the environment? In you? Today is the story of how two scientists embarked on a journey to bind plastics so our body excretes them instead of absorbing them. Drs. Nicholas Monsul (Yale University & The Johns Hopkins Hospital) and Dr Eva Berkes (Scripts Inst.) are physician-scientists and co-founders of Quorum Innovations, a biotechnology company working with bacteria to achieve extraordinary results. They have an innovative biofilm, postbiotic technology that binds 98% microplastics in the digestive tract with human trial results now live and a recently published paper.This is the first publication to demonstrate a technology capable of binding plastics to a bacterium in the digestive tract, in humans. The paper is currently under review in the Journal “Frontiers of Microbiology”. Very exciting stuff and I can’t wait for you to dive into the show. Alexx StuartYour Hosthttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.11.724280v1 Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: quourminnovations.com  and Qi601.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qi601_ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Qi601 Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @waterscofilters helps you take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending on which water filter you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > 15% off when you tick subscription on any new filter until 30th of June. That’s 15% off the new filter + refills thereafter for the life of the subscription to the replacements.@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/ShopAusclimateBe 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!

This week, I’m joined by Dr Nicole Bijlsma for a deep dive into the invisible threats in our homes and how to minimise risk: mold, electromagnetic fields (EMFs), dust mites, and poor air quality, and how they’re so often missed by doctors and naturopaths alike.Nicole shared her powerful story of turning personal health battles into a mission to educate others, emphasising that exposure history is the key to uncovering root causes of chronic illness.We tackled the alarming effects of Wi-Fi and baby monitors on sleep, with Nicole’s groundbreaking research showing how even adults are impacted by EMFs: disrupting non-REM sleep and increasing insomnia risk within just seven nights.Practical, actionable advice: HEPA vacuums, hard-wired tech, and proper ventilation are non-negotiables, especially in humid climates like Sydney. Nicole also broke down how to manage dust mites, maintain mattresses, and avoid steam cleaning carpets (a hidden mold risk!).There’s hope on the horizon: New Work Health and Safety legislation now classifies mold as a biological hazard, giving renters and homeowners stronger rights to demand proper remediation.Nicole’s call to action? Educate yourself, document everything, and push back using the right language because your health is worth the fight.This episode is packed with eye-opening insights and tools to help you create a safer, healthier home. Don’t miss it!Alexx StuartYour Host, Low Tox LifeFancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Podcast #52: Electromagnetic frequencies with Building Biologist Nicole BijlsmaShow #145: Nicole Bijlsma on the potential dangers of 5GWant to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: www.buildingbiology.com.au Instagram: www.instagram.com/homehealthdoc/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/nicolebijlsma1/Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @waterscofilters giving you additional cashback on any new system you buy on subscription. Take all the contaminants out + keep all the deeply hydrating minerals IN with 7-15 stages of filtration, depending which one you choose. Head to waterscoaustralia.com.au > select a new filter on filter refill subscription = big savings of 15%+. Then, email info@waterco.com.au with code LOWTOXWATER + your order number = get 5% extra, cashback. @ausclimate is our major partner giving you 10% off their range for the whole of 2026, 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/ShopAusclimateBe 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!