Low Tox Life

This week, I welcome one of the most respected voices in regenerative agriculture: Nicole Masters. She’s an agroecologist, educator, systems thinker, and author of For the Love of Soil - one of the best books I read while researching my second book FOOD. With over 25 years of hands-on experience across North America, Australasia and globally, Nicole helps farmers, land stewards and businesses rebuild ecosystems from the ground up - literally.My favourite aspect of Nicole’s genius, is her dot connection and analogies that can engage anyone from anywhere to care deeply for soil and understand why soil health is not just an agricultural concern but a planetary and human-health imperative - there’s no confusion: We must come together, and we must act now to turn the health of soil around to be able to turn our health around, too. We explore what’s happening beneath our feet: the microbial networks, chemical dialogues and nutrient pathways that determine the resilience of entire landscapes, food systems, and ultimately our own bodies.Despite the weight of global environmental challenges, Nicole leaves us with a grounded sense of possibility. Her work demonstrates that nature is astonishingly responsive when we create the conditions for recovery - and that regeneration often begins with surprisingly small, accessible shifts.Whether you’re a farmer, a gardener, a policy-maker or simply someone who eats food and wants a livable planet, this episode offers inspiration, tangible insights, and a renewed sense of agency in a time when many feel helpless.Enjoy the show, Alexx Stuart, Your Host.Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?Show #109: Joel Salatin on food, soil and regenerative effects of working with nature’s systemsShow #416 Tammi Jonas PhD: Designing a Food System for All — Culturally Relevant, Nutritious, and ecologically soundShow #280 – Holistic Healing of People and Planet with Biodynamics Farmer, David McFallShow #136: Charlie Arnott on Regenerative & Biodynamic AgricultureShow #417 From Farm to Eater: Let’s focus on what and who is making a difference when trying to change the food system.And more…Want to learn more about this week’s guest?Website: www.integritysoils.com/coachesInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/Integrity_soilsLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolemasters1Nicole’s book: https://bit.ly/487Z4DbThank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link: https://bit.ly/watersco_autocode@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! 

How much do you know about Homeopathy? Are you in a ‘thats woo woo’ camp? Are you sold and sworn by it? Do you dabble somewhere between those where you’ve found it interesting and even useful at times, but when it comes to putting things in practice confidently and knowing what you can own, vs when you need a practitioner? Well, by the end of this hour of power you will definitely feel more clear and capable of taking the reigns on your health. Marcus Fernandez is a 30+ year homeopath, founder of the UK’s biggest homeopathy school - The Centre for Homeopathic Education - and all round great teacher to help you build your confidence in remedy choosing and usage for you and your family. He emphasises that the body knows how to heal when given the right tools, combining curiosity, compassion, and wisdom to make natural health both practical and deeply human.Loved this conversation, the empowerment that came from it + hope you do too!Alexx Stuart, Your HostFancy a few more shows related to this one?Show #411 Homeopathy – An energetic superpower: But how?Show #301 – Julia Edgely: The Power of HomeopathyShow #306 – Julia Edgely: Broadening Your Understanding Of Homeopathy For Viral & Bacterial InfectionsWant to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: https://marcus-fernandez.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marcusfndez/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Homeopathy-at-Home Their book: https://bit.ly/4hku8SW Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link - https://bit.ly/watersco_autocode @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! 

You have to see it to be it, right? Well for the better world we want and more prosperous, healthy communities we want to be, this week gives you exactly that sense of optimism that it’s possible to build. “Serenbe” just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, was an idea that instead of ‘urban sprawl’ with endless streets of concrete, houses and lawns, towns could be built to preserve 70% agriculture/green spaces while also bringing in the best of what connected us to each other in cities, through healthy commerce, arts, sports and education. I first brought Steve Nygren’s Serenbe story to the Show #143 7 years ago - a very worthwhile listen for the full backstory of how it came to be. Now, 20+ years on, Steve is on a legacy mission to ensure people feel that change is possible if you do this one thing: START IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD. He speaks and consults globally on healthy land development for people and planet, and now has a book in hand to inspire millions.  Steve helps people model beneficial ways to both preserve and develop land by focusing on the 12 Biophilic Development Principles that are implemented in the Serenbe community.If you find yourself often consumed and feeling hopeless by what’s going on ‘out there,’ come spend an hour with us to focus on your power, your agency and your influence right where you are. I hope you’re as inspired by Steve’s message as I have been since coming across his story. Alexx xFancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?- Show #146: Utopian community of Serenbe with Steve Nygren- Show #193 – Teresa Coady on Rebuilding Earth: Designing Eco Conscious Habitats for HumansWant to learn more about this week’s guest?Website: https://stevenygren.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenygren/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenygren/Steve’s new book: https://bit.ly/4lqfry5Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link in bio. @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! 

Heart Health and Repair - A naturopathic approach on this show. It’s packed with practical support you can implement from today, as well as speak to your practitioner more confidently about.Kath McFarlane’s first career was on the chaotic trading floor of the stock market as an investment banker… until she felt she felt naturopathy was a better fit, with a focus on helping people uncover the underlying drivers of their complex health challenges and supporting wellness through evidence-informed, natural approaches. Practising for nearly 20 years, she’s helped people through all ages, stages and challenges, and today we talk HEARTS. The kind of blood you do NOT want to have and what to doWomen’s and men’s heart disease patterns: differences and best places to focusWhat’s happening 2 decades before you end up in ERWhy baseline scans in your early 40s matter (and why worrying about radiation from the scan is the wrong focus!) What you can do to repair minor disease processes and what to talk to your practitioner aboutDietary approaches that are proven for heart healthGut health - of course! Stress - there it is!So practical. So proactive. Join us and improve your heart health todayEnjoy and share the showAlexx Stuart, your host. Fancy a few more podcasts we’ve done over the years, related to this one?- Show #13: Dr Stephen Sinatra on Holistic Heart Health - Show #91: Men’s health with Dr Ralph Esposito Part 1: sex hormones, fertility, check ups and prostate- Show #102: Men’s health part 2 – Brain + Heart with Dr Ralph Esposito Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: https://www.kathleenmcfarlane.com.au/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/naturopath.kath Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link here.@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! 

Men, and those who love them, listen up! The stats show us that men’s concern for their health tends to be a case of “I’m fine… I’m invincible… crisis…ok I guess something has to change”. But what if we could focus on the most important things to have a prevention strategy in place? Gerald Quigley is back on the show, with a 40+ year career as both a pharmacist and master herbalist, to help men feel clear on what matters in a prevent strategy including: What you need to test and how oftenWhat lifestyle levers tend to be the most important onesHow to understand results and what to do about themWhat issues tend to overwhelm or worry men to the point of avoidanceHow to worry less I hope you find it useful and share with the men in your life! Gerald has a wonderful easy going approach to empowering people into action rather than scaring us into paralysis. Alexx StuartYour Host & Founder of Low Tox LifeWant to learn more about this week’s guest? Website: houseofwellness.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therealgeraldquigley Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link - https://bit.ly/watersco_autocode@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! 

The power of seeds to future proof our food system. That’s what we’re looking at in this show. If you’ve ever tasted an heirloom vegetable or fruit, you’ll know it. Somehow more delicious, more intense in flavour, the power of the heirloom seed grown in healthy soil is something everyone deserves to connect with.  Ambre Whatley joins us - naturopath, herbalist and CEO of Eden Seeds Australia, to inspires us with:How easy it is to take part in seed saving and swappingHow important it is to preserve heirloom seeds and their storiesHow our corporate food system benefits few in the longrun and what we can all do to fall in love with and defend the right to save seeds into the future.What some of the stories are behind some of Ambre’s favourite seeds - “The Mortgage lifter” the “Mostola Wild Goose Bean” and more.  Join us. It’s a good-for-the-soul, people and planet show for us all as we unite in our love of food and the right to nutrition, affordable healthy food for all.Alexx Stuart, your host ❤️Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edenseedsau Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@edenseeds Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! @WatersCoFilters take everything you don’t want OUT, put precious trace minerals back IN and give you a clean water solution for any situation and budget - drinking & shower. 15% of site wide Nov 1-Dec 15. Code LOWTOX15% or use the auto-applied discount link: https://bit.ly/watersco_autocode@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! 

Does everything hurt and you feel like you’re in a ‘down hill from here’ phase of life? Nope. You need this week’s show if those thoughts have been creeping in!Enter Dr Jocelyn Wittstein, M.D., an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Duke University School of Medicine. She has been in practice since 2010 and is fellowship trained in sports medicine. She’s a clinician researcher with NIH funded research in ACL injury, sex differences in ACL injury, and cartilage health and she also studies the intersection of women's health and musculoskeletal health. I grilled her for as much as we could get through in an hour for us. We unpack: 🦴 The big players behind musculoskeletal pain and degeneration 💥 How to prevent issues before they start - osteoperosis & arthritis are NOT inevitable 💫 How to heal and rebuild when things go wrongShe’s one of the key voices revealing the estrogen–frozen shoulder connection and pioneering better musculoskeletal care for women through sports, midlife and beyond.It’s one hour that could change how you move — and how you age.Tune in and share it with every woman and girl you know so we can change the story! 🎧Enjoy the show, Alexx Stuart, your host. Want to learn more about this week’s guest? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jocelyn_wittstein_md Their book: https://bit.ly/423u43M Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! 15% off site-wide @blockbluelight_official with code LOWTOXLIFE to help you with your lighting, sleep, health and skin goals enhanced by the RIGHT light - If you haven’t tried a blue-light free evening, I genuinely recommend that you do. Enjoy this INTERNATIONAL offer. https://bit.ly/4cRGf6d @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! 

“Why don’t you just go mix up those horsefeathers in your backroom or whatever it is you do” Andrea said to the naturopath after he suggested she become a naturopath. She laughed it off quickly that day, but here we are today, speaking with her, now 40 years into being a naturopathic physician. Dr Andrea Sullivan is a phoenix who’s risen from more than one pile of ashes to be the wise sage joining us for this show. We begin with a fascinating dive into African herbal medicine and the lengths the African people went to to secretly bring their plant medicines across to America when being brought over as slaves. We then speak about how Andrea came to study naturopathy after being the first African American woman student at the University of Philadelphia to get her PhD in sociology and criminology, having to sit through lectures about how black people were more disposed to crime because of their ‘smaller brains’. Naturopathy was no easy feat by comparison, as a student, but she has now practiced for 40 years and counting. We go on to explore pearls of wisdom from her second book, the Sacrifices of Superwomen, There is a common lived experience for women everywhere of often putting themselves last - sound familiar? Andrea’s strategies are simple, accessible and free from expensive interventions, protocols or supplements, that you can start today! I hope you love the show as I loved recording with Andrea, Alexx, your host. Want to learn more about this week’s guest? https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-andrea-sullivan/ https://www.youtube.com/@dr.andreasullivan5530 Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! \15% off site-wide @blockbluelight_official with code LOWTOXLIFE to help you with your lighting, sleep, health and skin goals enhanced by the RIGHT light - If you haven’t tried a blue-light free evening, I genuinely recommend that you do. Enjoy this INTERNATIONAL offer. https://bit.ly/4cRGf6d @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! 

Marianne Williamson has been a force for good for decades. The author of 16 books, 4 of which are New York Times best sellers, running for President, twice, thousands of events and countless free lives and blogs almost daily for her global audience… She has also been a grass roots activist, from facilitating nearly 20 million meal services for palliative care patients and their families across LA, she co-founded The Peace Alliance in 2004, supporting the creation of a U.S. Departmentof Peace, and hosted The Sister Giant Conferences that introduced thousands ofwomen to ways they could participate more effectively in the political process.Marianne asks of us to assess our spiritual fitness for these times. Mean spiritedness and outragePolarisationOthering and dehumanisingIdeology and dogma over spirituality and common overlapsEnvironmental degradationHuman rights erosionBig tech power and privacy encroachment in our daily livesA sense there’s nothing that can be doneIf you’re living in 2025, it’s a lot. And so, what can we do? This show is to help inspire us to pick things and DO them. I hope you find it useful and inspiring in your own life. Alexx Stuart, Your HostWant to learn more about Marianne Williamson? Book a ticket for her upcoming Australian tour here: https://bit.ly/MarianneAUSTOURWebsite: https://marianne.com/ Instagram or LinkedIn: https://www.instagram.com/MarianneWilliamson Substack: MarianneWilliamson.Substack.com Thank you to this month’s show partners for joining us to help you make your low tox swaps! 15% off site-wide @blockbluelight_official with code LOWTOXLIFE to help you with your lighting, sleep, health and skin goals enhanced by the RIGHT light - If you haven’t tried a blue-light free evening, I genuinely recommend that you do. Enjoy this INTERNATIONAL offer. https://bit.ly/4cRGf6d @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 - I love to see what you’re loving from the shows!