Cult thinking. Groupthink. Black and white thinking. “Loud, vocal thinkers’ and how extreme sound bites dominate the modern media landscape thanks to algorithms, painting a ‘majority picture’ when most people are not living out those extremes in day-to-day lives.

It’s quite a time to be alive, and also a time when it’s very easy to let the fear of something cloud our ability to judge the reality of a situation fully. Is “Apatheism” a new way forward? I’ve always been fascinated by people we turn into our saviours and gurus, as well as charismatic authoritarians who sweep in and seduce us in our personal or collective vulnerable times.. That moment we start rationalising and making excuses for a cult leader, where perhaps a couple of years ago, we’d have been dead against that very thing/person we now defend.

On Monday, I explore the murky waters of freedom, autonomy, cults and social systems with Professor of Political Science and Constitutional Law, Adam Scott Kunz, who specialises in cults and political philosophy and has worked alongside the famed Dr Janja Lalich, considered a global authority on cults, until her recent retirement.

This show is NOT an attack on anyone, your beliefs, your religion, the diet you feel healthiest on or other held views, but a show to see how we can ensure we are “critical thinking” and not just believing we are, and how we can balance beliefs with values with freedom and come together on common overlaps that benefit us all and how we all struggle with freedom and belonging and ‘others’. One thing I know for sure after this conversation is that the best thing is to know we don’t know anything for sure. So there you go!

I hope you tune into this fascinating exploration… Alexx x

Want to learn more about this week’s guest?

Website: www.adamkunz.com

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Can one podcast hour cover how eating carbs before bed likely puts you in progesterone deficiency and explain the many reasons that play into a female “turning out to be them/do what they do” in life?

Yep. @leahhectman and I start with ‘what happens from the moment you have the extra X chromosome and are defined as female, and go where the exploration took us: It’s quite a ride.

You were never meant to be like ‘every other female’. What a relief. This week we unpack this science - there’s so much more that makes you, you and I hope, even for all humans, it makes you feel empowered to know how much plays into ‘you-ness’, whatever your sex or gender.

This week with Dr Leah Hechtman, we learn the many things that make us our unique selves when we have the XX chromosome:

• Hormone receptors + qty of them for different hormones, unique to you!
• Types of hormones,
• Metabolic type
• Genes
• Life stages and transitions
• Environmental inputs laid over the top of these…

You were never meant to be like every other female. There is a reason you’re you and, as you might have guessed, it’s due to many things. The rising awareness of the perimenopause/menopause experience adds the need to ensure we feel ‘true to ourselves’ on that journey into a new life chapter, however we choose to navigate that.

Enjoy the show. Tell your friends - it’s knowledge and understanding everyone should have.

Alexx Stuart,

Your Host.

Connect with Leah:

Instagram— @drleahhechtman

Website— drleahhechtman.com

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Booktopia

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