About this show:
A treat on the podcast this week as we lift this epic class with @healthykidshappykids renowned paediatrician and author, Dr Elisa Song, out of our Low Tox Kids course vault for you.
With empowering knowledge and upgraded habits, we can keep medications for when they really do save the day – we’re lucky to have them, but the aim is to ensure a ‘genuine need’, not ‘quick repeat fix’ if there’s a broader piece to work on for a better long game.
I never knew with all my migraines in my late teens/early 20s, that burning through a pack of Paracetamol/Codeine combo pills a month was not a great idea for my liver.
I also became resistant to Amoxycillin by 28 with chronic tonsillitis – that’s what led me to naturopathy, learning about immune system strengthening, addressing food intolerances (for me unfortunately gluten) and then going onto look at more day-today products, food, personal care, daily household items and BOOM: Founding the Low Tox Life as a blog in 2009 when I saw how any good-better-best options there were to switch to – and even more now 15 years later!
Since 2014 I’ve been bringing incredible experts together in more structured ways of learning for specific goals away from the internet noise: Information is nothing without an action plan and a relevance to your goals. We have 10 courses at Low Tox Life to help support your goals. Our in house practitioner on team low tox, Lisa Waayer, a naturopath and building biologist, has been hard at work with me these past few months, upgrading our 10 courses to ensure they’re 2025-up-to-date to help our students. Low Tox Kids is SO helpful and this class with Dr Elisa Song from the course is a topic that a lot of parents want help with:
Confidence in a wider range of tools beyond allergy meds, painkillers/fever-reducers and antibiotics for our kids when appropriate.
A physician’s guidance is here to help – as powerful and helpful as it was when we recording this for the Low Tox Kids course 7 years ago!
Other shows I’ve done with Dr Elisa Song:
Immune Health in Kids: https://www.lowtoxlife.com/show-187-dr-elisa-song-on-building-a-healthy-immune-system/
The Allergy Epidemic in Kids:
https://www.lowtoxlife.com/show-379-the-allergy-epidemic-in-our-kids-can-we-fix-it-dr-elisa-song-says-yes/
I hope you find this show as helpful as I know it to have been for me
Alexx x
Connect with Dr Elisa:
Website — https://healthykidshappykids.com/
Instagram — @healthykids_happykids
Alexx Stuart
Founder of Low Tox Life and the Low Tox movement
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Thank you to this month’s show sponsors for helping you make your low tox swaps easier:
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About Dr Elisa Song
Dr. Elisa Song, MD is a Stanford-, NYU-, UCSF-trained integrative paediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert, and most importantly, a mom to 2 thriving children. She is the bestselling author of the Healthy Kids Happy Kids: An Integrative Pediatrician’s Guide to Whole Child Resilience. Dr. Song is on a mission to revolutionise the future of children’s health. She has dedicated her career to helping parents and practitioners bridge the gap between conventional and holistic paediatrics with an evidence-based, paediatrician-backed, parent-approved approach. Dr. Song has lectured around the world at leading integrative and functional medicine conferences and premier parenting events. She has also been featured in hundreds of top podcasts, print and online media outlets including the Wellness Mama podcast, BloomTV, Forbes, Healthline, MindBodyGreen, National Geographic, PopSugar, Parents, Motherly, Parade, Verywell Health, and New York Post.
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About Weleda:
Edible Beauty is a brand I discovered a few years back, and a couple of products in the range have become firm favourites. They’re giving us 30% off for the month of May! How awesome is that? Add it to your cart, then use code LOWTOXLIFE at check out and you’re good to go. They do gorgeous mineral make-up powders, an excellent sunscreen, bronzer drops for an instant glow up, an excellent micro-exfoliant and more.
A little more about Edible Beauty:
- Pure and Edible: All products are made with organic ingredients, vegan, and food-grade ingredients—formulations so pure, you could eat them! BUT also high performance!
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Enjoy, Alexx x
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Title show track, by LIOR.
Love the podcast music? You will hear excerpts from Lior’s track “Caught Up” – go check it out on iTunes or Spotify if you want to hear the whole song or album, Scattered Reflections. Co-written with Cameron Deyell, it’s a great song and I love the reflective energy of it – perfect for the show, right? Enjoy. Lior is always touring, so do check out his website. It is wonderful to hear him sing live, trust me.
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