063: Andy Hnilo - Generating Healthy Skin Cells, Personal Care Ingredients to Avoid for Healthier Skin, Why Retinol is Bad and What to Use Instead
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Most people know just how important it is to check food labels to see if there are any chemical ingredients lurking inside.
But, for some reason, many don’t carry this important step over to other areas of their life, especially when it comes to skincare products.
As you’ll learn in this episode with Andy Hnilo, the founder of an all-natural skincare line, Alitura Naturals, this is a huge mistake.
And we’re not talking about causing more wrinkles or creating crow’s feet twenty years too early.
Rather, you’ll see that many skincare products out there contain carcinogenic ingredients, which means they have the potential to cause cancer.
And that’s just the beginning sadly.
Andy explains the real impact these fake ingredients have on your health, he shares the worst offenders to avoid starting immediately, and why expensive prescription skincare products aren’t any better.
You’ll also discover the truth about retinol creams and how to find sunscreens that are toxin-free.
If you’re wondering who Andy Hnilo is, he’s a former D1 baseball player who suffered a huge trauma that led him down this path of uncovering the truth about skincare products and the harmful ingredients in them.
He’s made it his mission to provide a healthier alternative that’s GMO and chemical-free. You’ll hear about this and so much more when you check out this episode now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, and thank you for tuning in to the Keto Answer to the Podcast. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your host, Dr. Anthony Guston, and joining me this week is Andy Nilo. |
| 0:14.1 | This is going to be a little bit of a different episode than normal. |
| 0:17.3 | Andy owns a skincare brand called Altura, and I've been asking him to get on the show |
| 0:21.8 | for a very long time, and I've actually been begging him to write a lot of articles for |
| 0:25.9 | our site just because one of the things that people don't understand about health is |
| 0:30.8 | all of the weird things that we put on our skin get absorbed immediately into our blood |
| 0:34.2 | stream and cause a lot of problems. |
| 0:36.7 | So if you are asking, you know, I'm having these weight loss plateaus, like I'm feeling |
| 0:41.4 | still high inflammation and things like that, but then are putting literally hundreds of |
| 0:45.8 | weird chemicals in the body that go into the blood stream and get soaked up and just |
| 0:50.0 | completely trash your brain chemistry, your adrenals, your hormones, all this stuff. |
| 0:54.6 | You know, your body has to work together, and so this is one of the most important things |
| 0:57.9 | that I think people are overlooking. |
| 0:59.3 | So not necessarily about nutrition this one, but probably is going to surprise you regarding |
| 1:04.1 | all the stuff that you put on your face, your skin, everything. |
| 1:06.9 | I mean, this goes for men anyway. |
| 1:09.3 | Andy's story is also pretty incredible. |
| 1:11.5 | The guy is full of passion, and his start and how he got into this is super, super interesting. |
| 1:16.1 | So tune in, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:18.8 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
| 1:22.3 | Perfect Keto is all about making a ketogenic diet healthy and accessible. |
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