Welcome to episode 144 of the Intermentant fasting Podcast.

If you want to burn fat, gain energy, and enhance your help by changing when you eat, not what you eat, with no calorie counting, then this show is for you.

I'm Melanie Avalon, author of what, win, wine, lose weight and feel great

with paleo-style meals, intermittent fasting, and wine. And I'm here with my co-host, Jen Stevens, author of Delay Don't Deny, Living and Interment

Fasting Lifestyle. For more on us, check out I.F. podcast.com, Melanie Avalon.com, and Jen Stevens.com.

Please remember. The thoughts and opinions on this podcast do not constitute medical advice or treatment. So pour yourself a cup of

black coffee, a mug of tea, or even a glass of wine. If it's that time and get ready for the intermittent fasting

podcast.

Hi friends, are you fasting clean inside and out?

So when it comes to weight loss, we focus a lot on what and when we eat. It makes

sense because these foods affect our hormones and how our bodies store and burn fat.

But do you know what is possibly one of the most influential factors in weight gain and it's not your food and it's not fasting?

It's actually our skin care and makeup.

So as it turns out, Europe has banned over a thousand compounds found in

conventional skin care and makeup in the US due to their toxicity. These include

endocrine disruptors which mess with your hormones, carcinogens linked to cancer, and obeseogens which

literally can cause your body to store and gain weight. Basically when we're using

conventional skincare and makeup we are giving these obeseogenic compounds direct access to our bloodstream.

And then in our bodies, studies have shown they do things like reduce our satiety hormones,

increase our hunger hormones, make fat cells more likely to store fat and

more resistant to burning fat and so much more. If you have stubborn fat,

friends, your skincare and makeup may be playing a role in that. Beyond weight gain and weight loss, these compounds have

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