Welcome to episode 148 of the Interment and 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 Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.

For more on us, check out IF podcast.com, Melanie Avalon.com, and Jim 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 U.S. due to their toxicity.

These include endocrine disruptors which mess with hormones, carcinogens linked to cancer, and obesogens 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

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