Welcome to episode 226 of the Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

If you want to burn fat, gain energy, and enhance your health by changing your win-me-me-weat,

not with 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 period-style meals, intermittent fasting, and wine.

And I'm here with my co-host, Gin Stevens, author of Fast Feast Propept.

The comprehensive guide to delay, don't deny, and intermittent fasting.

For more on us, check out IFpodcast.com, MelanieAvalon.com, and Gin 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 skincare and makeup.

So as it turns out, Europe has banned over a thousand compounds found in conventional skincare and makeup in the US due to their toxicity.

These include endocrine disruptors, which mess with your hormones, carcinogens, linked to cancer, and obesity genes, which literally can cause your body to store and gain weight.

Basically, when we're using conventional skincare and makeup, we are giving these obesity unit 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 very detrimental effects on our health and they affect the health of our future generations.

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