Ep. 186 Greenwashing: The Unfortunate Truth about Personal Care Products with Gin Stephens

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Today, I am super excited to welcome Gin Stephens back onto the podcast for the third time! She was with me before in episodes 81 and 104, where she spoke about strategies for intermittent fasting. Gin is an intermittent fasting expert who has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. She’s the New York Times and the USA Today bestselling author of Fast. Feast. Repeat, and author of the Amazon number one bestseller in the weight-loss category, Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle. Gin has just written a new book, Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body’s Natural Ability to Self-Clean, that will be coming out in early 2022. Gin’s lifestyle shift in 2014 led her to lose more than 80 pounds, launch her intermittent fasting website, self-publish four books, and start three top-ranked podcasts. (Intermittent Fasting Stories, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast with her co-host, Melanie Avalon, and the Life Lessons podcast with her co-host, Sheri Bullock.) In this episode, we talk about Gin’s new book, Clean(ish). We discuss how to navigate the selection of cleaner personal care products, the greenwashing endeavors of the personal-care products industry, subsidies, GMOs, the lack of clarity in labeling, and the dangers of hyper-palatable processed foods. We also touch on the gut microbiome and how to improve your health by cleaning up your nutrition, the environment, and the personal-care products you use. Stay tuned for this informative and enjoyable episode! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: What motivated Gin to write her new book, Clean(ish)? A scary statistic about the diet of the average American adult. The negative effect that ultra-processed foods have on children’s health and behavior. How many ingredients in ultra-processed foods impact the gut microbiome and the brain. How kids changed between 1990 and 2018. What Gin learned about toxic chemicals in personal care products while researching her book. The cumulative effects toxic ingredients can have on your body. Having a balanced approach to changing the self-care products you use. What is greenwashing? Finding the cleanest and safest options for cleaning products. Gin unpacks the concept of GMOs. How to view food subsidies in the right context. Why do you need to avoid seed oils? Bio: Gin Stephens is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Fast. Feast. Repeat., published by St. Martin’s Press, and Delay, Don’t Deny: Living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle, an Amazon #1 best seller in the weight loss category. Gin has a new book coming out in early 2022, and it’s available for preorder now: Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body’s Natural Ability to Self-Clean. Gin has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. This lifestyle shift allowed her to lose over 80 pounds and launch her intermittent fasting website, Facebook support groups, four self-published books, and three top-ranked podcasts—Intermittent Fasting Stories, The Intermittent Fasting Podcast with cohost Melanie Avalon, and the Life Lessons podcast with cohost Sheri Bullock. Gin splits her time between Augusta, Georgia, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband and their three cats. Gin is also a mother to two adult sons (and she is thankful every day for the intermittent fasting lifestyle that makes her life easier). Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Gin Stephens On her website Join Gin’s community On Instagram and Twitter Gin’s new book, Clean(ish), will be available from Amazon and all good book stores from January the 4th, 2022. If you buy a digital copy, download all the documents from Gin’s website. Books mentioned: Brain Allergies by Dwight K. Kalita and William Philpott The Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O’Brien The Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker

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0:00.0	This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.
0:11.0	And now, here is your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurler. in your
0:15.0	real life. And now here is your host, nurse practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:20.0	Jen, I'm so excited to connect with you and hear all about your new book, Cleanish.
0:22.0	Well, thank you.
0:23.0	I'm so excited to be here.
0:24.5	And yeah, it was a different kind of book for me to write.
0:27.6	It's in the intermittent fasting world most of the time.
0:30.8	So all of the time.
0:32.2	Yeah, exactly. So what was like the impetus of the book I know you have a couple books on fasting already and obviously this is an area that you are an expert in but what the impetus? Did something shift for you in the last 20 to
0:45.6	22 months like the rest of us or was it just really felt like you were ready to kind of dive into a different topic?
0:52.3	You know, that's a great question.
0:54.0	And, you know, I've been in the intermittent fasting community
0:57.0	in groups with other intermittent faster
1:00.0	since really 2014.
1:02.0	And what we noticed over time is that most intermittent
1:06.0	fasters go through a very similar kind of progression. Not everyone you
1:11.8	know everyone's going to have it a little bit differently, but a lot of people will start off, you know, let's say someone's eating the standard American diet and they're struggling with their weight, they're struggling with their health because we know this standard American diet is not
1:23.8	health promoting at all but people will start intermittent fasting you know instead of
1:29.8	changing what they eat they just change when they're eating.
1:32.9	They adopt the intermittent fasting lifestyle.
1:35.5	And they're like, that's it, this is amazing,
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