When your hormone system is functioning well, you'll have clear, pretty skin, you'll have

sexual energy and general energy for all of life's tasks, and you'll have an even-keel mood.

Ready to live at the higher vibrations, where peace, love, joy, and good health are the daily standard?

That's what this show is all about. Welcome to Vibe. And here's your host, Robin Openshaw.

Hi, I'm Robin Openshaw, the Green Smithy Girl online for 17 years now. I want to explain what

endocrine disruptors are that are getting into your body every

day and creating a lot of unnecessary misery. In fact, women tell me constantly how healthy their diet is,

but they just can't find their healthy weight. And I believe you, I don't believe that the diabetes

and obesity epidemic is always related to overeating.

The toxins in your body are making it next to impossible to lose weight.

The good news is you can change all of that right away.

Let's go through five categories that are causing you problems.

Number one, let's talk about plastics that find their way into your food and drinks and into your body.

Some pharmaceutical products contain plastics, but the biggest source for all of us, for most people, is drinking water and other drinks from plastic water bottles.

Plastics contain phallates, which are really dangerous to ingest because they do not degrade,

and your body's normal elimination channels don't get rid of phthalates very well, and they really mess with

your hormones. Think about how when the water is bottled. It's put in very cheap, thin plastic bottles.

Thalates in the plastic leach into the water you then drink.

In fact, once I sat on a plane next to a guy whose career was working with water bottling plants,

he told me that every company he worked with, the employees knew not to drink the newly

bottled water for the two days after it's bottled or they would get sick. Think about how after the water is bottled, it spends a lot of time in un-air-conditioned

warehouses and semi-trucks.

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