Cellulite, BPA, microplastics and endocrine disrupting chemicals

“It is an absolute scandal that no one in the shallow glossy magazines, tabloids, beauty blogs and instagram, or even doctors and dermatologists, ever mentions endocrine disrupting chemicals/xenoestrogens from phthalates, BPA and microplastics, which are already a major cause of cellulite today and set to be even more important in the decades to come.”

BPA, endocrine disrupting chemicals, phthalates and microplastics: the major cause of cellulite that no one is talking about

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• Cellulite and endocrine disrupting chemicals, xenoestrogens, phthalates, BPA, microplastics

• What are those toxins that cause cellulite everyone is talking about? It definitely ain’t caffeine, that’s for sure.

• Canned drinks and tinned food + cellulite

• Cola/soda drinks in plastic bottles + cellulite

• Wine in a can / plastic bag in a carton? Bad for cellulite and bad for your taste buds too.

• Olive oil in tin/plastic containers + cellulite

• ‘Sous vide’ cooking, microplastics + cellulite

• “Roast in a bag” cooking + cellulite

• Microwaveable veggies in a bag + cellulite

• Cling film, especially for marinades, which are generally acidic

• Aluminium foil + cellulite

• Milk in cartons + cellulite

• Espresso coffee in capsules + cellulite

• Water in plastic bottles + cellulite

• Heating food in a plastic container + cellulite

• Polycarbonate or other BPA-containing water water bottles + cellulite

• Drinking coffee out of a paper cup + cellulite

• Cooking in pan lined with non-stick ‘forever chemicals’ + cellulite

• Not a surprise that cellulite is on the increase these days

• Check our professional consultancy in radiofrequency, ultrasound cavitation, cellulite and skin tightening

Cellulite and endocrine disrupting chemicals / xenoestrogens from BPA, microplastics and phthalates

Do you want smooth, cellulite-free legs?

One of the simplest things you can do is to detoxify your life from endocrine disrupting chemicals, xenoestrogens, phthalates and BPA, found in plastics.

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC), especially xenoestrogens (artificial, alien to the body estrogens), are found in plastics and can/tin liners.

These artificial estrogens mimic natural estrogen by attaching to the estrogen receptor of adipocytes (fat cells) and other body cells and comprise a major risk factor for not just cellulite, but also whole body health conditions, including cancer.

The reason cellulite mainly affects women is due to the effect of estrogen on adipocyte estrogen receptors: it stimulates adipocyte proliferation (creation of more fat cells).

Xenoestrogens have all the negative effects of estrogen, without any of the positive ones - hence their disease-causing action.

So for smoother, healthier legs give up BPA (aka as bisphenol A), its chemical cousin BPS (bisphenol S), phthalates and similar endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Practically this means avoiding all plastics in your food/drink supply, including hidden ones in carton, tin and can lining.

What are those toxins that cause cellulite everyone is talking about? It definitely ain’t caffeine, that’s for sure.

Do toxins cause cellulite? Absolutely. However, it not the caffeine or the bubbles in your fizzy drink they keep telling you about on the internet.

It is an absolute scandal that no one in the shallow glossy magazines, tabloids, beauty blogs and instagram, or even doctors and dermatologists, ever mentions endocrine disrupting chemicals/xenoestrogens from phthalates, BPA and microplastics, which are already a major cause of cellulite today and set to be even more important in the decades to come.

Yes, it is out of sheer ignorance about the nature of cellulite, not out of conspiracy, but it’s still a scandal.

All “beauty experts” talk about is things like is caffeine and carbon dioxide in fizzy drinks, as causes of cellulite (they actually aren’t).

Yes, there is constant talk of “cellulite is toxins inside the skin” (in fact cellulite isn’t even “toxins” itself, it is partially the result of toxins). However, no one ever mentions what the most important of these toxins are: namely xenoestrogens from plastics and hormonal contraception (pill, injections, patches etc), which no one ever tells you about.

Read our comprehensive guide about below.

Canned drinks and tinned food + cellulite

All tinned / canned food, especially acidic drinks (such as cola/soda in cans) and acidic foods (such as chopped tomatoes or pineapple in a can), readily leach BPA, BPS and other EDCs into the drink or food.

Canned energy drinks, canned coffee, canned refreshments are all contaminated from resin plastic lining in aluminium containers.

Always buy drinks and food in glass, not in a tin/can.

Cola/soda drinks in plastic bottles + cellulite

Drinks in plastic bottles, especially acidic drinks - such as cola and other soda drinks - are a major source of microplastics and BPA, and consequently a major cause of cellulite.

Again, always buy drinks and food in glass, not in a plastic bottle.

Wine in a can / plastic bag in a carton? Bad for cellulite and bad for your taste buds too.

Of course, drinking those horrible wines in a can is really stupid, both in terms of taste and in terms of drinking BPA diluted into your wine and going straight into your thighs - and breast and ovaries and other organs...

The same applies to those cheap 4-litre wines in a carton (bag in a box), where the wine is contained in a plastic bag. Abominable wine, abominably bad for you container.

Olive oil in tin/plastic containers + cellulite

Similar to the comment on the wine above, it is also stupid to buy a super-expensive £30 per 500ml extra virgin olive oil in a tin with BPA-laden plastic lining (they all come with BPA lining), especially given that BPA is a fat-soluble toxin which readily leaches into oil.

It is fashionable these days to bottle expensive olive oil in tins decorated with amazing designs. However, it becomes unsavoury if you consider that you eat BPA diluted in your super-expensive olive oil.

And the “organic” designation applies to the oil, not the tin. Buying expensive, organic olive does not protect you from the tin, as there is no tin without BPA-laden resin lining.

The same applies to olive oil in a plastic bottle. EDCs from plastic packaging are fat soluble and leach into the oil.

So always always buy your olive oil in a glass bottle, not in a plastic bottle.

This applies to all oils, of course, not just olive oil.

OK, I understand that cheap frying oil by definition comes in a plastic bottle. Well, don’t use cheap frying oil and don’t fry your food either, as it also causes cellulite - and several health conditions too - as I am sure you already know.

‘Sous vide’ cooking, microplastics + cellulite

What a horrible idea, to overheat plastic at 100ºC around an expensive beef fillet, so that the fillet absorbs the maximum amount of microplastics, due to the high temperature.

Disgusting for whole body health, not just how your thighs and bum look.

Sure, fillet cooked ‘sous vide’ in microplastics is so soft it melts away - just like the skin on your thighs will if you keep ingesting endocrine disrupting chemicals.

“Roast in a bag” cooking + cellulite

This is probably even worse than sous vide, if that’s even possible, due to the even higher temperature in the oven (up to 250ºC). Horrid.

Just use a pyrex or an enamel casserole dish.

Microwaveable veggies in a bag + cellulite

These are as bad as roast in a bag.

Don’t pollute your body, just put the veggies in a pyrex and cook the food without the bag.

Cling film + cellulite

Thankfully most - but not all - people know that they should not put cling film over food by now, especially for acidic marinades.

To reiterate, most marinades are acidic and acidic foods readily absorb microplastics and EDCs, such as BPA.

Marinade your food like people used to marinate for millennia - without cling film.

Aluminium foil + cellulite

Aluminium foil, especially when applied on top of food in the oven, constantly rains down foil lining EDC particles onto your food, throughout cooking.

Not very wise.

Just use a covered pyrex, stainless steel or enamel casserole dish and your food will turn out just fine.

Milk in cartons + cellulite

Obviously cartons are not made from paper only, they contain a plastic lining inside, which easily leaches chemicals into your milk.

Prefer glass, or at the very least plain plastic, which is more stable and less questionable than the milk carton lining.

Espresso coffee in capsules + cellulite

These are usually lined internally with a plastic lining or they are themselves made of plastic.

It is not very smart to subject your high-pressure, high-temperature, acidic espresso into contact with the plastic capsule or (even worse) with the plastic lining of an aluminium capsule.

Even those who supposedly do not contain BPA/BPS, still contain some other plastic lining, which will end up in your coffee, your fat cells, your breast cells, your ovary cells and - for men - your testicles and prostate gland. Not a good idea.

Espresso machines with a stainless steel chamber cost the same as capsule machines, coffee is cheaper too, it takes just a few more seconds to make real espresso and does not fill your body, your thighs and the world with plastic junk and endocrine disrupting chemicals.

Lately, some biodegradable espresso capsules have become available. Not much is known about the chemicals used for those capsules, so I would still go for an espresso machine with a stainless steel chamber - it is both cheaper and you can control the quality of your coffee better.

Water in plastic bottles + cellulite

This is yet another microplastic disaster for both your body and the environment.

Not much needs to be said other than with every sip you take you ingest microplastics.

Heating food in a plastic container + cellulite

Heat makes it much easier for microplastics and EDCs to be diluted in your food, so never heat food in any type of plastic container.

Transfer to an enamel lined metal container (stove, oven) or pyrex (oven, microwave).

Polycarbonate or other BPA-containing water water bottles + cellulite

Polycarbonate is a known source of BPA.

Just recycle such containers and buy glass, stainless steel or other containers made/lined with inert materials, such as ceramic coating.

Drinking coffee out of a paper cup + cellulite

Just like milk cartons, paper cups contain plastic lining.

Using a disposable paper cup, in addition to leaching chemicals into your coffee, also happens to be an environmental disaster.

Plastic coffee mag alternatives are not great for either the planet or your thighs.

Just use a glass or stainless steel coffee mug or aluminium lined with ceramic coating.

Cooking in pans/pots lined with non-stick ‘forever chemicals’ + cellulite

Obviously, cooking in a pan/pot lined with PFAS / PTFE non-stick lining is definite no-no if you care about the planet, your body or your thighs.

These days there are excellent ceramic coated or cast iron pans and pots which do not leach fluoropolymers into your body. Plus there are stainless steel ones, which although they are not non-stick they can easily be cleaned after cooking.

Not a surprise that cellulite is on the increase these days

After reading the above list it should come as no surprise that cellulite is on the increase these days. We are daily bombarded with cellulite and cancer causing chemicals in our food and water supply.

In fact EDCs and plastics are set to be a major cause of cellulite, hormonal imbalances, infertility and cancer in the next few years and decades.

It is almost impossible to escape completely but all we can do is do our best to avoid microplastics and EDCs with the choices we make every day.

So if you don’t care about cellulite, at least please care about your health and start saying no to plastics and plastic lined containers in your food/water supply.

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