“It is an absolute scandal that no one in the shallow beauty press (glossy magazines, tabloids, beauty blogs and instagram, tiktok), not even aesthetic doctors and dermatologists, ever mentions endocrine disrupting chemicals and xenoestrogens from phthalates, BPA, forever chemicals and microplastics as a cause off cellulite today.
And that no-one in the press in general ever makes people aware that drinks in a can, olive oil in a tin bottle, liquid food supplements in a plastic pouch or wine in a bag, all contain harmful plastic/forever chemicals.”
Drink in a can? Olive oil in a tin bottle? Wine from a bag? Enjoy the BPA, the hormonal imbalances - and skin ageing and cellulite too
BPA and other xenoestrogens / endocrine disrupting chemicals from microplastics / nanoplastics: the major cause of skin aging and cellulite that no one is talking about
All plastic food and aluminium containers contain nanoplastics. And ‘BPA-free’ does not mean much…
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 vs skin aging and cellulite
Cola/soda drinks in plastic bottles vs aging and 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 vs aging and cellulite
‘Sous vide’ cooking, microplastics vs aging and cellulite
“Roast in a bag” cooking vs aging and cellulite
Microwaveable veggies in a bag vs aging and cellulite
Cling film, especially for marinades, which are generally acidic vs aging and cellulite
Aluminium foil, aging and cellulite
Milk in cartons, aging and cellulite
Espresso coffee in capsules, aging and cellulite
Water in plastic bottles, aging and cellulite
Heating food in a plastic container, aging and cellulite
Polycarbonate or other BPA-containing water water bottles vs aging and cellulite
Drinking coffee out of a paper cup, aging and cellulite
Cooking in pan lined with non-stick ‘forever chemicals’, aging and cellulite
Air fryers coated with plastic / forever chemicals, aging and cellulite
Not a surprise that degenerative disease and cellulite are on the increase these days
Further reading
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BPA and other xenoestrogens / endocrine disrupting chemicals from microplastics / nanoplastics: the major cause of skin aging and cellulite that no one is talking about
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 nanoplastics* 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.
* All plastic food and aluminium containers contain nanoplastics. And ‘BPA-free’ does not mean much…
All plastic objects leach some amount of microplastics and nanoplastics, especially as time goes by. All food containers of all kinds leach such smaller plastic fragments into food, both immediately after being filled and as time goes by.
Consuming food (especially drinks - especially hot or acidic drinks) from plastic containers or from aluminium containers (all aluminium containers are lined with a plastic layer) ALWAYS contains nanoplastics, in smaller or larger amounts.
These end up in our ovaries, breasts, testes, heart, liver, kidneys, brain and of, course, adipose tissue too.
And let’s not be fooled by the BPA-free nonsense: no nanoplastic in our arteries is good for our, neither it does us any good in our fat tissue.
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 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 - only 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 vs skin ageing and 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 with nanoplastics 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, aging and cellulite
Drinks in plastic bottles, especially acidic drinks - such as cola and other soda drinks - are a major source of nanoplastics and BPA, and consequently a major cause of degenerative disease, overall ageing 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 your health container.
Always drink wine packed in a glass bottle.
Olive oil in tin/plastic containers, ageing and cellulite
Similar to the comment on the wine above, it is downright 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 or similar chemical lining), especially given that BPA is a fat-soluble toxin which readily leaches into the olive 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 nanoplastics diluted in your super-expensive olive oil.
And of course, the “organic” designation applies to the oil, not the tin. Buying expensive, organic olive oil does not protect you from the tin, as there is no tin without a BPA/other plastic 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 in the first place 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 vs aging and 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/nanoplastics, due to the high temperature.
Disgusting for whole body health, not just for your thighs and bum.
Sure, fillet cooked ‘sous vide’ in microplastics is so soft that it melts away - just like the skin on your thighs will if you keep ingesting endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Never sous vide your food. Cook your expensive filet the good old fashioned way. Taste will still be good and you will avoid eating microplastics.
“Roast in a bag” cooking, ageing and cellulite
This is probably even worse than sous vide - if that is 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, skin aging and 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, aging and 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, aging and 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, aging and 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, aging and 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, even if they are biodegradable, 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.
Make espresso in a stainless steel espresso machine and enjoy real coffee without endocrine disrupting chemicals.
Water in plastic bottles, aging and 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.
Drink from a glass bottle or stainless steel/ceramic lined container.
Reheating food in a plastic container, skin aging and cellulite
Heat makes it much easier for microplastics and EDCs to be diluted into your food, so never heat food in any type of plastic container.
Reheat in a stainless steel or enamel lined metal container (stove, oven) or in a pyrex dish (oven, microwave).
Polycarbonate or other BPA-containing water water bottles, aging and 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, aging and 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 mug 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’, aging and cellulite
Obviously, cooking in a pan/pot lined with forever chemical (PFAS / PFOA / PFOS / PTFE etc) non-stick lining is a 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.
Air fryers coated with plastic / forever chemicals, aging and cellulite
The same comments about plastic / forever chemical lining apply to air fryers, with the added comment that air fryers still cook food at very high temperatures and are not that great for skin and overall health, even when lined with ceramic or stainless steel.
Low temperature cooking in a stainless steel / ceramic vessel is far better.
Not a surprise that cellulite is on the increase these days
After reading the above list it should come as no surprise that cellulite (and cancer) 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 one of the the most important causes 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.
Further reading
The Teflon chemical PTFE is often touted as a safe cousin of toxic PFAS. But is it really?
Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events
Microplastics found in artery plaque linked with higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death
Many PFAS forever chemicals are toxic – here’s how to avoid them
Chemicals in Meat Cooked at High Temperatures and Cancer Risk
Acrylamide: a common food toxin related to physiological functions and health
Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) May Be a Striking Link Between Modern Diet and Health
Bottled water contains quarter of a million nanoplastics pieces on average, scientists find
The potential impacts of micro-and-nano plastics on various organ systems in humans
Our Cells' Batteries Face 'Significant Threat' From Microplastics
Mitochondria as a target of micro- and nano- plastic toxicity
Study raises questions about plastic pollution's effect on heart health
After reading a small sample of the above articles you will realise how ridiculous advice given by TikTok doctors sounds. With such timeless gems given by medical professionals, no less, it is no wonder that young people’s cancers - which have nothing to do with increased cancer rates in an ageing population - are through the roof.
It’s because forever chemicals and microplastics never leach into our food, unless we eat the cooking utensil lining. And even if they leach, microplastics and forever chemicals also rain down from outer space onto our plate, it’s how it’s always been, so why worry and do something about it?
“Fun fact, every time you sit down to eat microplastics fall from the air and land in your food, or are already part of your food. This is only really an issue if the air fryer is damaged. As long as you don't plan on eating the lining of your air fryer you will be fine.” (Ha ha, very funny. And amazing logical argument too…)
Instead of advising the public to - if possible - get rid of their carpets and clothes made with plastic fibres complete with forever chemical coating, a doctor advises them to just accept that those fibres will rain in people’s food and that’s the way it is.
And instead of advising people to avoid food - and especially drinks - contained in plastic containers, they advise people that microplastics are already in everyone’s food and drink and they should just accept that they will ingest microplastics, anyway. So what difference even more microplastics and forever chemicals from a utensil coating can make, right?
However, when you read articles such as the one below, written by real scientists and health professionals, the fallacy of the above shallow and irresponsible arguments becomes fully exposed: Early-onset cancers: biological bases and clinical implications.
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