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Here's What's Hiding in Your Fat Cells (The Secret That's Suppressing Weight Loss!)
Your fat cells play an important role in your body; they can store energy, provide protection for vital organs, and work within the endocrine system to secrete hormones. Emerging science suggests that today, our fat cells are working in overdrive by storing much more than excess calories. On this episode of The Model Health Show, you’re going to learn about what’s hiding in your fat cells. You’re going to discover how toxins like phthalates and air pollutants are rapidly accumulating in the human body. You’re going to hear the latest studies on how these tox...
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You are now listening to The Model Health Show with Shawn Stevenson. For more, visit themodelhealthshow.com. Most people think that body fat is merely stored calories, but there is more going on inside of your fat cells than you can imagine.
A shocking study cited in the journal Comprehensive Physiology has revealed that toxins are now rapidly accumulating in human fat tissue. The study, titled Adipose Tissue as a Site of Toxin Accumulation, details how persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, including pesticides, industrial chemicals, flame retardants, and other fat-soluble compounds can accumulate in human fat tissue over time. And why is this so alarming?
Well, it's the sheer amount that the average person is exposed to on a daily basis in our modern society. Hundreds of billions of pounds of these newly invented chemicals are circulating in our environment every single year. And here's the rub.
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