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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.\xa0\nGin is an intermittent fasting expert who has been living the intermittent fasting lifestyle since 2014. She\u2019s 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\u2019t 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\u2019s Natural Ability to Self-Clean, that will be coming out in early 2022.\xa0\nGin\u2019s 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.)\nIn this episode, we talk about Gin\u2019s 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!\nIN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:\n\nWhat motivated Gin to write her new book, Clean(ish)?\n\nA scary statistic about the diet of the average American adult.\n\nThe negative effect that ultra-processed foods have on children\u2019s health and behavior.\n\nHow many ingredients in ultra-processed foods impact the gut microbiome and the brain.\n\nHow kids changed between 1990 and 2018.\n\nWhat Gin learned about toxic chemicals in personal care products while researching her book.\n\nThe cumulative effects toxic ingredients can have on your body.\n\nHaving a balanced approach to changing the self-care products you use.\n\nWhat is greenwashing?\n\nFinding the cleanest and safest options for cleaning products.\n\nGin unpacks the concept of GMOs.\n\nHow to view food subsidies in the right context.\n\nWhy do you need to avoid seed oils?\n\n\nBio:\nGin Stephens is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Fast. Feast. Repeat., published by St. Martin\u2019s Press, and Delay, Don\u2019t 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\u2019s available for preorder now:\xa0Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body\u2019s Natural Ability to Self-Clean.\xa0\xa0\nGin 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\u2014Intermittent 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).\nConnect with Cynthia Thurlow\nFollow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn\nCheck out Cynthia\u2019s website\xa0\nConnect with Gin Stephens\nOn her website\nJoin Gin\u2019s community\xa0\nOn Instagram and Twitter\nGin\u2019s 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\u2019s website.\nBooks mentioned:\xa0\nBrain Allergies by Dwight K. Kalita and William Philpott\nThe Unhealthy Truth by Robyn O\u2019Brien\nThe Dorito Effect by Mark Schatzker